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Spring 2025

6th Annual Undergraduate Humanities Conference

Two-day conference featuring 100 undergraduate student scholars presenting posters, creative projects, and papers on humanities-related topics. 

This conference is free to attend and open to the public. Full schedule coming soon. 

January 23-24, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Marshall Student Center 3707

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Join us for this two-day conference featuring 100 undergraduate student scholars presenting posters, creative projects, and papers on humanities-related topics. 

The full schedule and program will be posted in January. This conference is free to attend and open to the public. Faculty, staff, alumni, friends, family, and community members are welcome to attend the poster sessions and panel discussions. Come show our 国产短视频undergraduate students support and learn about the humanities research and projects they've been working on. 


A Poetry Reading with Alison C. Rollins

Hosted by the Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library, Alison Rollins will join 国产短视频students for a workshop and give a public reading. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

New Date: February 3, 2025 | 6:00 PM

New Location: Marshall Student Center MSC 3709

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Alison C. Rollins will read and perform from her groundbreaking collection Black Bell (Copper Canyon Press, 2024). Inspired by the nineteenth-century image of an enslaved woman wearing iron horns and bells, these poems explore the intersections between individual experience and collective memory. Rollins was named a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in 2019. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

Alison Rollins


A Poetry Reading with Paul Hlava Ceballos

Join the 国产短视频Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library for a poetry reading with Paul Hlava Ceballos. This is part of the Garry Fleming Poetry Series. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

Tuesday, February 18 | 6:00 PM

Marshall Student Center 3707

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This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

Paul Hlava Ceballos is the author of banana [ ], winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America鈥檚 Norma Farber First Book Award, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.

His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood, shares pages with Quenton Baker and Christina Sharpe.

He has fellowships from CantoMundo and the Poets House. He has been featured on the Poetry Magazine Podcast and Seattle鈥檚 The Stranger. He is the Poetry Editor of the Seattle Met and practices echocardiography.

Paul Ceballos headshot with book cover image of BananaPhoto by Tasha Nicole Uria

 


Graduate Humanities Symposium

Our first Graduate Humanities Symposium will feature 50 国产短视频graduate students presenting papers in panel discussions on humanities-realted topics.

Help us fill the audience!  Support our graduate student scholars by attending the symposium and listening to their research.

Friday, February 21, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Marshall Student Center 3705

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This one-day graduate research symposium will take place in the Marshall Student Center on the 国产短视频Tampa campus. Free breakfast and lunch is provided for presenters as well as a swag bag.

Faculty interested in serving as a panel moderator can contact Liz Kicak. The symposium is also free to attend for audience members. Come support our graduate students!


Conference on Democratic Violence in Latin America

A three-day conference hosted at the 国产短视频 Marshall Student Center. This conference brings together scholars from a number of fields, languages, and approaches. There will be plenary speakers and professionalization workshops. 

March 12-14, 2025

Marshall Student Center 3rd Floor


A Poetry Reading with Dana Levin

Join the 国产短视频Humanities Institute and the Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library for a poetry reading with Dana Levin. This is part of the Garry Fleming Poetry Series. Refreshments and book signing to follow the event.

Thursday, April 3 | 6:00 PM

C.W. Bill Young Hall (CWY 206)
12303 国产短视频Genshaft Dr. Tampa, FL 33620

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Dana Levin is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Now Do You Know Where You Are (2022), a New York Times Notable Book and NPR 鈥淏ook We Love.鈥 Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was chosen by Louise Gl眉ck for the 1999 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize and went on to receive numerous honors, including the 2003 PEN/Osterweil Award. Copper Canyon Press brought out her second book, Wedding Day, in 2005, and in 2011 Sky Burial, which The New Yorker called 鈥渦tterly her own and utterly riveting.鈥 Banana Palace, published in 2016, was a finalist for the Rilke Prize.

Levin鈥檚 poetry and essays have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poetry. Her fellowships and awards include those from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress, as well as the Lannan, Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. With Adele Elise Williams, she co-edited Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (2023) for the Unsung Masters Series.

Levin currently serves as Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis, where she lives.

Dana Levin with book cover image of Now Do You Know Where You ArePhoto by Anne Staveley