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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.
November
Monday, November 2, 2009
11:45 am-12:45 pm, Ustler hall ,3rd floor library
Intersections of gender and development Muscles and (Mal)development: Hypermasculinity and the Legacy of the Domination of Nature in India part of the brown bag series. Featuring Caleb Simmons, Doctoral Student in Religion. The series, an open forum for research discussion, aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue within the UF community about the scholarly and political issues surrounding gender and sexuality by creating an informal setting for sharing insights drawn from research, activism, and pedagogy, both inside the university and beyond. Everyone is welcome - local community members as well as UF faculty, staff, and students. So bring your friends, students, classmates - and bring a brown bag lunch! For more information, please contact the Center for Women's Studies at 352-392-3365.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
7:00 pm, Pugh Hall Ocora
The Swamp. Michael Grunwald, Senior Correspondent of Time Magazine, will discuss his book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise. Sponsored by the Graham Center for Public Service.
6:00 pm, Ustler hall,
Living with Multiple Identities: Being Multiracial, Gay and HIV+.Come and hear the story of Andrew Jolivette and how he has worked for human rights on a variety of issues. Learn about the overlap of identities and how to be an ally and work for change. His talk will address issues of race, gender, sexual orientation, and HIV status. See Home Page for more information or contact Taketo Nakao at taketon@dso.ufl.edu
Sunday, November 8, 2009
1:00-3:30 pm, Keene Faculty Center, Dauer Hall
Russian Fall Festival. Come get a first-hand experience of Russian culture through its delicious food, colorful dress, great music and fun people. Open to the public. Sponsored by the Russian Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
8:00 pm, Rion Ballroom, Reitz Union
Einstein's Cosmic Messengers, a multimedia concert featuring Andrea Centazzo, award-winning composer, percussionist, and multimedia artist and professor of physics David Reitze, head of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration. Free and open to the public. Part of the International Year of Astronomy celebration. Co-Sponsored by the University of Florida LIGO research group, the Department of Physics and the National Science Foundation.
Monday, November 9, 2009
7:30 PM, Ustler hall atrium
Jewish Books and Christian Readers in Early Modern Europe, a lecture by Anthony Grafton, Princeton University. Part of the Faithful Narratives lecture series. Sponsored by the Department of History and the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies.
6:30 pm, Emerson Alumni Hall
Preserving and Promoting American Narratives of World War II: The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at UF, a lecture by Paul Ortiz, Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Part of the Phil Griffin Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Alumni Association. Space is limited; please RSVP to Brynn Cavanaugh at bcavanaugh@ufalumni.ufl.edu
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
1:20 pm, dauer hall 215
UF in the Mississippi Delta. A lively multi-media presentation by UF students who have traveled to the Mississippi Delta the past two summers to record the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the Birthplace of the Blues.The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will present a special program on Tuesday, November 10 titled: “UF in the Mississippi Delta: Student Reflections on Recording the Civil Rights Movement.” During the summers of 2008 and 2009 students from the University of Florida traveled to the Mississippi Delta to interview pioneers of the civil rights movement.This multimedia presentation will feature audio, photography and video footage from the trip. This event is sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. For more information, call 392-7168.
1:30 pm, Dauer Hall 219
Seminar for Graduate Students and Faculty: At this informal seminar, Professor Grafton will discuss two
selections from his recently published book, _Worlds Made by Words:
Scholarship and Community in the Modern West_ (readings can be accessed at:
http://web.history.ufl.edu/new/faithful/seminar.html ). Lunch will be
provided, but if you plan to come (even for only one period), please let
Anna Lankina know so that we have an approximate number for food:
For more information, see: http://web.history.ufl.edu/faithful.html
Thursday,November 12, 2009
3:00 PM - 4:00 pm, ustler hall third floor reading room
Feminism in Jalisco, Mexico, a lecture by Beatriz Bustos, Bustos will present a short historical description of feminism in Mexico, in Jalisco, and will discuss the current politics of gender. Sponsored by the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research. For more information contact 352-392-3365.
6:00 PM, Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
Heroic Monumentalism: The State and Its Architecture
in the 1930s, presented by Dietmar Schirmer, German Academic Exchange
Service. Sponsored by the Center for European
Studies. Part of the Harn's Museum Nights series. For more information
contact Gail Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu and 392-8902 x 211.
7:30 PM, Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium
History and Practice of Ottoman Miniature Painting and Illumination, presented by Sermin Ciddi, Istanbul University. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies. Part of the Harn's Museum Nights series. For more information contact Gail Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu and 392-8902 x 211.
7:30 pm, Alachua Public Library
MFA@FLA Writer's Festival 2009, once a year, the Creative Writing Program has a Writers' Festival. True literary luminaries come to UF to read from their newest works and answer questions about writing. It's open to everyone. This year all the writers are UF alums, gators who went on to national and international renown. Reading by Chris Tusa. For further information please contact Jill Ciment or David Leavitt. For general MFA@FLA program information see www.english.ufl.edu/crw/. For the latest in specific festival information see http://www.english.ufl.edu/events.html.
Friday, November 13, 2009
9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Chandler Auditorium, Harn Museum of Art
Recycling in African Art: Necessity, Metaphor, and Creative Expression. In many parts of Africa, recycling is both an expressive medium and a strategy for survival. Artists working in a wide range of markets, from the local to the international, transform objects and images into aesthetic expressions. This symposium will explore the aesthetics, economics, and paradoxes of recycling as an artistic practice in Africa. Presentations by art historians, anthropologists, artists, and curators will address the reuse and reanimation of objects in Africa and the African diaspora. Lecture free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Yavitz Fund, the Center for African Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Organized by Victoria L. Rovine, School of Art and Art History/ Center for African Studies. For further information about this symposium, contact vrovine@ufl.edu
10:00 am - 5:00 pm, Ruth McQuown Room, Dauer Hall
Goodbye DDR: Memory and Visual Culture. Organized by Will Hasty, Barbara Mennel, and Franz Futterknecht (German Studies and Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures). Sponsored by the Rothman Endowment. Symposium free and open to the public. Part of the “Fall of the Wall” Commemoration.
3:30 PM, Pugh Hall 210
Bilinguisme et écriture presented by Dr. Sebastien Doubinsky, novelist and professor at Aarhus University in Denmark. Sponsored by the France Florida Research Institute. For more information please contact Dr Alioune Sow at sow@ufl.edu.
7:30 pm, Smathers Room 1a
MFA@FLA Writer's Festival 2009, once a year, the Creative Writing Program has a Writers' Festival. True literary luminaries come to UF to read from their newest works and answer questions about writing. It's open to everyone. This year all the writers are UF alums, gators who went on to national and international renown. Reading by Chris Bachelder and C.D. Wright. For further information please contact Jill Ciment or David Leavitt. For general MFA@FLA program information see www.english.ufl.edu/crw/. For the latest in specific festival information see http://www.english.ufl.edu/events.html.
7:00-8:30 pm, USTLEr atrium
Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma. Discussion by Dominick LaCapra of Cornell University. Keynote Address of the English Graduate Organization's 9th annual conference: Home/sickness: Decay, Desire, and the Seduction of Nostalgia.For more information on the conference visit Conference 09. Co-sponsored by the English Graduate Organization, English Department, and Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Yavitz Fund). Lecture is free and open to the public. For further information contact ego09atuf@gmail.com
Saturday,November 14, 2009
10:00 am - 5:00 pm, University Auditorium, Friends of Music Room
Fear in the Ancient World, a symposium featuring Gregory Nagy, Harvard University and the Center for Hellenic Studies; Andrew Riggsby, University of Texas-Austin; and Bruce Lincoln, University of Chicago. Free and Open to the Public. Sponsored by the Yavitz Fund. For more information visit the Fear in the Ancient World web site.
1-3 pm, Smathers library, room 1a
MFA@FLA Writer's Festival 2009, once a year, the Creative Writing Program has a Writers' Festival. True literary luminaries come to UF to read from their newest works and answer questions about writing. It's open to everyone. This year all the writers are UF alums, gators who went on to national and international renown. Informal Talks by Chris Adrian, Chris Bachelder and C.D. Wright. For further information please contact Jill Ciment or David Leavitt. For general MFA@FLA program information see www.english.ufl.edu/crw/. For the latest in specific festival information see http://www.english.ufl.edu/events.html.
8 pm, Smathers library, room 1a
MFA@FLA Writer's Festival 2009, once a year, the Creative Writing Program has a Writers' Festival. True literary luminaries come to UF to read from their newest works and answer questions about writing. It's open to everyone. This year all the writers are UF alums, gators who went on to national and international renown. Reading by Chris Adrian. For further information please contact Jill Ciment or David Leavitt. For general MFA@FLA program information see www.english.ufl.edu/crw/. For the latest in specific festival information see http://www.english.ufl.edu/events.html.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
2:00 PM, Goerings book store
Authors on Sundays, featuring Steve Noll, Department of History. Steve Noll will discuss his book Ditch of Dreams The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida’s Future. The authors trace the twists and turns of the project through the years. Sponsored by Goerings Book Store. For questions contact Thomas Rider at (352) 377-3703.
Monday, November 16, 2009
7:00 PM, CSE E119
Endangered Elephants of Manas National Park, India and the Reconstitution of Indigenous Culture, presented by Ron Chandler, President of Conservation Initiative for the Asian Elephant, Inc. and Professor in the University of South Florida School of Architecture, specializing in Sustainable Urban Redevelopment. Sponsored by the he Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), the Department of Religion, and the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7:00 pm, Reitz Union, Room 285
Local Government Panel. Learn more about your local Gainesville
and State government. With City Commissioners, the County Manager, and
others as panelists you will hear about a variety of things that go on
behind the scenes. Sponsored by the Career
Resource Center and Student
Government. For more information contact Angela Garcia at angelagarcia@crc.ufl.edu
or 352-284-5459.
7:00 pm, Goerings Book Store (1717 NW 1st Ave. Gainesville, Florida)
Unwrapping Stories: Recent Must-Reads for Holiday-Giving. Part of the Conversations in Children's Literature series. Speakers: John Cech and Ramona Caponegro. John Cech is the Director of the Center for Children's Literature and Culture and a UF Professor of English. Ramona Caponegro is the Coordinator of the Center for Children's Literature and Culture and a PhD Candidate in UF's Department of English. Sponsored by the Center for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature Contact: Ramona Caponegro, ramonac@ufl.edu, 352-392-6650 x290.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
8:00 PM, Goerings book store
The Avenue Coffee House UF Professors and Their New Books. English professor Phillip Wegner discusses his book Life between Two Deaths, 1989 to 2009 U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties. Wegner links two events, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the destruction of the World Trade Center. He suggests that they together mark the end of an old and the beginning of a new world order. Wegner is a member of the English Department, UF. Sponsored by Goerings Book Store. For questions contact Thomas Rider at (352) 377-3703.
8:00 PM, Reitz Union Auditorium
Water First film screening. Part of the 2nd annual Human Rights Film Festival aponsored by Recurso, a student run nonprofit organization that raises awareness on campus about international issues including women's empowerment, water and sanitation, human rights, and more.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00 PM, Ocora in Pugh Hall
Church and State since 1989, presented by Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies. Co-sponsored by the Ehrlich Chair in Political Science. Part of the series From the Iron Curtain to the EU: 20 Years after 1989.
8:00 PM, Reitz Union Auditorium
Slavery: A Global Investigation film screening. Part of the 2nd annual Human Rights
Film Festival aponsored by Recurso, a student run nonprofit organization
that raises awareness on campus about international issues including women's
empowerment, water and sanitation, human rights, and more.
Friday, November 20, 2009
11:00 am -1:00 pm, reitz union colonnade
Translate THIS! Game Show. Can you say 'Go Gators" in Polish?
In Japanese? Find out how at the game show during International Education
Week. Come to the Colonnade, spin the wheel, and push your buzzer to win!
Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies. For more information, contact Gail
Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu
or 392-8902 x 211.
7:20 pm, New Physics Building Room 1001
End of the Astronomical Dark Ages, presented by
Dr. Lincoln Greenhill, Harvard Senior Research Fellow. The lecture will
be followed by night sky observing at the Campus Teaching Observatory (8:30pm
to 10pm) weather permitting.
Part of the International
Year of Astronomy. Sponsored by Astronomy.
For more information contact Jonathan Tan at jt@astro.ufl.edu or 352
392 2052 x 254.
Monday, November 23, 2009
12:45 Pm - 3:00 pm, 404 Grinter Hall
On the Ground: Perspectives on Fieldwork in Africa. A roundtable discussion featuring Dr. Jonathan Kaminsky, Dr. Julie Silva, Dr. Alyson Young, and Dr. Renata Serra. Learn about common challenges int he field and lessons and strategies learned. Sponsored by the Center for African Studies and the Development Working Group.
December
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
4:00 PM, Dauer Hall 219
If French Does Not Have Word Stress. Does It have Words? presented by Dr. Chantal Lyche, professor at the University of Oslo. Sponsored by the France Florida Research Institute.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
12:50-1:40 PM, Pugh Hall 210
Phonology of Contemporary French: Liaison in varieties of French spoken in Africa presented (in French) by Dr. Chantal Lyche, professor at the University of Oslo. Sponsored by the France Florida Research Institute.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Pugh Hall, Room 210
Some Thoughts About Pseudo-Science and Hidden Knowledge, presented by Eldon R. Turner, Emeritus, University of Florida, Department of History. Part of the 2009 Colloquium Series presented by the History of Science Society . Please contact the HSS Executive Office at 352-392-1677 or info@hssonline.org for additional information and/or questions.
7:30 PM, ocora in pugh hall
'Tantos Milagros': Miraculous Transmission in the Early Modern Spanish
World, a lecture by Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto. Part of
the Faithful Narratives lecture series. Sponsored by the Department
of History and the Center for Latin
American Studies.
Wednesday, December 4, 2009
4:00 pm, Philosophy Library, 303 Griffin Floyd hall
Conservation and Responsbility presented by Dr. Michael McKenna, Professor of Philosophy, FSU. Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy (352) 392-2084.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
10:30 am-12:00 pm, Ustler hall ,3rd floor library
Intersections in the contemporary study of gender CWSGR Graduate Student Panel. part of the brown bag series. Featuring Sarah Austin, Meredith Kite and Erin Tobin. The series, an open forum for research discussion, aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue within the UF community about the scholarly and political issues surrounding gender and sexuality by creating an informal setting for sharing insights drawn from research, activism, and pedagogy, both inside the university and beyond. Everyone is welcome - local community members as well as UF faculty, staff, and students. So bring your friends, students, classmates - and bring a brown bag lunch! For more information, please contact the Center for Women's Studies at 352-392-3365.
February
Thursday, February 4, 2010
All Day, Reitz Union room 282
Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese SECOND LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY. Plenary speaker: Mary Zampini, Associate Professor of Spanish, LeMoyne College. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, the Program in Linguistics, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Research. For more information contact Gillian Lord at glord@ufl.edu or 352.273.3749. REGISTRATION FEE REQUIRED.
Friday, February 5, 2010
All Day, Reitz Union room 282
Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese SECOND LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY. Plenary speaker: Mary Zampini, Associate Professor of Spanish, LeMoyne College. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, the Program in Linguistics, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Research. For more information contact Gillian Lord at glord@ufl.edu or 352.273.3749. REGISTRATION FEE REQUIRED.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
All Day, Reitz Union room 282
Current Approaches to Spanish and Portuguese SECOND LANGUAGE PHONOLOGY. Plenary speaker: Mary Zampini, Associate Professor of Spanish, LeMoyne College. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, the Program in Linguistics, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Research. For more information contact Gillian Lord at glord@ufl.edu or 352.273.3749. REGISTRATION FEE REQUIRED.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
King and Prince Beach Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
50th Sanibel Sympoisum. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online or request registration materials from the contact below. Early registration plus abstract deadline is November 30, 2009; hotel registration deadline is January 9, 2010.For more information, contact James Folks at folks@qtp.ufl.edu or 352-392-1597.
Friday, February 26, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
King and Prince Beach Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
50th Sanibel Sympoisum. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online or request registration materials from the contact below. Early registration plus abstract deadline is November 30, 2009; hotel registration deadline is January 9, 2010.For more information, contact James Folks at folks@qtp.ufl.edu or 352-392-1597.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
King and Prince Beach Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
50th Sanibel Sympoisum. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online or request registration materials from the contact below. Early registration plus abstract deadline is November 30, 2009; hotel registration deadline is January 9, 2010.For more information, contact James Folks at folks@qtp.ufl.edu or 352-392-1597.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
King and Prince Beach Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
50th Sanibel Sympoisum. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online or request registration materials from the contact below. Early registration plus abstract deadline is November 30, 2009; hotel registration deadline is January 9, 2010.For more information, contact James Folks at folks@qtp.ufl.edu or 352-392-1597.
March
Monday, March 1, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
King and Prince Beach Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
50th Sanibel Sympoisum. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online or request registration materials from the contact below. Early registration plus abstract deadline is November 30, 2009; hotel registration deadline is January 9, 2010.For more information, contact James Folks at folks@qtp.ufl.edu or 352-392-1597.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
King and Prince Beach Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
50th Sanibel Sympoisum. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online or request registration materials from the contact below. Early registration plus abstract deadline is November 30, 2009; hotel registration deadline is January 9, 2010.For more information, contact James Folks at folks@qtp.ufl.edu or 352-392-1597.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
9:00 - 5:00 pm, Dauer Hall, Room 215
Governing the EU after the Lisbon Treaty, a workshop presented by Sergio Fabbrini, University of Trento, Italy, and others. Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. For more information, contact Gail Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu or 392-8902 x 211.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
All Day, University Hilton Conference Center
48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
Friday, March 26, 2010
All Day, University Hilton Conference Center
48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
Time, Location TBA
On Gas Wars, Colored Revolutions, and Virtual Politics in Russia and the ‘Near Abroad’: A Post-election Assessment, the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Plenary Roundtable. Roundtable participants include Paul D'Anieri, Professor of Political Science and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida; Lucan Way, Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Toronto; Zachary Selden, Deputy Secretary General for Policy, NATO Parliamentary Assembly; Andrew Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Senior Policy Fellow for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
All Day, University Hilton Conference Center
48th annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
April
Thursday, April 8, 2010
6:30 - 8:30 pm, Matheson Museum
Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women's Movement Across Generations, a public history program. The panel discussion will bring together local activists from the 1950s through the present to discuss the ongoing struggle for social justice, gender equality, and human rights. The panel will also serve as a springboard for the collection and preservation of historical materials on the history of women's activism in Gainesville. Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Co-sponsored by the University of Florida Department of History, the UF Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, the Women's Studies Graduate Student Association and the History Graduate Society. For more information please call the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at 352-392-7168 or email portiz@ufl.edu.
