Simon Richter, University of Pennsylvania Getting Creative: Translation & Etymology as Cultural Narratives of Sustainability & Resilience November 13, 2018 Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room) 5 PM–6:30 PM Polder-Geist: Dutch Responses to Rising Sea Levels & Sinking Cities in the Netherlands, the United States & Asia November 14, 2018 Dauer 215 12–1:30 PM Archived streaming […]
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Wednesday, November 14, 7 PM Civic Media Center 433 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601 Experts often describe Miami, Florida, as ground zero for the effects of sea level rise. It is expected to be the first of many coastal metropolitan regions in the United States to be seriously affected by rising waters. The […]
Marisol de la CadenaUniversity of California, Davis Friday, October 19, 2–2:45 PM Smathers Library 100 University of Florida Join us for an informal conversation with Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis. We will discuss Professor de la Cadena’s 2015 essay “Uncommoning Nature,” a call to readers to engage with […]
Keynote Lecture – Friday, October 19, 6 PM Panels and Roundtables – Saturday, October 20, 10 AM – 5 PM Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art University of Florida Join us for “The World to Come: Art, Politics, and Climate Change,” an interdisciplinary symposium in conjunction with the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art […]
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September 18, 2018 – March 3, 2019 Harn Museum of Art University of Florida The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than 45 contemporary international artists. We live in a world of imminent extinctions, runaway […]
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Art in the Age of the Anthropocene"
Nicole Starosielski Casey Boyle February 28, 2018 Scott Nygren Studio, Smathers Library West 3 PM – 5 PM Nicole Starosielski, “Digital Heat and the Infrared Image” All matter emits heat and is transformed by it. In thermal vision, such heat exchanges are transduced into visual images. And in turn, infrared images, entangled with infrastructures of temperature control, […]
Jorge Volpi Pedro Ángel Palou Eloy Urroz February 23, 2018 Reading Room of the Latin American and Caribbean Collection Third Floor of Smathers Library, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Archived streaming video of this event is available here Join us on February 23 for a wide-ranging conversation with three of the leading literary figures of modern […]
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The Responsibilities of Literature in the Late Anthropocene"
Schuyler Esprit Create Caribbean Research Institute November 17, 2017 UF Informatics Institute CISE Bldg E251, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM In the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Marie, what do we gain or lose by continuing to frame higher education as a primary conduit for preserving Caribbean heritage and Caribbean sustainability? What new forms of academic […]
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Rebuilding a Shape-shifting Caribbean with Digital Humanities"
Helen Hughes, University of Surrey November 6–7, 2017 The Wooly 20 N. Main Street, Gainesville, FL Peak (Germany, 2011), directed by Hannes Lang Screening of the film & discussion November 6, 6:00 PM Under Control (Germany, 2011), directed by Volker Sattel Screening of the film & discussion November 7, 6:00 PM About the Films Peak (Germany, 2011, 86 […]
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Glaciers, Nuclear Power & Documentary Film in Europe"
October 23–24, 2017 University of Florida Smathers Library 100 “The Anthropocene: Rethinking Environment & Society, Disciplines & Time” Helmuth Trischler Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany Deutsches Museum, Munich October 23, 6 PM “Science & the Evolution of Planetary Politics: A Political Epistemology for the Anthropocene” Franz Mauelshagen Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany Rachel Carson […]