2009 Event Archives
January
- Basic Sanitation: the Movie (2007), directed by Jorge Furtado, Brazil. Part of the Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film series sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- The Outer Heliosphere as Revealed by Voyagers 1 and 2, a colloquium by J. R. (Randy) Jokipii, Regents' Professor, University of Arizona. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
- Lessons of 1959, a panel discussion featuring
Lisandro Perez,
Sociology and Anthropology,
Florida International University; José Alvarez, Emeritus Professor
Food and Resource Economics,
University of Florida. Sponsored by
Florida Humanities Council and the Center for Latin American Studies.
- Cytoskeleton Polymerization Motors, a seminar on Condensed Matter by Richard Dickinson, UF Chemistry. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
- Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work and the Origins of Christian
Monasticism, a lecture by Peter Brown, Princeton.Part of Faithful
Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by
the Department of Classics and the Rothman Distinguished Lectures in Classics,
, the Center
for Jewish Studies, the Department
of History, the Gainesville
Christian Study Center, the Wabash
Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
- Through the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida, a film and lecture series, featuring 90 Miles (Cuba), presented by Lisandro Perez,
Florida International University.Sponsored by
the Center for Latin American Studies.
- Ecodystopias in Brazilian Science Fiction Film, a lecture by Alfredo Suppia, a film specialist from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- The Fifth Power (1962), directed by Alberto Pieralisi, Brazil. Set in Rio de Janeiro, this thriller involves a clandestine group of foreigners broadcasting subliminal messages to the Brazilian population. In Portuguese or Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film series sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- Speaking for Nature, a lecture by Michal Meyer, Department of History. Part of the Brown Bag series sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- Brazilian Cinema and Science Fiction, a lecture by Alfredo Suppia, a film specialist from the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- The Sputnik Man (1959), directed by Carlos Manga, Brazil. Part of the Latin American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film series sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- Tourneés 2009 French
Film Festival: La Faute a Fidel. Free and open to the public.
Reception at 8:30 pm sponsored by the Alliance Francaise of Gainesville. Film sponsored by the France-Florida
Research Institute.
- The Discursive Economy of Sex Trafficking in Europe, a lecture by Jonathan D. Wadley, PhD candidate, Dept. of Political Science. Part of the Brown Bag series sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series. Nathaniel Reed, the Special Assistant on the Environment to Governor Claude Kirk and Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Presidents Nixon and Ford. Sponsored by the Oral History Program and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
- Betsy Ross: The Legend and the Life, a lecture by Marla R. Miller, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The First Annual Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture in Revolutionary Era America sponsored by the Department of History. Reception to follow at the Keene Faculty Center.
- Studying Religion in Motion in a Global Context, a workshop by Professor Thomas A. Tweed, University of Texas, Austin. Part of Global Religions
in Practice sponsored by the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions, the Transnational and Global Studies Center, and the University of Florida International Center,
in association with the Department of Religion, the Center for Women’s
Studies and Gender Research , and the Department of Political Science.
- Building Community around…Gender and Family Law Issues,
a lecture by Shani King & Nancy Dowd, Levin College of Law. Part of
the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center
for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
- Toward an Ethic of Civic Engagement: Reflections
on a Kinetic and Relational Theory of Religion, a seminar by Professor Thomas A. Tweed, University of Texas, Austin. Part of Global Religions
in Practice sponsored by the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions, the Transnational and Global Studies Center, and the University of Florida International Center,
in association with the Department of Religion, the Center for Women’s
Studies and Gender Research, and the Department of Political Science.
- Jane As Outsider: Why She Was Old-Fashioned Even For Her Own Day, a lecture by John Sommerville, Professor Emeritus of English History in the Department of History. Sponsored by the Jane Austen Society of North America.
- Tourneés 2009 French
Film Festival: La Question humaine. Free and open to the
public. Sponsored in part by the France-Florida
Research Institute.
- Ukrainian Regions in Foreign Policy Decision-Making, a lecture by Roman Kalytchak, Fulbright Scholar at the Kennan Institute. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- President and Mrs. Machen discussed their trip to Iran. Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
- Japan Film Fest double feature: Postman Blues and Cure; introduced by Scott Nygren, Associate Professor, UF English Department. Sponsored by Asian Studies.
- The Urban Divide in Latin America: Challenges and Strategies for Social Inclusion, the Center for Latin American Studies Annual Conference. Co-hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies and the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning.
- Migration in the Neoliberal Age, a two-day workshop that addresses the question, "How do contemporary welfare and labor regimes, citizenship rights, immigration rules, interethnic and racial structures in Europe inform the movement of people?" Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- A Sitar Recital by Josh Feinberg, accompanied by Javad Butah on the Tabla. Free Admission. Sponsored by the The Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), The School of Music, and The Center for World Arts.
February
- Tourneés 2009
French Film Festival. Sponsored in part
by the France-Florida
Research Institute
- Eugenics Reflected: Ideas
on Eugenics, Politics, and Heredity in Literature and Poetry,
a lecture by Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Director of the Medical Humanities
Program, UF
College of Medicine. Sponsored by the History
of Science Society
- The
Blackness of Barack Obama, the 2009 Gus Burns Lecture
with Diane Roberts, NPR and BBC Radio Essayist, Author, and Professor
of English. Sponsored by the Department
of History and the Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program.
- Campaign Strategy and Impact
in Latin America, a lecture
by Scott Desposato, UC San Diego. Sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Word
Learning Episodes (and their Consequences for Word Knowledge and Reading
Skill), a lecture by Charles Perfetti, University
of Pittsburgh. Sponsored
by the Department of Linguistics.
- Wit, Irony and
Ridicule in 18th-Century French Art and Literature keynote
address, presented by Bernadette Fort, Professor of French and Art
History, Northwestern University. Sponsored by the Harn Eminent
Scholar Program, the France-Florida
Research Institute, the School
of Art and Art History, and the Harn
Museum of Art.
- First
Annual UF-FSU Graduate Student Colloquium in Classics. Sponsored
in part by the Department of
Classics.
- Through
the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida,
a film and lecture series. Sponsored by the Center
for Latin American Studies.
- Japan Film Fest: When
a Woman Ascends the Stairs. Sponsored by Asian
Studies.
- Building Community
around…Women’s Work in African
Studies & African American Studies, a lecture by Stephanie
Y. Evans, African American Studies & Women’s Studies. Part
of the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch.
- 2009 G. Paul Moore Symposium.
Featured speakers inlcuded Dr. Peter Ramig, from the University of
Colorado at Boulder, discussing Stuttering Intervention with Children
and Teens and Dr. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, from the University of Toronto,
speaking on “Normal” and
Impaired Hearing and Cognition in Older Adults: From Diagnosis to Rehabilitation
to Accessibility. Sponsored by the Department
of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
- Diplomacy in Transition. Part of the Presidential
Lecture Series, three former U.S. Ambassadors spoke on
Foreign Policy: Frank McNeil, former Ambassador to Costa Rica and
UF Alumnus; Ray Mabus, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and former
Governor of Mississippi; and Douglas McElhaney, former Ambassador
to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Singing His Praises: Darwin and His Theory in Song and
Musical Production, a lecture by Betty
Smocovitis, Zoology and History.
- Macunaíma (1969),
film scrreening. Part of
the Latin
American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film series sponsored by
the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese Studies.
- Scholars
and Converts: European Jews Embrace Islam,
a lecture by Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth. Co-sponsored by the Center
for European Studies. Part of Faithful Narratives: The Challenge
of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center
for Jewish Studies, the Department
of History, the Gainesville
Christian Study Center, the Wabash
Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
- Randolph Caldecott and
the Caldecott Award,
part of the Conversations
in Children's Literature Series, which looks at children’s
literature and culture. Sponsored by the Center
for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature.
- Population Ecology, Theology,
and Prophecy: Charles Birch and the Transformation of Global Ecumenism
in the 1970s, a lecture
by David Steffes, Florida State University. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- The
Avenue Coffee House: UF Professors and Their New Books presents
Jack Davis, Department of History.
- Mexico and US Relations, a
panel discussion that featured Emb. Juan Miguel Giutierrez Tinoco
Consul General, Consulate of Mexico in Miami; Lic. Gabriel Perez Krieg,
ProMexico; and Stephen P. Walroth-Sadurni, Esq. Sponsored by the Center
for Latin American Studies.
- Lenguaje & Espacio
/ Language & Space, the Fourth Interdisciplinary Colloquium
on Hispanic/Latin American Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures.
Sponsored by Romance Languages
and Literatures.
- FLEX, the
Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
- Milbauer Seminar in Southern History,
featuring Scott
R. Nelson. Sponsored by the Department
of History.
- Fit to Marry:
A Mechanized Exhibit of Mendelian Heredity and Genetics in the Bay
Area 1917-1950, a lecture by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis,
University of Florida. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series. Dr.
Jack Davis, Associate Professor of History at UF, will be discussing
his new book An
Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental
Century. Sponsored by the Oral
History Program and the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- 49th
Sanibel Symposium. Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum
Chemistry.
- The
Contributions of Lexical Bias, Plausibility, and Prosody to the
Resolution of Temporary Ambiguity in English Sentences,
a lecture by Susan Garnsey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- From Russia With Love, an
evening devoted to music and song from the Russian popular and classical
repertoire, from Rakhmaninov to romance and gypsy tunes. Sponsored by
Russian Studies at the University of Florida. Part of the 2009 Russian
Spring Festival
- Up From
the Ashes: National Revival and Imperial Aspirations in Putin-era Russia, a
symposium. Part
of the 2009 Russian Spring Festival,
sponsored by UF Russian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures,
and Cultures.
- The Moon's
Dark Secrets,
a lecture by Professor Charles Telesco. Sponsored by the Department
of Astronomy.
- Maslenitsa, a Traditional Russian
Celebration of Spring. Part of the 2009
Russian Spring Festival, sponsored by UF Russian Studies, Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
March
- 49th Sanibel Symposium.
Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project.
- Olga Ionova, Soprano. Part
of the 2009 Russian Spring Festival,
sponsored by UF Russian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures,
and Cultures.
- Voice & Equality? Women’s Rights and Interest Group Advocacy
on Capitol Hill, 1878-2000, a lecture by Kristin Goss, Assistant
Professor, Duke University. Sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Through the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida,
a film and lecture seriesNuyorican Dream (Puerto Rico), presented
by Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico. Sponsored
by the Center
for Latin American Studies.
- Sand and Sorrow Film
Screening and panel discussion on Darfur. Panel included Elizabeth
Porter (Food and Resource Economics), Abraham Goldman (Geography),
Staffan Lindberg (Political Science) and Rene Lemarchand (professor
emeritus, polisci). The panel also included Peter
Ter, a political science alumnus.
- Gaza Panel. Panel included Gerald Murray (Anthropology), Patricia
J. Woods, (Political Science), and Matthew Jacobs (History). Sponsored
by student organizations, the UF International Center, the Near and Middle
East Working group, and others.
- Don’t Die Before Telling Me Where You Are Going (1995)
directed by Ernest Subiela, Argentina. Part of the Latin American
Science Fiction and Fantasy Film series sponsored by the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- Teodoro Petkoff on Venezuela, a lecture by Teodoro Petkoff,
Venezuelan politician, ex-guerrilla, journalist and economist. One of
the most prominent politicians on the left in Venezuela, Petkoff began
as a communist but gravitated towards liberalism in the 1990s. Sponsored
by the Center
for Latin American Studies.
- Brown Bag Talk: The Founding of Colonial Georgia: For the Glory
of God and the Wealth and Trade of Great Britain, presented by
Nate Herrod, Graduate Student. Part of the Center
for European Studies Graduate Student Brown Bag Series.
- Gators, Natural Wonders, and Truth to Speech, a lecture by
Charlotte M. Porter, Florida Museum of Natural History. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- The Avenue Coffee House: UF Professors and Their New Books,
presents Terry Harpold, Department
of English.
In Ex-foliations Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path (Electronic
Mediations), Harpold explores the paradoxes of reading’s
backward glances, as reflected by the theory and literature of the
digital media.
- Presidential Lecture Series. "World at Risk” with
Senator Jim Talent and Senator Bob Graham. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- Islam in Europe, a workshop moderated by Amie Kreppel, Center
for European Studies. Six internationally-known speakers, including Anne
Sofie Roald of the University of Malmo, address this timely topic. Sponsored
by the Center for European Studies.
- Discursive
Treatments of Media and Materiality, the 4th annual Digital
Assembly conference. The keynote speaker was Bill Seaman
(Chair of the Graduate Digital+Media Department, Rhode Island School
of Design). Sponsored by the English
Department.
- Seminar on Condensed Matter by Peter
Woelfle, U. Karlsruhe. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics.
- The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe Revisited,
a lecture by Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University. Dr. Ekiert discussed
his new project which looks at the development of civil society in four
new democracies (Poland, Hungary, Taiwan, South Korea) using an original
data set on a decade of protest activity in each. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies, the Department
of Political Science, and the Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent
Scholar Chair.
- Florida Black History:
Where We Stand in the Age of Barack Obama, moderated by
Joel Buchanan, distinguished historian of the African American experience.
Sponsored by the Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program.
- Japan Film Fest double feature: Cure and Age
of Assassins; introduced by Scott Nygren, Associate Professor, UF
English Department.Sponsored by Asian
Studies and the Japan Foundation.
- Books to Appeal to Black Boys: African and African American Books
by and about Men and Boys, part of the Conversations in Children's
Literature Series. Sponsored by the Center
for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature.
- Building Community around… Incarcerated Women & Juvenile
Girls, a lecture by Amanda Davis, Women’s Studies. Part of
the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center
for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
- The Problem of Islamic Science, a lecture by Christopher Furlow,
University of Florida. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series. Journalists
Cynthia Barnett, Craig Pittman, and Matt Waite discussed their recent
books on Florida waterways in a roundtable discussion. Sponsored by the Oral
History Program and the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- The Avenue Coffee House UF Professors and Their
New Books presents Todd
Hasak-Lowy, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Hasak-Lowy
discussed Captives, his first novel.
- The
Quantum Correction to the Newtonian Potential, a colloquium
by John Donoghue, University of Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics
- Islam and European Secularism, a talk by Jocelyne Cesari,
Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Center for European
Studies and teaches at the Harvard Divinity School and Government Department.
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- Race and Class In the Mix: Can We Talk?, an interactive lecture
by Rhonda Soto, the Race/Class Coordinator for Class Action, a national
nonprofit that inspires action to end classism. Part of Women's History
Month; sponsored by the Women's Leadership Council, Multicultural and
Diversity Affairs, and the Center for Leadership and Service.
- Metropolis and Colony,
a conference. Keynote speaker was Dr. Sylvie Blum-Reid. Sponsored by
the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Ethnic Residential Segregation, Inter-Ethnic Contacts, and Anti-Minority
Attitudes in European Societies, a lecture by Moshe Semyonov, Tel
Aviv University and the University of Illinois. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies and Sociology
and Criminology & Law.
- Milbauer Seminar in Southern History, featuring Elizabeth
R. Varon, author of We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics
in Antebellum Virginia (1998) and Southern Lady, Yankee Spy:
Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy.
Sponsored by the Department
of History.
- The Dark Matter Puzzle, a lecture by Pierre Sikivie, Physics
Department, followed by telescope viewing at the campus observatory,
weather permitting. Sponsored by the Department
of Astronomy. Part of the International
Year of Astronomy 2009 Public Lecture Series.
- Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization.The 7th annual
UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels will include speakers Jessica
Abel, Sara Cooper, Matt Madden, and Susan Napier. Details TBA. Sponsored
by the English Department.
- Cronos (1993),
directed by Guillermo del Toro, Mexico. Part of the Latin
American Science Fiction and Fantasy Film series sponsored by
the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- Women and Daoism, a lecture by Livia Kohn, an expert on Daoism
and a professor
emeritus of religious studies at Boston University. Sponsored by the
Asian Studies Program.
- Women & Sustainability Panel. Part of Women's History
Month; sponsored by Gators For A Sustainable Campus and the Women's Leadership
Council.
- Antievolutionism in America: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent
Design, a lecture by Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale Professor of History
of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- The Matter of Crime as an Expression of Identity: Observations
from Latin America and the U.S., the 2009 Bacardi Family Eminent
Lecture by Christopher Birkbeck, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at
the University of Salford in Manchester, England and Emeritus Professor
of Criminology at the University of the Andes in Merida, Venezuela.
Sponsored by the Center
for Latin American Studies.
- Colloquium by Sergei Klimenko, UF Physics. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics
- States of Suspension, the Eleventh Annual
Conference of the Marxist
Reading Group. The keynote speaker will be Michael Hardt (Professor
of Literature and Italian, Duke University), author of Gilles Deleuze:
A Philosophical Apprenticeship (1993).
Sponsored by the English Department.
- Has God Forsaken Africa? film screening, presented by filmmaker
Mussa Dieng Kala. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies. For more information contact Corinna Greene
at cgreene@africa.ufl.edu or 392-2187.
- Neither National nor Global: Immigrant Spaces and Subjects,
a lecture by Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology
and Member of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University.
Part of the year long series "Engaging European Migration" sponsored
by the Center for European Studies.
- Portraits
of Great Women: A Celebration of Female Achievement in Honor of Women's
History Month, presented by Dr. Angel Kwolek-Folland, Associate
Provost for Academic Affairs and Acting Associate Provost for Faculty
Development.
Sponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research, Students in Free Enterprise and Florida
Women in Business.
- Citizenship and Rights in Cosmopolitan Societies workshop.
Part of the year long series "Engaging European Migration" sponsored
by the Center for European Studies.
- Alliance Francaise presents Pardon My French. Gainesville
students in French will delight your ears as they play and recite French
plays and poems.
- Dark Fantasies of State: Notes from the Peruvian Underground,
alecture by David Nugent, Professor of Anthropology at Emory University.
Co-Sponsored by the Anthropology
Department and
the Center for Women and Gender Studies.
- A seminar on Condensed Matter by Roser Valenti, U. Frankfurt. Sponsored
by the Department of Physics.
- The Return of
Religion in Africa, a
lecture by Lamin Sanneh, Yale. Part of Faithful
Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored
by the Center for African Studies,
the Center for Jewish Studies,
the Department of History,
the Gainesville Christian
Study Center, the Wabash
Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
April
-
What's the Place of the Physical Environmental Sciences in the
History of Recent Science?, a lecture by Ronald E. Doel, Florida
State University. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- Presidential Lecture Series. “The Media and the New
Administration” with Mr. Bill Adair, Washington Bureau Chief,
St. Petersburg Times Editor and Mr. Al Eisele, The Editor-At-Large
of The Hill. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- Colloquium by Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics
- Africa Through A Reporter's Eyes, a lecture by Lydia Polgreen,
West Africa Bureau Chief for the New York Times.
Sponsored by the Center for African Studies.
- Poetry reading by Debora Greger, Michael Hofmann, William Logan, and
Sidney Wade in celebration of National Poetry Month. Sponsored by the English
Department.
- German Jewry and the Invention of Secularism, a lecture
by Shulamit Volkov.
- CWSGR Graduate Student Panel, featuring Meredith Kite, Erin
Tobin, Sarah Austin, Camilo Cornejo. Part of the Gender Conversations
brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center
for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
- Implementing Sharia in Northern Nigeria, a lecture by Philip
Ostien, University of Jos. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- Pride and Prejudice discussion.
Sponsored by the Jane Austen Society
of North America. For more information, contact Amy
Robinson.
- Vada
Allen Yeomans: Legacy of a Peddler's Daughter, a special
colloquium. Dr. Robert A. Schanke, Professor Emeritus, Central
College, Member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre,
presented images from the Cal Yeomans Collection at the University
of Florida. Sponsored by the Center
for Women’s Studies and Gender Research with support
from the Vada Allen Yeomans Endowment.
- Ernst Mayr: The Darwin of the 20th Century, a lecture by
Stewart Kreitzer, University of Florida. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- Seminar on Condensed Matter
by Chandra Varma, UC Riverside. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics.
- The Avenue Coffee House: UF Professors and Their New Books presents
Classics Professor Jim Marks. Marks talked about his book “Zeus
in the Odyssey.”
- Packing Hyperspheres in High Dimensions: Does Disorder Win?,
a colloquium by Salvatore Torquato. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics
- American
Studies/American Universities, the Eighth Annual American
Cultures Symposium. Speakers includes Christopher Newfield (UC Santa
Barbara), Marc Bousquet (Santa Clara University), Ellen Schrecker
(Yeshiva University), and Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis). Sponsored by
the English
Department.
- Polanyi in Brussels: Politics and the Making of a Transnational
Market, a lecture by James Caporaso, University of Washington.
Sponsored by
the Center for European Studies and
the Department of Political
Science.
- Milbauer Seminar in Southern History, featuring Joseph
Crespino, Associate Professor of History at Emory
University and author of In Search of Another Country: Mississippi
and The Conservative Counterrevolution (2007), which won the
Lillian Smith Book Award, the McLemore Prize, and the Nonfiction
Prize given by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Sponsored
by the Department
of History.
- Documentary screening of Taking Root:The Vision of Wangari Maathai.
Sponsored by the The Development Reading Group and the Center
for African Studies.
- Seminar on Condensed Matter by Casey W. Miller, USF. Sponsored
by the Department of Physics.
- Science & the Modern World -- A Big Picture of Western Civilization,
a lecture by Robert Hatch, Associate Professor, Department of History,
University of Florida. Part of the History
of Science Society colloquium series.
- ACCENT and the Graham
Center for Public Service present Howard Dean. Co-sponsored
by VISA.
- Seeing
the Mathematics Behind Supersymmetry Theories - Adinkras,
a colloquium by Sylvester James (Jim) Gates Jr.. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics.
- America, the Owner's Manual, a talk and book signing by
former Senator Bob Graham. Sponsored by the Graham
Center for Public Service.
- Explaining Politics, Not Polls: The Realignment in Macropartisanship,
a lecture by Dr. James Campbell, Professor of Political Science, State
University of New York at Buffalo. Sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Tea with Dr. Myriam
Sarachik, a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the
City College of CUNY, NY. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics.
- When Bob Graham Became a Gator, a lecture by Senator Bob
Graham. Part of the Samuel Proctor Florida history Lecture Series.
Sponsored by the Graham
Center for Public Service and the Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program.
- Authors on Sundays presents English alumni Margaret Luongo.
Lungo discussed her novel “If the Heat Is Lean,” sixteen
stories of people that find themselves in odd and sometimes surreal
situations.
- Seminar on Condensed Matter by Stuart
Tessmer, Michigan State. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics.
- A New National Labor Policy, a lecture by Donald Fehr,
head of the Major League Baseball Players Association. Sponsored
by the Graham
Center for Public Service
- Tales of Retelling Tales - Aesop, the Grimms, Hoffmann, and
Perrault,
part of the Conversations in Children's Literature Series.
Presented by John Cech, Director of the Center for Children's Literature
and Culture and UF Professor of English. Sponsored by the Center
for Children’s Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature.
- A Weekend of Classical
Indian Music and Dance, workshops and programs sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Hindu Traditions and Spicmacay.
May
June
Saturday, June 6, 2009
- The Samule Proctor Oral History Project presents WWII information,
transcripts and memorabilia on display at Camp Blanding for the Army's
tribute to the 65th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion.
- Astronomy for Kids - Comet Talk and Activity, presented by
Elizabeth Lada and Vicki Sarajedini. Sponsored by
the Department of Astronomy and the Kika Silva Pla Planetarium.
- Key Events and Concepts in U.S. Foreign Policy, presented
by Ido Oren. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Major Theoretical Approaches to U.S. Foreign Policy,
presented by Ido Oren. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Survey of U.S. Foreign Policy Institutions, presented
by Richard Nolan. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- U.S. Perspectives on International Security Issues,
presented by Aida Hozic. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- The United States in the World Economy, presented
by Aida Hozic. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- All Politics is Local, presented by Richard Scher.
Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- The Presidency and U.S. Foreign Policy, presented
by Richard Conley. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- The Domestic Sources of U.S. Foreign Policy: A Case Study
of U.S. - Russian Relations, presented by Paul D'Anieri. Part
of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Religion, Politics, and U.S. Foreign Policy, presented
by Kenneth Wald. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Congress, Interest Groups, and the Foreign Moneymaking
Process,
presented by Michael Heaney. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- When Fantasy is Reality, or How to Make a World?,
part of the Conversations in Children's Literature series. Presented
by Stephanie A. Smith, UF Professor of English and Fantasy Fiction Writer.
Sponsored by the Center for Children's
Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's
Literature.
- The U.S. Economy, presented by Herman M. Schwartz.
Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Continuity and Change in U.S. Foreign Policy, presented
by James Goldgeier. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Public Opinion and U.S. Foreign Policy, presented by Michael
D. Martinez. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- The U.S. Intelligence Community, presented by Loch
Johnson. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative: Global Trade Issues,
presented by Stephen J. Powell. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- U.S. Relations with Latin America, presented by Terry
McCoy. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- The Two Miamis, presented by Terry McCoy. Part of
the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
July
- U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia, presented by Richard J. Samuels.
Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Regional Conversations: Asia, presented by Richard J. Samuels.
Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Democracy Promotion, presented by Valerie Bruce. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Regional Conversations: The Post-Communist World, presented
by Valerie Bruce. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- India, Pakistan, Waziristan...What's Next?, presented by Ron
Herring. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Regional Conversations: The Greater Middle East, presented
by Steve Heydemann and Ron Herring. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- U.S. and International Studies, presented by Steve Heydemann.
Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
- Regional Conversations: Africa, presented by Leo Villalon.
Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science
- Regional Conversations: Latin America, presented by Terry
McCoy. Part of the Institute
on United States Foreign Policy sponsored by the Department
of Political Science.
September
- Witnesses From the Grave? presented by Michael Warren, Associate
Professor and Director, C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory. Part
of the 2009 Colloquium Series presented by the History
of Science Society.
- Free Spirits, Lay Religion, and Clerical Suspicion: Inside the
Late Medieval Church, a lecture by John Van Engen, University
of Notre Dame. Part of the Faithful Narratives lecture series,
co-sponsored by the Department
of History,
the Center for Medieval and Early
Modern Studies and the Rothman Chair.
- Hungary: Twenty Years after the Regime-Change, Five Years after
EU Accession. Presented by István Hegedűs, Central
European University. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies. Part of the Center for European Studies series From
the Iron Curtain to the EU: 20 Years After
- Environmental Moderators of Genetic Influence on Adolescent Delinquent
Involvement and Victimization, a lecture by Kevin Beaver, Ph.D.
College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University.
Sponsored by the Institute for Crime,
Justice, and Policy Research in the Department of Sociology and Criminology
& Law.
- Framing Europe: Location and Circulation in a Mediated World,
presented by Deniz Göktürk, University of California, Berkeley,
Department of German. First talk this semester in the Center for European
Studies series, Engaging Migration in Europe. Sponsored by Center
for European Studies.
- Quantum Theory Project Sesquicentennial
- Religion and Gender in Enlightenment England: The Problem of Agency,
a lecture by Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University. Part of the Faithful
Narratives lecture series, co-sponsored by the Department
of History, the Center for Women's
Studies nd Gender Research, the Center
for European Studies and the Rothman Chair.
- A Boy's Book of the Scrub: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and the Writing
of The Yearling. Part of the Conversations in Children's Literature
series. Speaker: Florence M. Turcotte, Literary Manuscripts Archivist,
UF Special Collections Sponsored by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of
Historical Children's Literature.
- European Economic Integration, presented by Petia Kostadinova,
Assistant Professor, Department of
Political Science and Center for European Studies Assistant Director.
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- Telling Time in Earth History, presented by Jim Channel, Distinguished
Professor, University of Florida, Department of Geological Sciences. Part
of the 2009 Colloquium Series presented by the History
of Science Society .
- Migration in Europe Film Series, Pt 1. Free admission for
two films: Spare
Parts (7:00 PM) and Fraulein (9:00
PM). Sponsered by the Center for
European Studies.
- Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle
for Florida's Future. Featuring Steven Noll, Senior Lecturer,
UF Department of History, and David Tegeder, Professor of History,
Santa Fe College. Part of the Sam Proctor Florida History Lecture Series
sponsored by the Bob Graham
Center for Public Service.
- Intersections of gender and antiquity “The
Scream on the Other Side of Silence: Feminism and Vergil's Aeneid” part
of the brown
bag series. Featuring Dr. Jennifer A. Rea, Associate Professor
of Classics, Director of Distance Learning in Classics.
- Migration in Europe Film Series, Pt 2. Free admission for
two films: Inch'Allah
Dimanche (7:00 PM) and Hop (9:00
PM). Sponsered by the Center
for European Studies.
- Following the Fossil Trail: Roy Chapman Andrews' Life with Dinosaurs, presented
by Patricia Bartlett, Coordinator for Education and Training, University
of Florida, Asian Studies Program. Part of the 2009 Colloquium Series presented
by the History of Science Society .
October
- The Cogito in 1643-1635, presented by Dr. Roger Ariew,
Professor and Chair of Philosophy, USF. Sponsored by the Department
of Philosophy.
- 5th Conference of the Social Sciences Keynote Address. Presented
by Dr.Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland:
The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men.
Sponsored by the Department of
Sociology and Criminology & Law.
- Rock, Race and the Social Geography of the Jimi Hendrix Experience,
presented by Matthew Frye Jacobson is Professor of American Studies,
History, and African American Studies at Yale. Sponsored by the Humanities
fund of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- The Everglades: Visions, Revisions and History. Joe Browder,
Principal of Dunlap and Browder and former Conservation Director of
Friends of the Earth, discussed his work in preserving and
restoring the Everglades. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- Immigrant Cultural Production in Europe workshop. Part of
the Engaging Migration in Europe series. Sponsored by the College
of European Studies.
- Immigrant Cultural Production in Europe workshop. Part of
the Engaging Migration in Europe series. Sponsored by the College
of European Studies.
- A Highly Selected Strain of Guinea Pigs: Profiling the Winners
of the Science Talent Search 1942-1958, presented by Sevan Terzian,
Associate Professor, University of Florida, College of Education,
School of Teaching & Learning. Part of the 2009 Colloquium Series
presented by the History of Science
Society .
- Enlightenment Ideals, Sexual Politics, and Economic Realities
on the Carolina Frontier, a lecture by Charles R. Cobb, Director
of South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and
Professor of Anthropology, University of South Carolina. The Inaugural
Brown Lecture in Archaeology, sponsored by the Hyatt and Cici Brown
Endowment for Florida Archaeology and the Department of Anthropology.
- After the Election in Germany: The End of the Post-Ideological
Era?, a talk by Dietmar Shirmer, DAAD, the German Academic Exchange
Service. Sponsored by the College
of European Studies.
- Spiritualities in Circulation: Faith, Migration, and the Social
Construction of the Global Islamic Ummah. Part of the Engaging
Migration in Europe series. Talk by Kristen Ghodsee of Bowdoin College.
Sponsored by the College of European
Studies.
- The Bible and American Public Life, a lecture by Mark Noll,
University of Notre Dame.
Part of the Faithful Narratives lecture series. Sponsored
by the Department of History,
the Richard J. Milbauer Chair in History, and the Graham
Center for Public Service.
- When Fantasy is Reality, or How to Make a World? Part of
the Conversations in Children's Literature series. Speaker: Stephanie
A. Smith, UF Professor of English and Fantasy Fiction Writer. Sponsored
by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature.
- Dual screening of Freedom without Walls: Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989-2009 and The Wall. Part of the Fall
of the Wall series sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Bipartisanship in the Media, featuring Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large
of National Review Online, and Peter Beinart, editor-at-large
of the New Republic. Part of the 2009-2010 Presidential Lecture
Series sponsored by the Graham
Center for Public Service.
- Intersections of gender and terrorism, featuring Dr. Laura
Sjoberg, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Director of Distance
Learning in Classics.Sponsored by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research.
- The EU, the Lisbon Treaty, and the Irish Vote discussion
with Bruce Carolan, Dublin Institute of Technology. Sponsors: Center
for European Studies, Warrington College of Business.
- Gala commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Guests included
Klaus Ranner (General Consul of the
Federal Republic of Germany, Miami), David Sammons (Dean, UFIC), Paul
D'Anieri (Dean, CLAS), and Ann Wehmeyer (Chair, LLC). Part of the Fall
of the Wall series
sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- An Evening of Hindustani Music with Indrajit Banerjee (sitar)
and Subrata Bhattacharya (Tabla). Sponsored by SPICMACAY and
the Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions.
- Making the First Big Objects in the Universe: Galaxies, Quasars
and Supermassive Blackholes, presented by Professor Fred Hamann.
Sponsored by the Department
of Astronomy.
- Plant Medicine: Training the Next Generation of Plant Health
Practitioner, presented by Robert J. McGovern, Professor and
Director, Plant Medicine Program, University of Florida, Institute
of Food and Agricultural Sciences.Part of the 2009 Colloquium Series
presented by the History of Science
Society .
- A Sacred Responsibility: Religious Values and the Ecological Crisis.
Sponsored by the Department
of Religion.
- Contradictions of Islam and Secularism in Turkey. Presented
by Jenny White, Boston University. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies. This talk is part of the Turkey and
the West series
on the topic Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: Causes and Implications.
- Artist Flora Zarate exhibited the making of Peruvian
arpilleras, remarkable tapestries with layers of meanings sewn into
them. Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research along with the Center
for Latin American Studies.
November
- Intersections of gender and development Muscles and (Mal)development:
Hypermasculinity and the Legacy of the Domination of Nature in India,
featuring Caleb Simmons, Doctoral Student in Religion. Part
of the brown
bag series, sponsoed by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research.
- Michael Grunwald, Senior Correspondent of Time
Magazine, discussed his book The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida,
and the Politics of Paradise. Sponsored by the Graham
Center for Public Service.
- Russian Fall Festival. Sponsored by the Russian Studies in
the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- 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. 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
- 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.
- 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.
- UF in the Mississippi Delta, a multi-media presentation
by UF students who traveled to the Mississippi Delta the past two
summers to record the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the Birthplace
of the Blues. Sponsored by the Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program.
- Seminar for Graduate Students and Faculty: Professor Anthony
Grafton discussed selections from his recently published book,
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community
in the Modern West. Sponsored by the history department.
- Feminism
in Jalisco, Mexico, a lecture by Beatriz Bustos, who presented
a short historical description of feminism in Mexico and discussed the
current politics of gender. Sponsored by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research.
- 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.
- 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.
- MFA@FLA Writer's Festival 2009. Sponsored by the English Department.
- Recycling in African Art: Necessity, Metaphor, and Creative Expression.
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.
- Goodbye DDR: Memory and Visual Culture. Sponsored by the Rothman
Endowment. Part of the “Fall
of the Wall” Commemoration.
- Bilinguisme et écriture presented by Dr. Sebastien
Doubinsky, novelist and professor at Aarhus University in Denmark. Sponsored
by the France
Florida Research Institute.
- 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. Co-sponsored by the English Graduate
Organization, English Department, and Center for the Humanities and the
Public Sphere (Yavitz Fund).
- 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.
- 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. Sponsored
by Goerings Book Store.
- 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.
- Unwrapping Stories: Recent Must-Reads for Holiday-Giving. Part
of the Conversations in Children's Literature series sponsored
by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of
Historical Children's Literature.
- 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. Sponsored by Goerings
Book Store.
- 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.
- Translate THIS! Game Show. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- End of the Astronomical Dark Ages, presented by Dr. Lincoln
Greenhill, Harvard Senior Research Fellow.
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.
- 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. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies and the Development Working Group.
December
- New Voices, Old Roots: Populism in an Enlarged Europe, presented
by Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Center for Baltic and East European Studies
in Stockholm, Sweden. Part of the From the EU to the Iron Curtain series
sponsored by the Center for European
Studies
- 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.
- Imagining Berlin: The Cultural Geographies of the Post-Wall City,
presented by Dietmar Schirmer, UF DAAD Fellow. Part of the From
the EU to the Iron Curtain series sponsored by the Center
for European Studies. For more information contact Gail Keeler
at gskeeler@ufl.edu or 392-8902 x 211.
- 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.
- 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 .
- UF
in India Summer Study Abroad Program Photo Exhibition. Should
- '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.
- European Migration Photo Exhibition. An exhibit
of images illustrating the Engaging Migration in Europe series
sponsored by the Center for European Studies. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Conservation and Responsbility presented by Dr. Michael McKenna,
Professor of Philosophy, FSU. Sponsored by the Department
of Philosophy (352) 392-2084.
- Intersections in the contemporary study of gender CWSGR Graduate
Student Panel. part of the brown
bag series. Sponsored by the Center
for Women's Studies.
- International Year of Astronomy Lecture: Black Holes, presented
by Steve Eikenberry. Sponsored by the Department
of Astronomy.
- Green Building Case Study. Learn about the green features
of this building and lessons learned from LEED certification process.
Presented by the University of Florida Facilities Planning
and Construction.
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