Collaborating with Strangers in and OUTSIDE the Humanities Workshop
You’ll walk away with more resources, creative ideas and connections than you could have ever imagined!
Hey Stranger,
Looking for a way to combine forces with folks in the humanities and beyond?
Want to practice combining ideas, discovering collaborators and creating fundable projects with others across campus, in or linked to the humanities?
According to Louis Pasteur, “Chance favors only the prepared mind…” So prepare yourself for a future full of creative possibilities. Regardless of your field of study, your research and projects can benefit greatly by knowing more people working in other disciplines. It might otherwise take you years to meet the 15 people you’ll connect with during one-on-one conversations at the next Collaborating with Strangers Workshop.
Thursday, December 6, 2012 (reading day)
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Ustler Hall Atrium
Open to all undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, faculty and administrators
Refreshments will be served.
To register go to http://apps.uflib.ufl.edu/Registration/ and click on Schedule then Collaborating with Strangers and Register. Space is limited.
Workshop website: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/communications/CoLAB/home.html
The following faculty will give brief (5 minute) presentations to open the workshop:
Ben Hebblethwaite
Ben Hebblethwaite is an Assistant Professor in Haitian French and Creole in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He coordinates the largest Haitian Creole and Haitian Studies program in the U.S., with courses on Haitian Creole, Creole for Disaster Relief, and Vodou. He was recently awarded a major Collaborative Research Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a digital
humanities project entitled “Archive of Haitian Religion and Culture: Collaborative Research and Scholarship on Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora.
Jill Sonke
Jill Sonke is a Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance and Director of the Center for the Arts in Healthcare. She coordinates innovative programs throughout the UF community, such as “Arts in
Medicine (AIM) for Africa,” a program in which she leads teams of UF students, professional artists and medical practitioners to implement hands-on arts and health care initiatives in several African nations, including in genocide survivor villages in Rwanda.
Manuel Vásquez
Manuel Vásquez is a Professor of Religion specializing in religion and globalization, particularly in Latin America and among U.S. Latinos. He is the primary investigator for a major Ford Foundation grant awarded to the Center for Latin American Studies. The project, entitled “Program for Immigration, Religion, and Social Change (PIRSC),” will develop an interdisciplinary outreach program on immigration, religion and social change to address the urgent needs of immigrant communities in the South.
To register go to http://apps.uflib.ufl.edu/Registration/ and click on Schedule then Collaborating with Strangers and Register. Space is limited.
Workshop website: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/communications/CoLAB/home.html
Results from over 200 participants attending last year’s Stangers’ workshops at UF:
90.6% indicated they would attend another CoLAB workshop and 96.4% indicated they would recommend the workshop to another student or faculty member.
What people said about Collaborating with Strangers…
“I made contacts (with) people who are from particular places I am interested in and who possess skills that will be useful for future projects. Journalism, video tutorials, Columbia and Iran”
“I met people from different disciplines, and some of them provided me with useful information in my area, such as useful website and related people they know.”
“…On a larger scale, it’s easy to see how an exercise such as this can help facilitate communication and generate interest across disciplinary lines.”
CoLAB Planning Series® was invented in 2002 by Bess de Farber, certified professional facilitator and the UF Libraries’ grants manager. CoLAB processes used in Collaborating with Strangers workshops have served over 1,400 participants at libraries, universities, United Ways and Community Foundations throughout Florida, Arizona and Maryland.
For more information, contact lib-CoLAB@uflib.ufl.edu
Sponsored by the Creative Campus Committee – Catalyst Fund, the George A. Smathers Libraries and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
Co-sponsored by I-Cubed, College of Engineering, College of Fine Arts, Honors Program, the UF Graduate School, Florida Opportunities Scholars Program and Women in Science and Engineering.