ARCHIVED INFORMATION FROM THE AUTHORS@UF Website (2012-2019) Authors@UF Authors@UF was designed to highlight UF authors and their scholarship while providing a forum for discussion and communication between the author and the campus community and beyond. The primary focus was on UF authors of monographs but was not limited to book authors. Ideally, the authors series was intended to be held four times per academic year, twice in each of the fall and spring semesters. The program format is flexible and might range from informal conversation to author lecture/Q&A, and include an author presentation and readings, and a discussion. Past Conversations (information on each on subsequent pages) Barbara Mennel - March 20, 2019 Jennifer Rea - February 11, 2019 Lillian Guerra - October 3, 2018 Paul Ortiz - August 28, 2018 A. Whitney Sanford - March 28, 2018 Maria Coady - November 21, 2017 Victoria Pagán - October 17, 2017 Thomas S. Bianchi - March 15, 2017 J. Matthew Gallman - March 20, 2017 Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - November 7, 2016 Zachary Selden - October 25, 2016 Sugata Ray - October 19, 2015 Ieva Jusionyte - September 22, 2015 P.K. Ramachandran Nair - April 2, 2015 Ted Spiker - February 3, 2015 Mary Ann Eaverly - November 6, 2014 Christopher Silver - September 30, 2014 Judith W. Page - April 23, 2014 Steven Noll and David Tegeder - February 17, 2014 Lillian Guerra - October 28, 2013 Stephanie A. Smith - September 4, 2013 Paul Ortiz - February 5, 2013 Benjamin Hebblethwaite - November 13, 2012 Richard Scher - October 16, 2012 Leela Corman - July 18, 2012 Norman Goda - February 22, 2012
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ARCHIVED INFORMATION FROM THE AUTHORS@UF Website (2012-2019)
Authors@UF
Authors@UF was designed to highlight UF authors and their scholarship while providing a forum for discussion and communication between the author and the campus community and beyond. The primary focus was on UF authors of monographs but was not limited to book authors. Ideally, the authors series was intended to be held four times per academic year, twice in each of the fall and spring semesters. The program format is flexible and might range from informal conversation to author lecture/Q&A, and include an author presentation and readings, and a discussion.
Past Conversations (information on each on subsequent pages) Barbara Mennel - March 20, 2019 Jennifer Rea - February 11, 2019 Lillian Guerra - October 3, 2018 Paul Ortiz - August 28, 2018 A. Whitney Sanford - March 28, 2018 Maria Coady - November 21, 2017 Victoria Pagán - October 17, 2017 Thomas S. Bianchi - March 15, 2017 J. Matthew Gallman - March 20, 2017 Dr. Ibram X. Kendi - November 7, 2016 Zachary Selden - October 25, 2016 Sugata Ray - October 19, 2015 Ieva Jusionyte - September 22, 2015 P.K. Ramachandran Nair - April 2, 2015 Ted Spiker - February 3, 2015 Mary Ann Eaverly - November 6, 2014 Christopher Silver - September 30, 2014 Judith W. Page - April 23, 2014 Steven Noll and David Tegeder - February 17, 2014 Lillian Guerra - October 28, 2013 Stephanie A. Smith - September 4, 2013 Paul Ortiz - February 5, 2013 Benjamin Hebblethwaite - November 13, 2012 Richard Scher - October 16, 2012 Leela Corman - July 18, 2012 Norman Goda - February 22, 2012
Barbara Mennel Rothman Chair and Director, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Associate Professor, Departments of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and English Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30 p.m., Smathers Library, Room 100 Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema University of Illinois Press, 2019 From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global managerial class. Stories from countries battered by the global financial crisis emphasize the patriarchal family, debt, and unemployment. Barbara Mennel delves into the ways these films about female labor capture the tension between feminist advances and their appropriation by capitalism in a time of ongoing transformation.
Looking at independent and genre films from a cross-section of European nations, Mennel sees a focus on economics and work adapted to the continent's varied kinds of capitalism and influenced by concepts in second-wave feminism. More than ever, narratives of work put female characters front and center--and female directors behind the camera. Yet her analysis shows that each film remains a complex mix of progressive and retrogressive dynamics as it addresses the changing nature of work in Europe. Barbara Mennel’s research interests include transnational cinematic practices, feminist and queer theory, and the intersection of urban studies and film studies. She is author of four books on literature and film and two co-edited volumes, including Women at Work in Twenty-first Century European Cinema (2019). The second revised edition of her book Cities and Cinema (Routledge, 2008) is forthcoming this June. She is currently working on a director study of experimental filmmaker Su Friedrich, under contract with University of Illinois Press as well.
Authors@UF: Jennifer Rea
Associate Professor of Classics and University Term Professor 2018-2021
Graduate Coordinator
Perpetua’s Journey (from Oxford Press)
Monday, February 11, 2019 3:00 p.m., Smathers Library Rm 100
Examining issues of power, gender and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history set in Roman Africa in 203 CE that tells the story of the Christian martyr Perpetua.
The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis, also known as The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, is the first extant diary authored by a Christian woman. Vibia Perpetua was a young mother who lived in Roman Africa and, at the age of twenty-two, chose to publicly proclaim her Christian faith.
She died as a result of her actions, though she did not die alone; she was part of a group of Christian martyrs, including several slaves, who were placed in prison and then executed in Carthage during the birthday celebrations of Emperor Septimius Severus's son in 203 CE. Perpetua's diary contains her account of the days leading up to her martyrdom.
Perpetua's Journey occupies a space between the many works designed primarily for specialists and advanced scholars, who already know a great deal about Perpetua and the history of the Roman Empire, and lives of saints that are intended for general readers. Perpetua's Journey is unique because it combines both sequential art and historical and social commentary, and it places Perpetua's diary in the context of life in Roman North Africa in 203 CE.
Professor Jennifer A. Rea is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. Her areas of research specialty include Augustan Age Rome, Classical Receptions of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Early Christianity. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend and an Ursula K. Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Her latest book, Perpetua's Journey, explores women's roles in early Christianity.
Authors@UF: Lillian Guerra Professor, Department of History and Center for Latin American Studies
Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 3:00 p.m., Smathers Library Rm 100
Lillian Guerra draws on her years of research in newly opened archives and on personal interviews to shed light on the men and women of Cuba who participated in mass mobilization and civic activism to establish social movements in their quest for social and racial justice and for more accountable leadership. Driven by a sense of duty toward la patria (the fatherland) and their dedication to heroism and martyrdom, these citizens built a powerful underground revolutionary culture that shaped and witnessed the overthrow of Batista in the late 1950s.
Professor Lillian Guerra is the author of many scholarly articles and essays as well as four published books of history: Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (University Press of Florida, 1998), The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba" (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Visions of Power in Cuba received the 2014 Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association, its most prestigious prize for a book on Latin America across all fields. Dr. Guerra’s fourth book, published by Yale University Press in 2018, is titled Heroes, Martyrs and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958. She is currently completing a fifth book of history, Patriots and Traitors in Cuba: Political Pedagogy, Rehabilitation and Vanguard Youth, 1961-1981, under contract with Duke University Press.
Guerra's creative writings include contributions to the work of Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer Alex Harris and photographer Cathryn Griffith as well as three collections of Spanish-language poetry, published in Quito, Ecuador, Havana, Cuba and Cimarrona (2013), published by Editorial Verbum in Madrid, Spain. She has also published a book of short stories, Cartografía Corporal with Editorial Verbum in 2014.
Guerra has received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship in 2014-2015. She holds the Waldo W. Neikirk term professorship for excellence in teaching at the University of Florida until 2019 and has recently received the University of Florida’s Research Foundation Professorship (2017-2020) for superb scholarship. The daughter of Cubans who came to the United States in 1965, Guerra was born in New York City and grew up in Marion, Kansas until her family moved to Miami,
Florida she was fourteen. There she attended Gulliver Academy and Ransom Everglades School but left high school a year before graduating to attend Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Wisconsin and has taught Cuban, Caribbean and Latin American history at Bates College (2000-2004), Yale University (2004-2010) and the University of Florida (2010-present).
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Authors@UF: Paul Ortiz UF Associate Professor of History and Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 4:00 p.m., Smathers Library Rm 100
Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like “manifest destiny” and “Jacksonian democracy,” and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism.
Drawing on rich narratives and primary source documents, Ortiz links racial segregation in the Southwest and the rise and violent fall of a powerful tradition of Mexican labor organizing in the twentieth century, to May 1, 2006, known as International Workers’ Day, when migrant laborers—Chicana/os, Afrocubanos, and immigrants from every continent on earth—united in resistance on the first “Day Without Immigrants.” As African American civil rights activists fought Jim Crow laws and Mexican labor organizers warred against the suffocating grip of capitalism, Black and Spanish-language newspapers, abolitionists, and Latin American revolutionaries coalesced around movements built between people from the United States and people from
Central America and the Caribbean. In stark contrast to the resurgence of “America First” rhetoric, Black and Latinx intellectuals and organizers today have historically urged the United States to build bridges of solidarity with the nations of the Americas. Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.
A. Whitney Sanford Professor, Religion Department
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 6:00 pm Smathers Library, Room 100
Living Sustainably
Whitney Sanford’s book Living Sustainably illustrates how groups of intentional communities are living out values such as nonviolence, social equity and sustainability. Between 2011 and 2015, Sanford visited more than 20 intentional communities across the U.S., including ecovillages, cohousing communities and Catholic worker houses and farms, to see how these communities translate values into actual practices of eating, building and governing. What does nonviolence look like, for example? Their on-going demonstrations showcase choices and trade-offs in attempting to live sustainably, and their experiments can help us think through solutions in our own communities. These individuals and communities are “being the change they wish to see in the world” and show us how we can bring these lessons home to our own families and communities.
Sanford teaches and researches in religion and nature and religions of Asia. Her current work lies at the intersection of religion, food (and water) and social equity. She is currently conducting ethnographic research on Florida rivers, exploring human attachment to place and water, for a book tentatively entitled River People of Florida. Her books include Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us About Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence (University Press of Kentucky, 2017), Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture (University Press of Kentucky, 2012) and Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramanand's Poetry (SUNY 2008). Her journal articles have appeared in publications including JAAR, Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, International Journal of Hindu Studies, Worldviews and Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
Maria Coady, Ph.D. Associate Professor of ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) and Bilingual Education
November 21 at 4:00 p.m. Smathers Library (East) Room 100
One Mother's Journey After the Loss of Her Son
The First Year is a deeply personal book that travels the journey Dr. Coady took following the death of her beloved son, Thomas Coady. Thomas was a 22 year old pre-medicine biology student at the University of Florida in 2014 when he died as a result of a traffic accident in Gainesville while riding a motorcycle. This book is raw and emotional and lays out the experiences of a mother’s grief.
Dr. Coady holds a bachelor’s degree with a dual major in International Perspectives and Business Administration with a minor in Spanish from the University of New Hampshire, a Master of Education degree in Language,
Literacy, and Cultural Studies from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in Social, Bilingual, and Multicultural Foundations of Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition she has received an Honorary Diploma in Teaching from National University in Kryvyi Rih in the Ukraine.
Victoria Pagán Professor, Department of Classics Author of Tacitus Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Smathers Library (East) Room 100 Free and open to the public Light refreshments served Tacitus and his Eternal Works The Roman author Tacitus is most famously known for his depictions of the historical events of the first century CE, but his influence is still discernible in the works of modern writers, painters and musicians. Victoria Pagán provides a valuable look at his lasting impressions on artists in her new book Tacitus.
Free and open to the public Light refreshments served
Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world. This book provides information on the historical relationship between humans and deltas that will hopefully encourage immediate preparation for coastal management plans in response to the impending inundation of major cities, as a result of global change around the world.
Dr. Bianchi has published over 185 peer-reviewed papers and is the sole and/or co-author of seven books with another due out in 2018. He is currently editor-in-chief of the journal Marine Chemistry, and has served as an associate editor for numerous other journals. Bianchi is the recipient of two Fulbright Research Awards, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and in 2017 was just named Geochemical Fellow of the Geochemical Society and The European Association of Geochemistry.
Authors@UF: J. Matthew Gallman Professor of History
Author of Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture and the Union Home Front
Free and open to the public Light refreshments served
Defining Duty is an attempt to understand how northerners came to understand the proper roles of good citizens during the Civil War, relying on the things they read (novels, short stories, cartoons, song sheets, etc.).
Published by the University of North Carolina Press, March 2015
Governor Andrew Award, Seven & Eight Park Street Foundation, Boston. Bobbie and John Nau Book Prize in American Civil War Era History, University of Virginia. Florida Book Awards, Nonfiction, Silver Medal. Civil War Monitor, Best Book of the Year selection.
Authors@UF: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Assistant Professor of African American History Department of History
Author of Stamped from the Beginning: the Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Stamped from the Beginning is the 2016 National Book Award winner for non-fiction!
Free and open to the public Light refreshments served
Watch the video of his talk: ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00052856/00001
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. Stamped from the Beginning uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W.E.B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and pro-civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.
Stamped from the Beginning has been selected as a National Book Award finalist for non-fiction.
The cost of the American alliance system is part of the foreign policy debate in the current presidential election; Donald Trump, in particular, has criticized U.S. support for NATO. But in Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy, UF Political Science professor Zachary Selden argues that the regional power of Russia and China prompts neighboring states to align with the United States, and that many of these aligned and allied states act in ways that reduce the costs of U.S. national security.
Amid calls for retrenchment or restraint, Selden makes the case that a policy focused on maintaining American military preeminence and the demonstrated willingness to use force may be what sustains the cooperation of second-tier states, which in turn help to maintain US hegemony at a manageable cost.
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Light refreshments served
Although for much of its existence, quantitative investing has been the exclusive privilege of big banks, wealthy hedge funds, and large institutional investors, Dr. Ray has written a guide to make quantitative investing accessible and practical for every investor, including students new to investing. Dr. Ray will walk us through the three main steps of quantitative investing: defining screens (i.e., rules that decide what stocks to buy and when), performing backtests of the screens (testing the rules on historical data), and implementing your quantitative strategy. He will also demonstrate his powerful Equities Lab quantitative analysis tool.
Dr. Ray has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals.
His autographed guide will be available for sale after the program and includes a free 20-week trial subscription to Equities Lab and a discounted subscription afterward.
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Dr. Jusionyte is a cultural anthropologist with a background in news journalism. She specializes in political and legal issues, applying an ethnographic approach to the study of security, governance, and borders.
Since 2008, she has conducted fieldwork in the tri-border region between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, known as a haven of international organized crime for drug and human trafficking, contraband, and money laundering. Her new book, Savage Frontier: Making News and Security on the Argentine Border (2015, UC Press) focuses on the lived experiences of local journalists who draw on their encounters with crime, violence, and other forms of social vulnerability, marginalization and government impunity, to report on some illegal activities, but not others. Security for them is not an all-encompassing discourse about existential threats, but a lived experience embedded in their everyday practices, where the role of the media is to maintain the boundary between news stories and public secrets.
Come and meet Dr. Jusionyte, who believes that social science research should participate in broader conversations on public issues and especially contribute to the well-being of communities under study, and therefore advocates for engaged and collaborative ethnographic projects.
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Light refreshments provided Seating is limited to 60 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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P. K. Ramachandran Nair, the “father of modern agroforestry,” sees great promise in the integration of trees into agricultural systems as a strategy to alleviate global climate change through carbon sequestration. P.K. Nair is a prolific author -- writing books, articles and serving as editor of the “Advances in Agroforestry” book series and editor-in-chief of the “Agroforestry Systems Journal.” Professor Nair grew up in India and is recognized worldwide for his expertise in agroforestry. Join Professor Nair in a conversation on global efforts to employ agroforestry to create a sustainable future.
Professor Nair is also the author of Scientific writing and communication in agriculture and natural resources (2014)
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In addition to heading the department’s magazine sequence and teaching many courses on magazine and feature writing, Professor Spiker is also a freelance writer who specializes in health and fitness writing. His work has been published in Outside; O, the Oprah Magazine; Fortune;
Men’s Health, Women’s Health; Esquire.com; Parenting; Prevention; Runner’s World; AARP Magazine; and many others.
Ted Spiker is also co-author of about a dozen books, including the bestselling YOU: The Owner’s Manual series with Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen. Before coming to UF, Spiker served in various editor positions in the magazine publishing world, including Men’s Health, a 1.8 million circulation magazine.
Come meet Ted Spiker as he shares his vulnerable, hilarious, and ultimately insightful experience on taking the scale—and himself—head on, and how he teaches, writes, runs, and blogs while serving as the interim chair of the department. Check out his website at: http://www.tedspiker.com/.
See Ted Spiker, featured in the December 2014 – January 2015 Gainesville Magazine issue, discussing “the lessons behind the laughter.” http://www.gainesville.com/article/20141125/GMAG/141129916/-1/gmag13?Title=The-lessons-behind-the-laughter
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One of the most obvious stylistic features of Athenian black-figure vase painting is the use of color to differentiate women from men. By comparing ancient art in Egypt and Greece, Mary Ann Eaverly’s book Tan Men/Pale Women: color and gender in archaic Greece and Egypt, a Comparative Approach (2013), uncovers the complex history behind the use of color to distinguish between genders, without focusing on race. Eaverly considers the significance of this overlooked aspect of ancient art as an indicator of underlying societal ideals about the role and status of women.
Authors @ UF: A Conversation with Christopher Silver
Scholar - Professor - Administrator College of Design, Construction and Planning
Planning the Good City: A Global View
Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Smathers Library (East), Room 100
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Light refreshments provided
Author of five books, Christopher Silver examines the intersection of the planning process, public policy, government intervention and the effects on cities, communities and the natural environment. His most recent publication, Planning the Meagacity: Jakarta, Indonesia in the Twentieth Century (2011) examines the dramatic urban transformation during the past century, from the compact colonial capital of Batavia,into a sprawling modern “megacity” of the Indonesian archipelago.
Authors @ UF: Readings and Conversation with Judith W. Page
Director, Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research Professor of English; Distinguished Teaching Scholar Affiliate in the Center for Jewish Studies
Readings and Conversation: Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England's Disciples of Flora, 1780-1870 (co-author Elise L. Smith, art historian)
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Light refreshments provided
Dr. Page is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews; her books include Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women (University of California Press), Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture (Palgrave), and Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape: England's Disciples of Flora, 1780-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) co-authored with art historian Elise L. Smith. She is currently at work on an edited collection of essays on gardens in history and culture, to be published by Cambridge Scholars Press and co-edited by Victoria Pagan and Brigitte Weltman-Aron, and a book on women and gardens in England from 1880-1945, co-authored with Elise L. Smith. She will discuss her work on gardens in literature and art, and read from the just-released paperback edition of Women, Literature, and the Domesticated Landscape.
Authors@UF: A Conversation with Steven Noll and David Tegeder
Ditch of Dreams: The Cross Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida's Future
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Light refreshments provided
Ditch of Dreams examines the long-standing effort to build a canal across Florida. For centuries, men dreamed of cutting a canal across the Florida peninsula. Intended to reduce shipping times, it was championed in the early twentieth century as a way to make the mostly-rural state a center of national commerce and trade.
Rejected by the Army Corps of Engineers as "not worthy," the project received continued support from Florida legislators and local boosters. Federal funding was eventually allocated and work began on a deep water ship canal in the 1930s, but the canal quickly became a lightning rod for controversy. Construction was halted in 1936, but supporters pushed to re-start the canal. Re-configuring it as a shallow draft barge canal, work finally resumed in 1964. Thanks to the unprecedented success of environmental citizen activists, construction was permanently halted in 1971, though it took another twenty years for the project to be canceled. Though the land intended for the canal was deeded to the state and converted into the Cross Florida Greenway, certain aspects of the dispute – including the fate of Rodman Reservoir – have yet to be resolved. Far from being a simplistic morality tale of good environmentalists versus evil canal developers, the story of the Cross Florida Barge Canal is a complex one of competing interests amid the changing political landscape of modern Florida.
Steven Noll also wrote Feeble-Minded in our Midst (1995) and Mental Retardation in America (2004).
David Tegeder’s research interests include U.S. southern race and labor relations, and recent environmental history. He also wrote Prisoner of the Pines: Debt Peonage in the Southern Turpentine Industry, 1900-1930 and The Eisenhower Administration’s Commitment to South Vietnam: Nation-Building, 1954-1960.
Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance, 1959-1971
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Date: Monday, October 28, 2013 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th Floor Smathers Library (East)
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Lillian Guerra, Department of History, is the author of three books. The most recent, Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Resistance and Redemption, 1959-1971, examines internal struggles among pro-revolutionary sectors and a centralizing Cuban state to define the practice and meaning of Communism in everyday culture and economic practice. Her previous books are Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico and The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba.
Authors@UF : Reading and Conversation with Stephanie A. Smith
The WARPAINT trilogy: Warpaint, Baby Rocket and Content Burns
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Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Library West Cafe Lounge, first floor opposite Starbucks Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
Light refreshments provided
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www.stephanieasmith.net
Stephanie A. Smith, the Waldo W. Neikirt Term Professor, 2012-2013 and Associate Chair/Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of English, is the author of the WARPAINT trilogy: Warpaint, Baby Rocket and Content Burns..The three novels are intertwined by love and friendship, and deal with contemporary women who are struggling to balance art, love, illness and trauma. Her other published novels include Snow-Eyes, The Boy Who Was Thrown Away, Other Nature, and two works of criticism, Conceived By Liberty and Household Words.
Program Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldm__qPy424
Paul Ortiz, PhD, author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920, will discuss his penetrating examination of African American politics and culture. In this work, Professor Ortiz throws a powerful light on the struggle of black Floridians to create the first statewide civil rights movement against Jim Crow. The book received the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize from the Florida Historical Society and the Florida Institute of Technology.
Dr. Ortiz has published and taught in the fields of African American History, Latino Studies, the African Diaspora, Social Movement Theory, U.S. History, U.S. South, Labor and Documentary Studies.
Dr. Ortiz also co-edited and conducted oral history interviews for the award-winning, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South.
Authors@UF : A Conversation with Benjamin Hebblethwaite
Impacting a Language: Publishing Haitian Creole in the United States
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Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor of Smathers Library (East) Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
Benjamin Hebblethwaite, professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, will discuss his fascinating work with the Haitian Creole language and Vodou songs, and the complex interweaving of Creole, French and English. Dr. Hebblethwaite explores language policy in Haiti, the official disregard for the common language of the population, the burden this places on the children of Haiti, and how publishing Creole texts can impact both the language and people of Haiti.
He is also the author of Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English. Dr. Hebblethwaite will share his perspective as a writer, linguist and researcher, and invites discussion on these various and multidisciplinary topics.
Dr. Hebblethwaite has just been awarded a major National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a collaborative project with Duke University and other national and international partners to improve understanding of the Haitian and Haitian-American spiritual tradition. The project will gather and research all relevant audiovisual and textual sources of the Vodou communities. The sources will be made freely available online through the George A. Smathers Libraries' database: the Digital Library of the Caribbean.
Many people think that going to the polls is all that's needed to vote. Richard Scher disagrees. Drawing from his award-winning new book, The Politics of Disenfranchisement, Scher discusses the tradition of restricting or denying voting rights to large numbers of Americans.
Scher will engage his audience in a conversation on historical voting barriers, like literacy tests and poll taxes, and more current obstacles, like the recent wave of state laws--including here in Florida--that restrict voting without a photo ID. A stimulating and informative hour on a controversial topic at the heart of American democracy and the 2012 elections.
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Event Details Date: October 16, 2012 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Smathers Library (East) Room 1A Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
Dr. Richard K. Scher is currently a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida.
Dr. Scher is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and book chapters, and five books: Florida's Gubernatorial Politics in the Twentieth Century (Co-authored with David R. Colburn, 1980); Politics in the New South: Republicanism, Race and leadership in the Twentieth Century (1992); Voting Rights and Democracy: The Law and Politics of Districting (Co-authored with John L. Mills and John J. Hotaling, 1996); The Modern Political Campaign: Mudslinging, Bombast and the Vitality of American Politics (1997); andThe Politics of Disenfranchisement: Why is it So Hard to Vote in America? (2011). The Politics of Disenfranchisement was named a 2011 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews Online.
Library Program Planning Group: David Schwieder, Principal Shelley Arlen, American History Library Liaison Cindy Craig, Sociology Library Liaison Jim Cusick, Florida History Library Liaison Richard Freeman, Anthropology Library Liaison Barbara Hood, PR Coordinator Rebecca Jefferson, Coordinator and Jewish Studies Library Liaison Jana Ronan, Humanities Library Liaison Isabel Silver, Coordinator Jenny Wondracek, Law Librarian
Authors@UF : A Conversation with Leela Corman
New book: Unterzakhn, a graphic novel.
Unterzakhn has received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Leela is a Jewish author and this book follows two Jewish sisters on New York's Lower East Side in the 1900s and 1920s.
Event Details Date: July 18, 2012 at 6:15 p.m. Location: Architecture and Fine Arts Library Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
Library Program Planning Group: Ann Lindell, Principal Rebecca Jefferson, Jewish Studies Barbara Hood, PR Coordinator John Van Hook, English Library Liaison Shelley Arlen, History Library Liaison Richard Freeman, Anthropology Library Liaison Colleen Seale, Women's Studies Library Liaison Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler, Exhbits Coordinator
Authors@UF : A Conversation with Norman J. W. Goda
Professor Norman J. W. Goda discussed his book Hitler’s Shadow – Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence, and the Cold War. The book investigates how and why numerous Nazi war criminals, including high officials of the Gestapo, escaped prosecution at the end of the Second World War. Professor Goda shared his perspective as a writer, historian and researcher.
Goda is the Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of History, University of Florida.
Event Details
Date: February 22, 2012 Smathers Library, Room 1A Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
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