The award-winning documentary Saving Mes Aynak follows Afghan archaeologist Qadir Temori as he races against time to save a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan from imminent demolition. A Chinese state-owned mining […]
Scholars studying the Classic Maya have long been fascinated by the role of the environment in understanding the rise, fall, and fluorescence of Maya society. First perceived as a limiting […]
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In 2000, the University of Florida established a graduate program in museum studies. In the last twenty years, museums and museum professions have undergone critical transformations. The UF Museum Studies […]
This panel is presented in conjunction with the exhibitions Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display on the archive and work of artist Roberto Obregón at University Gallery and the Harn Museum of […]
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The UF Synergies series features informal talks by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Rothman Faculty Summer Fellows, Tedder Doctoral Fellows, and Rothman Doctoral Fellows. Fellows will […]
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*This event has been cancelled.* Kobena Mercer, Professor of History of Art & African American Studies at Yale University, will give the final presentation of the Spring 2020 lecture series […]
Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts, will present as part of the lecture series, “Art’s Inclusive Histories: In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.” For […]
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Felipe Baeza, born in Guanajuato, Mexico, incorporates painting and printmaking to examine his own biography and interests in migration, sexuality, and anthropology. Baeza’s art practice aims to assert an individuality […]
Anthony Barbieri-Low, Professor of History at University of California Santa Barbara, will present this lecture. Professor Barbieri-Low has wide-ranging interests in many aspects of Early China, including technology, organization of […]
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What was the nature of artistic work in colonial Latin America? This symposium gathers leading scholars to think about artistic subjectivity without focusing on names or “life’s work.” They will […]