Belonging: Life Matters of the Home
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
DINNER & LECTURE | 6 p.m.
You are invited to attend this private event hosted by the USF College of Arts and
Sciences at the University Club of Tampa in downtown Tampa along with your fellow
USF alumni and community. Dean Elizabeth Spiller, along with our featured CAS faculty
member, Dr. Aisha Durham, will lead you through an engaging evening filled with culture,
conversation, education and a delicious dinner. We look forward to hosting you!
Kindly register to attend by March 18, 2025. Seating is limited. Please register early.
*In the event you may need to cancel your reservation, please provide 48 hours notice
to Dylan Garcia or CAS RSVP.
DRESS CODE
The University Club has a dress code. Men must wear a sport coat. Denim, shorts, t-shirts and sneakers are not permitted.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Belonging: Life Matters of the Home
Dr. Aisha Durham, a professor of Communication, describes belonging as a place-making
practice that uses personal possessions to explore lived experience, cultural meaning
and social identity with ethnography. Durham will recall how a Disney blue lunchbox
that she carried from pre-k to the professoriate reminds her of distinct homeplaces.
In mining memory, she shares how we can use stuff—life matter—to communicate embodied,
epiphanic and evocative stories about ourselves and culture
Featured CAS Faculty SPEAKER
Aisha Durham
Dr. Aisha Durham is a professor of Communication at the University of South Florida where she explores the relationship between media representations and everyday life. Her recent interdisciplinary research is featured in “Departures in Critical Qualitative Research.” Durham is a former Fulbright-Hays Faculty Fellow and an Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research award recipient. As a media scholar, Durham also provides cultural analyses for news outlets, such as CNN and NPR.
Author:
Dr. Aisha Durham Professor of Communication; Humanities and Cultural Studies, Affiliate
Professor; Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Affiliate Professor
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EVENT LOCATION
University Club
Suite 3800 – 38TH Floor
201 N Franklin Street
Tampa, FL 33602
PARKING Tips
Use the address of the parking garage for your GPS: 107 N. Franklin Street. Make sure you use the Whiting Street entrance for the hourly parking spaces.
Once in the parking garage, park on Level 3 where there will be a crosswalk that connects
to the building. The University Club is on the 38th floor. Once you get into the building,
there is a bank of elevators straight ahead and on the right. Select the elevators
that will take you to the 38th floor. You must pre-select the 38th floor when selecting
the elevator. A number will display to let you know which elevator will take you to
the 38th floor.
There is a fee for parking and the garage accepts cash or credit cards upon exit.
DIRECTIONS
From I-275 North or South
Take 275 N/S to the Ashley Street Exit (exit 44). Follow Ashley to Whiting (two stop lights past Kennedy). Turn left (east) and go up two blocks to the Old Fort Brooke Garage (107 Franklin Street)
From South Tampa
Take Bayshore Blvd. to the Platt Street Bridge. Go underneath the Convention Center. Turn left at the second light (Florida Street). Go two blocks to Whiting and turn left to park in the Old Fort Brooke Garage.
From I-75 and Crosstown
Take exit #7 Downtown West. The 2nd stoplight is Franklin Street. Turn right onto Franklin Street. Go two blocks to Whiting Street. Turn left on Whiting. Turn immediately right and enter the Old Fort Brooke Garage.
ADA ACCOMMODATIONS
For reasonable accommodations or other questions, please contact CAS RSVP.