Selma Green Director, Tampere Art & Moomin Museum, Finland October 22, 2025 Keene-Flint Hall 005 12:50 PM Join us for a discussion of how exhibitions in the Sámi region and Sweden’s Torne Valley engage with questions of identity, heritage, and representation. The talk will highlight the essential role of museums in supporting minority languages and […]
Selma Green Director, Tampere Art & Moomin Museum, Finland October 21, 2025 200 Ustler Hall 5 PM Join us for an exploration of the world of Tove Jansson (1914–2001) and her beloved Moomins, tracing how her art and stories have inspired generations across Europe and beyond. We will look at the roots of the first […]
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Eugene Chislenko October 20, 2025 Smathers Library Room 100 4 PM We all have climate skills… listening, connecting, organizing, creating, and caring. This talk explores why focusing on these skills can be more effective than focusing on danger or failure and how using them in our everyday lives can spark meaningful action and institutional change. About […]
Edwige Danticat September 27, 2025 Bo Diddley Plaza (111 E. University Avenue) 7–8:30 PM Imagining Climate Change is honored to support the second annual citywide reading festival, “Gainesville Reads 2025,” presented by The Lynx Books. The festival centers a month of free public programming around one book and invites its author to Gainesville for a […]
September 12, 2025 Reitz Union Rion Ballroom 8 AM – 4 PM Discover a diverse array of sustainability projects at UF, join thought-provoking conversations, and learn more about AI’s role from the keynote speaker, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Banks Preeminence Chair Associate Professor of Al and the Arts, an artist who innovates with artificial intelligence in ways […]
“Poetry in the Gardens” is a public art installation by the undergraduate students of Professor Terry Harpold’s Spring 2025 “Ecopoetry & Ecopoetics” course, in collaboration with Imagining Climate Change and IFAS/CALS Field & Fork Farm and Gardens. The Farm is located on the UF campus, 1062 Museum Drive, near Lake Alice and the UF Bat […]
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Todd LeVasseur Sadie Hundemer April 14, 2025 Smathers Library 100 4 PM Join us for a lively, probing discussion of the roles of climate science and ethical reflection in contemporary public life, with Todd LeVasseur and Sadie Hundemer, hosted by UF’s Ethics in the Public Sphere project. The discussion will be followed by a reception. […]
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke February 11, 2025 The Lynx Books (601 South Main Street) 6 PM Allison Adelle Hedge Coke came of age working fields, factories, and waters. A tobacco and sweet potato sharecropper by her mid-teens, she worked as a manual laborer into her late twenties, until retraining for former fieldworkers and physical disabilities […]
Margaret Ross Tolbert December 13, 2024 The Lynx Books (601 South Main Street) 6 PM Our balance requires a reconnection with our myths. In Southern Türkiye, there is a woman who lives in the springs. Her name is Leto. We are looking for her. Proje SU is the story of our search. She watched the […]
Jesse Popp (University of Guelph) November 19, 2024 Smathers Library 100 1 PM The American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Program at the University of Florida is honored to host Professor Jesse Popp, Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science at the University of Guelph, Canada, as our inaugural speaker in a new environmental seminar series. This […]