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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.

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 5 and 6 of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What? in a relaxed atmosphere over the course of the spring semester 2023.

The TEDxUF team would like to formally invite you to TEDxUF 2023: Illumination, our 14th annual conference which will be held in person on April 1st at the University Auditorium here on campus!

UF International Studies grads Emma Frierson (’20) and Amila Tica (’17) are hosting a lunch-and-learn conversation and Q&A on Wednesday, April 5 at noon in Pugh Hall’s O’Neill Reading Room (Room 201). You will hear how they journeyed to Gainesville and landed in careers suited to international studies majors.