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Monday, October 28, 2013
3:00 p.m.
Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th Floor
Smathers Library (East)
Lillian Guerra
Professor of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
[draft title, e.g., “Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance, 1959 - 1971”]
Professor Lillian Guerra will ……..
The author of Visions of Power: Revolution, Redemption and Resistance in Cuba, 1959-1971, among others, including an upcoming book, “Making Cuba revolutionary: Hidden heros, Public Spectiacle and the War that Toppled Batista, 1947 – 1959” …..
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
6:00 p.m.
Library West, Cafe Lounge, first floor opposite Starbucks
Stephanie A. Smith
Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor, 2012-2013
Associate Chair/Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of English
Reading and Conversation with the author of the WARPAINT trilogy: Warpaint, Baby Rocket, and Content Burns.
Light refreshments and finger food provided
Stephanie A. Smith is the author of Warpaint (Thames River Press, 2012), Household Words (Minnesota, 2006) Conceived By Liberty (Cornell 1995), Other Nature (MacMillan 1995) Snow-Eyes and The-Boy-Who-Was-Thrown-Away (Atheneum 1985/87).
February 5th, 2013
Dr. Paul Ortiz, Associate Professor of History
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American Studies and African American Studies
February 5th, 2013, 1pm
Smathers Library (East), Room 1A
Further details TBA
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Impacting Haitian Creole: A Language in Evolution
Authors@UF: A Conversation with Benjamin Hebblethwaite
2pm, Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor Hebblethwaite will discuss his fascinating work with the Haitian Creole language and Vodou songs, and the complex interweaving of Creole, French and English, and how publishing Creole texts impacts the oral haitian language. He is also the author of Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English. Hebblethwaite will share his perspective as a writer, linguist, and researcher, and invites discussion on these various and multidisicplinary topics.
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 researching 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.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
2:00 p.m.
Latin American Collection Reference Room, 4th floor
Smathers Library (East - next to Library West)
October 16
Why is it So Hard to Vote in America?
Authors@UF: A Conversation with Richard Scher
5:30-6:30 p.m., Smathers Library, Room 1A
Are you voting in November?
Are you sure?
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.
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida.
Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations.
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, 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
Dr. Richard K. 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); and The 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.
July 18, 6:15 p.m
Unterzakn
Authors@UF: A Conversation with Leela Corman
6.15-7:30 p.m., Architecture and Fine Arts Library
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.
Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
Program Planning Group:
Ann Lindell
Rebecca Jefferson, Jewish Studies
Barbara Hood, PR & Marketing
John Van Hook, English
Shelly Arlen, History
Richard Freeman, Anthropology
Colleen Seale, Women's Studies
Lourdes Santamaria-Wheeler, Exhbits
February 22
Holocaust Perpetrators, Allied Intelligence and the Cold War
Authors@UF: An Evening with Norman J. W. Goda
6:00-7:00 p.m., Smathers Library, Room 1A
The Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies, Department of History, University of Florida
Sponsored by the Smathers Libraries Campus Conversations
Professor Norman J. W. Goda will talk about his book Hitler's Shadow and US Intelligence and the Nazis. 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 will share his perspective as a writer, historian and researcher. Q&A and discussion will follow. Students, faculty, staff and the community are invited to attend.
Program Planning Group:
Rebecca Jefferson, Library Liaison: Jewish Studies Center, Hillel Student Group
Isabel Silver, Program Coordinator: Honors, Govt Docs, Latin American Studies Center, Graduate Students, catering
Barbara Hood, Publicity Coordinator
Patrick Reakes, Branch Chair: Humanities Center, English Dept
Shelley Arlen, Library Liaison: History and Anthropology
Alena Aissing, Library Liaison: European Studies Center, International Center, German and Slavic Studies, Groups
David Schweider, Library Liaison: Political Science, Graham Center
how to input READ poster?
An example of a book in Haitian Creole edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite
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