Events for Africana, American, Florida, Judaic, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Women's and Gender Studies

Upcoming Events

  • BFSA Spring Speaker Series: Let's Talk Money Workshop and Speaker Series (Recurring Event)

    Student Union: 340 (Charge On Chamber)

    UCF's Black Faculty and Staff Association is partnering with CHASE bank to discuss and workshop topics such as Budgeting and Savings, Credit, Mortgage Lending, and Mortgage Navigation. Sessions are completely free, educational only, and no product purchase is necessary. All sessions are hybrid and held from 12pm to 1pm in the Student Union Room 340 (the Charge on Chamber). RSVPs …

    Area Studies
  • Opening Pandora’s Box: AI, ChatGPT, and the Mystery of Consciousness

    Virtual

    In light of the emergence of ChatGPT and the hysteria around it, it would not be an understatement to suggest that we are getting close to Alan Turing’s dream of creating an intelligent machine, a machine indiscernible from a human being in conversation. But will engineers ever be able to design an AI with human-level consciousness, as proclaimed by such …

    Area Studies
  • Lunch & Learn – From “Freedom Colony” to Maitland Subdivision to Independent Black Township: Eatonville’s Founding Era, 1875-1910

    Orange County Regional History Center

    Historian Scot French of the University of Central Florida will discuss the intertwined stories of Maitland and the historic Black township of Eatonville, with a particular focus on the neo-abolitionist partnership between the formerly enslaved grove worker Joseph Clark, the philanthropist Lewis Lawrence of Utica, New York, and Union Navy veteran Josiah Eaton of Calais, Maine. French will talk about …

    Area Studies
  • BFSA Spring Speaker Series: Let's Talk Money Workshop and Speaker Series (Recurring Event)

    Student Union: 340 (Charge On Chamber)

    UCF's Black Faculty and Staff Association is partnering with CHASE bank to discuss and workshop topics such as Budgeting and Savings, Credit, Mortgage Lending, and Mortgage Navigation. Sessions are completely free, educational only, and no product purchase is necessary. All sessions are hybrid and held from 12pm to 1pm in the Student Union Room 340 (the Charge on Chamber). RSVPs …

    Area Studies
  • Spring 2023 Hands-On History Internship Showcase

    Virtual

    Spring 2023 Hands-On History Internship ShowcaseFriday, April 21, 2023 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.The Hands-On History Internship Showcases allows students to share their unique internship experiences. The campus community is invited to celebrate the hard work of history students and hear about the diverse projects they took on over the Spring 2023 semester.

    Area Studies