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Curator Talk, Special & Area Studies Collections, Oct. 5, 12-1pm
October 5, 2015 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Curator Talks on Sustainability
Room 100, Smathers Library (East)
Oct. 5, Nov. 2 and Dec. 14
Noon-1 pm
Free and open to the public
Refreshments served; optional collection tours following talks
Monday, October 5 — Dan Reboussin and Rebecca Jefferson discuss the complex ethical decisions taken by communities in trying to preserve wildlife and culture
“African Conservation and the Ethics of Sustainability,” by Dan Reboussin, African Studies curator. Reboussin discusses the difficult decisions taken to reduce animal populations on agricultural lands in Africa, with conservationists working with affected communities to reconcile preservation of native species with the needs of human residents for safe, productive farming homesteads.
“Wielding the Censor’s Pen Carefully: Expurgated Hebraica as Cultural Preservation,” by Rebecca Jefferson, curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica. Fifteenth-century censors of the Inquisition targeted for destruction or revision Jewish texts considered heretical, but Jefferson looks at how careful expurgation by a Hebrew scholar preserved a significant portion of UF’s copy of Akedat Yitshak (The Binding of Isaac), an important work written in defense of Judaism.