INGENIUM: INGENUITY, INGENIOUSNESS AND ENGINEERING IN CERVANTES; OCTOBER 24 AND 25 Sponsored by: UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies (Enhancement Fund), UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Humanities Fund), UF Center for Jewish Studies, The Cervantes Society of America. For complete schedule: https://spanishandportuguese.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/96/FCS-schedule.pdf
Friday, October 18, 10:40-11:40AM –Dauer 219 (Ruth McQuown Room) The Palatine Anthology is a collection of Greek poems (epigrams) that were discovered in the early 17th century. The material included in the manuscripts are narratives originating from between 7th BCE to late antiquity. The manuscripts are currently housed at the Library of the University of Heidelberg […]
The Mellon Intersections Group on Imagineering the Technosphere, Department of Classics, and the Center for Greek Studies would like to invite you to join them for two lectures with Prof. Simon Goldhill from the University of Cambridge. The Infrastructure of Tolerance with Simon Goldhill TFriday, October 18, 4pm, Smathers Library 100 This lecture examines how we might understand the relationship between […]
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Lecture by Professor Jennifer Thomas University of Florida Friday, September 27, 2019 at 1:55 pm MUB 146 Abstract: From a twenty-first-century perspective, Alexander Agricola’s diminutive, three-voice song-style motet from the 1480s, Si dedero, seems an unlikely candidate for stardom. Musically commonplace and textually perplexing, its style and scope skirted the late-fifteenth-century contrapuntal developments that took […]
Connected to the “Setting Global-Cultural Limits 30-Years after Berlin 1989” Campus Weeks events: https://songs.clas.ufl.edu/setting-global-cultural-limits-30-years-after-berlin-1989-fall-2019-campus-weeks-events/, there are three creative student group projects focusing on Border-Walls, Fire-Walls, and Sea-Walls respectively. Creative projects address the ongoing histories of these different kinds of Walls (whether as problems or solutions), how they have been used in the past, how they […]
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A Workshop with Professor David Frye. October 10, 12:00-1:00 pm Pugh Hall 302 David Frye is Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University and author of Walls. A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick (Simon and Schuster, 2018). This recent book on walls has been reviewed by journals such as the National Geographic, […]
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Professor Rebecca Maloy University of Colorado, Boulder Friday, September 6, 2019 at 1:55 pm Friends of Music Room, University Auditorium Abstract: This paper considers the role of liturgical chant–both texts and melodies—in the cultural renewal of early Medieval Iberia. Between the seventh and eleventh centuries, Christian worship on the Iberian Peninsula was structured by rituals […]
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Global-Cultural Resources as Limits How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark cultural relations of infinity and finiteness, abundance and lack, presence and absence, etc.? What kinds of cultural dynamics are generated in/by […]
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Global-Cultural Resources as Limits How do walls—man-made and otherwise—define global-cultural limits? How do the physical/material characteristics of walls bear on/inform/reflect/etc. their religious, political, social, and economic meanings, and vice versa? How do walls mark cultural relations of infinity and finiteness, abundance and lack, presence and absence, etc.? What kinds of cultural dynamics are generated in/by […]