Screening and Q + A with Coco Fusco

November 8, 2017 by
Coco Fusco, Professor and Banks Preeminent Chair in Art at the University of Florida, is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the […]

Key Note Lecture: Susan Shillinglaw, “The Legacy of Steinbeck”

November 8, 2017 by
Susan Shillinglaw, Professor of English at San Jose State University, Director of the National Steinbeck Center, and author of Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage, On Reading The Grapes of Wrath, and A Journey into Steinbeck’s California, will discuss Steinbeck and the legacy of The Grapes of Wrath. Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, […]

Lecture and Book Signing Cindy Hahamovitch, “The Fruits of Their Labor”

November 8, 2017 by
Dr. Cindy Hahamovitch, Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 and No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor will discuss her award-winning book The Fruits of Their […]

Lecture and Book Signing: Dale Slongwhite, Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food

November 8, 2017 by
Dale Slongwhite will discuss her book, Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food, which presents oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives were forever altered by one of the most disturbing pesticide exposure incidents in United States’ history. Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816 Date: Wed, Mar […]

Artist Talk: Cesar Cornejo

November 8, 2017 by
Cesar Cornejo, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Extended Media at the University of South Florida and Creative Capital Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Sculpture Space-grantee will discuss his artistic practice. Event Location: University of Central Florida Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL 32816 Date: Wed, Mar 1, 2017 Time: 10:00am […]

Lecture “Environmental Concerns and the Little Econ”

November 8, 2017 by
Dr. John Fauth, Associate Professor of Biology at UCF and expert in ecology, evolution, conservation and restoration biology, and herpetology, will give a talk on environmental issues effecting the Econ River. Pick up your complementary copy of The Grapes of Wrath at the talk. Event Location: UCF Art Gallery, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, FL […]

Opening Reception “’In the Eyes of the Hungry’: Florida’s Changing Landscape”

November 8, 2017 by
Join us for a celebration of John Steinbeck’s 115th birthday and the opening reception of “’In the Eyes of the Hungry’: Florida’s Changing Landscape.” Inspired by The Grapes of Wrath, this exhibition seeks to inspire and contribute to conversations about demographic, geographic, and environmental shifts, with an emphasis on human relationships with the landscape. The […]

Big Read Kick-Off

November 8, 2017 by
Join us in the foyer of the John C. Hitt Library on the campus of UCF to Kick-off the Big Read @ UCF 2017. Come by to pick up a schedule of events and copy of The Grapes of Wrath. Event Location: University of Central Florida John Hitt C. LIbrary, 12421 Aquarius Agora Drive, Orlando, […]