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Join us for an open discussion on fast fashion and the ethical issues surrounding the practice. We will be joined by Jillian Hernandez, associate professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.

Join the FFRI on April 7, 2023 at 3pm in the Scott Nygren Scholars Studio (Library West) for a lecutre by Dr. Françoise Rubellin of the Université de Nantes on “La guerre des théâtres à Paris au siècle des Lumières.” Dr. Françoise Rubellin is a Professor of French literature at Université de Nantes (France).

Join UF Physics for Science Day at Depot Park with STEM demos and activities hosted by UF student organizations. This event is one of two International Day of Women and Girls in Science events hosted by University of Florida's Department of Physics.

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 7 and 8 of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What? in a relaxed atmosphere over the course of the spring semester 2023.

The Bob Graham Center’s Freshman Leadership Council is thrilled to announce our upcoming event, "Conversations About Race: Exploring the Criminal Justice System." This event explores the intersection between race and the criminal justice system.

This is the annual symposium of the Islam in Africa Working Group at the University of Florida. Multiple scholars from UF and other institutions will present their research on the theme “New Actors in Muslim Africa.” Lunch will be served on Saturday, April 15. All are welcome to join us in person at 404 Grinter Hall.

The Bob Graham Center’s annual Research Symposium features panel-style research presentations from undergraduate students funded through the Center. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. and presentations begin at 9:30 a.m. The event is open to the public. A limited number of seats are available during each session.

Join the UF Center for European Studies for Viva Europe! This one-day festival will promote awareness of European cultures, including food, music, and kids’ activities – for free. Experience Europe right in Gainesville. Make European crafts. Eat pierogis. See a marionette show.

Puzzles, math games, and "mathmagic" show suitable for all ages. You think you don’t love math? Come and we will prove you wrong!

This conference and professionalization panel engages the ongoing projects of three alumni from the UF Department of Political Science PhD program. Drs. Lorna Bracewell (Flagler College), Mauro J. Caraccioli (Virginia Tech), and Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida) will be presenting work that cuts across disciplinary boundaries.

Announcing the inaugural Alfred A. Cave Lecture in Native American Studies with Professor Claudio Saunt. In the 1830s, the United States carried out one of the first state-sponsored mass deportations of the modern era.

As part of the dissertation “The Modernist (Con) Artist: Literary Imposters and Narrative Deceptions in German and American Novels,” this presentation explores how Thomas Mann’s final and most directly autobiographical novel, The Confessions of Felix Krull: Confidence Man (1954), re-envisions the artist as a con artist to critically explore, challenge, and reimagine the modern German novel as a self-conscious deception.

Join us for a talk by Walter Russell Mead, author of the The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, named a "New York Times Best Book of the Year" for 2022. Professor Mead will discuss the current political crisis in Israel within the context of the relationship between Israel and the US.

This four-session workshop will be led by Bill Hart-Davidson (Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University). All are welcome. We especially encourage faculty, staff, students, and community members to attend with their collaborative colleagues, and think together as a diverse group.

Drawing on material from her forthcoming book, How to Mentor a PhD, Dr. Maria LaMonaca Wisdom will discuss how humanistic inquiry might help us think about effective mentorship practices for both graduate students and junior faculty in the 21st-century university.

Join us on June 19 as we gather on the west lawn of the Alachua County Administration Building (12 SE First St.) for the unveiling of the Sankofa statue, a tribute to the late local historian, Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn.

Join us for a FREE unique theatrical exploration of life through the lens of Black men. Connect with the universal human experience through poetry, movement, and music.

Join a group of dance and theatre makers from San Juan, New Orleans, South Florida, and Gainesville for a thoughtful discussion about their work as it connects to expansive ideas of response and recovery.

This talk will seek to explain why making a distinction between the globe and the planet as humanist categories calls for a new philosophical anthropology, starting from the arguments presented in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s recent books. This is the first event in the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere's 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging.

This interactive presentation will look at the racial dynamics of college football in the South in light of recent developments. This is the second event in the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere's 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging.

This workshop will reflect on strategies for creating equitable research collaborations, generating shared research questions for university-based researchers and community organizations. This is the third event in the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere's 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging.

Between 2016 and 2019, thousands of migrant children were detained at the Homestead Temporary Shelter, a detention camp in South Miami-Dade County, Florida. This talk tells the story of the detention camp in relation to the military base, which is a crucial node in the hemispheric circulation of weapons, soldiers, and military expertise. This is the fourth and final event in the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere's 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging.