2011 Event Archives
January
- When Nabokov Writes Badly....Nabokov, the Question of Quality,
and Laughter in the Dark, presented by Eric Naiman, University
of California, Berkeley. Part of the Department of Languages, Literatures
and Cultures Spring 2011 Colloquia Series. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies, by the Department of English, and by the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Screening of the documentary Bound by Haiti. Followed by a
Q&A
with the filmmakers, Jon Bougher and Roman Saufiullin. Presented by the
Gators United for Haiti and supported by Haiti’s Challenges:
Rebuilding Lives and Nation in the Earthquake’s Aftermath, the
2011 Caleb and Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs
sponsored by the Caleb and Michele Grimes Fund and organized by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Jacek Kaczmarski’s Quest for Cosmopolishness, presented
by Grzegorz Danowski, University of Toronto. Coined by the Polish émigré writer
Andrzej Bobkowski (1913 - 1961), the word “Cosmopole” (Kosmopolak)
appears to be simply an original pun. However, it may be seen more usefully
as a deliberate attempt to redefine the Polish concept of patriotism. Inspired
by Bobkowski’s view, the Polish poet-performer Jacek Kaczmarski (1957
- 2004) spent the second half of his life exploring Cosmopolishness in
his writings and living it on a daily basis. This presentation will highlight
some important stages in that fascinating journey by connecting them to
a number of Kaczmarski’s representative guitar poems. Sponsored by
the Center for European Studies.
- Panel Discussion: Rebuilding Haiti: Perspectives from the Field,
with audience Q&A. A panel of UF faculty working in Haiti from IFAS,
CLAS, PHHP, Architecture, and Engineering will speak about the challenges
of conducting sustainable interventions and how individuals and groups
can make difference. Presented by the Gators United for Haiti and supported
by Haiti’s Challenges: Rebuilding Lives and Nation in the Earthquake’s
Aftermath, the 2011 Caleb and Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal
Arts and Public Affairs sponsored by the Caleb and Michele Grimes Fund
and organized by the Center for
the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- In Private and in Public: The Body as a Site of Resistance: The
Case of Women Political Prisoners in post-1945 Poland, presented
by Anna Muller, Indiana University. The speaker looks at how women
political prisoners in post-1945 Poland used their bodies as a weapon
in their struggle to resist the image of a prisoner imposed on them.
Despite being reduced to pure physiology, stripped of individuality,
and exposed to gendered violence, some of the women learned how to
tame their psychical needs and use their body as an extension of their
own voice in public, during interrogations, meetings with families,
or even trials. Daily coping, little acts of subversion, and acts of
resistance proved that prisoners had opportunities to reach beyond
the limits established by authorities. Some of the women reached even
further, using their body as a tool in a direct struggle with authorities
through fasting, hunger strikes, or even suicide. Being at the intersection
of an individual’s
sense of self and the public world, the body became a source of agency.
Sponsored by the Center for European
Studies.
- Woman Becomes
Goddess in Bollywood: Justice, Violence, and the Feminine in Popular
Hindi Film presented by Kathleen Erndl, Religion, Florida State
University.
Kathleen Erndl teaches in the field of South Asian religions, especially
Hinduism, as well as gender and religion, popular Hindi cinema, and Sanskrit.
She is currently writing a book entitled The Play of the Mother: Women,
Goddess Possession, and Power in Hinduism. Sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra), the Department
of Religion and the Center for Women's
Studies and Gender Research.
- Ayaan
Hirsi Ali: Islam and Freedom. One of the most forceful and
provocative feminist critics challenging Islam today, Aaan Hirsi will
discuss her views on the state of Muslim women in the United States
and around the world. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- 3rd Annual UF-FSU
Graduate Student Colloquium in Classics, sponsored by the
Department of Classics. For
more information contact James Lohmar at jmlohmar@ufl.edu or
392-2075.
- Why
Is Haiti So Poor?, presented by Professor David Geggus, University
of Florida. Haiti was the Caribbean’s first independent state
and the first American nation to abolish slavery, but how many of its
current problems can be traced to its colonial and revolutionary past?
This talk will give historical background to the country’s present
crisis. Part of Haiti’s Challenges: Rebuilding Lives and
Nation in the Earthquake’s Aftermath, the 2011 Caleb and
Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs sponsored
by the Caleb and Michele Grimes Fund and organized by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Cooking
Lesson: Turkish, presented by Sinan Ciddi and Sermin Ciddi.
The first in a series of four classes, join nine other people for an
intimate, authentic lesson on Turkish cooking. Sign up online at www.takeawaygourmet4u.com and
follow the cooking class link. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies.
- Deep Water: A Special Report to the University of Florida by Oil Spill
Commission Co-Chairs Bob Graham and William K. Reilly, moderated
by Lynn Scarlett. The co-chairmen of the presidential commission investigating
last summer’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – the most
devastating environmental disaster in U.S. history – will be presenting
their exclusive findings. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- The Classical Nude in Photography, presented by William K. Zewadski.
Mr. Zewadski (JD University of Florida 1969) is an attorney at law in Tampa,
Fl, and an internationally known collector of ancient art. He has been
president of the board of the Tampa Museum of Art and is currently serving
on the boards of the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, the Michael C.
Carlos Museum at Emory University. Sponsored by the Department
of Classics (Rothman Distinguished Lectures in Classics 2010-2011).
February
- Cooking
Class: Slovak, presented by Ludmila and Zuzana Vatralova.
Join us for the second European cooking class in the series of four
this semester. The Vatralova mother-daughter team will demonstrate
three authentic Slovak recipes in this hands-on, intimate class. Sponsored
by the Center
for European Studies.
- Questioning the Obvious: The Humanities as Gadfly. Half a
century ago, C. P. Snow worried that Western thought had split into “Two
Cultures,” a scientific culture where standards of evidence ensure
we are finding the truth about matters of fact, and the culture of the
humanities, where subjective attitudes reign. Snow was not at all sure
that the humanities would or should have a crucial role to play in the
future. In this presentation, Professor Charles Gugnon of the University
of South Florida will argue that the so-called “hard sciences” (modeled
on physics and chemistry) present a one-sided view of life and the world,
and are in need of the kind of thoughtful reflection on meanings that constitute
the humanities. Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the “What
Is the Good Life” course.
- Film Screenings of Empty (Dir. Zhao Bing, 2010, 90 min) followed
by a Q&A session with the filmmaker; Floating (Dir. Huang
Weikai, 2005, 93 min) followed by a discussion with the filmmaker; Disorder (Dir.
HUANG Weikai, 2008, 61 min) and panel discussion with the filmmaker and
scholars; and The Fall of the Womenland (Dir. HE Xiaodan, 2009,
46 min.). Part of DV China and Social Change. Co-sponsored
by Asian Studies and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia,
The Office of Research, International Center, Harn Museum of Art, and
The Friendship Association of Chinese Students and Scholars, with the
support of Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Center
for Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida, and REC Foundation.
- Associated with the Past? Communist Legacies and Civic Participation
in Post-Communist Countries, presented by Grigore Pop-Eleches, Assistant
Professor, Princeton University Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs. Twenty years after the collapse
of communism, there is a rough consensus among scholars that the communist
past still matters. Many questions remain, however, about exactly how,
when, and why the past matters, especially in terms of political values
and behavior. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and by the
Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in Political Science.
- The
Anthropology of Survival in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Institutional Predators,
Individual Maneuver, presented by Professor Emeritus Gerald
Murray, University of Florida. The Haitian earthquake of January 2010
exacerbated the already stressful economic and social conditions in
Haiti. This talk will examine the realities of rebuilding Haiti amidst
an environment of corruption and rhetoric. Part of Haiti’s
Challenges: Rebuilding Lives and Nation in the Earthquake’s Aftermath, the
2011 Caleb and Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public
Affairs sponsored by the Caleb and Michele Grimes Fund and organized
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere.
- Islam and Race: An American Perspective, presented by Dr.
Sherman Jackson, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University
of Michigan. Professor Jackson has received numerous fellowships and
awards and has served as interim president of the Shari'ah Scholars Association
of North America and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the North
American Islamic Trust. Dr. Jackson's most recent book, Islam and
Black Suffering,
will be available for sale. Sponsored by Islam On Campus, Office of the
Provost, the Department of Religion, UF Black History Month, and Student
Government .
- Study Abroad in Europe Information Session. Come and enjoy
pizza while getting the scoop from students and faculty of the summer
study abroad programs to Brussels, Krakow, and Salzburg.
- The
Upcoming Florida Legislative Session. Senate President Mike
Haridopolos will offer an inside look at the upcoming 2011 Florida
legislative session. The event will be a wide-ranging discussion of
the many dire issues facing the Sunshine State in a legislative session
beginning in March. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- Simone de Beauvoir: Legacies. Professor
Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor
of English, Philosophy, and Theater Studies, and Director of the Center
for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke University will deliver the
keynote address, "'The Taste of Another Life": Beauvoir Between
Literature and Philosophy," on Friday, February 11th at 4:30 in the
Atrium of Ustler Hall. Other participants include: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University),
Judy Coffin (University of Texas), Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis),
and Carol Murphy, Sylvie Blum-Reid, Brigitte Weltman-Aron, and Maureen
Turim from the University of Florida. Sponsorsed by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research, The France-Florida
Research Institute, the Center
for Humanities and the Public Sphere with support from the Yavitz Fund,
and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
- Japan’s Erotic-Grotesque: Commodity Atrocities becoming War
Atrocities. Driscoll’s talk will examine the avant-garde tendency
in consumer culture referred to in Japanese by 1928 as “ero-guro,” or “erotic,
grotesque”. Not merely an expression of aesthetic modernism, the
erotic-grotesque was understood by its practitioners and critics alike
as a process whereby the invasion of commodities into the very nervous
systems of Japanese consumers inverted the anthropocentric desires of
consumers and inculcated desires for annihilation, suicide and death.
Sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies.
- Fuel
film screening with Director Josh Tickell and Producer Rebecca Harrell.
One of the decade’s most critically acclaimed environmental documentaries, Fuel is
an entertaining yet informative look at America’s oil use and
abuse. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
- An
Evening With The Dues: Pioneers in the US Civil Rights Movement.
An event honoring the work and legacy of Patricia Stephens Due and
John Due
The evening’s program includes a reception, dinner and discussion
with the Dues. In 1960 Patricia Stephens Due and five other students from
Florida A & M University made history when they served 49 days in jail
after being arrested for sitting-in at a lunch counter. Sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Race and Race Relations and the Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program. For information contact Tamarra Jenkins
at tamarraj@ufl.edu at 392-7168.
- Migrants • Foreigners • Jews: The Nation as Performative
Event in U.S. & German TV Crime Dramas. A lecture by Wulf Kansteiner,
Binghamton University, SUNY.
Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish History and the Center
for Humanities and the Public Sphere. Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact humanities-
center@ufl.edu.
- Haiti Earthquake of January 12, 2010: When Science and Society
Intersect,
presented by Dr. Paul Mann (Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of
Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin). Sponsored by the University
of Florida Department of Geological Sciences.
- Russell Dalton presented a talk on youth civic participation in the
21st century and address concerns about the seemingly disengaged Generation
Y. Those at the lecture are invited to a reception afterward to meet Prof.
Dalton. Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
- To Hell and Back: Interviewing a Fascist French Intellectual and
the Unforgotten World War II, presented by Professor Bill Calin.
Part of the Spring 2011 LLC Colloquia sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- UF Speech and Debate Reunion and Florida Intercollegiate Forensic
Association State Championship.
- 27th Annual Gwendolen M. Carter
Conference African Independence: Cultures of Memory, Celebrations and
Contestations. This year's conference focused on the 50th
anniversary of African political independences. It examined the
cultures of memory, the commemorations, and the celebrations by looking
at specific practices, acts and discourses located in domain as varied
as literature, anthropology, architecture, history and politics. The
conference is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences,
the France Florida Research Institute, the Office of Research, the
Office of the Provost, the Center for the Humanities and the Public
Sphere, and the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Sacred Places. Jean-Marie Téno, Africa’s preeminent
documentary filmmaker, has been producing and directing films on the colonial
and post-colonial history of Africa for over twenty years. Part of the 27th
Annual Gwendolen M. Carter Conference African Independence: Cultures of
Memory, Celebrations and Contestations.
- Shelf Images: A Sometimes Hilarious, Sometimes Horrifying, Always
Edifying History of Girls Through Young Adult Book Covers presented
by Lizzie Skurnick. Sponsored by the Center
for Children's Literature and Culture (CCLC), the English
Department, the Baldwin
Library of Historical Children's Literature, and the Friends
of the George A. Smathers Libraries.
- A Dream Come True: The Wedding of Andal featuring Mathura
Alladi, Jenie Chandirasegar, and students of Jathiswara. A Dream Come
True: The Wedding of Andal tells the story of how the poet seeks the
grace and the embrace of Vishnu, the Supreme Being with whom she longs
to be united. Free and open to the public. Sponsored
by the Center for the Study of Hindu traditions and the Jathiswara School
of Dance.
- My Suns of Independences, presented by Alain Mabanckou. Mabanckou
is one of Africa’s most prolific and talented contemporary writers.
Part of the 27th
Annual Gwendolen M. Carter Conference African independence: Cultures
of Memory, Celebrations and Contestations.
- Women:
Holding up Half the Sky with Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist
for The New York Times since 2001, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
whose op-ed columns appear twice a week. He is well known for travels
that bring scrutiny to human rights issues around the world, including
child trafficking and gender rights. Sponsored by the Bob
Graham Center for Public Service.
March
- Making Citizens out of Migrants: The Role of the State, Religion,
and Material Culture. Peggy Levitt (Professor of Sociology, Wellesley
College) and Alex Stepick (Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, FIU)
will talked about immigration and religion. Sponsored by the Center for
Latin American Studies and the Departments of Sociology and Religion.
- Haiti:
Public Health and Structural Change, presented by Louise Ivers,
MD, MPH, Director, Chief of Mission, Partners in Health in Haiti, and
Harvard Medical School. Structural issues related to food and water
security affect the ability of government and other agencies to provide
sound public health interventions. This talk examined work by Partners
in Health to build sustainable mechanisms for health promotion in Haiti.
Part of Haiti’s Challenges: Rebuilding Lives and Nation in
the Earthquake’s Aftermath, the 2011 Caleb and Michele Grimes
Conference on Liberal Arts and Public Affairs sponsored by the Caleb
and Michele Grimes Fund and organized by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Urban Wolof and its Double: Writing an Oral Language, from 1864-2010,
presented by Professor Fiona McLaughlin. Part of the Spring 2011 LLC
Colloquia.
- Brown Bag Talk: Italiani Nuovi or Nuova Italia? Attitudes Towards
Granting Citizenship to Second-generation Immigrants in Contemporary
Italy, presented by Georgia Bianchi, Sociology doctoral candidate.
Sponsored by the Center for European
Studies.
- Egypt, Israel and the June 1967 War: A Domestic Explanation,
a talk by Avraham Sela. Avraham Sela is the A. Ephraim and Shirley Diamond
Chair in International Relations at the Department of International Relations,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Co-sponsored by the Center
for Jewish Studies and the Department
of Political Science.
- Arthur in January, Guinevere in May: Manifestations of French
Arthurian Literatures of the Fourteenth Century in Chaucer’s
The Merchant’s
Tale, presented by UF graduating senior Emerson Storm Fillman Richards.
Part of the MEMS Stammtisch Talk Series sponsored by the Department
of English.
- Polymers Going Rigid and Thick, presented by Prof. Dieter
Schlüter, ETH Zürich Department of Materials. Sponsored by
the Department
of Chemistry.
- Fictionalism and Deflationism, presented by Amie Thomasson,
University of Miami. Sponsored by the Department
of Philosophy.
- Lyapunov Functions: Towards an Aubry-Mather theory for homeomorphisms?,
presented by Albert Fathi. A colloquium sponsored by the Department
of Math.
- Distant Elites: the Archaeology of the Contacts Between Eastern
Lithuania and the Carpathian Basin (ca. 380 to ca. 630 CE), presented
by Florin Curta, Department of History. The early medieval history
and ethnicity of Eastern Europe are major themes of Professor Curta’s
research. Sponsored by the Department of History.
- Transition to Exact Susy in the String Landscape, a High Energy
Seminar presented by Louis Clavelli, University of Alabama. Sponsored
by the Department of Physics.
- Genes Controlling Fruit Development in Arabidopsis, presented
by Marty Yanofsky, UCSD. Sponsored by the Department
of Biology.
- Free Will and Superdeterminism, presented by Peter Lewis,
University of Miami. Sponsored by the Department
of Philosophy.
- Polymers Going Laterally Infinite, presented by Professor Dieter
Schlüter, ETH Zürich Department of Materials. Sponsored by
the Department
of Chemistry.
- Cooking class: Hungarian, led by Edit Nagy. Sponsored
by the Center for European
Studies.
- Adzomanyi: Music and Dance of the Anlo-Ewe of Ghana. SASA
lunch presented by Samuel Nyamuame, University of Florida. Sponsored
by the Center
for African Studies.
- The Cultures of Empire, the 10th Annual American Studies Symposium. This
event brought together scholars in Asian-American Studies, Sociology,
Law, literature, and Cultural Studies for a two-day symposium that focuses
on the technologies of U.S. colonialism, the cultures created through
colonialism, culture as a means of ruling, and forms of resistance to
colonialism. Sponsored by the Department
of English.
- Mechanism-Based Design and Development of Catalytic Reactions,
presented by Professor Liz Jarvo, University of California, Irvine. Sponsored
by the Department of Chemistry.
- Are the Oceans Shrinking? The Subduction Zone Water Cycle,
Dr. Terry A. Plank, Professor of Geochemistry at the Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory in Palisades, New York. Sponsored by the Department
of Geological Sciences.
- Critical Issues Facing the Physics Community: Participation, Engagement,
and Relevance, a colloquium presented by Ted Hodapp, APS director
of Education. This seminar discussed some data on the current situation
and describe a number of actions by the American Physical Society (APS)
and its partnering organizations in addressing issues int he physics
community. Sponsored by the Department
of Physics.
- An Early Modern Case of Globalization: On Gottfried Leibniz's Attempted
Christianization of China with Binary Arithmetic, presented by Professor
Will Hasty. Part of the Spring 2011 LLC Colloquia sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Two-Part
Panel Discussion: The Role of Haitian Creole in the School System of
Post-Earthquake Haiti presented by Michel DeGraff, MIT and
Flore Zéphir, University of Missouri-Columbia. Instruction in
the Haitian school system is largely conducted in French, a language
that excludes almost 90% of the population. In the post-earthquake
efforts to rebuild Haiti, this talk will advocate reform in the school
system, particular to create instruction in Haitian Creole. Part of Haiti’s
Challenges: Rebuilding Lives and Nation in the Earthquake’s Aftermath, the
2011 Caleb and Michele Grimes Conference on Liberal Arts and Public
Affairs sponsored by the Caleb and Michele Grimes Fund and organized
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere.
- MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Rachel McGahey and
Zacc Coker-Dukowitz will read from their fiction and poetry. Sponsored
by the Department of English.
- The Cultures of Empire, the 10th Annual American Studies Symposium. This
event will bring together scholars in Asian-American Studies, Sociology,
Law, literature, and Cultural Studies for a two-day symposium that focuses
on the technologies of U.S. colonialism, the cultures created through
colonialism, culture as a means of ruling, and forms of resistance to
colonialism. Sponsored by the Department
of English.
- Biochemistry Division Seminar, presented by Professor Nemat
Keyhani, University of Florida. Sponsored by the Department
of Chemistry.
- Citizens and States: Conservation as Political Contestation in
East Africa, presented by Fred Nelson, Maliasili Initiatives.
Sponsored by the Center for African
Studies.
- Feminist Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
(STEM) Fields. Ten years into the 21st century, what is the
state of feminist scholarship in the STEM fields (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Math)? What are “hot” feminist topics in
these fields? What are the important initiatives to develop here at University
of Florida? Please join us in the Atrium for a panel discussion.
Sponsored by the Center
for Women's Studies and Gender Research.
- Novel Stochastic Methods in Biochemical Electrostatics, a
High Energy Seminar presented by Michael Mascagni, Florida State University.
Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
- ‘Prominence in All Affairs of Our Country’: Women’s
Increasing Executive and Legislative Representation in Africa, presented
by Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware. Part of the Baraza lecture
series sponsored by the Center for
African Studies.
- The Ulam Colloquium presented by Sebastian Schreiber. Sponsored by
the Department
of Math.
- Transnational Migration from a Dance Perspective, presented
by Corey Souza. FASA colloquium sponsored by the Department
of Anthropology.
- Archaeology in Greek Dress: Delphic Festivals and Eva Palmer Sikelianou,
presented by Dr Artemis Leontis, University of Michigan. The 2011 Polopolus
Lecture sponsored by the Center for Greek Studies and the Department
of Classics
- Brown
Bag Series - The First Flight: J. Hillis Miller Film and Book Project,
presented by Dragan Kujundzic, Jewish Studies, Germanic and Slavic
Languages and Literatures. J. Hillis Miller is a leading American literary
critic and scholar and one of the founders of what is known as "deconstruction" in
philosophy and theory in the U.S.
- The Ramanujan Colloquium, presented by John Thompson. Sponsored by
the Department
of Math.
- The Changing Character of the Transatlantic Security Relationship.
A panel featuring Peter Hobbing, The Centre for European Policy Studies,
ex-official of the European Commission; Zachary Selden, University of
Florida; Oya Dursun-Özkanca., Elizabethtown College, PA. Panel moderated
by Paul D’Anieri, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Sponsored
by the Center for European Studies and
the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
- How Would We Act If We Took Climate Change Seriously?, presented
by Robert Socolow, Princeton University. Snacks provided at 3:15. Sponsored
by the Department of Biology.
- Carbon and Water Cycle Feedbacks During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal
Maximum, a lecture presented by Dr. Gabriel Bowen, Associate Professor,
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Science, at
Purdue University. Sponsored by the Department
of Geological Sciences.
- Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Enhanced Photocatalysis and Ab
Initio QM/MM Implemented by Integration with AMBER and QUICK, presented
by Brendan Sweeny and Yipu Miao, UF Chemistry. Sponsored by the Department
of Chemistry.
- Michael
Sandel: What's the Right Thing to Do? Michael Sandel, one
of the nation’s most renowned political philosophers, will bring
his unique approach to examining the most hotly contested moral and
political issues of our times. Sandel, is the Anne T. and Robert M.
Bass Professor of Government at Harvard, where he teaches “Justice,” one
of the most popular undergraduate courses on campus. His latest book, Justice:
What’s the Right Thing to Do? was drawn from material generated
by that class and was also the subject of a popular PBS series. Sponsored
by the Bob Graham Center
for Public Service.
- Brown Bag Talk: Are Elections a Feature of Neo-Authoritarianism
or a Mechanism for Democratization?, presented by Ruchan Kaya,
PhD fellow in Political Science.
Sponsored by the Center for European
Studies.
- The Lower East Side Meets Greenwich Village: Jews and the Formation
of new York's Intellectual Scene, 1880-1920, presented by Professor
Tony Michaels, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies.
- Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference. Keynote address
by Professor Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri. Organized by the
UF Graduate Student Philosophy Society.
- Palladium-and Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Alkyl Electrophiles,
presented by Professor Greg Fu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sponsored by the Department of Chemistry.
- 'God has Promised': African Pentecostalism and Politics-to-Come,
presented by Ruth Marshall, University of Toronto. Part of the Baraza
lecture series sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- NGOs in Nicaragua, presented by Jessica Jean Caslet. FASA
colloquium sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
- Stalin's
Biography: Childhood or World History?, presented by Stephen Kotkin,
Princeton University. Kotkin (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 1988) is the Rosengarten
Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and a professor of international
affairs at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1989. His
publications include Uncivil Society:1989 and the Implosion of the
Communist Establishment, with Jan T. Gross (Modern Library, 2009); Armageddon
Averted: The Soviet Collapse 1970-2000 (Oxford, 2001; revised
edition 2008) and Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization (California,
1995). Part of the workshop Creating Lives: The Role of Biography
Intstitutions in Modern Russia (Cultural and Historical Perspectives),
sponsored by the Center for the
Humanities, The Russian Foundation, the Center
for European Studies, and the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference. Keynote address
by Professor Andrew Melnyk, University of Missouri. Organized by the
UF Graduate Student Philosophy Society.
- Etched on Glass with a Diamond: Biography as Cultural Myth in the
Legend of Chaadaev and the First Philosophical Letter, presented
by Ingrid Kleespies, Languages Literatures, and Cultures. The nineteenth-century
Russian thinker Petr Chaadaev is most often described as a paradoxical,
yet seminal figure who left a deep mark on Russian culture, both through
the scandalous 1836 publication of his provocative First Philosophical
Letter and through his equally striking persona. Part of the workshop Creating
Lives: The Role of Biography Intstitutions in Modern Russia and Poland:
Cultural and Historical Perspectives. Sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The Russian Foundation, the
Center for European Studies, and the Department of Languages, Literatures
and Cultures.
- The Humanitarian's Tale: How the Story of Ekaterina Peshkova's
Life Informs the Story of Her Work, presented by Stuart Finkel,
History. How does the historian interweave biographical narrative and
institutional history? Part of the workshop Creating Lives: The
Role of Biography Intstitutions in Modern Russia and Poland: Cultural
and Historical Perspectives.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The
Russian Foundation, the Center for European Studies, and the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. 9
- Subject to Chance: Self-Reinvention in Poland under Stalinism,
presented by Christopher Caes, Center for European Studies. This talk
is an overview of work in progress, a literary and cultural historical
study of diverse, practical projects of self-reinvention embarked upon
by members of the Polish intelligentsia during World War II and, more
centrally, in response to the introduction of Stalinism in Poland in
the late 1940s and early 1950s. Part of the workshop Creating Lives:
The Role of Biography Intstitutions in Modern Russia and Poland: Cultural
and Historical Perspectives.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The
Russian Foundation, the Center for European Studies, and the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- The Books We Read and the Roles We play: Meyerhold’s Seagull,
presented by Galina Rylkova, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. What
should biographers make of the books an artist reads and the roles s/he
plays? How should one account for the intricate relationship between
a character in a novel or play and the real person, the subject matter
of a biography? Part of the workshop Creating Lives: The Role of
Biography Intstitutions in Modern Russia and Poland: Cultural and Historical
Perspectives.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The
Russian Foundation, the Center for European Studies, and the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Materials for a Biography: A Terrorist's Life (and Death),
presented by Lynn Patyk, History. How does a terrorist live and die?
Sofia L'vovna Perovskaia is the first exemplar of a new subgenre -- the
revolutionary terrorist's life -- that appeared less than a year after
its subject's execution for the regicide of Alexander II. The first terrorist's
biography presents the biographer with a special set of problems, foremost
among them: how to gain access to such an elusive subject's interiority?
Part of the workshop Creating Lives: The Role of Biography Intstitutions
in Modern Russia and Poland: Cultural and Historical Perspectives.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The
Russian Foundation, the Center for European Studies, and the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Biographer as Archeologist, presented by Alexandra Popoff,
University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Part of the workshop Creating
Lives: The Role of Biography Intstitutions in Modern Russia and Poland:
Cultural and Historical Perspectives. Sponsored by the Center for
the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The Russian Foundation, the Center
for European Studies, and the Department of Languages, Literatures and
Cultures.
- A Typology of Russian History: Do we Schematize the Historical
Process?,
presented by Dmitrii Bykov, a writer, literary critic, biographer, and
journalist. Part of the workshop Creating Lives: The Role of Biography
Intstitutions in Modern Russia and Poland: Cultural and Historical
Perspectives.
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, The
Russian Foundation, the Center for European Studies, and the Department
of Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
- Minority Rights Conditionality in Europe? The Impact of Securitizing
Minorities on Protection and Empowerment, a panel featuring David
Galbreath (U of Bath, UK), Esther Romeyn (UF), Maria Stoilkova (UF),
and Georgia Bianchi (UF). Sponsored by the Center for European Studies
and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence.
- Condensed Matter Seminar presented by L. Degiorgi, ETH-Zuerich. Sponsored
by the Department of Physics.
- ETHNICITY,
INC.: On Indigeneity and its Interpellations, presented by
Jean and John Comaroff. Part of the speaker series The Marketing of
Cultural Identity. Sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities.
- Herculaneum: Living with Catastrophe, presented by professor
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill. Sponsored by the Center for Greek Studies and
the Department
of Classics.
- Holocaust Remembrance Night. There will be a screening of
A Film Unfinished followed by a discussion led by Norman Goda, Braman
Professor of Holocaust Studies. This event is part of the first "Gainesville
Jewish Film Festival" presented by the University of Florida Hillel.
- Building and Applying Genome-wide Biological Networks to Uncover
Functions of Genes and Pathways, presented by Sue Rhee, Stanford.
Snacks provided at 3:15. Co-sponsored by the Department
of Biology the Computational Biology Funds.
- Physical Organic Chemistry of Nitramine Explosives / Two-Particle
Density Matrix of Dynamic Mean Field Theory and Retracing Search
Paths of Genetic Algorithm Programs used in Coherent Control Experiments,
presented by Robert Molt and Tim Backus, UF Chemistry. Sponsored by the Department
of Chemistry.
- Solar-powered Water Pumps in Africa. SASA lunch presented
by Kathryn Frederick, University of Florida. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- Brown Bag Talk: Hungarian Self-Orientalism as an Idiom of Uniqueness
in Europe, presented by Katalin Rac, graduate student in History.
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
- Haitian Labor Enslaved: From Haiti to Florida! This looked
at the connections between the exploitation that face migrant farm workers
in Haiti and Florida and especially Alachua County. Panel speakers included
Professor Kenneth Nunn, Levin College of Law; Gerald Murray, Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology; and Sherry Kitchens, EdS., LMFT, President/CEO
of the Child Advocacy Center in Gainesville. The panel will be moderated
by Anita Spring, Professor Emeritus in Anthropology. Part of 2011 National
Farm Worker Awareness Week. Cosponsored by the Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program.
- Nature
of the Contradiction, the Thirteenth Annual Marxist Reading
Group Conference.
John Bellamy Foster, professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon,
and is the editor of Monthly Review gave the keynote address.
For full details, visit the conference
website. Sponsored by the Department
of English.
- The World According to Janis Ian. Janis Ian has been writing,
recording and touring since the mid 60s. If that experience has provided
nothing else, it has provided her with lots of road time to fill her
notebooks with her opinions and advice, as well as the occasional lyric.
- The instability of vowel /a/ in the development of Vietnamese,
presented by Professor Andrea Pham. Part of the Spring 2011 LLC Colloquia
sponsored by the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students Aaron Thier and
Dave Fishman read from their fiction and poetry. Sponsored by the Department
of English.
April
- 10th Annual American Studies Symposium: COINTELPRO Symposium and
Film Screening. Sponsored by the Department of English and cosponsored
by Alachua County Library District, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program,
International Socialist Organization
- Nature
of the Contradiction, the Thirteenth Annual Marxist Reading
Group Conference. John Bellamy Foster, professor
of Sociology at the University of Oregon, and is the editor of
Monthly Review will give the keynote address. For full details,
visit the conference
website. Sponsored by the Department
of English
- UF Social Justice Roundtable. Sponsored by the Department
of English and cosponsored by Alachua County Library District, Samuel
Proctor Oral History Program, International Socialist Organization
- Brown Bag Screening of Cointelpro 101,
snacks & coffee,
followed by presentations from subjects in the film. Sponsored by the
Department of English and cosponsored by Alachua County Library District,
Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, International Socialist Organization.
- Bodies and Stories: Expert Explanations of Unsafe Motherhood in
Malawi, presented by Claire Wendland, University of Wisconsin.
Part of the Baraza lecture series sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- Archaeology in East Africa, presented by Asmeret Mehari.
FASA colloquium sponsored by the Department
of Anthropology.
- Nazi Propaganda Toward the Arab World During the Holocaust: Recent
Research on Efforts to Extend the Final Solution beyond Europe,
a talk by Jeffrey Herf. Herf teaches courses on Nazi Germany and
the Holocaust at The University of Maryland. He is the holder of
numerous fellowships in the US, Germany, and Israel, and is the author
of five books. His most recent is the prize-winning Nazi Propaganda
for the Arab World (2009). Made possible by the Rich Endowment for
Holocaust Studies.
- Brown
Bag Series - Regional Migration Policies: the EU and MERCOSUR in
Comparative Perspective, presented by Ana Margheritis, Department
of Political Science. This research focuses on the regional
efforts to regulate the movement of people and redefine migrants’ sense
of belonging to both sending and receiving countries. In particular,
it looks at to what extent international cooperation has led to
policy convergence in Europe and Latin America, the policies that
nation-states implement to reach out to their diasporas, and migrants’ responses
through associational life and political mobilization. Of particular
interest are the implications of these processes for the redefinition
of national identities. Sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Cosmic
Time and the Dialogue between Faith and History, presented
by Euan Cameron, Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University.
Cameron is Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History
at Union Theological Seminary with a concurrent appointment in
the religion department of Columbia University. His scholarly
work analyzes the role and transformations of religion in European
society in the later Middle Ages and the Reformation periods. Co-sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere and the Dunlevie Term Professorship of
the Honors Program.
- MFA@FLA Fiction & Poetry Reading. MFA students John Westbrook
and Harry Leeds will read from their fiction and poetry. Sponsored
by the Department of English.
- Political Competition, Market Price Bargaining, and Fluctuations
in Partisan and Ethnic Discrimination: Evidence from Ghana.
SASA lunch presented by Kristin Michelitch, New York University.
Sponsored by the Center for African
Studies.
- Babel/Ashkenaz: East and West in Sacred Jewish Music, a live
concert featuring Dror Sinai (Percussion), Emmanuel Mann (Bass), Frank
London (Trumpet), Yair Dalal (Oud & violin). The Gainesville concert
is made possible through a grant from the Jewish Council of North Central
Florida, Betty & Herman Schram Memorial Fund, Eileen G. Breier
Visiting Fellowship, Arthur& Violette Kahn Visiting Scholar Endowment,
Mikki & Morris Futernick Visiting Professorship, Dr. Warren Bargad
Endowment, and Friends of Jewish Studies Tree of Life Fund. Free Admission.
- The Physics and Applications of Superconducting Metamaterials,
a colloquium presented by Steve Anlage, University of Maryland. Sponsored
by the Department of Physics.
- Abigail Adams, a lecture by Woody Holton, Professor of History,
University of Richmond. Holton received the prestigious Bancroft Prize
in 2010 for his biography of Abigail Adams. His 2007 book, Unruly
Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, was a finalist
for the National Book Award. The Third-Annual Gary C. and Eleanor G.
Simons Lecture in Revolutionary Era America sponsored by the Department
of History.
- Greek Celebration: Glenti. Celebrate Greek culture and the
Gainesville Greek community with a traditional glenti, featuring a
dance performance by the Greek-American Student Association, live music
by the Greek band, Ellada, and traditional Greek delicacies (mezedes).
Admission is free and open to everyone. Sponsored by the Center
for European Studies and the Greek-American Student Association.
- Islam in Africa workshop: Slavery, Social Justice and Islam in
West Africa. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- Teaching the Erotic. The erotic pervades language art and
literature, yet teaching the erotic in a classroom setting challenges
the prevailing segregation of public and private spheres. This workshop
is designed to share approaches to teaching the erotic with special
attention to three areas: Speaking the Erotic (presented by Jessi Aaron);
Seeing the Erotic (presented by Eric Segal); and Reading the Erotic
(presented by Adrienne Martín). Discussion to follow. Sponsored
by the Center for the Humanities
and the Public Sphere and the Department
of Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
- Knowledge, Social Inequality and Muslim Politics in Mauritania,
presented by Zekeria Ahmed Salem Denna, University of Nouakchott. Part
of the Baraza lecture series sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- Time As Weather, Or Corpse-Images in the Ethnography of Political
Boundaries, presented by Richard Kernaghan. FASA colloquium
sponsored by the Department of
Anthropology.
- The Beast in the Book: Animals in Cervantes, the Florida
Cervantes Symposium. Symposium session in Pugh Hall; poster sessions
from 4:45 to 5:15 in Smathers 1-A. Sponsored by the Center for the
Humanities and the Public Sphere and the Department of Spanish and
Portugese Studies.
- The two phases of Hebrew/Yiddish Modernism: Pre- and post World
War I: the Dan Miron Workshop in Jewish Literature. Sponsored
by the Center for Jewish Studies.
- The Relevance of Gandhi to Environmental Studies, presented
by Makarand Paranjape, ICCR Chair in Indian Studies, South Asian Studies
Programme, National University of Singapore. Professor Paranjape is
the author or editor of several books including Altered Destinations:
Self, Society, and Nation in India (Perth: University of Western
Australia Press, 2010) and Bollywood in Australia: Transnationalism
and Cultural Production (Perth: University of Western Australia
Press, 2010). In his talk, Professor Paranjape will be discussing two
approaches scholars have taken in considering the relevance of Gandhi
to environmental studies. Professor Paranjape suggests that combining
both approaches would be helpful and will begin the discussion, as
Rajni Bakshi does, with "Bapu Kuti," the house Gandhi lived
in in his ashram at Sewagram in central India. He will then consider
some more specifically Gandhian ideas on ecology, sustainability, and
planetary futures, as well as look at the impact of Gandhi on the environmental
movement in India. A reception precedes the talk at 6:00pm in Room
117, Anderson Hall. Sponsored by the Center
for the Study of Hindu Traditions.
- Brown
Bag Series - Control into Conjunctive Participle Clauses: The Case
of Assamese, presented by Youssef Haddad, Professor of
Arabic Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures. The
project explores a linguistic phenomenon called Adjunct Control
in Assamese, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India by about
15 million people. Adjunct Control is a relation of co-referentiality
between two subjects, one in the matrix clause and one in the adjunct
clause of the same structure. For example, the overt matrix subject
Tom in the English sentence Before eating dinner, Tom had a glass
of wine obligatorily controls the identity of the covert subordinate
subject. What is unique about Assamese is that Tom may be pronounced
in the matrix clause, in the subordinate clause, in neither, or
in both. Sponsored by the Center
for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
- Remembering Colonialism: An Algerian Oral History. SASA lunch
presented by Khadidja Arfi, University of Florida. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- She Who Has Health, Has Hope: Women's Health in the Late 18th
and 19th Centuries in Germany and the Netherlands, presented
by Professor Sharon DiFino. Part of the Spring 2011 LLC Colloquia
sponsored by the Department
of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
- Museum
Nights: Taste of Europe. Special activities, performances,
and food to highlight Europe in the Harn Museum after hours. Sponsored
by the Center for European Studies and
the Harn Museum.
- East Marries West, a lecture an demonstration of classical
duets by Pandit Shubhendra Rao on sitar and Saskia Rao on Indian cello,
accompanied by Biplap Bhattacharya on Tabla. A concert
will follow later this day. Sponsored by SPICMACAY and The Center
for the Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra).
- Ancient Pastoralists of the Sahara: Old Stories and New Findings,
the Distinguished Lecture in African Archaeology presented by Diane
Gifford-Gonzalez, UC Santa Cruz. Sponsored by the Center
for African Studies.
- The Fact-Value Distinction in the Teleological Sciences presented
by James Justus, Florida State University. Organized by the UF Graduate
Student Philosophy Society.
- Ronald Foreman Lecture. Michelle Duster is the Great-Granddaughter
of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and a writer, speaker, and personal historian
who focuses on the positive contributions of African Americans. She
has written numerous articles and essays as well as the books, Ida
In Her Own Words and Ida From Abroad which are the first two in a series
that will include the writings of her great-grandmother. Sponsored
by the African-American Studies
Program.
- Digital Assembly. Keynote by Marcel O'Gorman, the Director
of the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where
he also teaches studio-style courses such as "Rhetoric of Image
and Text," "Necromedia," and "Cyberbodies." O'Gorman
has published widely in the fields of media theory and criticism. Sponsored
by the Digital Assembly at the University of Florida.
- East Marries West, a classical duet by Pandit Shubhendra
Rao on sitar and Saskia Rao on Indian cello, accompanied by Biplap
Bhattacharya on Tabla. Sponsored by SPICMACAY and The Center for the
Study of Hindu Traditions (CHiTra).
- The Paradox of Political Corruption and the Panacea of Civil Society:
Understanding Corruption under the NRM in Uganda, presented
by Godfrey Asiimwe, Makerere University. Part of the Baraza lecture
series sponsored by the Center
for African Studies
May
June
- Part Time Job Fair, sponsored by the Career Resource Center and Student Financial Affairs. This event is free and open to all UF students and Alumni Only. This is an opportunity for University departments and local employers to recruit students for their part-time and seasonal hiring needs. For further information or questions about this fair, contact Career Events Staff at (352) 273-2332.
September
- Rehumanizing the University Series - Something Wicked This Way Comes: How to Save the University. Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Brown Bag Series- Hagiographic Transformations of Patriarch Ma. Mario Poceski
October
- Prof. Leslie Harris will discuss her autobiographical work-in-progress on New Orleans:
“Hurricane Season: Life in Twentieth-Century New Orleans”
. Leslie Harris (Emory University)
- Rehumanizing the University Series-
Using Diverse Histories to Transform University Communities
. Leslie Harris (Emory University)
- Literature After the Holocaust, presented by Sarah Stein. Sponsored
- Florida Writers' Festival, presented by MFA@FLA,
the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English, University of Florida,
and sponsored by Dorothy and Terry Smiljanich, Storm Richards and Jeanne Fillman-Richards,
the Alachua County Library District, the Center for Women's Studies & Gender Research,
Volta Coffee, and the MFA@FLA Class of 2012. Press release (PDF)
- Imagining America – Public Scholarship in the Arts, Humanities, and Design. Faculty/Graduate Meet-and-Greet
- Brown Bag Series- Prophecies of Paradise. Mary Watt
November
- Rehumanizing the University Series-
In-comparative Literature: On the Problem of Untranslatability in Literary Studies
. Emily Apter (New York University)
- UF Geosciences Day. Climate change, water resources, earthquakes, coastal erosion, volcanoes, sinkholes,
sustainability, petroleum... UF geologists do much more than just study rocks! Students,
faculty, and staff are invited to learn about these and related topics during UF Geosciences
Day. Fun activities will include Oreo tectonics, volcanic
explosions, and lab and campus geology tours along with information on departmental research,
classes and geology careers. Visitors will see exhibits on Florida geology and fossils, plate
tectonics, earthquakes, groundwater, streams, and fieldwork. Students interested in fulfilling
their physical sciences requirement or majoring in Geological Sciences and anyone who wants to
learn a bit about what's under their feet will find something new. The event has no admission charge and requires no preregistration.
December
- Globalizing Theories of Literature. Joseph A. Murphy, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Joseph Murphy has been invited by the University of Tokyo Departments of Literature and Center for Philosophy to give a
lecture and seminar on his MLA award-winning translation of Natsume Sō s e k i ' s T h e o r y o f L i t e r a t u r e a n d O t h e r C r i t i c a l W r i t i n g s .
Event 1: 13:00-15:00, Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Seminar on Literature and Neurophysiology
Event 2: 10:00-17:30, Thursday, December 22, 2011. Symposium on Natsume Soseki's Theory of Literature in Global Context
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