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Sustainability Summit 2025

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 […]

We Were in This World

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 […]

Proje SU: Leto Joins the Springs

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 […]

Weaving Ways of Knowing Among the Trees

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 […]

“Bad (Eco) Feminist?” The Complicated Legacy of Françoise d’Eaubonne in Fact & Science Fiction

Gina Stamm (The University of Alabama) October 24, 2024 Scott Nygren Scholars Studio Library West Room 212 3 PM Françoise d’Eaubonne (1920–2005) was by all accounts a pioneer both in her intellectual and political life, and in the last decade she has begun to receive the recognition she clearly merits. She seems in many ways […]

The Rocks Don’t Care How You Get There: Reimagining Field Science for a More Accessible, Inclusive & Ethical Discipline

Anita M.S. Marshall (UF Department of Geological Sciences) October 3, 2024 Ustler Hall Atrium 5:30 PM Experiencing the natural world outside of the classroom provides essential, formative experiences to those working in natural science disciplines. But these opportunities can present social and environmental barriers that make them inaccessible to many students. GeoSPACE is a unique […]

Night of Ideas 2024: Listening to Islands and Peninsulas

February 29, 2024 Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery 1314 South Main Street 7–10 PM   Villa Albertine’s signature Night of Ideas will take place from February 23 – March 3 across twenty US cities. The event invites thought leaders, activists, performers, authors, and academics to engage the public in late-night discussions addressing major global issues. UF’s contribution to […]

Apocalyptic Species

Robert T. Walker (UF Department of Geography) March 19, 2024 Scott Nygren Scholars Studio Library West 5:30 PM “…Even if the tree was aware of my approach, there was no guarantee it would welcome me. Just because I thought we were mutually sympathetic co-habitants of the same planet did not make it so. I was […]