In this episode, Antonio Farias, UF's Chief Diversity Officer, talks with Paloma Rodriguez, Director of the Office of Global Learning at UF's International Center. Paloma talks about how her sense of belonging has shifted through her global travels and how she brings this multifaceted perspective to bear in her work with international students and study abroad programs. Tune in to find out what Antonio and Paloma love about the Spanish language!
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On February 24, 2020, the University of Florida welcomed delegates from the state government of Sarawak, Malaysia, and the Sarawak Museum. The Sarawak Museum in northern Borneo is the premiere Natural and Cultural History Museum in Southeast Asia. The event is part of the process of returning to Malaysia the human bones collection from Niah Cave which is estimated to be 40,000 years old.
UF plans to offer opportunities of research and future collaborations with the Sarawak Musem.
UFIC's Global Learning Institute had its third workshop "Teaching Glocally: Engaging the Community. Participants learned about engaging diverse perspectives locally. Resource staff from the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project came to discuss strategies related to interviews and oral history.
The Global Learning Institute is a cohort-based semester-long program aimed at providing faculty with relevant tools, pedagogies, and techniques to make their on-campus courses more global. During the institute, participants receive guidance and support for the development of a new international course or the revision of an existing one. For more information and future application deadline, ...
The Center for European Studies (CES) hosted the opening reception for the Pictures of Resistance photography exhibit at Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA). The exhibit is part of the CES semester-long series dedicated to commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII “WWII: Beyond the Battlefields,” which seeks to look at the impact of the war on the home front and the ways in which the war impacted the daily lives of civilians. Schulman was active with other partisans in Poland and was one of the only known photographers to capture the wartime experience of Jewish partisans during WWII. Oftentimes, she was also the only woman in the group. The exhibit is up through March...
The George A. Smathers Libraries are home to extraordinary Cuban archival collections. Part of the holdings have been digitized in the past decade, and most recently bilingual metadata has been added to aid in the use of the collection. This year, the Libraries have advanced this process even more by translating the finding aids (guides or inventories) of Cuban archival collections into Spanish and loading them onto the University of Florida Digital Collections with enhanced bilingual metadata (Spanish and English terms and related information that more accurately and specifically describe the content of the material of each item in the...
Source: European Leadership Network
The Center for European Studies hosted Bogdan Klich, the current minority opposition leader in the Polish Senate and a former Minister of Defense for Poland on March 16th as part of their partnership with the "European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order" (EUCROSS) research network grant hosted at the University of Leuven. The location of this event will be announced soon.
Bogdan Klich has been Senator in the Polish Parliament since 2011, is currently minority leader in the Senate, and is a former Minister of Defense for Poland (under Tusk...
Dr. Brijesh Thapa has been elected as a fellow into The Academy of Leisure Sciences (TALS) in recognition for his “contributions to the leisure sciences field over an extensive timeframe” during his career. Founded in 1980, TALS holds as its purpose “the intellectual advancement of leisure sciences.” Fellows are outstanding scholars elected through a rigorous process within the academy to carry the purpose, based on at least ten years of demonstrated competence in quality and quantity of scholarly literature contributions, leadership and participation in professional associations, and outstanding performance as professional in the field of leisure. The academy fulfills its purpose...
On February 20-21, FAIE held its 2020 Annual Conference at the UF Reitz Union and international educational exchange advances and learning took place amongst hundreds of participants. In keeping with standards and principles established by the NAFSA Code of Ethics, FAIE provides professional education and training to the membership in its five districts.
Dr. Leonardo Villalón, Dean of the International Center and Professor of Political Science and African Studies served as the keynote speaker and presented on "Making Place for Africa: Reflections on the Globalization of International Education". His talk drew on a career largely dedicated to African Studies, and on personal...
February, 17th, 2020
In the past weeks, UF has been carefully monitoring the situation regarding the spread of coronavirus infections in China. On 31 January 2020, UF administration suspended all university-related travel for employees or students to China. Please see the updates and guidance on the disease that the university has provided on the UF homepage at https://news.ufl.edu/2020/02/coronavirus/
In this context and after careful consideration and consultation, and with the health and safety of our students being always our first priority, the UF International Center has made the...
John Freeman, Associate Professor of Journalism, was published in an issue of Our Town Magazine for his trip to Alonnisos, Greece. The theme of the magazine was about “going for it” in 2020, and not putting things off. Along with his wife, he visited former Gainesville friends that had moved to Greece, and also had the opportunity to visit different places in this incredible destination.
To read the full article and see more images of Greece, click on this link.
