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Calendar of Events
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given to the request.
December
Monday, December 1
4:00 pm, Ustler Hall Atrium
The People and the Book: The Invention of Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture, a lecture by David Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania. Part of Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Gainesville Christian Study Center, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Tuesday, December 2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, 150 Pugh Hall
The New Legislature's Agenda, alecture by Mike Haridopolos. Part of the Graham Center Public Policy Brown Bag Series.
6:15 pm, Ustler Hall Atrium
for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, a workshop performance of Ntozake Shange's classic choreopoem, presented by the Center for Women's Studies and the Center for Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida.
Wednesday, December 3
11:45 am, Grinter Hall, Room 471
An Elusive Peace: State Building and Reconstruction in Angola, a lecture by Ramón Galiñanes, University of Florida. SASA lunch sponsored by the Center for African Studies.
3:30 pm, 211 Bartram Hall
A lecture by Joe Jez, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Sponsored by the department of Botany and Zoology
Friday, December 5
2:00 - 3:30 pm Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library
CWSGR Graduate Student Panel, featuring Lola Bovell, Tataiana Falcon, Tanya Faublas, Desi Krell, Katie Turner. Part of the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
3:30 pm, Grinter Hall, Room 404
Implications of ‘Reproductive Politics’ for Religious Competition in Niger, a lecture by Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University. Part of the Baraza lecture series sponsored by the Center for African Studies.
Saturday, December 6
9:00 am – 12:45, pm 219 Dauer Hall, O. Ruth McQuown Room
Colloque Beckett, presented by the students of FRW 6900, French Beckett.
Sunday, December 7
5:00 - 7:00 pm, Goerings Book Store,
1717 NW 1st Avenue
17th Annual Holiday Book Sale to benefit the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research. Tickets are $3 and are available at the door. Georings will donate 20% of the evening's profits to the Center. Holiday appetizers and beverages will be served.
5:30 pm, Keene Faculty Center
Wigilia Polish holiday celebration. Join the Polish Student Association
and the Center for European Studies for
the annual Polish holiday celebration, Wigilia. Eat, play games, and sing
carols. For more information contact Gail Keeler at gskeeler@ufl.edu or
392-8902 X 211.
Tuesday, December 9
3:15 pm, 211 Bartram Hall
Discordant Patterns of Variation and the Implications for Identifying Species Boundaries in the Etheostoma flabellare Species Complex (Percidae), a lecture by Rebecca Blanton Johansen, FLMNH. Sponsored by the department of Botany and Zoology.
Wednesday, December 10
8:00 pm, Goerings Bookstore
The Avenue Coffee House UF Professors and Their New Books, presenting Rene Lemarchand, professor emeritus, political science. Dr. Lemarchand will discuss his book, The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa, which looks at the cycle of genocidal violence, ethnic strife, and civil war that has made the Great Lakes region of central Africa – Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa – the most violent in the continent. For more information contact Thomas Rider at tomrider@bellsouth.net or 372-3975.
Thursday, December 11
2:00 - 5:30 pm, Ocroa in Pugh Hall
Politics of Health Policy, a conference. Student presentations will address topics in international health, federal and state health programs, public health, and medical practice in the United States. Open to the public. Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. For more information, please contact Michael Heaney at mtheaney@ufl.edu or 202-236-3369.
Thursday, December 25
University closed for Winter Break
Friday, December 26
University closed for Winter Break
Monday, December 29
University closed for Winter Break
Tuesday, December 30
University closed for Winter Break
Wednesday, December 31
University closed for Winter Break
2009
January
Thursday, January 1
University closed for Winter Break
Friday, January 2
University closed for Winter Break
Thursday, January 8
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
The Outer Heliosphere as Revealed by Voyagers 1 and 2, a colloquium by J. R. (Randy) Jokipii, Regents' Professor, University of Arizona. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Sunday, January 11
4:00 pm, Smathers Library East, 2nd floor Grand Reading Room
Lessons of 1959, a panel discussion featuring
Lisandro Perez,
Sociology and Anthropology,
Florida International University; José Alvarez, Emeritus Professor
Food and Resource Economics,
University of Florida. Sponsored by
Florida Humanities Council and the
Center for Latin American Studies.
Monday, January 12
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
Cytoskeleton Polymerization Motors, a seminar on Condensed Matter by Richard Dickinson, UF Chemistry. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Time, Location TBA
Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work and the Origins of Christian Monasticism, a lecture by Peter Brown, Princeton. Part of Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Gainesville Christian Study Center, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE Second Place
Through the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida, a film and lecture series
90 Miles (Cuba), presented by Lisandro Perez,
Florida International University. Film Introduction at 6:30, screenings at 7 and 9 pm.
Discussion and Q/A following film. Sponsored by
the
Center for Latin American Studies.
Wednesday, January 14
11:45 am, Hippodrome State Theater
Speaking for Nature, a lecture by Michal Meyer, Department of History. Part of the Brown Bag series sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
Thursday, January 15
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Monday, January 19
7:00 pm and 9:15 pm, Hippodrome State Theater
Tourneés 2009 French Film Festival: La Faute a Fidel. Free and open to the public. Reception at 8:30 pm sponsored by the Alliance Francaise of Gainesville. Film sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute.
Tuesday, January 20
7:00 pm and 9:00 pm, Hippodrome State Theater
Tourneés 2009 French Film Festival: Elle s'appelle Sabine. Free and open to the public. Sponsored in part by the France-Florida Research Institute.
Wednesday, January 21
11:45 am, Hippodrome State Theater
The Discursive Economy of Sex Trafficking in Europe, a lecture by Jonathan D. Wadley, PhD candidate, Dept. of Political Science. Part of the Brown Bag series sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
7:00 pm, Ocora in Pugh Hall
Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series. Nathaniel Reed, the Special Assistant on the Environment to Governor Claude Kirk and Assistant Secretary of the Interior to Presidents Nixon and Ford, discusses his work and advocacy of the environment. Sponsored by the Oral History Program and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
Thursday, January 22
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Art Edison sponsored by the Department of Physics.
7:00 pm, Ocora at Pugh Hall
Betsy Ross: The Legend and the Life, a lecture by Marla R. Miller, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The First Annual Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture in Revolutionary Era America sponsored by the Department of History. Reception to follow at the Keene Faculty Center.
Friday, January 23
11:30-12:30 pm, Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library
Building Community around…Gender and Family Law Issues, a lecture by Shani King & Nancy Dowd, Levin College of Law. Part of the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
Saturday, January 24
12:00-2:00 pm, Alachua County Library, Tower Road
Jane As Outsider: Why She Was Old-Fashioned Even For Her Own Day, a lecture by John Sommerville, Professor Emeritus of English History in the Department of History. Sponsored by the Jane Austen Society of North America. For more information, contact Amy Robinson.
Monday, January 26
7:00 pm and 9:40 pm, Hippodrome State Theater
Tourneés 2009 French Film Festival: La Question humaine. Free and open to the public. Sponsored in part by the France-Florida Research Institute.
Tuesday, January 27
10:00 am - 3:00 pm, Reitz Union Colonnade
UFIC Study Abroad Fair. Sponsored by the Center for European Studies.
Thursday, January 29
8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Reitz Union
The Urban Divide in Latin America: Challenges and Strategies for Social Inclusion, the Center for Latin American Studies Annual Conference. Co-hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies and the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning.
Friday, January 30
8:00 am - 5:00 pm, Reitz Union
The Urban Divide in Latin America: Challenges and Strategies for Social Inclusion, the Center for Latin American Studies Annual Conference. Co-hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies and the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning.
February
Monday, February 2
7:00 pm and 9:40 pm, Hippodrome State Theater
Tourneés 2009 French Film Festival: 2 Days in Paris. Free and open to the public. Sponsored in part by the France-Florida Research Institute.
Tuesday, February 3
7:00 pm and 9:30 pm, Hippodrome State Theater
Tourneés 2009 French Film Festival: Ne Touchez pas la hâche. Free and open to the public. Sponsored in part by the France-Florida Research Institute.
Wednesday, February 4
5:30 / 6:30 pm, Pugh Hall Auditorium
The Blackness of Barack Obama, the 2009 Gus Burns Lecture with Diane Roberts, NPR and BBC Radio Essayist, Author, and Professor of English. Reception at Keene Faculty Center begins at 5:30, and talk at 6:30 pm. Afterward, Roberts will be signing her book DREAM STATE: Eight Generations of Swamp Lawyers, Conquistadors, Confederate Daughters, Banana Republicans, and other Florida Wildlife. Sponsored by the Department of History and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. For more information, contact Dr. Jack Davis, davisjac@ufl.edu, 352-273-3398.
Thursday, February 5
Campaign Strategy and Impact in Latin America, alecture by Scott Desposato, UC San Diego. Desposato will meet with graduate students immediately following the talk. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science.
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Alan Dorsey, Professor and Chair, Physics. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Saturday, February 7
9:00 pm - 4:00 pm, Keene Faculty Center
First Annual UF-FSU Graduate Student Colloquium in Classics. Sponsored in part by the Department of Classics.
Monday, February 9
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE Second Place
Through the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida, a film and lecture series
H-2 Worker (Jamaica), presented by David Griffith,
E. Carolina University. Film Introduction at 6:30, screenings at 7 and 9 pm.
Discussion and Q/A following film. Sponsored by
the Center for Latin American Studies.
Wednesday, February 11
11:30-12:30 pm, Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library
Building Community around…Women’s Work in African Studies & African American Studies, a lecture by Stephanie Y. Evans, African American Studies & Women’s Studies. Part of the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
Thursday, February 12
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden. Sponsored by the Department of Physics
Monday, February 16
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Xiaomei Jiang, USF. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Time, Location TBA
Scholars and Converts: European Jews Embrace Islam, a lecture by Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth. Part of Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Gainesville Christian Study Center, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Tuesday, February 17
Times Vary; WARPHaus, 818 N.W. 1st Avenue
“FLEX,” the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the annual showcase for short media by national and international artists, will take place at several venues in Gainesville. For more information, see the FLEX WWW site. Sponsored by the English Department.
Wednesday, February 18
Times Vary; WARPHaus, 818 N.W. 1st Avenue
“FLEX,” the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the annual showcase for short media by national and international artists, will take place at several venues in Gainesville. For more information, see the FLEX WWW site. Sponsored by the English Department.
Thursday, February 19
4:00 pm, Reitz Union Auditorium 282
Mexico and US Relations, a panel discussion featuring Emb. Juan Miguel Giutierrez Tinoco Consul General, Consulate of Mexico in Miami; Lic. Gabriel Perez Krieg, ProMexico; and Stephen P. Walroth-Sadurni, Esq.. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Mark Bowick, Syracuse University. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Time and Location TBA
Lenguaje & Espacio / Language & Space, the Fourth Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Hispanic/Latin American Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures. Sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures.
Times Vary; WARPHaus, 818 N.W. 1st Avenue
“FLEX,” the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the annual showcase for short media by national and international artists, will take place at several venues in Gainesville. For more information, see the FLEX WWW site. Sponsored by the English Department.
Friday, February 20
Time and Location TBA
Lenguaje & Espacio / Language & Space, the Fourth Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Hispanic/Latin American Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures. Sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures.
Times Vary; WARPHaus, 818 N.W. 1st Avenue
“FLEX,” the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the annual showcase for short media by national and international artists, will take place at several venues in Gainesville. For more information, see the FLEX WWW site. Sponsored by the English Department.
Saturday, February 21
Time and Location TBA
Lenguaje & Espacio / Language & Space, the Fourth Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Hispanic/Latin American Literatures, Linguistics and Cultures. Sponsored by Romance Languages and Literatures.
Times Vary; WARPHaus, 818 N.W. 1st Avenue
“FLEX,” the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, the annual showcase for short media by national and international artists, will take place at several venues in Gainesville. For more information, see the FLEX WWW site. Sponsored by the English Department.
Monday, February 23
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Anton Vorontsov, UW. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Time, Location TBA
Biblical Truth & Consequences: Intellectual Rivalries between Jews and Christians in the 12th Century Renaissance, a lecture by Michael Signer, Notre Dame. Part of Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Gainesville Christian Study Center, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Wednesday, February 25
7:00 pm, Ocora in Pugh Hall
Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series. Dr. Jack Davis, Associate Professor of History at UF, will be discussing his new book An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. Sponsored by the Oral History Program and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
Thursday, February 26
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Dark Matter in the Universe, a colloquium by Katherine Freese, University of Michigan. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Time and Location TBA
Festival of Russian Culture. Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
All Day, King and Prince Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
49th Sanibel Symposium. Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum
Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience,
Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics. Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register
online at www.qtp.ufl.edu/sanibel
Friday, February 27
Time and Location TBA
Festival of Russian Culture. Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
All Day, King and Prince Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
49th Sanibel Symposium.
Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online at www.qtp.ufl.edu/sanibel
Saturday, February 28
Time and Location TBA
Festival of Russian Culture. Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
All Day, King and Prince Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
49th Sanibel Symposium.
Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online at www.qtp.ufl.edu/sanibel
March
Sunday, March 1
Time and Location TBA
Festival of Russian Culture. Sponsored by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.
All Day, King and Prince Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
49th Sanibel Symposium.
Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online at www.qtp.ufl.edu/sanibel
Monday, March 2
All Day, King and Prince Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
49th Sanibel Symposium.
Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online at www.qtp.ufl.edu/sanibel
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE Second Place
Through the Camera’s Eye: Caribbean Migration to Florida, a film and lecture series
Nuyorican Dream (Puerto Rico), presented by Jorge Duany,
University of Puerto Rico. Film Introduction at 6:30, screenings at 7 and 9 pm.
Discussion and Q/A following film. Sponsored by
the Center for Latin American Studies.
Time, Location TBA
Free Spirits, Lay Religion, and Clerical Suspicion:
Getting Inside the World of the Medieval Church, a lecture by John Van
Engen, Notre Dame. Part of Faithful Narratives: The
Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center
for Jewish Studies, the Department
of History, the Gainesville
Christian Study Center, the Wabash
Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Tuesday, March 3
All Day, King and Prince Resort, St. Simons Island, Georgia
49th Sanibel Symposium.
Forefront Theory & Computation in Quantum Chemistry,
Condensed Matter & Chemical Physics, Nanoscience, Quantum Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Sponsored by the Quantum Theory Project. Register online at www.qtp.ufl.edu/sanibel
Wednesday, March 4
Time and Location TBA
Teodoro Petkoff on Venezuela, a lecture by Teodoro Petkoff, Venezuelan politician, ex-guerrilla, journalist and economist. One of the most prominent politicians on the left in Venezuela, Petkoff began as a communist but gravitated towards liberalism in the 1990s. He has been a prominent critic of President Hugo Chávez, and was a candidate to run against him in the December 2006 presidential elections, but dropped out of the race in August to support Manuel Rosales. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.
Thursday, March 5
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Raman Sundrum. Sponsored by the Department of Physics
7:00 pm, Ocora in Pugh Hall
Presidential Lecture Series. "World at Risk” with Senator Jim Talent and Senator Bob Graham. Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
Friday, March 6
Time, Location TBA
Discursive Treatments of Media and Materiality, the 4th annual Digital Assembly conference. The keynote speaker will be Bill Seaman (Chair of the Graduate Digital+Media Department, Rhode Island School of Design). For more information, contact Elise Takehana. Sponsored by the English Department.
Saturday, March 7
Time, Location TBA
Discursive Treatments of Media and Materiality, the 4th annual Digital Assembly conference. The keynote speaker will be Bill Seaman (Chair of the Graduate Digital+Media Department, Rhode Island School of Design). For more information, contact Elise Takehana. Sponsored by the English Department.
Monday, March 9
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Peter Woelfle, U. Karlsruhe. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Wednesday, March 18
11:30-12:30 pm, Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library
Building Community around… Incarcerated Women & Juvenile Girls, a lecture by Amanda Davis, Women’s Studies. Part of the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
7:00 pm, Ocora in Pugh Hall
Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series. Journalists Cynthia Barnett, Craig Pittman, and Matt Waite will discuss their recent books on Florida waterways in a roundtable discussion. Sponsored by the Oral History Program and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
Thursday, March 19
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
The Quantum Correction to the Newtonian Potential, a colloquium by John Donoghue, University of Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Department of Physics
Saturday, March 21
Time, Location TBA
Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization.The 7th annual UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels will include speakers Jessica Abel, Sara Cooper, Matt Madden, and Susan Napier. Details TBA. Sponsored by the English Department.
Sunday, March 22
Time, Location TBA
Convergences: Comics, Culture and Globalization.The 7th annual UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels will include speakers Jessica Abel, Sara Cooper, Matt Madden, and Susan Napier. Details TBA. Sponsored by the English Department.
Wednesday, March 25
7:30 pm, Reitz Union Auditorium 282
2009 Bacardi Family Eminent Lecture by Christopher Birkbeck, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford in Manchester, England and Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the University of the Andes in Merida, Venezuela. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies.
Thursday, March 26
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Sergei Klimenko, UF Physics. Sponsored by the Department of Physics
Time, Location TBA
States of Suspension, the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group. The keynote speaker will be Michael Hardt (Professor of Literature and Italian, Duke University), author of Gilles Deleuze: A Philosophical Apprenticeship (1993) and coauthor, with Antonio Negri, of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State Form (1994), Empire (2000), and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004). Sponsored by the English Department.
Friday, March 27
Time, Location TBA
States of Suspension, the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group. The keynote speaker will be Michael Hardt (Professor of Literature and Italian, Duke University), author of Gilles Deleuze: A Philosophical Apprenticeship (1993) and coauthor, with Antonio Negri, of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State Form (1994), Empire (2000), and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004). Sponsored by the English Department.
Saturday, March 28
Time, Location TBA
States of Suspension, the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group. The keynote speaker will be Michael Hardt (Professor of Literature and Italian, Duke University), author of Gilles Deleuze: A Philosophical Apprenticeship (1993) and coauthor, with Antonio Negri, of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State Form (1994), Empire (2000), and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004). Sponsored by the English Department.
Monday, March 30
4:00 pm, Location TBA
Dark Fantasies of State: Notes from the Peruvian Underground, alecture by David Nugent, Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. Co-Sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Center for Women and Gender Studies.
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Roser Valenti, U. Frankfurt. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Time, Location TBA
The Return of Religion in Africa, a lecture by Lamin Sanneh, Yale. Part of Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History, sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Gainesville Christian Study Center, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.
Tuesday, March 31
4:00 pm, Dauer Hall, Room 219
Diving the Maya Underworld of the Yucatan lecture by Guillermo de Anda Alanis. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
April
Wednesday, April 1
7:00 pm, Ocora in Pugh Hall
Presidential Lecture Series. “The Media and the New Administration” with Mr. Bill Adair, Washington Bureau Chief, St. Petersburg Times Editor and Mr. Al Eisele, The Editor-At-Large of The Hill. Sponsored by the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
Thursday, April 2
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Colloquium by Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford. Sponsored by the Department of Physics
7:00 pm, Harn Museum of Art
Poetry reading by Debora Greger, Michael Hofmann, William Logan, and Sidney Wade in celebration of National Poetry Month. Sponsored by the English Department.
Time TBA, Hillel
German Jewry and the Invention of Secularism, a lecture by Shulamit Volkov. More info TBA.
Friday, April 3
2:00-3:30 pm Ustler Hall, 3rd Floor Library
CWSGR Graduate Student Panel, featuring Meredith Kite, Erin Tobin, Sarah Austin, Camilo Cornejo. Part of the Gender Conversations brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research.
Saturday, April 4
12:00-2:00 pm, Alachua County Library, Tower Road
Pride and Prejudice discussion. Sponsored by the Jane Austen Society of North America. For more information, contact Amy Robinson.
Sunday, April 5
12:00 pm, Austin Carey Memorial Forest Conference Center
Annual Armadillo Roast sponsored by the Department of Anthropology.
Wednesday, April 8
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Chandra Varma, UC Riverside. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Thursday, April 9
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Packing Hyperspheres in High Dimensions: Does Disorder Win?, a colloquium by Salvatore Torquato. Sponsored by the Department of Physics
Time, Location TBA
American Studies/American Universities, the Eighth Annual American Cultures Symposium. Speakers include Christopher Newfield (UC Santa Barbara), Marc Bousquet (Santa Clara University), Ellen Schrecker (Yeshiva University), and Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis). Details TBA. Sponsored by the English Department.
Friday, April 10
Time, Location TBA
American Studies/American Universities, the Eighth Annual American Cultures Symposium. Speakers include Christopher Newfield (UC Santa Barbara), Marc Bousquet (Santa Clara University), Ellen Schrecker (Yeshiva University), and Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis). Details TBA. Sponsored by the English Department.
Saturday, April 11
Time, Location TBA
American Studies/American Universities, the Eighth Annual American Cultures Symposium. Speakers include Christopher Newfield (UC Santa Barbara), Marc Bousquet (Santa Clara University), Ellen Schrecker (Yeshiva University), and Elizabeth Freeman (UC Davis). Details TBA. Sponsored by the English Department.
Monday, April 13
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Casey W. Miller, USF. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Thursday, April 16
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 1002 NPB
Seeing the Mathematics Behind Supersymmetry Theories - Adinkras, a colloquium by Sylvester James (Jim) Gates Jr.. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Friday, April 17
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm, Anderson 216
Explaining Politics, Not Polls: The Realignment in Macropartisanship, a lecture by Dr. James Campbell, Professor of Political Science, State University of New York at Buffalo. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science.
5:00 pm, NPB 2175
Tea with Dr. Myriam Sarachik, a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the City College of CUNY, NY. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.
Monday, April 20
4:05 pm – 5:05 pm, 2205 NPB
A seminar on Condensed Matter by Stuart Tessmer, Michigan State. Sponsored by the Department of Physics.