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Graduate Orientation Day 1

All events will be held in Turlington 2354 unless otherwise stated

1:00-1:30, Hybrid Introduction and Meeting with the Administrative Team and English Graduate Organization (EGO) Participants: Melissa Davis, Leah Rosenberg, Raúl Sanchez, and Roger Maioli (via Zoom). EGO board: Armin Niknam, Mosunmola Adeojo, Alison Walsh, Kevin Artiga, and Taylor Morris. 1:30-2:15 Getting Oriented: PhD and MFA Review of basic orientation details relevant to all students in …

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Graduate Orientation Day 2

All events will be held in Turlington 2354 unless otherwise stated

1:00-1:40 Info for PhD Students This is a session that is intended to review and address the key questions about the first year of the program. PhD students must attend this session. MFA students please skip it. 1:40-2:00, Hybrid Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Sara Agnelli, Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement (for …

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Graduate Orientation Day 3

All events will be held in Turlington 2354 unless otherwise stated

1:00-2:00 Graduate Student Panel: “What I wish I had known”: Tips for Grad School and Gainesville Speakers: Kimberly Williams, Cosmo Hinsman, Motunrayo Ogunrinbokun, and Emily Hunsaker. 2:00-3:00, In Library West Room 211 Meet Your Librarian with Dr. Jeanne Ewert 3:15-4:30 Graduate Student and Department Culture Student leaders from department and university-wide student groups will discuss …

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MarketWise: Introduction to the Job Market, by Roger Maioli

Zoom (MarketWise)

The first of five sessions that MarketWise is running this Fall on how to prepare for different stages of the job search. This session will cover the basics about MarketWise and the academic job market in English. It will also feature speakers from the Career Connections Center, who will cover on-campus resources and programs to …

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Job Interviews, by Roger Maioli

Zoom (MarketWise)

The last of five sessions that MarketWise is running this Fall on how to prepare for different stages of the job search.

Black Horror Halloween Film Screening: The Blackening

Institute of Black Culture (IBC) Room #107

The African American Studies program will be hosting a Black Horror event featuring a screening of Tim Story's The Blackening. Food will be served, and discussion of the film's themes will follow. Please send RSVP to Ivy Ponder-Gay: ivygay1003@ufl.edu Please include full name and major/department

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Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom and the Future of Digital Pedagogy

Dauer Hall 215

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom is a digital humanities project that reimagines Victorian Studies through research from: Black, Indigenous, Asian and Asian-American, Latinx, Postcolonial, Decolonial, Feminist, Queer, and Disability Studies It produces free, open-source, peer-reviewed lesson plans, syllabi, and Zoomcasts for teacher-scholars in K-12 and higher education. Sponsored by: The Center for the Humanities and the …

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

Scott Nygren Scholars Studio at Library West 1545 W University Ave, Gainesville, Florida, United States

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 …

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MarketWise: Careers in Philanthropy, with Dr. Renata Redford

Pugh Hall 210

MarketWise: Careers in Philanthropy Featuring Dr. Renata Redford, Director of Research & Content Strategy, Inside Philanthropy Thursday, April 25 (UF Reading Day 1) 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Pugh Hall 210, In-Person Only. Renata Redford, Ph.D in Modern Italian Literature from UCLA, is the Director of Research and Content Strategy at Inside Philanthropy, a digital philanthropy …

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