Featuring: Dr. Ellen Scott Before there were Black women film directors like Julie Dash, Cheryl Dunye, and Ava Duvernay, there were generations of Black women who, lacking access to the director's chair, expressed their powerful and evocative ideas about the screen through critical writing. This talk focuses on one of these critics, Almena Davis, editor …
Zoom Virtual Event Featuring: Lakhiyia Hicks Growing up Blxck, Queer, Non-binary, and Bible Belted in the Midwest, the Sermon I wish I'd Heard bears witness to Hicks' journey towards self-love through spoken word, song, and movement--three friends that fed the indomitable spirit childhood required. Such is a blossom, which Hick says, ultimately saves their life; and perhaps, …
Tuesday April 20th, 2021 at 6:00 pm EST Zoom Virtual Event Featuring: Lakhiyia Hicks Growing up Blxck, Queer, Non-binary, and Bible Belted in the Midwest, the Sermon I wish I'd Heard bears witness to Hicks' journey towards self-love through spoken word, song, and movement--three friends that fed the indomitable spirit childhood required. Such is a …
The UF Intersections Symposium celebrates the achievements of the UF Intersections project and the first two completing classes of Intersections Scholars (2020 + 2021). This two-hour event begins with a keynote presentation by Prof. Sylvester Johnson (Virginia Tech) entitled “Will Robots Feel Pain? The Politics of Race, the Governance of Technology, and the Future of …
a talk by madison moore Tuesday, May 18th, 11:00am Zoom Registration: http://bit.ly/fem0518 This talk explores visual art and digital media, including TikTok, to demonstrate how queer and trans people of color negotiate loneliness and isolation via performances of fabulousness. Fashion skeptics, from Veblen to Simmel and beyond, have long held that style works primarily as …
The Marston Science Library is pleased to host Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein for a virtual speaking engagement. In this talk, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein will provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the evolution of “diversity and inclusion” as a legal and institutional concept, and discuss the demographic challenges astronomy and physics face as we move into the roaring 2020s. After her talk, …
Michele Bratcher Goodwin (Chancellor’s Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine) Virtual Event – Register Here to Receive Zoom URL In this talk, Professor Goodwin addresses the escalation of criminal punishments directed at pregnant women in the United States. Her talk reflects more than ten years of …
“Latin America Writes Back 2.0: Political and Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction” commemorates and extends UF’s landmark 2005 symposium, “Latin America Writes Back.” That symposium identified UF as an early pioneer in the growing field of Latin American SF studies and featured talks by author/scholar Edmundo Paz Soldán and scholar J. Andrew Brown. This new …
Paul M. Farber (Director, Monument Lab, Philadelphia) Virtual Event – Register Here to Receive Zoom URL Monument Lab Director and Co-founder Paul Farber shares insights on the reckoning and reimagining of our nation’s monuments. Over the last decade, artists, activists, and cultural organizers have pushed the status quo in public art, especially to reckon with …
