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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The UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere was officially established in 2009. Prior to that time, the nascent Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere supported the following events: 2008-2009 Nina Caputo and Andrea Sterk, Department of History “Faithful Narratives: The Challenge of Religion in History” Susanna Elm (University of California […]
Fall 2009 Events John Van Engen (Notre Dame) Free Spirits, Lay Religion, and Clerical Suspicion: Inside the Late Medieval Church John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and former director of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute (1986-1998), is a historian of religious and intellectual life in the European […]
Fall 2010 Events 9 September 6th Gainesville Latino Film Festival 16 September Death and Renewal: Books and Libraries in Late Antique Egypt Roger Bagnall (NYU) 21 September The King James Bible in the 21st Century Herbert Marks (Indiana University) & Austin Busch (SUNY Brockport) 27 September Carnegie Libraries: Public Reading for the Reading Public Abigail […]
Fall 2011 Events 8 September-15 October Harn Museum of Art, Chandler Auditorium 7th Gainesville Latino Film Festival Presented by Latina Women’s League 12 September, 7:30 pm Smathers 1A, followed by reception Rehumanizing the University Series- Something Wicked This Way Comes: How to Save the University Cary Nelson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 30 September, 12:00 pm Walker Hall […]
Fall 2012 Events 5 September 2012 – 12:00-1:30 pm Pugh Hall 210 Digital Humanities Working Group What are the Digital Humanities? 7 September 2012 – 6:30 pm Smathers (Library East) 1A Medieval Models and Multilingualism in Higher Education Matthieu Boyd (Fairleigh Dickinson University/ Harvard University) 13 September 2012 – 6:00 pm Smathers (Library East) 1A, reception follows […]
Fall 2013 Events 11 September 2013 – 5:30 pm Smathers (Library East) 1A “Civil” Society? On the Future Prospects of Meaningful Dialogue Democracy and the Science Communication Environment Dan Kahan (Yale University) 12 September- 13 October 2013 Harn Museum of Art Auditorium 9th Annual Gainesville Latino Film Festival 18 September 2013 – 4:00-5:00 pm Walker […]
Fall 2014 Events 12 September – 14 October 2014 Varying Locations 10th Annual Gainesville Latino Film Festival 18 September 2014 – 4:00 pm Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) E121 2014/2015 Speaker Series on Bilingualism The Acquisition of Variable Structures in Second Language Spanish Kimberly Geeslin (University of Indiana) 18-19 September 2014 Varying Times and Locations […]
Fall 2015 Events Thursday, 3 September – 3:00 pm Power Hall, Florida Museum of Natural History Historical Ecology and Archaeology in the Galápagos Islands Peter Stahl (University of Victoria) Friday, 4 September – 3:00 pm Turlington Hall 1208 Efficacious Objects and Improvisational Practice: Exploring “Ornaments” and their Depositional Contexts in Banda, GhanaAnn B. Stahl (University […]