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?

A Decade of Impact: NEH Chairman Jon Peede Reflects on Humanities and Public Life at UF

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 part of its Ten-Year Anniversary Celebration. WUFT aired several segments based on an interview between their journalist Emma Bautista and Chairman Peede. Segment One – […]

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 of 2018 more than thirty new faculty members with scholarly interest in the humanities joined UF as part of the Faculty 500 initiative. At our […]

Faith, Law, and Resistance: Caribbean Legacies in Environment and Empire: 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 the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere’s Tedder Doctoral Fellowships Matthew Strickland learned how religion and slavery were intertwined in 19th-century Barbados and […]

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