Lembke, Dr. Anna(Honors' Symposium, The University of Tampa, 2019-11-15)
Dr. Anna Lembke, Associate Professor and Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine read from her book, "Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So ...
Whitaker, Cord(Scholars' Symposia, The University of Tampa, 2019-11-08)
The Middle Ages come up again and again in the discourse of white supremacists in the United States. This talk investigates the value of the Middle Ages to race and racism by exploring modern understandings of feudalism, ...
Hidalgo de Paz, Ibrahim(The University of Tampa, 2019-11-13)
Dr. Ibrahim Hidalgo de Paz (Cuba, 1944) is the recipient of the National
Cuban History Prize, and a voting member of the Cuban Academies of
History and Science. He has published eight books on José Martí. His
latest ...
Vollmer, Matthew(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-18)
This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Kevin Moffett. Matthew Vollmer reads from his book Permanent Exhibit.
Matthew Vollmer is the author of two collections of short ...
Ockert, Jason; Schwarz, Jerrod(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20)
This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill.
Jason Ockert is the author of Wasp Box, a novel, and two collections of short stories: Neighbors of Nothing and ...
Montgomery, Ben; Capouya, John(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-15)
This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. John Capouya reads from his book Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC and the Sunshine Band. Ben Montgomery reads ...
Kuipers, Keetje(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-17)
This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Keetje Kuipers reads from her book of poetry All Its Charms.
Writer and editor Keetje Kuipers (pronounced Kay-tcha ...
Dubrow, Jehanne(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-14)
This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Sandra Beasley. Jehanne Dubrow reads from her book of poetry American Samizdat.
Jehanne Dubrow is the author of seven books of ...
Arnett, Kristen(MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa, 2019-06-19)
This reading is a part of the MFA Lectores Public Reading Series with an introduction by Dr. Don Morrill. Novelist Kristen Arnett reads from her book Mostly Dead Things.
Kristen Arnett is the NYT bestselling author of ...
Cubans and Spaniards fought a particularly brutal war from 1895 to 1898 that left 45,288 dead
Spanish soldiers and as many as 170,000 Cuban dead, the vast majority of them civilians.
Disease produced almost all of the ...
Salcines, Hon. Emiliano J.(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-24)
The Honorable Emiliano J. Salcines, retired
federal judge of the District Court of Appeals and highly-respected local historian, is responsible for
meticulously documenting all the known visits by José Martí to Ybor City ...
Poyo, Gerald E.(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-20)
Almost from the moment of the outbreak of Cuba’s Ten Years War on October 10, 1868, Cubans
began arriving in Key West to escape Spanish persecution. Within a year, an activist exile
community formed that for thirty years ...
Pérez, Lisandro(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-21)
José Martí lived most of his adult life in New York. This presentation places Martí in his New York
milieu and identifies the ways in which the city influenced his life and work. From democratic
culture, corruption, ...
Mormino, Gary(The University of Tampa, 2019-07-09)
For more than four decades, my life has been intimately involved and intertwined with Ybor City.
The enclave remains the most interesting place I have ever encountered. Upon arriving in 1977,
I began interviewing elderly ...
This presentation will provide an integrated portrait of José Martí’s life and work in his historical
and intellectual context, living on the edge of the two Americas, and of two epochs. Martí gave
his life in the heroic ...
Kite-Powell, Rodney(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-17)
The session will focus on founding and early development of Tampa’s two cigar manufacturing
Latin enclaves, Ybor City and West Tampa. The specific topics to be covered include the process
by which Vicente Martinez Ybor ...
Greenbaum, Susan(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-19)
Slavery and racism were crucial elements of the Cuban independence struggle, but the
revolutionists struggled with internal contradictions. The 19th century Cuban poet/revolutionist,
José Martí, was an ardent anti-racist. ...
Fountain, Anne(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-27)
Martí’s time in the United States coincided with the aftermath of Reconstruction, a reliving of
Civil War events, and a recounting of the efforts of U.S. abolitionists. Martí reported on brutal
attacks against former ...
Fountain, Anne(The University of Tampa, 2019-06-27)
José Martí was a thoughtful and well-informed reader of books, newspapers and articles that
reflected the intellectual as well as the political pulse of the United States from 1880 to 1895. His
knowledge of U.S. authors ...