On September 21st the Center inaugurated this year’s 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging with Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty’s (Professor of History, The University of Chicago) lecture, “Why A New Philosophical Anthropology?”In his talk, Dr. Chakrabarty explored why making a distinction between the globe and the planet as humanist categories calls for a new philosophical anthropology. Listen to the lecture here
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) is thrilled to announce the appointment of its new director, Jaime Ahlberg, who has taken the helm following the departure of outgoing director Barbara Mennel. During Mennel’s six-year term, CHPS saw significant growth.
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How do race, class, and the environment influence food access and food choices? Using COVID 19 as the backdrop, this panel examines the state of food security and challenges in Gainesville: What are the barriers to food access in Gainesville? What are the political outcomes?
Have you ever wondered how you can preserve your family’s Southern cookbooks? What are the characteristics of Southern food across different regions? This panel examines the different factors that have shaped Southern cuisine over the years, the buried knowledge, and the role that museums can play in keeping Southern food alive.
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Come share your memories about food, migration, and identity in the Latino community!
Artist Anna Tjé invites people to embark on the journey of their favorite fruits from seed to consumption by using “exotic” fruits as a metaphor for the self to build a virtual community through conversation, tasting and creative writing.
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On 5 April 2019, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere welcomed Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the University of Florida as part of its Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration. WUFT aired several segments based on an interview between their journalist Emma Bautista and Chairman Peede. Segment One – […]
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There is a wealth of knowledge to be gleaned by studying Caribbean communities past and present. Two emerging scholars at the University of Florida know this well. With support from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Tedder Doctoral Fellowships Matthew Strickland learned how religion and slavery were intertwined in 19th-century Barbados and […]
“Regulatory Law and Local Stakeholder influences on Green Crime in the Blue Mountains, Jamaica.” Rothman Doctoral Fellow Tameka Samuels-Jones addressed questions about conflicting state regulations and indigenous cultural beliefs in the Blue and John Crow Mountains of Jamaica in her talk. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015 the site is still threatened […]
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The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere is excited to announce that Dr. Barbara Mennel has agreed to an appointment as our new Rothman Chair and Director of the Center. Dr. Mennel is an accomplished scholar and teacher whose work bridges multiple disciplines in the humanities, from film studies to women’s studies, from […]
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