Department News
Events
Spring 2013
March 19-20, 2013
Sound of China: Folklore, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Chinese Hip Hop
McCartyA Conference Room 1151(with entrance facing the Hub)
Film Screening and Lectures. Click for flyer in pdf.
• This event is sponsored by The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), CLAS Dean’s Office, Office of Research, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, The School of Art and Art History, and The International Center.
• The event is free and open to the public.
• The film is in Chinese with English subtitles.
• For information and questions, please contact Dr. Ying Xiao, yx241@ufl.edu, 352-392-6539.
For further information please check at Chinese Event page.
February 21-22, 2013
Disciples of Flora: Gardens in History and Culture
is a conference co-organized by Judy Page at Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Victoria Pagan at Classics, and Brigitte Weltman-Aron at LLC
Location: Ustler Hall Atrium
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the place and vitality of gardens as cultural objects and repositories of meaning. Events will include a reading of some scenes of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, panels, a book exhibit, a garden tour of the UF campus, and a guided tour of the Asian gardens at the Harn Museum.
Elizabeth K. Helsinger, the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of English, Art History, and Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, will deliver the keynote address at the Harn Museum (February 22, 4pm). Other participants include Verena Conley (Harvard), Lisa Moore (University of Texas), Elise Smith (Millsaps College), and Katharine von Stackelberg (Brock University, Canada), as well as several speakers from UF.
This conference is sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Office of Research, the Harn Eminent Scholars Chair in Art History, the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, the Department of Classics Rothman Distinguished Lectures, the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, and the Department of English.
Fall 2012
November 13, 2012
Visiting Guest Lecture: "Is there a Russian Cyber Empire?"
by Professor Dirk Uffelmann, University of Passau, Germany
Location: 215 Dauer Hall
Time:
4:15-5:30PM
View flier: http://www.languages.ufl.edu/russian_internet/GuestLecture_Uffelmann.pdf
Brief Description: Through the conceptual prism of language policy, post-colonial theory, and new media studies, Dr. Uffelmann explores perceptions of the Russian internet (Runet) as a "fifth column" in an expansive foreign cultural policy currently being pursued by the Russian Federation. Webcultures and policies of the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan serve as his primary case studies, with reference also to issues in Germany and Ukraine.
A Professor of Slavic Literature and Culture and Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Passau, Dirk Uffelmann has published widely on issues in modern and contemporary Russian and Polish literatures and cultures, political philosophy, post-colonial theory, and new media studies.
View full CV: http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/slavische-literaturen-und-kulturen/personal/cv-uffelmann/cv-uffelmann-english.html
Co-sponsored by the Russian Studies Fund, the Center for European Studies, the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Fund), the Department of Political Science, the Raymond and Miriam Ehlich Chair, and the Department of History.
November 7, 2012
Corpus Linguistics in North America/La Linguistique de corpus en Amérique du Nord.
Reitz Union Room 286
Morning Session: 10:30AM - Documenting Heritage Languages in Multicultual Toronto: Methodological aspects by Dr. Naomi Nagy
Afternoon Session: 1:55PM- Lectures in French
Click here to download flyer (PDF)
Workshop sponsored by France Florida Research Institute and the project Le français à la mesure d’un continent.
October 24, 2012
French and Francophone Studies Information Session
CSE-E220 - period 9 (4:05-4:55PM)
Spring 2012
Thursday, April 14, 2012
She Who Has Health, Has Hope: Women's Health in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries in Germany and the Netherlands.
Thursday, March 31, 2012
The instability of vowel /a/ in the development of Vietnamese.
Saturday, March 26, 2012
Etched on Glass with a Diamond: Biography as Cultural Myth in the Legend of Chaadaev and the First Philosophical Letter
The Humanitarian's Tale: How the Story of Ekaterina Peshkova's Life Informs the Story of Her Work
Subject to Chance: Self-Reinvention in Poland under Stalinism
The Books We Read and the Roles We play: Meyerhold’s Seagull
Materials for a Biography: A Terrorist's Life (and Death)
Biographer as Archeologist
A Typology of Russian History: Do we Schematize the Historical Process?
Friday, March 25, 2012
Stalin's Biography: Childhood or World History?
FFRI Events for Spring, 2012
The France-Florida Research Institute presents its 7th annual French Film Festival at the Hyppodrome State Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville.
- Monday, January 16, 2012 - 7:00PM: Bled Number One by Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche.
- Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 7:00PM: "Les Bureaux de Dieu" by Claire Simon.
- Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 7:00PM: "La France" by Serge Bozon.
This event is free and open to the public. The festival was sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute (UF) with the assistance of the French Cultural Services in New York and Miami. It is organized by Dr. Sylvie Blum-Reid, Associate Professor of French and Film in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Department and Adam Jalali, program assistant.
To download the French Film poster, click here. (JPEG)
