The Ecology of Food

In this panel, activists, and scholars present on the fight for access to healthy, native food and sustainable food production.

Food Access: Race, Class, and the Environment

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?

Chairman Peede’s Interview with WUFT News

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 […]

Danielle Jordan

Danielle is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English. She holds a BA in anthropology and sociology, and her research interests include science fiction, film, and the environmental humanities. […]

POSTPONED: Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration Event

Greetings friends of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, We regret to inform you that our planned Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration Event with special guest Jon Parrish Peede […]

Brandon Murakami

Brandon Murakami earned his BA in English from UH Mānoa and is currently a Ph.D. student in UF’s English department. His scholarly interests intersect in three fields: (new) media studies, […]

New faculty introduce their humanities research at welcome event

In the Fall of 2019, UF welcomed many new faculty with scholarly interests in the Humanities. Previous Years: In fall […]

UF Synergies Research: Anti-Anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memory, Then and Now

Rachel Gordan, “1940s: The Decade of Anti-Anti-Semitism” Related to her project, “How Judaism Became an American Religion,” Gordan discussed the anti-anti-Semitism literature of the 1940s, and its pivotal role in […]

Jaime Ahlberg, Department of Philosophy

Jaime Ahlberg, “Disability as Difference: Implications for Educational Justice” With a view toward educational justice, Jaime Ahlberg considers how conceptions of disability shape social policy, in order to help scholars, […]

Knowledge, Law, and the Caribbean: UF Synergies Event Recap

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 […]