Graduate students in the English Department, directed by Sidney Homan, offer an evening of the great scenes in Shakespeare--Kate and Petruchio at their first meeting, the Pyramus and Thisbe playlet from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Iago's seduction of Othello, Beatrice and Benedick from Much Ado about Nothing, Hamlet and his mother. Plus, two scenes from …
Join Mezzo soprano Jacquelyn Pileckas for an informal and interactive workshop on vocal projection for the classroom. Ms. Pileckas is a second-year master’s student at the University of Florida pursuing a degree in Vocal Performance. In 2017, she graduated from Christopher Newport University with B.M. in Vocal Performance. With Opera CNU, Ms. Pileckas performed Laetitia …
R. Allen Shoaf, local Gainesville author and Alumni Professor Emeritus of English at UF, presents his latest book of poetry, Language to Live In. Language to Live In offers readers an opportunity to reflect on the current crisis of the relationship between the humanities and the sciences. Drawing from work in quantum physics, biochemistry, psychoanalysis, …
Classes start August 20th!
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 …