Alachua County Public Library LANGUAGE TO LIVE IN R. Allen Shoaf https://www.austinmacauley.com/us/book/language-live Retired UF English Professor R. Allen Shoaf will read from his new book of poems. Headquarters Branch - Meeting Room B Saturday, September 14: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, "Decarcerating Disablity": Prison Abolition, Disability Studies, Activism Join us for a lecture/discussion with disabilities studies and prison studies scholar Liat Ben-Moshe on October 17, time 4:00-5:15 pm, Ustler Atrium (2nd floor). *email jschorb@ufl.edu to verify event time Bio: Liat Ben-Moshe is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice at the University of …
The Florida Writers Festival will feature Donald Antrim, Devin Johnston, Yiyun Li, and Ada Limón. The authors will read from their works and hold informal talks. All events will take place in the Ustler Hall Atrium and the Bull. The festival is free and open to the public. The festival, which is in its 70th year, is presented …
Authors Ada Limon and Donald Antrim will read from their work at 8pm in the atrium at Ustler Hall. This event is part of the annual Writers Festival. Light refreshments will be provided.
Authors Ada Limon, Yiyun Li, Devin Johnston, and Donald Antrim will speak on the craft of creative writing at The Bull at 1 pm. This event is part of the annual Writers Festival.
Authors Yiyun Li and Devin Johnston will read from their work at 8pm in Ustler Hall. This event is part of the annual Writers Festival. Light refreshments will be provided.
Workshop and discussion of recent work by the keynote speakers for Decolonizing Knowledge Symposium. For reading materials, please contact Leah Rosenberg rosenber@ufl.edu
In the last decade indigenous studies have emerged as a crucial theoretical site for understanding and critiquing the settler colonial present and for decolonial thinking. This symposium will address national and hemispheric conversations on indigenous theories as they shape thinking and writing outside the dominant epistemological frameworks of modernity/coloniality. By connecting notions such as “epistemic delinking” from the …
Abraham I. Acosta, For more than twenty years now, the concepts of coloniality of power and settler colonialism have been pivotal in the formation and development of decolonial critiques of power. Understood as names for a cultural-political modality for establishing and sustaining geopolitical subordination, the concept has become conventionalized and routinely deployed in order to …
Macarena Gomez-Barris, “Archival Disappearances and Southern Submerged Perspectives of Resurgence” In this talk, I address how to think about the colonial archive in relation to disappearance and Indigenous resurgence in the Américas, specifically focused on the legacy of Darwin and in relation to the category “los desaparecidos” that is often used to describe modern state …
Christa J. Olson “Nuestras Reliquías Históricas” and the Rhetorical Work of Ancestors at Machu Picchu” Between 1911 and 1915, Yale University Professor Hiram Bingham III and his Yale Peruvian Expedition illegally carried thousands of objects out of Peru, adding them to the collections of the Yale Peabody Museum. Analyses of the Yale Peruvian Expedition’s work …
Speakers: Deepthi Siriwardena “Towards a Sri Lankan Feminism: Reading Sunethra Rajakarunanayke’s Metta” Dan Shurley “Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forebears: How Pennsylvania Erased The Lenape From Local History” Ivette Rodriguez “Anzaldua Pedagogies: Decolonizing Academia from the Inside” Martina Laura Speranza “Problematizing the gender gap: feminist, queer and postcolonial approaches to inequalities in the rural Global South” Alexander Slotkin …