Professor Mario Poceski is organizing a visiting lecture by Professor Francisca Cho, Georgetown University. Title: "A Buddhist Theory of Film" Date: October 4, 2018 (Thursday) Time: 2:00-3:30 pm Place: 215 Dauer Hall Abstract: The relationship between Buddhism and Film is often defined in terms of how films depict Buddhists and Buddhism to a broad Western …
October 8, 2018 (Monday – Indigenous Peoples’ Day), 1:55-3:50 pm, Little Hall room 237 LIT0237 "The Green Corn Ceremony of the Creek," Adam Recvlohe, Muscogee Creek Nation The American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (UF) presents: Adam Recvlohe is a member (tvsekayv) of the Muscogee Creek Nation. His Tribal Town (etvlwv) is Tallahassee Wugogiye, and he is …
The Center for Global Islamic Studies will be hosting a workshop, “Muslim Youth and Lived Islam in Africa & Beyond” on October 18 & 19 at Grinter Hall, Room 404. The workshop will feature a keynote by Filippo Osella, “Becoming Muslim in South India,” and papers by Kae Amo, Mamadou Bodian, Musa Ibrahim, Frederick Madore, …
October 19, 2018 (Friday), 3:30-5:00 pm, Pugh room 210 “Dancing for the Dead: Funeral Strippers in Taiwan,” Professor Marc L. Moskowitz, University of South Carolina Film Presentation and Q&A Discussion with the Filmmaker/Scholar. Funeral strippers work on Electric Flower Cars (EFC), which are trucks that have been converted to moving stages so that women can perform …
Professor Jonathan Edelmann will give a public lecture at the University of Florida’s Undergraduate Philosophy Society in the Department of Philosophy on October 30, 2018, Tuesday, 6:30-8:00 pm. The lecture will be held in the Department of Philosophy’s Library in Griffin-Floyd Hall. This includes a lecture, questions and answers, and dinner. The title of his …