Filling the gaps: Library Enhancement Grants enrich UF Libraries
The Library Enhancement Program in the Humanities, supported by the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, has since 2009 steadily expanded what’s possible for scholars at the University of Florida. The program provides grants of up to $4,000 to support under-resourced areas of the humanities and deliver benefits well beyond a single course […]
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Where the water rises: Women, climate migration and resilience in a vanishing world
The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in Asia, is a region of stark beauty and mounting crisis. As rising sea levels and extreme weather events fueled by climate change threaten its delicate ecosystems, the Sundarbans’ communities bear the brunt of this environmental devastation. At the forefront of this struggle are women—the caregivers, homemakers and stewards […]
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A legacy worth preserving: Florida Humanities keeps Alachua County stories alive
Florida Humanities has spent over 50 years preserving the state’s history, culture, and stories. As federal cuts threaten this work, the Save Florida’s Stories campaign aims to ensure these programs continue inspiring and connecting communities across Florida.
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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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