Calendar of Events
For individuals with disabilities requiring special accommodations, please contact the Department hosting the event within a minimum of 5 days prior to the program or service so that proper consideration may be given to the request.
Tuesdays
Location: Dauer Hall 115, 11:45 am
Classics Workshops.
The Department of Classics is pleased to announce the inauguration of the "Classics Workshops," a series of in-house lectures and discussions presented by members of our department. Designed to facilitate feedback from colleagues, these workshops are opportunities for students and faculty alike to present chapters in progress, practice conference papers, and try out new ideas. Doctoral candidates are especially encouraged to use the workshops as self-imposed deadlines for completing chapters.
The workshops are free and open to the public. We extend a special invitation to our colleagues in the humanities, so as to bring our work to a wider audience and simultaneously benefit from the wide variety of perspectives available to us here at UF.
Workshops are held in 115 Dauer Hall. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch.
February
February 9, 2012, 10:00 am
Location: Take Away Gourmet, 3345 SW 34th Street
Cooking lesson: French with Richard Sher and Aida Hozic. Make and eat yummy French food. Go to takeawaygourmet4u.com to pre-register. Small, hands-on class costs just $25. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
February 9 and 10, 7:00 pm - 9 pm
February 11, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: The Ocora at Pugh Hall
Why I Believe in God: The Moral Argument for the Existence of God by Clifford Goldstein.
Bio: Goldstein received his B.A. from the University of Florida. In 1992 he received a M.A. in Ancient Northwest Semitic Languages from Johns Hopkins University. Goldstein is an American author and editor. One of his recent books is “God, Gödel, and Grace: A Philosophy of Faith.”
Sponsored by UF student organization Baby Isaac.
February 10, 3:00 pm
Location: Pugh 120
Seneca on World Tour: Natural Philosophy, Mind Travel, and Rome in the Rear-View Mirror by Gareth Williams. Sponsored by the Classics Department.
February 15, 2012, 10:00 am
Location: Oak Hammock, 5100 SW 25th Blvd
Institute of Learning in Retirement Series: Roma Media and Civil Rights Groups in the Czech Republic by Erin Cass. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
February 16, 3:00 pm
Location: Smathers Library 1A
The Use and Abuse of Terence in Late Antiquity by Andrew Cain. Sponsored by the History Department.
February 16, 2012, 7:00 pm
Location: UF Hillel
Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogrom as Prelude to the Holocaust by Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
Jeffrey Kopstein is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and Acting Director of its Centre for Jewish Studies. He is the author and editor of three books and forty articles on Central and East European politics and history. He is the recipient of multiple awards and has held fellowships at Harvard University's Centre for European Studies, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and the University of Munich as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Professor Kopstein is currently co-authoring a book on pogrom violence at the beginning of World War II. The talk is sponsored by the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair in Political Science and the Center for Jewish Studies
February 22, 2012, 10:00 am
Location: Oak Hammock, 5100 SW 25th Blvd
Institute of Learning in Retirement Series: Florida's Canid Curiosities: Exploring the Roles of Wolves through European Imaginings into American Wolfdog Breeding Practices by Sarah Lewis Mitchem. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
February 22 - 24, 2012, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Location: The Ocora at Pugh Hall
Cross Examined: The Evidence for Belief by Subodh Pandit, M.D.
Dr. Pandit, born and raised in India, is a licensed, board certified physician from Maryland. His twenty-year search for a reason to believe led him through the questions of atheism, post-modernism and pluralism unto a unique method of comparing the five great world religions.
For more information visit www.facebook.com/pandituf or email uf.babyisaac@gmail.com
February 24, 2012, 12:00 — 1:00 pm
Location: Anderson 216
The Curious Case of Poland's Vanishing Left by Krzysztof Jasiewicz, Washington and Lee University. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
Krzysztof Jasiewicz is the William P. Ames Jr. Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and Lee University. He received his MA in Sociology at Warsaw University (1972) and his Ph.D. at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1976, also in Sociology). He has taught and/or held fellowships at the University of Florida, Warsaw University, Harvard, Oxford, UCLA, and the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, among others. He has published extensively on elections, voting behaviour, party systems, and political attitudes in Poland and other Central European states. Recently, his articles appeared in the Journal of Democracy, East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and European Journal of Political Research. This talk is consponsored by the department of Political Science and the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair.
February 27 and 28, 2012
2011-2012 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Sir Peter Crane, the Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, will serve as the 2011-2012 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. He will be on campus from Friday, February 24 until Thursday February 28. He will be giving two lectures on campus, cosponsored by the Department of Biology, and the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Public Lecture: "The Early Flowering of Flowering Plants." Powell Hall Front Hall. Monday, February 27 at 7:30 pm.
Reception to follow in Galleria, Powell Hall. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Department Lecture: "The Beginnings of Plants and Plant-Based Ecosystems on Land." Biology Seminar Room 211, Bartram Hall. Tuesday, February 28, at 3:30 pm
Pre-Seminar Reception with UF students and faculty: 3 pm. Outside Hallway, Bartram 211.
About Sir Peter Crane:
Peter Crane has been Carl W. Knobloch Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies at Yale since 2009. His work focuses on the diversity of plant life; its origin and
fossil history, its current status, and its conservation and use. He is the coauthor of The
Origin and Diversification of Land Plants and most recently Early Flowers and Angiosperm
Evolution (August 2011). From 1992 to 1999 he was Director of the Field Museum in Chicago.
In 1999 he was appointed Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where, along with other
programs on conserving and understanding plant diversity, he worked on the initial establishment
of the Millennium Seed Bank. He returned to the U.S. in 2006 as the John and Marion Sullivan
University Professor at the University of Chicago. http://environment.yale.edu/profile/crane
Elected to the Royal Society in 1998, he was knighted in the United Kingdom in 2004. He is a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign associate of the National Academy
of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the German Academy Leopoldina.
About Phi Beta Kappa: Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is this nation's oldest and best known society for recognition of academic excellence and scholarly achievement. Election to membership in Phi Beta Kappa is one of the highest honors that an undergraduate student may earn. The purpose of Phi Beta Kappa is to recognize and encourage scholarship, friendship, and cultural interests, and to support excellence and integrity in the pursuit of the liberal arts and sciences. The Beta Chapter of Florida was granted to the University of Florida in 1930, a distinction currently existing at only 280 colleges and universities nationwide. www.pbk.org
February 29, 2012, 11:45 am — 12:30 pm
Location: TUR 3312
Brown bag talk: I’d Give Beatrice...A Nine Out of Ten: Dante’s Perfect Imperfection in Canto 33 of Purgatorio and the Significance of the Decade by Emerson Richards. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
March
March 15, 2012, 10:40 am — 12:40 pm
Location: TUR 3312
Seminar for graduate students: Maria Bucur-Deckard. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
March 15, 2012, 3:30 pm
Location: DAU 215
Heroes and Victims: The Burden of Memory in Post-1945 Romania by Maria Bucur-Deckard. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
March 19, 2012, 11:45 am — 2:00 pm
Location: Keene-Flint Hall
Title pending Timothy Snyder, Yale University. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
April
April 2, 2012, 6:00 — 9:00 pm
Location: Alachua County Library District: Headquarters Branch, 401 East University Avenue, 4th floor
VIVA EUROPE! Film Festival. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
The Center for European Studies will screen a series of short films from Eurochannel's Third Short Film Tour.
The film screenings are part of the week-long celebration, VIVA EUROPE! that culminates on
Saturday, April 7 with a public festival at the Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza from 11:00-4:00.
April 3, 2012, 6:00 — 8:30 pm
Location: Alachua County Library District: Millhopper Branch, 3145 NW 43rd Street
VIVA EUROPE! Film Festival. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
The Center for European Studies will screen a series of short films from Eurochannel's Third Short Film Tour.
The film screenings are part of the week-long celebration, VIVA EUROPE! that culminates on
Saturday, April 7 with a public festival at the Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza from 11:00-4:00.
April 4, 2012, 6:00 — 9:00 pm
Location: Alachua County Library District: Headquarters Branch, 401 East University Avenue, 4th floor
VIVA EUROPE! Film Festival. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
The Center for European Studies will screen a series of short films from Eurochannel's Third Short Film Tour.
The film screenings are part of the week-long celebration, VIVA EUROPE! that culminates on
Saturday, April 7 with a public festival at the Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza from 11:00-4:00.
April 5, 2012, 6:00 pm
Location: Alachua County Library District: Tower Road Branch, 3020 SW 75th Street
VIVA EUROPE! Film Festival. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
The Center for European Studies will screen a series of short films from Eurochannel's Third Short Film Tour.
The film screenings are part of the week-long celebration, VIVA EUROPE! that culminates on
Saturday, April 7 with a public festival at the Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza from 11:00-4:00.
April 7, 2012, 11:00 am — 4:00 pm
Location: Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 East University Avenue
VIVA EUROPE!
is a cultural celebration of the food, music, dance, and languages of Europe.
This free festival is fun for the whole family. Stay for the day and hear lots of music,
see dancing, eat delicious foods, learn to speak languages, play bocce, see exhibits, buy
imported items. For more information, go here.
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
April 7, 2012, 1:00 — 2:00 pm
Location: Alachua County Library District Headquarters Branch, 401 East University Avenue, storyhour room
VIVA EUROPE Folktales from Europe. Library staff will tell or read folktales and sing songs and perhaps have a craft activity.
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
April 16, 2012, 6:00 — 8:30 pm
Location: Take Away Gourmet, 3345 SW 34th Street
Cooking lesson: Catalan with Geraldine Nichols. Learn the secret recipes of the Catalonia region of Spain. Go to takeawaygourmet4u.com to pre-register.
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
