Hi All,
A few things going in and around the department this week:
Potlatch News:
Potlatch is coming on October 13. To get in the spirit, and to exercise your creative juices, submit a design to the Potlatch T-shirt Design Contest! The Potlatch FASA Committee is looking for submissions to the 2018 Potlatch T-shirt Design Contest. Please submit your anthropology-related designs by Saturday, 9/29 to ayeargin@ufl.edu. Submissions from anthropology students, faculty, and staff are all encouraged. The winning design will be used as the Potlatch 2018 t-shirt design. The winner will win a t-shirt featuring their own design and department-wide renown!
And as a reminder: If you have legacy items for the auction, you may drop them off in our main office in Turlington.
If you have an item you’d like to donate, you may also bring it to the main office in Turlington, preferably with a note about what it is and what it might be used for.
Some upcoming talks:
“La Casita” Encuentro (Reunion): A Public Dialogue on the Past, Present and Future of a Community Institution
Date: Wednesday, Oct 3, 6:00pm
Location: UF Ustler Hall Atrium, 162 Fletcher Dr.
Participate in a public dialogue between founding members of UF’s Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures, known as “La Casita,” and those who were there during its earliest years. Our participants include the students who petitioned and labored to create the house, the faculty who supported their efforts and/or became involved once the institute was up and running. What can we do today to sustain and deepen our commitment to “La Casita,” Ethnic Studies, and civic engagement at the University of Florida and beyond?
As the University of Florida rebuilds “La Casita,” and the Institute of Black Culture, we invite members of the community to take part in a dialogue on where we go from here?
Free Parking Available.
Cosponsors: UF Hispanic-Latino Affairs, UF Center for Latin American Studies
American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (UF) presents: Adam Recvlohe “The Green Corn Ceremony of the Creek”
Monday, October 8– Indigenous Peoples’ Day –
LIT0237 1:55-3:50
Adam Recvlohe is a member (tvsekayv) of the Muscogee Creek Nation. His Tribal Town (etvlwv) is Tallahassee Wugogiye and he is son of Bear Clan (nokosvlke). He has attended Green Corn (posketv) at Tallahasee Wugogiye 8 times. By day Adam is a front-end web developer and by night he hosts meet ups in the Tampa Bay area related to software development. Adam is currently working on building an application that fosters an online community for Native Americans.
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben J. Miller, University of Chicago
3:30-5pm, Thursday October 11, Ustler Hall (162 Fletcher Drive), University of Florida.
While more people are incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation in the history of the western world, the prison is but one (comparatively) small part of a vast carceral landscape. The 600,000 people released each year join nearly 5 million people already on probation or parole, 12 million who are processed through a county jail, the 19 million U.S. residents estimated to have a felony conviction, and the staggering 79 million Americans with a criminal record. Upon release, incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48,000 laws, policies and administrative sanctions that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets, in the culture and civic life of the city, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to and shoulder responsibilities other people are not expected to shoulder. They, in fact, occupy an alternate form of political membership—what Miller calls “carceral citizenship.”
This presentation examines the afterlife of mass incarceration. Drawing on fifteen years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated people and ethnographic data collected in three iconic American cities, Miller explores what it means to live in a “supervised society”—the hidden social world we’ve produced through our laws, policies and practices—and, more importantly, how we might find our way out.
The presentation will feature a respondent sharing personal experiences with mass incarceration.
This event is organized by the Mellon Intersec ions Group on Mass Incarceration and Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Intersections: Animating Conversations with the Humanities (Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), George A. Smathers Libraries, The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, and the Center for Gender, Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research.
I hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable weekend!
Peter Collings