Fall06 calendar

Spring 2009

Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History / Millbauer Seminar /
Library-Museum Speaker Series in Florida History

January 12, 7:30 Pugh 170	Peter Brown (Princeton University), “Between Syria and Egypt: Alms, Work and the Origins of Christian Monasticism” (Faithful Narratives Lecture Series)
January 15-17	Creating Citizenship in the 19th Century South and Beyond
January 22, 7:00 Pugh 170	Inaugural Gary C. and Eleanor G. Simons Lecture in the Revolutionary Era: Dr. Marla Miller, "Betsy Ross: The Legend and the Life" [flyer]
February 4, 3:00 Pugh 210	History of Science Colloquium: Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig, Director of the Medical Humanities Program, College of Medicine, "Eugenics Reflected: Ideas on Eugenics, Politics, and Heredity in Literature and Poetry"
February 4, 6:30 Pugh 170	The Augustus M. Burns Memorial Lecture: Dr. Diane Roberts, "The Blackness of Barack Obama"
February 16, 4:00 05 Keene Flint	Pozzetta Colloquium: Geoffrey Giles
February 16, 7:30	Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College), "Scholars and Converts: European Jews Embrace Islam" (Faithful Narratives Lecture Series)
February 20, 3:00 05 Keene Flint	Milbauer Seminar: Scott R. Nelson (College of William and Mary)
February 25, 7:00 Pugh Hall, Ocora	Jack Davis will be discussing his new book, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (Proctor Florida History Lecture Series)
March 2	John Van Engen (University of Notre Dame), “Free Spirits, Lay Religion, & Clerical Suspicion: Behind the Scenes in the Late Medieval Church”
March 16, 4:00 05 Keene Flint	Pozzetta Colloquium: Ida Altman
March 17, 6:00 Library East	Proctor Oral History Program: Florida Black History: Where we stand in the age of Barack Obama
March 20, 3:00 05 Keene Flint	Milbauer Seminar: Elizabeth R. Varon (Temple University)
March 30, 7:30 Pugh 170	Lamin Sanneh (Yale University), “The Return of Religion in Africa”
April 1, 3:00 Pugh 210	Ronald E. Doel (Florida State University, Dept of History), "What's the place of the physical environmental sciences in the history of recent science?" (History of Science Society Colloquium)
April 8, 3:00 Turlington 3304	Stewart Kreitzer (Doctoral Student, History of Science), "Ernst Mayr: The Darwin of the 20th Century" (History of Science Society Colloquium)
April 10, 3:00 05 Keene Flint Hall	Milbauer Seminar: Joe Crespino (Emory University)
April 14, 6:00 Pugh Hall	Askew Institute symposium on The University in Crisis
April 15, 3:00 Pugh 210	Robert Hatch (Assoc. Professor, Dept. of History), "Science & the Modern World -- A Big Picture of Western Civilization"
April 18, 9:00 - 5:00 05 Keene Flint	Workshop on Decolonization and the Franchise
April 22, 3:00 Turlington 3304	David Steffes (Florida State University, Dept. of History), "Population Ecology, Theology, and Prophecy: Charles Birch and the Transformation of Global Ecumenism in the 1970s"

Fall 2008

History Department Pozzetta Colloquium / Sam Proctor Florida History Lecture Series /
Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History

September 8, 3:00 05 Keene-Flint Hall	Fred Gregory (University of Florida), "History for Public Consumption" (Department of History Pozzetta Colloquium)
September 10, 3:00 210 Pugh Hall	Harvey Lilywhite (UF Department of Zoology, Seahorse Key Marine Laboratory), “Seahorse Key: Jewel of Florida’s Gulf Coast” (History of Science Society Colloquium)
September 10, 7:00 Pugh Hall Ocora	"A New Cold War? Russia, Georgia, and the West," A panel discussion including UF history professor Stuart Finkel
September 16, 4:30 Ustler Hall	Susanna Elm (University of California, Berkeley), "Pagan Challenge and Christian Response" (Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History)
September 17, 7:00 Pugh Hall Ocora	Michael Gannon (University of Florida), "Ponce de Leon and the Discovery of Florida" (Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series)
September 23, 8:00 CSE 119	William F. Keegan (Curator of Caribbean Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History), "Taino Indian Myth and Spanish Early Contact," Archaeological Institute of America 2008-2009 Lecture Series
September 24, 3:00 05 Keene-Flint Hall	Lance Gravlee (UF Department of Anthropology) “Race, Racism and Health: Historical Continuities and Current Challenges” (History of Science Society Colloquium)
September 24, 7:00 Pugh Hall Ocora	Rick Atkinson (Pulitzer Prize winning author), "The Day of Battle: The War in Siciliy and Italy, 1943-1944"
September 25, 7:00 Keene-Flint Library	Phi Alpha Theta meeting
October 6, 7:30 Pugh 170	Carlos Eire (Yale University), "When Miracles Ceased: The Protestant Reformation and the Disenchantment of the World" (Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History)
October 8, 3:00 210 Pugh Hall	Frederick Gregory (UF Department of History), “Crisis of Scientific Faith at the End of the Nineteenth Century” (History of Science Society Colloquium)
October 16, 11:30 376 Grinter	Juliana Barr (UF Department of History), “María de Jesús de Agreda: Religious Symbols at War in the Spanish Borderlands”
October 20, 3:00 05 Keene-Flint Hall	Sean Adams (University of Florida), "Warming Gotham: Technology, Class, and the Consumption of Heat in 19th-century New York City" (Deptment of History Pozzetta Colloquium)
October 22, 3:00 210 Pugh Hall	Linda Cronin Jones (Science & Environmental Education, School of Teaching & Learning, UF College of Education), “Don’t Know Much About History: Is a Historical Perspective Really Necessary in High School Science Classes?” (History of Science Society Colloquium)
October 22, 7:00 Pugh Hall Ocora	Robin Gibson (Former Chair, Florida Board of Governors), "The History of the State University System" (Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series)
November 3, 2:00 Smathers Library, 1A	David Colburn, historian and author, will speak about his new book “From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans” covering Florida’s political trends and its place in national politics. The talk will be followed by a reception at 3:00 at the opening of the exhibit “Buttons, Badges and Bumper Stickers – 160 years of Presidential Campaigns” in the Smathers Library second floor exhibit gallery.
November 6, 4:00 05 Keene-Flint Hall	Katalin F. Rac (University of Florida) "Emancipation and Egyptology: The case of Mrs. Marie Goldziher Freudenberg"
November 12, 7:30 Pugh 170	David Nirenberg (University of Chicago), "Sibling Rivalries: Judaism, Christianity, Islam" (Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History)
November 17, 3:00 05 Keene-Flint Hall	Jessica Harland-Jacobs (University of Florida), "Catholics and Citizens: the Politics of Toleration in the British Isles and the British Empire" (Department of History Pozzetta Colloquium)
November 19, 3:00 210 Pugh Hall	Ben Smith (UF Department of Chemistry) “L’Hématoscope d’Hénocque: The Spectroscopy of Blood and the Origins of Medicinal Spectroscopy” (History of Science Society Colloquium)
November 19, 7:00 Pugh Hall Ocora	Paul Ortiz (University of Florida), "Building on Samuel Proctor's Legacy: Race, Politics, and Freedom in Florida" (Samuel Proctor Florida History Lecture Series)
December 1, 4:00 Ustler Hall Atrium	David Ruderman (University of Pennsylvania), "The People and the Book: The Invention of Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture" (Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History)
December 3, 3:00 210 Pugh Hall	Panos Pardalos and Cristián Cárdenas-Lailhacar, (UF Department of Industrial Systems Engineering), “The Life of Things: A History of Industrial Technology”(History of Science Society Colloquium)