ILR Winter “One”ders

January 6 - Topiary as History

Speaker: Roy Hunt

Facilitator: TBD

Topiary was popularized across the Roman Empire by Julius Caesar. Its popularity in the United States today is

attributed to Walt Disney. This lecture will explore topiary’s long history as a cultural phenomenon.

January 13 - Politics & Bathrooms

Speaker: Lynn H. Leverty, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer Emeritus, UF Dept. of Political Science

Facilitator: Sheila Dickison

Since the creation of plumbing, public restrooms have played a role in the expansion of human rights. We will

explore 150 years of conflict over who is entitled to use the facilities.

January 20- Talking Tomatoes - Knowledge, Wisdom, and Passion

Speaker: Dr. Chris Gunter-UF/IFAS

Facilitator: Sheila Dickison

We'll explore some of the history and science of this popular garden veggie! Why do people love it and what are

some of those unique characteristics that we can take advantage of to make it better?

January 27 - 300 Million Years of Butterfly and Moth Evolution

Speaker: Akito Kawahara, Ph.D., FLMNH, Director, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity

Facilitator: Jane Brockmann

There are more than 160,000 species of butterflies and moths in the world. This talk will present research on how

lepidopterans evolved, focusing on unique traits, such as diurnal flight and ultrasonic hearing organs that led to their

diversification.

February 3 - Emily Hobhouse and “Methods of Barbarism”

Speaker: Richard MacMaster

Facilitator: TBD

Englishwoman Emily Hobhouse went to South Africa during the Boer War in 1899 and was shocked by the

internment of women and children in “concentration camps”. She succeeded in eliminating this policy. In 1916 she

went to Belgium to investigate claims of German atrocities and met with the German Foreign Minister to advance a

plan to end the war. In 1919 she defied the British blockade to bring food to starving Germans and co-founded Save

the Children.

February 10 - Kaleidoscope of Colors in Asian Art

Speaker: Dr. Tongyun Yin, Curator of Asian Art at the Harn Museum of Art

Facilitator: Laura Berns

Dr. Yin will discuss Asian art from the Harn collection that is currently on display in a special exhibition. This

exhibition shows how four key colors--green, blue, red, and gold--reveal diverse artistic traditions across Asia from

the 12th century BCE to the present.

February 17 - Riding the 33rd Parallel: Landscape Portraits—Florida to California

Speaker: Dr. Carol McCusker, Curator of Photography at the Harn Museum of Art

Facilitator: Laura Berns

Dr. McCusker will take us on a virtual road trip of landscape portraits from Florida to California via the Harn's pho-

tography collection. It includes forty-eight photographs taken from 1961 to the present. The photographs have di-

verse perspectives and rich diversity including awesome manmade structures, weather, and people in and around the

33rd Parallel.