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 […]

Getting to Know You: Vinciane Despret’s Study of Interspecies Knowledge Practices

Anne McConnell (West Virginia State University) February 15, 2024 Scott Nygren Scholars Studio Library West 5:30 PM After spending time in the field with evolutionary biologist Amotz Zahavi, the Belgian philosopher and psychologist Vinciane Despret determined that unconventional, interactive approaches to animal knowledge can yield surprising and interesting results. Despret watched Zahavi engage with a […]

Artists as Second Responders: Three Stories

Rachel Carrico (UF College of the Arts) Colleen Rua (UF College of the Arts) October 18, 2023 Ustler Hall Atrium 5:30 PM Artists and culture bearers are among the leaders of our most inventive and regenerative responses to environmental crisis and injustice. They have even been called “second responders,” because their art can function in […]

Study Buddies – Plant Yourself & Study!

What are Library West Study Buddies? In an initiative to promote mental well-being and clarity for those already striving for their personal best, Library West is introducing these little green partners as a self-care outlet. When you come to Library West to study, visit the Circulation Desk and check out a plant for a 3-hour […]

Response & Recovery: An Artists’ Talk

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 […]

Proje SU: The Soul of Water

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 […]

Learning to Live with Climate Change
Climate Distress & Social Transformation

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 […]

Boys & Oil: Growing Up Gay
in a Fractured Land

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 […]

Indigenous Peoples & Partnerships
in the Brazilian Amazon

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 […]

Imagining Climate Change

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