Reflections of Practice | Concert & Lecture

This event is part of Dr. Julian Saporiti’s week-long Residency at UF. Click here to learn more about the residency, including the other activities that the week will entail.

Dr. Julian Saporiti’s work represents the consilience of the arts and sciences. UF will host Dr. Saporiti for a one-week multidisciplinary residency, including a special concert and lecture at Pulp Arts' new 117 venue. (117 NW 16th Ave in Gainesville, FL). Dr. Saporiti (stage name No-No Boy) will be joined by the Center for Arts in Medicine's Dr. Maggie Clifford for this special event.

This event will be about the utility of songwriting for academic research and will include discussion and performances from both Dr. Saporiti and Dr. Clifford, demonstrating how they have both translated research in music and discussing the impact of doing that.

Dr. Saporiti rose to national acclaim through his No-No Boy project, wherein he distilled the stories he captured as part of his dissertation research on Asian-American history into folk songs. This body of work has been released by the legendary Smithsonian Folkways label. More recently, he has taken his skill in translating research through music into ecology as the artist-in-residence at Hoyt Arboretum in Seattle, exploring what songwriting and plantlife can look like together. His unique approach in presenting research in unexpected and meaningful ways has gotten hundreds of thousands of people to engage with his work in ways that they would not have if he had solely presented his work in the traditional academic methods.

This presentation has been sponsored in part by the College of the Arts Creative B Summer Program in partnership with the Office of the Provost.

You may also like the following events from UF Center for Arts in Medicine:

• This August, 5th August, 03:00 pm, Translating Research into Music in Gainesville
• This September, 2nd September, 09:00 am, Arts in Health Intensive 2025 in Gainesville

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