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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: Asian Tigers: Economic Growth, Challenges & Opportunities

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Richard Lewin, Professor of International Finance, Department of Business, Rollins College. This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the most important regions in the …

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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: Tracing Historical Immigration through Language – the Case of Vietnamese

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Andrea Hoa Pham, Professor of Vietnamese and Linguistics, University of Florida. This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the most important regions in …

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  • The Dawn of Latinx Creative Writing in Florida: Culture, Identity, and Community in Key West & Tampa

    Student Union 221: Student Union Garden Key Meeting Room and Virtual

    Thursday, October 17, 2024 2:00pm-4:00pm and 7:00pm-8:30pm Join us on a journey through Florida's early 20th century literary landscape that serves as a precursor of today’s Latinx writing. Exploring this foundational writing at a time when Hispanic and Latinx identities received less attention in the press and in scholarship is especially relevant today, with Florida's Hispanic or Latino population at 27.1%. Our focus …

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  • The Department of English and Writers in the Sun Present Ana Menendez

    Trevor Colbourn Hall 325: CHDR 325

    Author of five books Ana Menéndez will read from her most recent novel, The Apartment.   

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  • The 12th Annual Jerrell H. Shofner Lecture on Florida History & Culture: Seminoles and Miccosukees as First Floridians

    Trevor Colbourn Hall: TCH 351

    The 12th Annual Jerrell H. Shofner Lecture on Florida History & Culture: Seminoles and Miccosukees as First Floridians: An Indigenous History of the Yugnee-Fuskee will be presented by Andrew K. Frank will take place October 18th, 2024 on the UCF Main Campus. Andrew K. Frank is the Allen Morris Professor of History at Florida State University.  He is an ethnohistorian …

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  • The Door to Hell/La porta dell’inferno: Documentary screening with Q&A with director Michael Cavalieri

    Trevor Colbourn Hall 358B

    The Neil Euliano Chair in Italian Studies is proud to present the screening of The Door to Hell/La porta dell’inferno by Michael Cavalieri. This powerful documentary tells the story of the courageous men who worked in the sulfur mines of central Sicily. Through firsthand accounts from the last surviving miners, the film reveals the grueling, slave-like conditions they endured under private ownership …

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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: Undertale: Replaying the Japanese RPG through the Lens of Pacifism

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Anastasia Salter, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Programs and Texts & Technology, UCF. This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the most …

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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: Pedagogies in Plentitude: Ecological Aesthetics in Contemporary Japanese Literary and Visual Media

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Franz Prichard, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Language and Linguistics, Florida State University This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the most important …

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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: Rise of Asia in Our Globalized World

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Wenxian Zhang, Professor and Head of Archives & Special Collections at Olin Library, Rollins College. This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the …

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  • Veterans Salute

    Veterans Commemorative Site

    Join us for the 2024 Veterans Salute! A signature Veterans Month@UCF event, the annual Veterans Salute will take place at the Veterans Commemorative Site on Memory Mall to honor and remember our Veterans. This year’s theme for the Veterans Salute is “Honoring a Legacy of Loyalty and Service.” More details about the event program tba. The 2024 Veterans Salute is …

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  • CHDR Presents: Mel Stanfill

    Center for Humanities and Digital Research: TCH 325

    Dr. Mel Stanfill, Associate Professor with a dual appointment to both English and the Texts & Technology Program, will deliver a talk on research in the recently-published Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment in Participatory Culture. CHDR Presents is an ongoing talk series hosted by the Center for Humanities and Digital Research where scholars share innovative, award-winning, creative research to both …

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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: “Do not fret that on the road ahead there will be no friends, / for who is there in tianxia who does not know you?”: Tianxia 天下, Poetics, and A Journey Home

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Lanlan Kuang, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida. This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the most important regions in the world …

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  • Cognitive Transformation, Dementia, and Advance Directives:

    Virtual

    What clinical practice teaches us about the moral weight of advance directives. Dr. Em WalshAssistant Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Central Florida

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  • Former Walt Disney Imagineering President Bob Weis Conversation and Book Signing

    Classroom Building 2: Room 101

    Join Bob Weis, former President of Walt Disney Imagineering, for a conversation and book signing. Bob Weis was an Imagineer over a forty-year span, from 1980 to 2023. In those years, Bob worked on every Disney park and resort around the world from Tokyo Disneyland (and later its accompanying park, Tokyo DisneySea) and Disney Hollywood Studios to the reinvention of …

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  • Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World 2024 Lecture Series (Recurring Event)

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    With 60 percent of the world’s population, Asia is not only home to the world’s oldest civilizations, it also represents cultural and economic vitality. Asia has a major role in manufacturing, technology and investment markets. Non-governmental organizations specializing in economic development, healthcare and environmental protection are also active throughout Asia. This series will provide a rare opportunity for students and …

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  • Special Lecture: Concluding Remark: Global Citizenship and One Asia in the 21st Century

    Visual Arts Building: 111

    This special lecture is presented by Yoji Sato, Chairman, Eurasia Foundation (from Asia), Japan. This is part of the Reaching for the Stars as a Global Citizen: An Intellectual Journey of Asia and the World lecture series. This lecture series provides a rare opportunity for students to learn first-hand from esteemed scholars one of the most important regions in the world today. …

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  • CHDR Presents: Jesse Cook

    Center for Humanities and Digital Research: TCH 325

    Dr. Jesse Cook, Associate Professor of Trumpet, will deliver a talk: “Throughthe Looking Glass: A Study of Academic Research Approached by Music Studio Faculty” CHDR Presents is an ongoing talk series hosted by the Center for Humanities and Digital Research where scholars share innovative, award-winning, creative research to both showcase their work and foster collaboration. Free and open to the …

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