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 Night of Ideas 2024, “Listening to Islands and Peninsulas | À l’Écoute des Îles et des presqu’îles,” will feature intellectual and artistic exchanges within the broader frame of environmental humanities and global climate change.
A roundtable discussion… including UF faculty members and guests. Participants include: Gabriele Belletti (French and Italian Studies, UF), Danila Cannamela (Italian Studies, Colby College), Terry Harpold (English, ICC, UF), Tony Maurelli (Emerging Pathogens Institute, UF), Augusto Soledade (Theatre + Dance, UF), and Alioune Sow (French and Francophone Studies & African Studies, UF). Joining us remotely from Martinique, artist and researcher Jean-Marc Bullet, creator of the project “Presqu’une île,” will share his insights and artistic interventions, contributing a global perspective to our discussions.
A performance… by musicians in residence at Villa Albertine, Miami Julian Babou (La Réunion) and Sonny Trope (Guadeloupe). Their creative expressions, rooted in their unique island contexts, will offer a poignant commentary on the multifaceted realities of climate change and its impact on vulnerable communities.
A poetry reading… of selected poems from recent UF French and Francophone Studies Poetry Contests.
This event is free and open to the public.
“Night of Ideas 2024” is sponsored by Villa Albertine, the University of Florida, the France-Florida Research Institute, The French Embassy in the United States, and the Consulat Général de France à Miami. Co-sponsors include Alliance Française de Gainesville, the Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery, the Arts/Africa Working Group, the UF Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures, and Imagining Climate Change.
