All Rosen College and UCF students are invited to participate and join the presentation at the Darden Auditorium, located next to the Rosen College main entrance.
The workshops start sharply at 08:00 AM. It is recommended to arrive 10 minutes prior to the scheduled time.
If you have any question, please contact the RPI Department.
]]>Latin America’s rich cultural heritage is made of countless languages, cultural identities, and communities of people who coalesce endlessly, multiculturalism defies categorization. In the United States today Latinx, Hispanics, Latinos, Chicanos, Mexicans, Cubans, Colombians, Argentinians, Puerto Ricans and an endless number of other nationalities, affiliation, races, associations, identifications, and groups of individuals defy classification. They create tension within the existing organization of parameters that disrupts functionality at every convergence. Being Latinx is a concept that is ever transcending itself. Coalesce is a group exhibition that gives voice to the individuals who have hybrid intersectionalities.
The exhibition includes work by:
Luciana Abait, Kiara Aileen Machado, Claudia Cano, Enrique Castrejon, Morel Doucet, Rosa Maribel Hernandez, Lino Martinez, Abdul Mazid, Moncho 1929, Raoul Pacheco, Lucha Pink Rodriguez, and Wanda Raimundi Ortiz
Join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, Sept. 26 from 5 – 7 p.m. RSVP HERE
This event is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in Garage F next to the Addition Financial Arena. $5 parking lot H-4 or Garage I requires purchasing a visitor permit from a kiosk. Please note that visitors should park in green student spaces ONLY, as the $5 daily permit does not cover red and blue spaces.
]]>These trainings are specifically for those who are looking to fullfil the Green Dot training requirement for the Violence Prevention Certificate Series. If you are not completing the VPCS you may attend a general Green Dot training.
]]>Panel One - Perspectives on Florida's Environment
Panelists:
Dr. Mike Gunter Jr. is a Cornell Distinguished Faculty member and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow who teaches courses on environmental politics, sustainable development, and international security at Rollins College. His current project, Tales of an Ecotourist, makes a case for experiential learning as a route to better understand climate change. Gunter also serves as director of the interdisciplinary International Relations Program as well as an advisor to Rollins’ Washington Semester Program. He was Rollins’ first faculty-in-residence and directed its Living & Learning Communities, whose programs link academic and social aspects on campus.
Dr. Chris Wilhelm specializes in modern U.S. history, environmental history, and the history of the U.S. South. His research has mostly examined the Everglades. He is finalizing a book manuscript on the creation of Everglades National Park entitled From Swamp to Wetland.His recent publications include: “Conservatives in the Everglades,” in Journal of Southern History; and “For the Birds: Challenging Wilderness in the Everglades” in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. His next project looks at the history of marine preservation in Florida.
Dr. Steven Noll teaches in the history department at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1992. He received his PhD from UF in 1991.He has published three books: Feeble-Minded in our Midst (1995); Mental Retardation in America (2004); and, most recently, Ditch of Dreams: The Cross-Florida Barge Canal and the Struggle for Florida’s Future (2009). Ditch of Dreams started through a grant from the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection and was researched and written in collaboration with Professor David Tegeder. Noll is currently working on two books- one on the continuing controversy over removing Rodman Dam from the Ocklawaha River and the other on the disability rights protests of the 1970s.
Dr. Noll is currently teaching a senior seminar at UF on “Florida Environmental History and the 3 Marjories.”
RSVP to Kayla.Campana@ucf.edu by October 10.
]]>CAPS workshops are free, require no sign-up, and space is provided on a first-come-first-serve basis to currently enrolled students.
]]>Panel Two - Roundtable on Florida's Environment
Panelists:
Jack E. Davis, professor of history and Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida. He is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea (2017). Upon joining the faculty at UF, he founded the department’s student journal, Alpata: A Journal of History. His Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 won the Charles S. Sydnor Prize for the best book in southern history published in 2001.
His book, An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century (2009), received a gold medal from the Florida Book Awards. Davis is currently editing a new edition of Wild Heart of Florida, a collection of personal essays and poems about natural Florida. In April 2019, Dr. Davis was one of the recipients of the 2019 Andrew Carnegie fellowship award.
Michele Navakas is an associate professor of English and affiliate of American Studies at Miami University of Ohio, where she teaches early American literature, culture, and environment. She also co-chairs the American Cultures Seminar, an interdisciplinary research cluster supported by Miami’s Humanities Center. She is the author of Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), and her essays have been published in American Literature, Early American Literature, and Early American Studies. Currently, she is working on her second book, Coral in Early American Literature, Science, and Culture.
Mark D. Hersey is an associate professor at Mississippi State University & co-editor of Environmental History, the journal of the American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society. His research interests lie in the fields of environmental, rural, and agricultural history, with a particular emphasis on the American South, most especially on Alabama and Mississippi. His first book, My Work Is That Of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011), situated the agricultural and environmental work of George Washington Carver in the context of both the conservation movement of the early twentieth century and the environmental history of Alabama's Black Belt.
RSVP to Kayla.Campana@ucf.edu by October 10.
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