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Brorby's memoir recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an endangered American landscape that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.

The African American Studies Program faculty is sponsoring a town hall meeting to discuss the past, present, and future of African American Studies. In addition, the faculty will answer questions about the status of African American Studies at the University of Florida.

Join the Center for African Studies and the International Center for the last of two African Research Sharing & Networking Event Series. Get the opportunity to hear from students of all disciplines and their African-focused research.

The past two decades have highlighted that democratization is not a linear process — and that even relatively entrenched democracies can face challenges to their core institutions and values.

This workshop will reflect on the evolution of the role and institutional arrangements of the ECB in the last 25 years and assess the outlook for the central bank moving forward.

Join us for the screening of 'Unguarded' which has revolutionized the Brazilian prison system and challenges us to revisit the way we think of prison, crime, and punishment, through restorative justice work.

The life of Zygmunt Bauman (1925- 2017) encapsulates 90 years of European history. A sociologist, a critical observer of western societies, a public intellectual, and one of the fathers of postmodernity, Bauman experienced major events and sociological processes that shaped Europe in the 20th century.

Join professors Dr. Taryrn Brown and Dr. Riché J. Daniel Barnes for a discussion on "The Woman King"! This event will include a lively presentation and interactive discussion on the cinematic depiction of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s.

Join UF’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere for “Humanities Happy Hour.” Collaborate with an interdisciplinary group of faculty, grads, and community members for a discussion of chapters 3 and 4 of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What? in a relaxed atmosphere over the course of the spring semester 2023.

A Holocaust survivor, Alina Margolis was a physician, a political refugee, and a public health pioneer. Her extraordinary life encapsulates the global history of the 20th century.

How has Christianity informed our understandings of race? And how have these understandings informed our politics? In this lecture, anthropologist of religion, Marla Frederick explores these questions and offers a compelling argument as to why Christianity in the 21st century indeed needs a more critical lens through which to interpret race.

As the 2024 campaign cycle nears, the Department of Political Science will examine last year's midterm elections for hints of what's to come.

2023 is a special year for the Department of Geological Sciences! Please join us to celebrate 75 years of leadership in education and research.

What steps can you take today to enhance your ability to build a better future? UF fourth-year English and political science student Andrew Shodell is hosting a lunch-and-learn conversation and Q&A on March 7 at noon in Pugh Hall’s O’Neill Reading Room (Room 201). Lunch is provided to those who RSVP before 5 pm on Mar. 6.

Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, best known as a masterful science communicator and author of The Alchemy of Us, will deliver an in-person lecture that is free and open to the public on March 8 at 4 pm in the Pugh Hall Ocora.

Join us March 22, 2023 at 4 p.m. for an event exploring role-playing games (RPGs), theatre and pedagogy hosted by Dr. David Eick.

Join the Department of Classics for a lecture by Michael Gagarin (University of Texas) on Friday, March 23 at 4:00 p.m. at the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall. This lecture is part of the UF Center for Greek Studies Polopolus Lecture Series 2023. The lectures are open to the public.

This event will be held by the Center for Global Islamic Studies on Monday, March 27 at 471 Grinter Hall. Dr. Amidu Sanni is a professor and the president of Fountain University in Nigeria. He will be talking about his recent research on Boko Haram. All are welcome to swing by!

Join the Center for Jewish Studies for a conversation with bestselling author and scholar Stephen Prothero about his new book, God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time.

At this lecture event, Dr. Elizabeth Wellman (University of Memphis) will present an alternative mechanism of diaspora voting adoption: implicit enfranchisement through the explicit linkage of suffrage rights to national citizenship.

The event will begin with a presentation by Prof. Clay Clavert, the Brechner Eminent Scholar Emeritus and former Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida.