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	"event_id": "1147564",
	"eventinstance_id": "4213422",
	"calendar": {
		"id": 1,
		"title": "Events at UCF",
		"slug": "events-at-ucf",
		"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/calendar/1/events-at-ucf/"
	},
	"id": "4213422",
	"title": "Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting \u0026 Symposium",
	"subtitle": null,
	"description": "\u003Cp\u003EHeld at UCF each October since 2022 in partnership with the UCF Department of History, the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium brings together historians, students, and independent scholars to share research on Florida history. Featuring competitively selected academic papers, panel discussions, and the annual Shofner Lecture as the keynote, this conference provides a forum for scholarly exchange and engagement with Florida\u0026rsquo\u003Bs past.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003B\u003Cbr\u003EThis year\u0026rsquo\u003Bs Shofner speaker, Dr. Chambliss, will explore how Florida\u0026rsquo\u003Bs comic publishing history shaped American comic culture, revealing the state\u0026rsquo\u003Bs influence on visual storytelling, regional identity, and creative networks through the Comics as Data North America project.\u003Cbr\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003B\u003Cbr\u003EDr. Chambliss is a historian, author, and professor at Michigan State University whose work explores popular culture, comics, race, and digital humanities. He is co\u002Deditor of the award\u002Dwinning Comics as Data North America project and a leading scholar of comics history and cultural studies.\u003C/p\u003E",
	"location": "Trevor Colbourn Hall: TCH 351",
	"location_url": "https://www.ucf.edu/location/trevor\u002Dcolbourn\u002Dhall/",
	"virtual_url": null,
	"registration_link": null,
	"registration_info": null,
	"starts": "Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400",
	"ends": "Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:00:00 -0400",
	"ongoing": "True",
	"category": "Speaker/Lecture/Seminar",
	"tags": ["history"],
	"contact_name": "History Department",
	"contact_phone": "407\u002D823\u002D2225",
	"contact_email": "history@ucf.edu",
	"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/event/4213422/florida-historical-society-annual-meeting-symposium/"
}