Symposia, Lectures & Workshops, 2006-2007

The following Symposia, Lectures & Workshops have been sponsored by the Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere.  We again extend our thanks to the Yulee Endowment and the Jerome A. Yavitz Charitable Foundation for their continuing support.  Some of the listings below are incomplete or tentative; updates will be provided as information becomes available.

Fall 2006

• Dr Dragan Kujundzic, Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
  “’Who?’ or ‘What?’—Jacques Derrida”
  9-11 October 2006

Spring 2007

January 2007

• Dr Barbara Mennel - Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
  White Hell of Pitz Palu film screening
  German Cinema: National and Global Dimensions Symposia
  11 January - 7:00 pm, CBD, Room 212
• Drs N. Caputo & A. Sterk - Department of History
  Part I:  Olivia Remie Constable, University of Notre Dame
  "Muslims, Christians, Jews, & Chess: Gaming & Courtly Culture in Medieval Spain"
  18 January 2007 (Continuing) - Smathers Library, Conference Rm. West, 212;Reception follows, Keene-Flint Library (2nd Floor)
• Dr Barbara Mennel - Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
  One, Two, Three film screening
  German Cinema: National and Global Dimensions Symposia
  18 January - 7:00 pm, CBD, Room 212
• Dr Barbara Mennel - Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
  Lights film screening
  German Cinema: National and Global Dimensions Symposia
  25 January - 7:00 pm, CBD, Room 212
• Dr Barbara Mennel - Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies
  “German Cinema: From National Cinema to Transnational Cinematic Practices”
  27 January - Harn Museum Auditorium
• Dr Vasudha Narayanan -
  Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions, Department of Religion
  An Andal evening:  Professor Archana Venkatesan, St Lawrence University
  “Of Decoration and Disguise: Enjoying the Body of the Goddess at the Antal Temple in Srivilliputtur” 
  31 January 2007 – 7:00pm, Harn Museum (Part I)

February 2007

• Dr Vasudha Narayanan -
  Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions, Department of Religion
  Professor Frank Korom, Boston University
  "Scroll Paintings & Bardic Poetry in Bengal." 
  13 February 2007 (Part II) – Location TBA

• Dr Jack Kugelmass - Center for Jewish Studies
  "Competing for the Blood of the Cross: Mistress Rachel the Martyr of Mainz"
  Jeremy Cohen, Tel Aviv University
  February 15th, 7:30 pm, Hillel
  
• Dr Jack Kugelmass - Center for Jewish Studies
  "For the Life of the Flesh is in the Blood."
  17-19 February 2007
  
• Drs N. Caputo & A. Sterk - Department of History
  Part II: Gil Anidjar, Columbia: "On the Muslim Question"
  20 February 2007 (Continuing) - Smathers Library, Conference Rm. West, 212; Reception follows, Keene-Flint Library (2nd Floor)
  
• Drs Ulmer & Casey-Sawicki, Arnold - Department of English
  "Imaging Place."
  22-24 February 2007
  Schedule
  

March

• Drs N. Caputo & A. Sterk - Department of History
  Part III:  Ben Ehlers (U Georgia) and Pawel Kras (U Lublin)
  "Politics and Religious Identities in Pre-Modern Europe: Case Studies in Poland and Spain"
  Comment: "A Modern Perspective," Michelle Campos (U Florida)
  1 March 2007 (Part III) - Smathers Library, Conference Rm. West, 212;
  Reception follows, Keene-Flint Library (2nd Floor)
• Dr Eric Potsdam - Linguistics Program
  Part I:  African Linguistics
  "Licensing Null Noun Class Prefixes in Sesotho"
  Professor Katherine Demuth
  Brown University
  8 March 4:00 pm
  The Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium

• Drs Horton-Stallings & Ongiri - Department of English 
  "African Diasporic Cultural Interventions into Gender and Sexuality Studies (Past, Present, and Future).” 
  23-24 March 2007, Reitz Union

• Graduate Student Philosophy Society (Contact: Elka Shortsleeve)
  Department of Philosophy
  Southeast Graduate Philosophy Conference
  http://www.phil.ufl.edu/events/2007/03/seg/index.html
  23-24 March 2007

April 2006

• Dr Jack Kugelmass - Center for Jewish Studies
  "Reproducing the West: The History and Politics of Population Growth and Movement"
  Matthew Connelly, Columbia University and Woodrow Wilson Center
  5 April 2007, 4 pm, Smathers Library, Conference Room West, 212
  

Academic Year 2007-2008

• Dr Kirk Ludwig & Dr Michael Jubien - Department of Philosophy
  "The Epistemology & Ontology of Necessity & Possibility." 
  Fall 2007:  Times & Locations TBA

• Dr Anna Peterson (Religion) & Dr Les Thiele (Political Science)
  "Rethinking Environment Values, Consumption, and Desire." 
  Fall 2007/Spring 2008:  Times & Locations TBA

• Dr Vasudha Narayanan -
  Center for the Study of Hindu Traditions, Department of Religion 
  Dr John Stratton Hawley, Columbia University
  March 2008

Dr Robert A. Hatch
Interim Director
Center for the Humanities & the Public Sphere
ufhatch@ufl.edu

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