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?
Read more "From Columbus to Google: Evolving Architectures of Knowledge"
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 […]
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: […]
In this virtual conversation, indigenous artists dig into their creative process and their musical influences.
Read more "Sites of Transformations: Songs, Native Identity, and Healing"
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.
Read more "Verzuz: On Carework, Storytelling, and the Black Imaginary"
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.
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.
This event takes its audience on a culinary journey with speakers throughout the African Diaspora to discuss cooking techniques of the past and present.
In this panel, activists, and scholars present on the fight for access to healthy, native food and sustainable food production.
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?