From Columbus to Google: Evolving Architectures of Knowledge
Join us for the first event of our 2024-2025 speaker series, featuring Yale scholar Alexander Gil Fuentes. His talk explores the de facto historical record, tracing its roots in European colonialism. How do we understand it as both product and producer of history? And what role does generative AI play in how we read and reconstruct history today?
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Anirban Gupta-Nigam
Trained at the intersections of the human and social sciences, Anirban Gupta-Nigam is irreverent about disciplinary frames. In his scholarship and programmatic work alike, he aims to situate narrow expertise in its social context, striving to live up to the spirit of the fox that wants to know many things. This insistence on better understanding how […]
Past Humanities Engagement Scholars Events
PAST EVENTS Spring 2022 Ready, Set, Resume Review: An Introduction to HES and a Resume Workshop with the Career Connections Center Join us on Zoom on Thursday, January 13 at 4: 30 pm to learn about the Humanities Engagement Scholars program and its events for the spring 2022 semester. We will also have an interactive workshop […]
Sites of Transformations: Songs, Native Identity, and Healing
In this virtual conversation, indigenous artists dig into their creative process and their musical influences.
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Verzuz: On Carework, Storytelling, and the Black Imaginary
Timbaland and Swizz Beatz’s’ Verzuz is a testament of Black storytelling, archiving, and improvisation. Created during the 2020 quarantine, these sonic “battles” spotlight the cultural knowledges on contemporary and “old-school” Black musicality and kinship.
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Madan Sara
The Madan Sara documentary tells the stories of these indefatigable women who work at the margins to make Haiti’s economy run. Despite facing intense hardship and social stigma, the hard work of the Madan Sara puts their children through school, houses their families, and helps to ensure a better life for generations to come.
Gainesville’s Food Producers
What challenges face Gainesville’s farmers? How have they tried to circumvent the problems posed by COVID-19? What measures are they taking to protect their customers? This panel brings together farmers from Gainesville and surrounding areas to explore how they are harvesting crops.
Dishes of Africa and the African Diaspora
This event takes its audience on a culinary journey with speakers throughout the African Diaspora to discuss cooking techniques of the past and present.