Election Night Watch Party
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLThe polls have closed and now it’s time to count the votes. Join the Bob Graham Center for an election night watch party!
Indigenous Cultural Dance Presentation
Reitz Union, Room 3315 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FLExperience music, and various styles of dance, storytelling, sharing of Native artifacts with Native Insights.
The Executioner
Reitz Union Auditorium 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FLJoin the UF Center for European Studies and the University Film Society for "The Swinging 60s Film Series" with El Verdugo (The Executioner) (1963). A dark comedy with a son-in-law pulled into his father-in-law’s position of local executioner. Free and open to the public.
Studying Religion and Future Careers
Keene Faculty Center (Dauer Hall) 228 Buckman Drive, Gainesville, FLJoin the UF Department of Religion for pizza and a conversation with Dr. Omar Lateef. This event is free and open to the public.
UF Synergies: Carving And Examining Statues
VirtualVelvet Yates (Classics) will report on her directed three-week study in Naxos under sculptor Maggie Ross on using the ancient 3-caliper method of stone-carving. Rachel Polinsky (Ph.D. candidate, Art and Art History) will examine the Korai—standing, clothed, female statues— that appear in votive and funerary contexts throughout Greece during the Archaic period.
Equity in Healthcare Delivery: A Discussion with Dr. Omar Lateef & Dr. Eric Nelson
Keene Faculty Center (Dauer Hall) 228 Buckman Drive, Gainesville, FLJoin the Department of Religion for a discussion with Dr. Omar Lateef of RUSH University Medical Center and Dr. Eric Nelson of UF Health Shands Children's Hospital.
Arts And Culture Panel
Reitz Union, Room G330 686 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FLWe will be hosting a panel of three indigenous artists: Naiomi Glasses, Tyler Wilson Glasses, Jr., and Bryce Burrell.
Independence in Europe: Secessionist Party Rhetoric and the EU in a Post-Brexit United Kingdom
Turlington Hall, Room 3310 330 Newell Dr, Gainesville, FLIn the wake of Brexit, how has the framing of the EU and independence evolved amongst secessionist parties in the devolved regions of the UK?
American Shtetl: A Virtual Discussion with David Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg
VirtualSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history—but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. David Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg will discuss how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown into a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York.
Food & Talk – “Faking It Or Making It: Is Artificial Intelligence Actually Intelligent?”
Ustler Hall Atrium 444 Fletcher Dr, Gainesville, FLThe UF Philosophy Department will host its annual "Food and Talk" event. The event is free and open to all UF undergraduates. This year’s topic is artificial intelligence; in particular, it will focus on the question of whether artificial intelligence is genuinely intelligent, or merely acts like it is intelligent in some respects. The speakers will be Dr. David Grant and Dr. Lyndal Grant.
Why We Love Where We Live – Climate Change & Sense of Place
We all have relationships with the places we call home. As sea levels rise, temperatures increase, and the ranges of native plants and animals shift, Florida’s environment is changing and our relationships with those places must change, too. As part of the Bob Graham Center’s doctoral dissertation fellows program, we are pleased to present: “Why We Love Where We Live: Climate Change and Sense of Place.”
15th Mississippi Freedom Project Trip
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLThe Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning fieldwork initiative focused on interviewing civil rights veterans and participants of the 1964 Freedom Summer. Join us to hear about the stories collected throughout the Delta including student reflections and community impact. Interested in joining MFP 2023 trip? Come and find out how!
The FIFA 2022 World Cup Draw: Bias and Corrections
Reitz Union, Room 2355 JW Reitz Union, Room 2355, Gainesville, FLDraws for major sporting events are often televised and carried out in a sequential fashion to maximize excitement and increase anticipation for the sporting event itself.
Screening of the 2019 Film, Words from a Bear
Smathers (Library East), Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLCome join American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) members and friends for a screening of the 2019 film, Words from a Bear. The film explores the life of Pulitzer-prize-winning Kiowa author, N. Scott Momaday, one of the most celebrated Native American authors of poetry and prose. Free and open to the public; food served, and casual discussion to follow.
Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLGerman political scientist and historian Dr. Matthias Küntzel will address the history of Iran’s relationship with the West, and explain why measures by the international community to avert Iran’s nuclear threat have failed. He will also speak about the recent uprising by Iranian women and its impact on the nuclear debate.
Technical Lecture: Exact Approaches to the Bayesian Fusion Problem
Reitz Union, Room 2355 JW Reitz Union, Room 2355, Gainesville, FLGareth Roberts is currently a professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick. His research interests include applied probability, Bayesian statistics and computational statistics.
A Hard Day’s Night
Cypress & Grove Brewery 1001 NW 4th St, Gainesville, FL 32601Join the UF Center for European Studies and the University Film Society for "The Swinging 60s Film Series" with A Hard Day’s Night (1964). The first film with the Fab Four, showcasing their life avoiding screaming fans and performing some new and favorite Beatles songs. Free and open to the public.
Soccer in Diplomacy Watch Party
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLSoccer is the only sport played in every corner of the world. Can soccer also be an effective means of global diplomacy?
Jewish Women in Comics
Keene Faculty Center (Dauer Hall) 228 Buckman Drive, Gainesville, FLJoin us for a panel discussion on the new book, Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders, an innovative collection of essays, interviews, and artwork examining Jewish women’s comics.
French Impressionism in Music & Mindfulness
University of Florida Music Building, Room 101This concert will feature flutist Christine Alicot and pianist Carlos Beltran. A short mindfulness practice will deepen the experience of music touching ears and mind.
Mars Closest Approach
New Physics Building, Room 1001 New Physics Building, 2001 Museum Rd, Gainesville, FLUF's Department of Astronomy will be hosting a Mars special event, free and open to the public, on Friday, December 9! Please join us first at the New Physics Building, where local Mars expert, astrobiologist Amy Williams, will tell us some of what the Mars rovers have revealed about the Martian surface. This special talk will be followed by live science activities as well as views of Mars and other interesting objects at UF's Campus Teaching Observatory. The Public Observing Night will take place from 8:30 - 10 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
Bilingualism as a Human Capital
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLJoin the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and UF's Brain Language and Bilingualism Lab for a panel discussion of the 2023 Speaker Series in the Humanities.
Now Is the Time! MLK and Democratic Stewardship
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLThis lecture argues that It has always been Black citizens throughout U.S. history who have been the some of the country’s staunchest stewards of democracy in resisting oligarchical conceits.
Beyond the Headlines: Exploring Race and Newspaper Coverage in the Gainesville Sun
Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center 837 SE 7th Ave, Gainesville, FLPlease join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center for the inaugural event in the 2023 Challenging Racism public program series.
Report of the Presidential Task Force on African American and Native American History at UF
Smathers (Library East), Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLPlease join the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program for the second event in the 2023 Challenging Racism public program series.
Shi’i Traditionalism in Modern South Asia
VirtualThis online symposium will be held by UF's Center for Global Islamic Studies, organized by Dr. Ali Mian from the Department of Religion. Participating speakers include: Dr. Sajjad Rizvi from the University of Exeter; Dr. Mashal Saif from Clemson University; and Dr. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs from Albert-Ludwigs-Unviersität Freiburg
Slavic Myths Speaker Series
VirtualWho is Baba Yaga, Perun, or Wodnik? These beings and characters are found in Slavic myths and stories. Join the Center for European Studies in the first presentation of the "Slavic Myths and Fey Creatures" series with Dr. Łuczyński. He will provide an overview of Slavic mythology. Łuczyński will discuss the characters, their origins, and relationships. Learn more about this series here.
Public Humanities as Environmental Humanities
Smathers (Library East), Room 100 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, FLThis conversation will consider how the public and the environmental humanities together can prepare the ground, water, and atmosphere for modes of thinking that give shape to the answers we need to questions of social and environmental justice, climate catastrophe, and our sense of self and community in a devastated world.
Holocaust Remembrance Day Event
University of Florida Hillel 2020 W University Ave, Gainesville, FLBernice Lerner is the author of All the Horrors of War, the remarkable story of her mother’s liberation from Bergen-Belsen.
Whoa. Where Did This Come From? The Antisemitism of 2022 and Its Origins
Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville, FLJoin us for an in-person conversation with Mark Oppenheimer, religion writer and scholar. Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a PhD in religious studies from Yale.