Events
Proactive Advising Webinar- February 22, 2012 1:00PM - 3:00PM
The "Proactive Advising Webinar" is sponsored by University Advising and Student Success. All academic advisors, mentors/peer counselors, student success personnel and individuals who work with first-year and transfer programs are urged to attend. Goal is to assist advisors in building relationships with students and connecting them to campus resources. More Info
All Natural An exhbition of work by Chad Curtis - February 02 - March 15, 2012 Art Gallery Hours
TAG UWF presents an exhibition of work by Chad Curtis, a sculptural installation artist based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His work explores the dialectic of the biological and the mechanical. Curtis utilizes highly processed and digitally manipulated sculptural materials like clay, plastic, plywood and foam creating a simulated experience that recontextualizes... More Info
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Stanley Fish - Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom
The College of Arts and Sciences will be welcoming legendary scholar Stanley Fish as the Fred and Jane Seligman First Amendment Lecturer. His topic, “Holocaust Denial and Academic Freedom,” will provide a provocative opportunity to examine how freedom of speech plays a role in interpreting and understanding significant historical events. The speech will take place in the Music Hall of the Center of Fine and Performing Arts on Thursday, March 1, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Fish earned his doctorate from Yale in 1962 and has taught at a variety of prestigious institutions of higher education, including Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and Duke. He currently serves as the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and a professor of law at Florida International University.
His scholarship has been especially rich. He has been broadly recognized as Milton scholar and associated with the power of interpretive communities to define meaning in texts. He has written ten books, some of which have crossed over in their appeal to nonacademic interests. His recent works include “How to Write a Sentence” and “Save the World on Your Own Time.” The Chronicle of Higher Education regularly features his observations about life in higher education regularly and recently profiled his life’s work in an in-depth portrait.
An active blogger for the New York Times, Dr. Fish’s blog can be found at this website:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/stanley-fish/
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