July 23, 2023 McGuire Pavilion, G-6 Studio 3–4:30 PM Artists and culture bearers support recovery from all kinds of disasters. They have even been called “second responders” because their art can function as a mechanism for healing, political critique, record keeping, and more. Join a group of dance and theatre makers from San Juan, New […]
Margaret Ross Tolbert April 12, 2023 Smathers Library 100 5:30 PM In Southern Türkiye, there is a woman who lives in the springs. Her name is Leto. We are looking for her. Leto is old, but she is still powerful. She was living in the springs before the arrival of Paleolithic settlers. She watched the […]
Blanche Verlie (RMIT University) March 29, 2023 Smathers Library 100 5:30 PM (EST) Climate change is a deeply distressing phenomenon; yet this distress can also be generative, offering opportunities to reconsider and reimagine destructive ways of living. In this virtual presentation, Dr. Blanche Verlie discusses some of the key findings and concepts from her 2022 […]
Read more "Learning to Live with Climate Change
Climate Distress & Social Transformation"
Taylor Brorby February 21, 2023 Smathers Library 100 7 PM “I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terror before its power.” So begins Taylor Brorby’s Boys and Oil, a haunting, bracingly honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North […]
A Conversation with Chief Afukaká February 15, 2023 Smathers Library 100 3 PM We invite you to a public conversation with Chief Afukaká Kuikuro, the Paramount Chief of the Kuikuro Indigenous Nation along the southern fringes of the Brazilian Amazon. Chief Afukaká will discuss his views on collaborations with archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and other scientists […]
Read more "Indigenous Peoples & Partnerships
in the Brazilian Amazon"
Sarah Politz December 6, 2022 Music Building 101 5:10 PM The recent emergence of the subfield of ecomusicology has raised provocative questions about theory and method in music studies, as well as relationships between sound, humans, and the environment. This presentation responds to these questions through an examination of two albums by the Beninese guitarist […]
Read more "Ecomusicology & Relational Listening
in the Music of Lionel Loueke of Benin"
Jade Sasser (University of California, Riverside) September 20, 2022 Ustler Hall Atrium & via Zoom 5:30 PM (EST) Some climate scientists describe climate problems as problems of unrestrained population growth. Such discourses align closely with historical narratives blaming the fertility and reproduction of the poor, particularly women of color, for a range of social, political, […]
Read more "Can We Have Reproductive Justice
in a Climate Crisis?"
Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida 7–9:30 PM October 13, 2022 Widely considered the most influential eco-science fiction film of all time, Silent Running (1972) is a stirring, beautiful, and uncannily prescient depiction of the terrible costs of environmental irresponsibility and the redemptive power of compassion and stewardship. The directorial debut of Douglas […]
Megan Moe Beitiks Kenya (Robinson) April 14, 2022 Ustler Hall Atrium 5:30 PM (EST) In this live performance/conversation, artists and frequent collaborators Meghan Moe Beitiks and Kenya (Robinson) will discuss human/nonhuman ecologies and how experiences of marginalization may produce ecological wisdom. The publication of Beitiks’ recent book, Performing Resilience for Systemic Pain (2021), prompts a […]
Smathers Library 100 University of Florida October 21–22, 2021 “Latin America Writes Back 2.0: Political and Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction” commemorates and extends UF’s landmark 2005 symposium “Latin America Writes Back.” That symposium identified UF as an early pioneer in the growing field of Latin American SF studies and featured talks by author/scholar […]
Read more "Latin America Writes Back 2.0:
Political & Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction"