Thank You For Supporting Our Work
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere thanks its friends and donors for their generous gifts that support our work on a daily basis.
2023-24 Humanities Center Calendar
Keep your eye on the Humanities Center calendar for these sponsored events to be held during the 2023-24 academic year.
Library Enhancement Grant Program in the Humanities
In the 2022-23 academic year, the Center’s grants supported the enhancement of library collections in four areas critical to contemporary humanities research in general, and at UF in particular: Asian Studies, environmental humanities, children’s literature, and artificial intelligence.
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Publication Subventions
The Center continued to support humanities book publications with its publication subvention award, in collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of the Arts.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Grants but Were Afraid to Ask
This comprehensive workshop led by Bill Hart-Davidson (Michigan State University) offered a unique, humanistic perspective on grants development and administration.
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A Conversation with The Conversation
The Conversation is a unique non-profit news service that helps scholars shape their expert knowledge for broad publics.
Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock
Since 2021, the Center has offered an annual summer course for the Institute for Learning in Retirement at Oak Hammock.
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What Can the Humanities Teach Us about Good Mentorship?
Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, director of faculty mentoring and coaching programs at Duke University, writes on issues of coaching, mentorship, graduate education, and faculty development for venues like The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Public Humanities Internship Program
In the summer of 2023, CHPS organized the third cycle of its Public Humanities Internship Program for Ph.D. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Graduate Humanities Summer Institute
The Center launched its first in-person Graduate Humanities Summer Institute for Ph.D. and Master’s students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at the University of Florida.