2010 Event Archives
January
- European Migration Photo Exhibition. Come view an exhibit
of images illustrating the Engaging Migration in Europe series
sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Get Lucky with Languages. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies and Asian
Studies Program.
- Church and State since 1989, presented by Anna Grzymala-Busse,
University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies and co-sponsored by the Ehrlich Chair in
Political Science.
- Who
Are You? Criminal Identification Technologies and Practices from
the Nineteenth Century to the Present, a lecture by Simon
Cole, associate professor and chair of Department of Criminology,
Law and Society at the University of California at Irvine and author
of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal
Identification. Part of the First Annual Caleb and Michele
Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs and co-sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere with support of the Yavitz Fund.
- Bipartisanship in the Health Care Debate. Former Senators
Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Bill Frist (R-TN), both former Senate Majority
Leaders, will be discussing the debate over health care reform. Part
of the 2009 Graham Center Public Matters Series sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service. For more information call 352.846.1575
- "Not Just for Children: Reading Jules Verne (With Your Children),” part
of the Conversations in Children's Literature series. Presented by
Terry Harpold, UF Associate Professor of English. Sponsored by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature.
- When Should we Celebrate the Fall of Communism?,
a lecture by Padraic Kenney, Indiana University. Sponsored by
the Center for European Studies.
- Why Not Work Together? Collaborative Funding Opportunities
in and related to the Humanities? A roundtable discussion on applying
for interdisciplinary and/or collaborative grants. Sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere
- The Cold War Cultural Antagonism: Its Effect on Greek Music,
a lecture by Katy Romanou, Professor of Musicology at the University
of Athens and Senior Visiting Scholar. Sponsored by the Department
of Classics, the Center
for Greek Studies, and the Alexander
S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program
- A Much Too Weighty Inheritance, a lecture on the discovery
of ancient Greek and Byzantine Music by Katy Romanou, Professor of
Musicology at the University of Athens and Senior Visiting Scholar.
Sponsored by the Department of
Classics, the Center
for Greek Studies, and the Alexander
S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program.
- Stopping the Stork: Birth Control in the Netherlands and Germany
in the late 1800s, a lecture by Sharon DiFino, Associate Professor
of Germanic Studies. Part of the History of Science Colloquium Series.
- Queers on the Small Screen: the Representation of Queer on Television, a
lecture by Sofie Van Bauwel, University of Ghent. Sponsored by the
Center for European Studies.
- Bridging Conservation
and Development in Latin America and Africa: Changing Contexts,
Changing Strategies, an international conference. Sponsored
by the UF
Center for Latin American Studies and the UF
Center for African Studies, with partial support from a Mellon-LASA
(Latin American Studies Association) Seminars grant.
- Reading the Residues, a lecture, and screening of the film Coffee
Futures. Presented by Zeynep Korkman, University of California,
Santa Barbara and Zeynep Gürsel, University of Michigan. Part
of the Turkey and the West series sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Balkan and Greek Art Music, a lecture by Katy Romanou, Professor
of Musicology at the University of Athens and Senior Visiting Scholar.
Sponsored by the Department of
Classics, the Center
for Greek Studies, and the Alexander
S. Onassis Foundation University Seminars Program.
February
- Biometrics
for Human Identification: Technology and Policy, a lecture
by Anil Jain, University Distinguished Professor in the Departments
of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical & Computer
Engineering at Michigan State University and author of Handbook
of Biometrics. Part of the First Annual Caleb and Michele
Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs and co-sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere with support of the Yavitz Fund.
- 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.
- The Ins and Outs of the Publication Process. Lecture by Christopher
Grasso and Karin Wulf. Organized by the
History Graduate Society with co-sponsorship of the Board of College
Councils, Department of History, and the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere (Yavitz Fund).
- Film Screening: DDR/DDR. Presented by Barbara Mennel, Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies and the Harn
Museum. For more information contact Gail Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu or
392-8902 x 211.
- Why
Sacred Groves Matter: Post-Romantic Claims, a lecture
by Ann Gold, Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of
Syracuse University. She specializes in teaching and research on
Hindu traditions in modern India, religion and gender, religion
in the natural environment, and oral performance. Sponsored by
the Jerome A. Yavitz Fund of the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- African Architecture Initiative: Peter Rich, Rich Architects - Johannesburg.
Learnt in Translation: African Space Making. For more details visit
the African Studies page.
- The Politics of Memory: Commemorating the Fall of Communism in
Poland 20 Years Later, presented by Michael Bernhard, the Raymond
and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science. Sponsored
by the Center for European
Studies and the Harn Museum.
- Turkey's Politics and the EU Accession Process, presented
by William Hale, School of Oriental and African Studies,University
of London. Part of the Turkey and the West series sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- A Puppet’s Perspective on Children’s
Literature, part
of the Conversations in Children's Literature series. Presented by Rachel
Schipper, Associate Dean of Technology and Support Services at
the UF Smathers Libraries. Sponsored by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library
of Historical Children's Literature.
- Whatever happened to European Social Democracy? presented
by Thomas Biebricher, University of Freiburg, Germany. Sponsored by
the Center for European Studies.
- Intersections
of Gender and Early American Prison Narratives featuring
Department of English Assistant Professor Jodi Schorb. Part of
the Gender Conversations Series sponsored by Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- 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 program
will bring the remarkable visual, musical, and political culture
of the Delta to Florida. Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History
Program.
- Baraza: James Murphy, Clark University. Can ICT Transform African
Industries? Assessing the Prospects and Challenges for Small
Enterprises in Urban Tanzania. 3:30 in 404 Grinter. For more details
visit the African Studies page.
- Employment Opportunities in a Difficult Job Market, a lecture
by Dongxing Wang, UF alumni and employee of Exxon Mobil. Mr. Wang will
talk about the current job market and how to build a career in industry.
Sponsored by SIAM Gators and the Mathematics
Department.
- FLEXFest 2010, the
Florida Experimental Film Festival. Speakers: Jacqueline Goss,
Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College; Helga Fanderl, director
of over 400 short films and winner of the 1992 Coutts Contemporary
Art Award and the 1998 German Film Critics Award; Michael Gitlin, recipient
of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship and faculty member, Hunter College; and
Johan Grimonprez, director of Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y and Looking
for Alfred (2005). Co-sponsored by the Rothman Fund
at the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere.
- Making Citizens:
Creating an Effective Civic Education, a discussion how
public universities could be doing a great deal more to prepare
the next generation to be active and engaged citizens. This will
be an interactive on-line discussion involving Derek Bok, President
Emeritus of Harvard; Dean Michael Delli Carpini, Dean of the Annenberg
School at the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Molly Andolina
from De Paul University; a live audience at UF and at the Howard
Baker School for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville.
- The Arts and Health, a lecture by Jill Sonke-Henderson, Co-Director,
Center for Arts in Healthcare, University of Florida. Part of the History
of Science spring colloquium.
- Bipartisanship in Florida? A panel discussing featuring Dr.
John Delaney, University of North Florida President; Ms. Lucy Morgan,
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist; Mr. Rod Smith, Former State Senator.
Sponsored by the Bob Graham
Center for Public Service.
- Baraza: Abdalla Adamu, Bayero University. Islam, Popular Culture,
and Transnationalism in Northern Nigeria. 3:30 in 404 Grinter
For more details visit the African
Studies page.
- 50th Sanibel Symposium. 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
- 50th Sanibel Symposium
- Surveillance,
Public Safety, and Security in a Highly Connected, Sometimes Dangerous,
Often Uncertain World, a lecture by Randall Murch, associate
director of Research Program development at the Center for Technology,
Security, and Policy of Virginia Tech, National Capital Region.
Part of the First Annual Caleb and Michele Grimes
Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs and co-sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere with support of the Yavitz Fund.
- SASA lunch: Yang Jiao, University of Florida. When Chinese Entrepreneurs
meet African Regulations: a Case Study from Ghana. Sponsored by
the Center for African
Studies.
- A
Variationist Approach to Second Language Acquisition: Identity
Issues, a lecture presented by Dr. Vera Regan, Professor
of French & Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland,
and currrent president of the Association for French Language Studies.
Sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Speaking
the Same Language: The Bengali Muslims and Hindus Who Venerate
Bonbibi of the Sundarbans, a lecture by Sufia M. Uddin, Associate
Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College and author
of Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language
in an Islamic Nation. Sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere with support from
the Jerome A. Yavitz Fund, the Department
of Religion, the Center
for the Study of Hindu Traditions (ChiTra), and the Center
for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
- Arab Labor: Screening and Discussion with Sayed Kashua, author
and a satiric columnist. In his writing, Kashua compellingly addresses
the complicated dilemmas of identity faced by Israeli Arabs. He won
the Prime Minister Prize for a Hebrew Author in 2005, and his two books Dancing
Arabs and Let it Be Morning became best sellers in Israel
and have been translated into several languages. Sponsored by the Center
for Jewish Studies.
- Yingxiu mothers: Bereavement, Group Therapy and Sexuality of Women
After the "512" Sichuan Earthquake. Presented by Pei
Yuxin, Assistant Professor and Director of Foreign Relations and
Research, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Sun Yat-sen University,
and Zhang Heqing, Associate Professor and Director of Social Work
Program, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Sun Yat-sen University,
China. Sponsored by the Association for Academic Women and the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research.
- Qohelet: Philosophy Through Metaphor, a faculty seminar with
Robert Alter on translating the Hebrew Bible, followed by a public
lecture. Robert Alter is Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative
Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Sponsored by
the Center for Jewish Studies.
- The Art of Curating an Art Exhibit, part of the Conversations
in Children's Literature series. Presented by Barbara Elleman,
writer, critic, editor, and creator of Book Links magazine. Sponsored
by the Center for Children's
Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's
Literature.
- Jewish Giving to the Old Country after World War II, presented
by Rachel Rothstein, history doctoral student. This talk, based on
letters sent by American Jews desperate to earmark donations to their
fellow townsmen, after World War II, demonstrates the extent to which
this transnational regional identity continued to drive American Jewish
philanthropy into the post-war period, at least until the magnitude of
the devastation became clear.A light lunch will be provided. Part of
the brown Bag series at the Center
for European Studies.
- Modern African Cinema series: Kukurantumi: The Road to Accra.
7pm @ ACLD HQ Library. Sponsored by
the Center for African
Studies.
- Issues in US-Turkish Relations, presented by Akin Unver,
Jean-Monnet post-doctoral fellow, University of Michigan. How will
Turkish political parties affect US policy? Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- The Environmental Humanities. What does environmental studies
have to do with the humanities? What do the humanities have to do with
environmental studies? Religion professor
Anna Peterson leads a discussion on teaching, research, and program
building possibilities.
- Spotlight on Faculty Research Roundtable,
featuring Joe Spillane, Department of History (“Prisons, Politics,
and the Problems of Race”); Jodi Lane, Department of Sociology,
Criminology and Law; and Patricia Warren, FSU College of Criminology.
Part of the 9th Annual American Studies
Symposium, Incarceration Nation: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the
US Prison Crisis. Sponsored by the Department
of English. Cosponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- Baraza: Katwiwa Mule, Smith College. Tanzanian Theater After the
Arusha Declaration: Women Playwrights and the Dream of Equality.
3:30 in 404 GrinterSponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- Cell Blocks and Red Ink: Mass Incarceration, the Great Recession,
and the Future of Penal Reform, a lecture by Marie Gottschalk,
University of Pennsylvania. Part of the 9th Annual American Studies
Symposium, Incarceration Nation: Interdisciplinary Approaches to
the US Prison Crisis. Sponsored by the Department
of English. Cosponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- The Constitutionalization of the EU, a workshop. Presenters
include Dr. Sergio Fabbrini, University of Trento; Dr. Marco Brunazzo,
University of Trento; Dr. Joseph Jupille, University of Colorado at
Boulder; Dr. Dan Kelemen, Rutgers University; Dr. Andres Malamud, University
of Lisbon; and Dr. Andre Glencross, University of Pennsylvania. Co-sponsored
by the Center for European Studies and
the the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
- Local Activist Roundtable.
Part of the 9th Annual American Studies
Symposium, Incarceration Nation: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the
US Prison Crisis. Sponsored by the Department
of English. Cosponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- Uniting as One, Awakening the African Genius Within Us - All African Day
Celebration. Music, drum calls, tree planting ceremony, dance
performances, fashion show and African food tasting.
- Jails for Jesus: Becoming a Faith-Based
Prison Nation presented by Tanya Erzen, Associate Professor
of Comparative Studies, Part of the
9th Annual American Studies Symposium, Incarceration Nation: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to the US Prison Crisis. Sponsored by the Department
of English. Cosponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- Graduate Student Roundtable. Part of the 9th Annual American
Studies Symposium, Incarceration Nation: Interdisciplinary Approaches
to the US Prison Crisis. Sponsored by the Department
of English. Cosponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- Prison Regime as Genocide: White Supremacist
Statecraft and the Condition of ‘Abolition’,
presented by Dylan Rodríguez, Professor and Chair of Ethnic
Studies, University of California at Riverside. Part of the 9th
Annual American Studies Symposium, Incarceration Nation: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to the US Prison Crisis. Sponsored by the Department
of English. Cosponsored by the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- Can
you dig it?,
Discover the science behind your favorite Florida Museum exhibits
with earth science experts! Festivities include making your own
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and kid's gem mining. Special lectures
include Titanoboa, Global Warming, and The World of Undersea Volcanoes.
Hosted by the Department
of Geological Sciences.
- Keene Faculty Center Recital Series, featuring South Korean
pianist and professor JiHyun Kim with a program of traditional piano
works. The event is free and open to the public.
- Interventions en français. Part of the international
workshop: Varieties of French in North
America - Atelier international: Variétés du français
en Amérique du Nord. Sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Talk and Lunch with EU Scholar Sergio Fabbrini, Professor
of Political Science at the University of Trento and Director of the
School of Government at the LUISS University in Rome. Sponsored by
the Center
for European Studies.
- Critical Climate Change: Why Is There a Crisis in the Humanities?,
a lecture by J. Hillis Miller, distinguished research professor emeritus
in English and Comparative Literature at University of California at
Irvine and author of many books including Charles Dickens: The
World of His Novels, The Disappearance of God, and the Poets
of Reality. Sponsored by the Yavitz Fund at the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- The Little Gandhi and The Most Arrested Rabbi in America: Tales
from the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Gus Burns Annual Lecture
presented by Raymond Arsenault. Sponsored by the Department
of History and the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish
Studies.
- Rhapsody
on a Darwinian Theme: Darwin and His Theory in Song and Musical
Production, presented by Betty Smocovitis, Professor,
Department of Biology, University of Florida. Part of the History
of Science Colloquium Series.
- What can be learned about the grammar of French from corpora of
spoken French?, a lecture by Dr. Françoise Gadet, Paris
10. Part of the international workshop: Varieties of French in
North America - Atelier international: Variétés du
français en Amérique du Nord. Sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- A Different Kind of Service, a lecture by Eric Greitens,
co-founder of The Mission Continues, a non-profit organization dedicated
to matching wounded and disabled veterans with service opportunites
in their communities. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- 48th
annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
Sponsored by the
Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere with the support of
the Rothman Endowment; cosponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, the Center for European Studies, the Department of Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures, the Department of History, the Department
of Political Science, and the University of Florida International Center.
- Global South,
the 12th Annual Conference of the Marxist reading Group. Keynote
speech by Hazel Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of
African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Director
of the Initiative on Race Gender and Globalization at Yale University.
Guest: James Peacock. Sponsored by the CLAS
Student Council and the Department
of English.
- Scripta Manent, Verba Volant: Written Translation and Simultaneous
Interpretation - Siblings or Distant Cousins, presented by Stephen
Pearl, former Chief of the English Interpretation Service, UN, and
winner of the 2008 AATSEEL Best Literary Translation Prize for his
translation of the Russian classic Oblomov. Co-sponsored
by the Center
for European Studies and the Russian Studies Fund with logistical
support from the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Film Screening: Cold Souls. Introduced by Dr. Galina Rylkova,
UF Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. A response to
shiny, bigger, better American consumerism, Cold Souls is a surreal
comedy in which souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. Free
and open to the public. Screened as part of the 48th
annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies.
- ImageNext:
Visions Past and Future, the 2010 UF Conference on Comics
and Graphic Novels. Guest speakers will include David Kunzle (The
History of the Comic Strip, Father of the Comic Strip:
Rodolphe Töpffer), John Porcellino (King Cat),
Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix, That Kind of Girl),
and University of Iowa’s Corey Creekmur (Director of the
Institute for Cinema and Culture). Organized by Katherine Shaeffer,
Graduate Comic Organization, Department of English.
- 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. Sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere with support from Rothman Endowment.
Co-sponsored by the Center for
European Studies and UF Departments of History, Political
Science, and Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures.
- Baraza: Herbert Kitschelt, Duke University. The Organization of
Clientelistic Exchange: African Observations in Cross-regional Context.
3:30 in 404 Grinter. Sponsored by
the Center for African
Studies.
- Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Evangelical Christianity,
presented by Sean O'Neil, Doctoral Student, Department
of Religion. O'Neil will draw on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews
at churches in Santiago, Chile, Jacksonville, Florida and Fort Worth,
Texas to examine the relationship between this global institutional
discourse and grassroots spirituality among Latin American, U.S. Latino
and Euro-American Evangelicals in the Anglican Communion. Sponsored
by the Center for Women's Studies
and Gender Research
- Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future,
presented by Bron Taylor, Department
of Religion. Weaving sound, images, moving pictures, narrative,
and analysis, including of the motion picture Avatar, which
serves as an important recent example, this presentation explores “dark
green religion.”
- Darwinism and Religion: Sorting out the Options, presented
by Fred Gregory, Professor Professor of history of science and European
history at the University of Florida. Part of the History of Science
Colloquium Series.
- An Evening with Frances Mayes.
Frances Mayes graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in English and author of several Tuscany memoirs: Every
Day in Tuscany, Bella Tuscany, and Under the Tuscan
Sun.
- Building Effective Partnerships with African
Scholars and Universities. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
April
- Sangeet
Sammelan: A Grand Musical Event. Events include “Vocal
and Instrumental renderings in Carnatic Music- a Comparison” A
lecture by Professor Krishnaswami Alladi; a Carnatic Music Program;
and the SPICMACAY Jam Group, rendering classical music in Carnatic
and Hindustani styles. Sponsored by the Classical Music
Endowment Fund of the Center for the
Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra) and SPICMACAY at the University
of Florida.
- From Stars to Galaxies, an international astrophysics conference
on the topic of "Star and Galaxy Formation" with more than 200
participants. Sponsored by the Departments
of Astronomy and Physics.
- Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal, a lecture by
Steve Noll, Department of History.
Part of the History of Science Colloquium series.
- The CSI Effect in Jury Trials, presented by Carol Henderson,
director of the National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology, and the
Law, and professor of law at Stetson University College of Law (Gulfport,
Florida).Part
of First Annual Caleb and Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and
Public Affairs and co-sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere with support of the Yavitz
Fund.
- Activists Among Us: the Gainesville Women's Movement Across Generations. This
panel discussion and multimedia brings together local activists
from the 1950s through the present to discuss the ongoing struggle for
social justice, gender equality, and human rights in Gainesville and beyond.
Sponsored by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program.
- Museum
Nights: Project Europa. Project Europa explores the complexity
and perspectives of democracy in Europe where recent continental and
global trends in economics, ideology, and culture intersect, giving
pause for our own thoughts on democracy in America today. Sponsored
by the Center
for European Studies and the Harn
Museum of Art.
- Florida Statewide Chinese Competition. Competition for Middle
and High School Public and Private School Students. Sponsored by the
Florida Chinese Teachers Association, Council for International Cooperation,
Washington DC, Asian Studies at
University of Florida, and Oak Hall School.
- Art and
Democracy, a symposium. Co-sponsored
by the Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art and Art History, School of
Art and Art History; Center for European
Studies; Center for the
Humanities and the Public Sphere, and the France/Florida
Research Center.
- Baraza: Cecile Dolisane-Ebosse, University of Yaounde I. Feminism
and Cultural Identity in African Cinema: the Films of Sembene Ousmane. Sponsored
by the Center for African
Studies.
- Our Cosmic History: From Big Bang to Big Molecules, a lecture
by Mordecai Mac Low, American Museum of Natural History & Columbia
University, and Paola Caselli, University of Leeds. Sponsored by the Departments
of Astronomy and Physics.
- Food and Faith, a panel discussion on food, sustainability, and
religion. Panelists include Reverend LoraKim Joyner, Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship of Gainesville; Rabbi David Kaiman, Congregation B'Nai Israel;
Pastor Greg Magruder and Jean-Paul Calixte, Parkview Baptist Church; and
Vasudha Narayanan, Chair, Religion Department. Sponsored by the Office
on Sustainability.
- Interrogating the Book of Negroes: Explorations of Slavery and Freedom
in the Age of the American Revolution, presented by Cassandra Pybus,
Professor of History, University of Sydney. Sponsored by the Department
of History .
- African Governance Working Group: Giorgio Blundo, L’ Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Seeing like a State Agent: Bureaucratic
Cultures and Local Reforms in West Africa. Sponsored
by the Center for African Studies.
- Where Do We Go From Here? Translating King's Unfinished Agenda into
the Era of Obama, a multimedia presentation by award-winning author
and historian Mike Honey. Sponsored by
the Samuel Proctor Oral History
Program.
- Yair Dalal Concert. Yair Dalal is an internationally renowned
Israeli composer, violinist, player and singer. Sponsored by the Center
for Jewish Studies.
- Walk In My Shoes. A walk to symbolize the road to recovery
for survivors of sexual abuse and raise awareness for Sexual Assault
Awareness Month. Co-Sponsored by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research and the Counseling and Wellness
Center.
- Baraza: Johanna Bond, Washington & Lee University. Marriage Law
in Commonwealth Africa: The Conflict Between Custom and Constitutionalism.
Sponsored
by the Center for African Studies.
- Toward a New Understanding of the Prehistory Of Southeast China,
a lecture by Tianlong Jiao, Bishop Museum and the University of Hawaii.
Sponsored by the Asian Studies
Program, the International Center,
the Center for the Humanities and
the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), and the Department
of Anthropology.
- The Ins and Outs of the Publication Process, a lecture by
Christopher Grasso and Karin Wulf, William and Mary. Organized by the
History Graduate Society with co-sponsorship of the Board of College
Councils, Department of History, and the Center for the Humanities and
the Public Sphere (Yavitz Fund).
- A Fish in the Moonlight: Acting Out Childhood for Young Audiences, part
of the Conversations in Children's Literature series. Presented by Sidney
Homan,
UF Professor of English. Sponsored by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture and the Baldwin Library of Historical
Children's Literature.
- Avatars, Atheists, and Anarchy: Discovering Religion in India,
a lecture by Dr Howard Resnick, Department of Religion. Sponsored by the Center
for the study of Hindu Traditions.
- Great Men & Big Pictures: The New Science & the Republic
of Letters (1450-1750), a lecture by Bob Hatch. Part of the History
of Science colloquium
series.
- Modern African Cinema series: No Time to Die. Sponsored
by the Center for African Studies.
- Intersections in the Contemporary Study of Gender,
a Graduate Student Panel consisting of Melissa Houle, Diana McCarley,
Whitney Shadowens, Sarah Steele, & Erin Williams. Sponsored by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research.
May
August
- A Fresh Look at the De Roover Thesis: From Damn Lies to Statistics,
a lecture by Dr. A. Mark Smith, Curator's Professor of Medieval History & History
of Science, University of Missouri. Sponsored by the Department of History.
- Fun with Languages. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies and Asian
Studies.
- Words Matter: Gender Bias in the Media Discussion. Representatives
from women's groups, academia, and media, shared their perspectives and
experiences with gender bias and will explore the ways that current news
reporting about women creates uneven playing fields and is an obstacle
to women's full equality and participation in society. Panelists included
Jacki Levine - Gainesville Sun Managing Editor; Florida Representative
Jennifer Carroll; Judge Simone Marstiller - First District Court of Appeal;
Judge Wendy W. Berger - Seventh Judicial Circuit; Former Mayor Pegeen
Hanrahan - City of Gainesville; Alachua County Sheriff Sadie Darnell;
Dr. John Wright - Dean and Professor, College of Journalism and Communications,
University of Florida; Cindy Graves - President, Florida Federated Republican
Women; Lisa M. Hammond, Ph.D.,- BHER Group; Ann Herberger - President
of the Woods-Herberger Group. Cosponsored by the College of Journalism
and Communications, the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Center for Women's Studies and
Gender Research. Third in the series of Gender Bias in the Media discussions.
September
- Rhapsody on a Darwinian Theme: Darwin and his Theory in Song and Musical
Production, presented by Distinguished Alumni Professor Betty Smocovitis,
History of Science.
- The Impact to the Land and the Sea from the Gulf Oil Disaster,
a panel discussion featuring Jim Murley, chairman of the Florida Energy & Climate
Commission; Edith Widder, Ocean Research and Conservation Association
senior scientist; and Ian MacDonald, Florida State University professor
of oceanography. Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center
for Public Service.
- Death and Renewal: Books and Libraries in Late Antique Egypt,
presented by Roger Bagnall, Director, Institute for the Study of the
Ancient World, New York University. Part of Imagining
the Library: Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital Age.
Organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and
co-sponsored by the Centers’ Rothman Endowment, the University
of Florida Libraries, the CLAS Office of the Dean, the Honors Program,
the Alachua County Library District, the France-Florida Research Institute,
the Department of History, the College of Design, Construction, and
Planning, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and the Levin College
of Law.
- The King James Bible in the 21st Century, presented by Herbert
Marks, Indiana University, and Austin Busch, SUNY Brockport. Sponsored
by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere with support from the
Yavitz Fund, the Department of Religion,
and the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish
Studies.
- Cooking
Class: Greek with Lia Merivaki. The Center for European Studies
kicks off a series of four cooking classes with the Take Away Gourmet's
Darleen Randall. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Food Matters. Dr. Ricardo Salvador, Program Director, Food
Systems and Rural Development, will gave the first talk in the Sustainable
Food Systems speaker series.
- Former Governor Buddy MacKay: How Florida Happened. Sponsored
by the Bob Graham Center for
Public Service.
- Carnegie Libraries: Public Reading for the Reading Public,
presented by Abigail Van Slyck, Director, Architectural Studies program,
Connecticut College. Part of Imagining
the Library: Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital Age.
Organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and
co-sponsored by the Centers’ Rothman Endowment, the University
of Florida Libraries, the CLAS Office of the Dean, the Honors Program,
the Alachua County Library District, the France-Florida Research Institute,
the Department of History, the College of Design, Construction, and
Planning, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and the Levin College
of Law.
- Generation Next: Citizenship and the Millennials, presented
by Molly Andolina, professor of political science at DePaul University
and is a leading expert on the civic instincts of the “Millennials”—young
people between the ages of 18 to 29. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- The Trouble between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women
in the Women’s Liberation Movement, a lecture by Winifred
Breines, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Northeastern University. Sponsored
by the Center for Women's Studies and
Gender Research.
- Cooking
Class: Polish with Chris and Dorota Caes. The Center for European
Studies kicks off a series of four cooking classes with the Take Away
Gourmet's Darleen Randall. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
October
- Susan MacManus: Election 2010, A Wild Ride from Start to Finish. Sponsored
by the Bob Graham Center for
Public Service.
- Feminist Scholarship Now, Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion.
Sponsored by the Center for Women's Studies
and Gender Research.
- Florida's Upcoming 2010 Elections, a round table discussion. Sponsored
by the Department of Political Science.
- Cooking
Class: Slovak with Zuzana Vatralova. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Food Matters. Curt Ellis, director of King Corn and The
Greening of Southie. Sponsored by the Department of Religion.
- Brown bag talk : Supranational Identity: Cross-Level Relationships
between Self-Identifications in a European State by political
science grad student Victor Olivieri. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- On Katherine
Dunham: Ethnography and the Cultural Politics of Stage and Studio,
Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies
and co-sponsored by the Center for
Women's Studies, the Department
of Anthropology and the African
American Studies Program.
- Zola’s Paris: Spaces of Proto-Modernism, presented by
Dr. Susan Harrow, Professor of French, Deputy Head, School of Modern
Languages (Research), University of Bristol, UK. Dr. Harrow
is the author of The Material, the Real and the
Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Réda (U
of Toronto P, 2004), and Zola, the Body Modern: Pressures and Prospects
of Representation (Legenda, 2009), among other titles. Sponsored
by the France-Florida
Research Institute
- Cooking
Class: Italian with Georgia Bianchi. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- A New Garb for the Jewish Soul: The JPS Bible in the Light of King
James, presented by Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture
and Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the
Graduate Theological Seminary. Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere with support from the Yavitz Fund, the Department
of Religion, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies, and the Christian
Study Center of Gainesville.
- Hand in Hand: Music and Dance Performances Celebrating the African
Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. Sponsored
by the Center for Latin American Studies.
- The Benedictine and the Labyrinth: The Enlightenment Library and the
Problem of Universal Knowledge, presented by Jacob Soll, Associate
Professor of History, Guggenheim Fellow, Rutgers University (Camden).
Part of Imagining the Library:
Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital Age.
Organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and
co-sponsored by the Centers’ Rothman Endowment, the University
of Florida Libraries, the CLAS Office of the Dean, the Honors Program,
the Alachua County Library District, the France-Florida Research Institute,
the Department of History, the College of Design, Construction, and Planning,
the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and the Levin College of Law.
December
- Tapestry Thinking and Tapestry Actions: Weaving Threads of Science,
Arts, and the Humanities to Create the Good Life, presented by Nalini
Nadkarni (The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington), world-renowned
Forest Ecologist, TED lecturer, and former Guggenheim fellow will be
visiting UF in early November. Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs,
the Office of Sustainability, ACCENT, the Center for the Humanities and
the Public Sphere, the Department of Religion, the Center for the Study
of Hindu Traditions, (CHiTra), and I-cubed.
- Lecture by Annie Novak. Annie Novak is the founder and director of
Growing Chefs, Field-to-Fork Food Education Program, the children’s
gardening program coordinator for the New York Botanical Gardens, and
co-founder and farmer of Eagle Street Rooftop Farm in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
in partnership with Goode Green and Broadway Stages. Part of the Sustainable
Food Systems Speaker Series, co-sponsored by the Department
of Religion.
- The Society for
Amazonian and Andean Studies 2nd Biennial Conference. The
conference featured two keynote speakers: distinguished professor
of anthropology at the University of Florida Dr. Michael Moseley,
and professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland Dr. Janet
Chernela. Dr. Moseley is a renowned expert in regards to Andean prehistory,
and Dr. Chernela is a leading scholar of cultural anthropology specializing
in the Brazilian Amazon. Sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Film & Philosophy:
How Films Think, presented by the UF Graduate Film Studies
Group. The conference featured keynote talks by Mary Ann Doane and
D.N. Rodowick, a lecture by Andrew Bujalski with a screening of his
film Beeswax (2009), and a special session with William Rothman.
- La voz enardecida / A voice impassioned: Remembering Miguel Hernandez
(1910-1942), a colloquium honoring Spanish poet Miguel Hernández
on the centennial of his birth. The colloquium featured two U.S. scholars
(Sharon K. Ugalde, an authority on contemporary Spanish poetry; Geraldine
Nichols, a UF professor who has written the only book in English on Hernández);
two US poet/translators of Hernández's work (Ted Genoways, editor
of the Virginia Quarterly Review, and Don Share, editor of Poetry); and
an Argentine poet/critic (Alicia Genovese, who will speak of Hernández's
enduring influence on Latin American poets). Sponsored by the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Center
for European Studies in cooperation with the Spanish National Commission
on the Hernández Centennial, and with the support of the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Moral Ground: Why It’s Wrong to Wreck the World, a townhall
meeting and discussion featuring Kathleen Dean Moore, Oregon State University
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, and Micheal Nelson, Michigan State
University. Sponsored by the UF
Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the Department
of Religion, and the Office
of Sustainability. For further information, contact Whitney Sanford
at wsanford@ufl.edu or
Anna Peterson at annap@ufl.edu.
- How Lobbyists Help Shape Policy. Two of Florida’s leading
political insiders will discuss how lobbyists help shape policy: Democrat
Kathy Baughman McLeod, head of the Public Policy Group at law firm Bryant
Miller Olive; and Republican Richard Pinsky, president and founder of Pinsky
Consulting Group.
- Collecting and Reading in the Early Chinese Print Age, presented
by Hilde De Weerdt, Lecturer in Chinese History, Pembroke College, University
of Oxford. This talk will introduce the different kinds of government and
private libraries that existed in imperial China, and examine the impact
of printing from the eleventh century onwards on book circulation and reading
among these different publics. Part of Imagining
the Library: Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital Age.
Organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and co-sponsored
by the Centers’ Rothman Endowment, the University of Florida Libraries,
the CLAS Office of the Dean, the Honors Program, the Alachua County Library
District, the France-Florida Research Institute, the Department of History,
the College of Design, Construction, and Planning, the Samuel Proctor Oral
History Program, and the Levin College of Law.
- An Evening With Pastor David Richardson II. David E. Richardson
II has served for 22 years as the heart and driving force of the University
Gospel Choir. In 2000 Mr. Richardson was summoned by Prince Albert of Monaco
to perform at the IAAF Gala for the world class athletic association. Sponsored
by the Samuel Proctor Oral History
Program.
- Robert Putman: Amazing Grace, The Impact of Religion on Citizenship. Putnam,
one of the nation’s leading experts on community and civic engagement,
discussed his new book on the changing composition of religious
faith in the United States. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
December
- Google and the Future of Books, presented by Siva Vaidhyanathan,
Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia.
Part of Imagining
the Library: Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital Age.
Organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and co-sponsored
by the Centers’ Rothman Endowment, the University of Florida Libraries,
the CLAS Office of the Dean, the Honors Program, the Alachua County Library
District, the France-Florida Research Institute, the Department of History,
the College of Design, Construction, and Planning, the Samuel Proctor Oral
History Program, and the Levin College of Law.
- Asian Religions, World Religions: Idea, Display, Institution,
a symposium, drawing on research connected with the Interpreting Asian
Religions graduate seminar. Sponsored by the Department
of Religion.
- Crafting the Taste of Place in North America: Stories from Vermont
and Quebec, presented by Amy Trubek, Assistant Professor of Department
of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Vermont. Dr. Trubek author
of Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession and The
Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir. This lecture is
part of the Sustainable Food Systems Speaker Series sponsored by the Department
of Religion.
- Reaching and Teaching the 'Digital Generation': Separating Myth
from Fact, presented by Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor
of Media Studies and Law, University of Virginia. Part of Imagining
the Library: Books in Public Life from Late Antiquity to the Digital
Age. Organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public
Sphere and co-sponsored by the Centers’ Rothman Endowment, the
University of Florida Libraries, the CLAS Office of the Dean, the Honors
Program, the Alachua County Library District, the France-Florida Research
Institute, the Department of History, the College of Design, Construction,
and Planning, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, and the Levin
College of Law.
- Turkey on the Table: Turkish Accession into the EU, a debate.
Please join the Center for European Studies for
a spirited debate on the challenges, identities, opportunities, and consequences
of Turkey joining the European Union.
- Brown bag talk: Understanding Opposition and Support for European
Integration in Turkey by Tristan Vellinga. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Italian Students Perform: Six Characters in Search of an Author
by Luigi Pirandello.
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