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 […]

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.

Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere Annual Newsletter: A Year in Review 2023-2024

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?

Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere Annual Newsletter: A Year in Review 2022-2023

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.

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.

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.