Astraeus: “A Conversation with Joe Haldeman,” December 2, 5 PM (+ Hot Cocoa!)

Tuesday December 2, 2025

Conference: The Dream and Its Interpretation: 125 years from Sigmund Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’

Friday April 11, 2025

University of Florida, Dauer Hall 219 (McQuown Room) 9:30 am-6:30 pm 125 years ago, in 1900, Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, a book that not only symbolized the birth of the 20th century but also inaugurated the field of psychoanalysis. Freud identified the dream as the primary entry point into the unconscious. Dreams, he […]

Critical Reading Group Conference 2025

Thursday March 27, 2025

March 27, 2025 – March 29, 2025 Keynote speakers: Dr. Michael Hardt, Dr. Kathi Weeks Nicole Larose Alumni Keynote Speaker: Dr. Wesley Beal Details TBA

Critical Theory Reading Group Conference

Friday April 12, 2024

Graduate Comics Organization Conference

Friday April 5, 2024

Professor David Lloyd: “’For the World to Look At’: On Colonial Shaming (Wilde, Césaire, Fanon)”

Friday April 14, 2023

The English department Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies is presenting a talk by Professor David Lloyd: “’For the World to Look At’: On Colonial Shaming (Wilde, Césaire, Fanon)” at 2:30 pm on April 14 in Dauer 219. Abstract: Standing exposed on Clapham Junction platform in 1895, in convict’s stripes and handcuffs, Oscar Wilde is overcome with shame in […]

CTWG Conference

Thursday March 23, 2023

The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG would like to invite you to our 25th annual conference, which will be held in-person at UF on the weekend of March 23-26, 2023. Our theme is “Marxism and Cartography,” and we are interested in presentations on Marxist political strategy and spatiality, although other presentations are welcome. Our keynote speakers will […]

The Woman King

Thursday March 2, 2023

Thursday, March 2 | 12 pm | Heavener Hall Join professors Dr. Taryrn Brown and Dr. Riché J. Daniel Barnes for a discussion on The Woman King! This event will include a lively presentation and interactive discussion on the cinematic depiction on the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of […]

Disability Reading Group (DRG) meeting

Friday April 22, 2022

The last Disability Reading Group (DRG) meeting of the semester will take place on April 22nd at 4:30 pm at Volta Coffee downtown. It will be a hybrid in person/Zoom meeting.   We will be discussing chapter three “The Essential Functions of the Position: Collegiality and Productivity” in Margaret Price’s Mad At School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic […]

CTRG 2022 Conference

Friday April 8, 2022

Annual University of Florida Marxist Reading Group Conference “Marxism and Neoliberalism Today” For more information, visit: Calls for Papers | The Marxist Reading Group (wordpress.com)  

EGO’s Virtual 2022 Symposium

Friday February 18, 2022

EGO is happy to give our official invitation to our virtual 2022 symposium, Transitions: Media, Culture, and Hybrid Activism from the Streets to the Classroom! The event will feature a keynote speaker lecture and a graduate student panel. Both events have Zoom registration links. The schedule will be as follows: February 18th, 1:00-2:00 PM: Keynote […]

Society for Utopian Studies Conference

Wednesday November 10, 2021

For more information about SUS, conference details, and membership visit the Society for Utopian Studies.

Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association

Thursday April 8, 2021

We hope to see many of you this year at the ACLA’s virtual meeting. For more details about the conference and registration see the conference homepage.

Roundtable Discussion of Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times

Friday February 5, 2021

A Roundtable Discussion of Phillip E. Wegner’s Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times Friday, 5 February 2021, at 11:30 a.m. CST/12:30 PM EST   Join us for a virtual roundtable discussing Phillip E. Wegner’s new book, Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (U of Minnesota P, 2020). Participants: Moderator: SUS President Peter Sands (Milwaukee) […]

Vocation/Profession: A Discussion with Dan Sinykin (Emory University)

Friday November 20, 2020

“Vocation/Profession” A Discussion and Workshop with Dan Sinykin Assistant Professor of English, Emory University Editor, Contemporaries at Post45 Friday, Nov. 20, 2:00  – 4:00 PM   In the past decade or so, we have seen the rise to prominence of invigorating, public-facing and academic-adjacent venues such as, among others, the LA Review of Books, Public […]