Michael Gannon

The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida will welcome best-selling author, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Washington Post journalist Mr. Rick Atkinson as the 2026 Michael Gannon Lecture Speaker. Mr. Atkinson will deliver his lecture on the subject of World War II on Tuesday, March 31…

On Tuesday, April 1, the Smathers Libraries hosted the annual Michael Gannon Lecture, featuring linguistic anthropologist George Aaron Broadwell, Ph.D., the Elling Eide Professor of Anthropology at University of Florida as guest speaker. Held in the historic Smathers Library, Dr. Broadwell’s talk, “Reading Florida’s First Native Authors: Towards an Understanding…