Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Humanities Writing Retreat Monday-Friday, May 3-7, 2021 (UF intersession) Daily Short Virtual Meetings Do you want to dust off your writing project, finish your article, jump-start your grant-proposal, edit your book manuscript, or write your blog? Would you benefit from making daily commitments and embracing accountability? Do you love learning about the research projects of …

This talk explores visual art and digital media, including TikTok, to demonstrate how queer and trans people of color negotiate loneliness and isolation via performances of fabulousness. Fashion skeptics, from Veblen to Simmel and beyond, have long held that style works primarily as a tool to keep class boundaries in tact. But for queer and …

Pan Caribbean Sankofa and the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries cordially invite you to attend an online community event that examines the history and lives of the Pan-Caribbean people who lived and worked in the República de Panamá and the former Canal Zone. The event focuses on an Oral History Project underway to record interviews narrated by people …

Presentation: Abolitionist Femme Aesthetics, A talk by Gloria Negrete-Lopez, University of Arizona Roundtable: Sequins as Queer Healing, a conversation with Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., California State University, Fullerton and Jacquelyn Carmen Guerrero, Chicago-based artist Zoom Registration

The  17th annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Comics in Community,” is presented in a hybrid digital format. More information and schedule here. Zoom registration here.

– RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 18 June 2021 to participate. – Proposals due 25 June 2021. – Feedback returned 12 July 2021. Faculty members and graduate students in the humanities are invited to submit complete, polished draft proposals (minus reference letters) for single-blind review by an interdisciplinary panel of three UF referees with experience serving …

Come participate in a set of free workshops designed to build a collaborative partnership between university researchers, artists, and Alachua county school teachers where you will learn how to design arts-integrated lesson plans for K-12 and undergraduate curricula about the complexity of Black lives in Florida with a lens of Afrofuturism. Alachua County teachers will …

Reports from Ph.D. Student and Faculty Residencies in Virtual Summer 2021 Workshops Please register for the event through the Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdu2gqj0vHNEUS7Oj46n1WNWy4Ocg83Ic Dr. Neil Weijer (George A. Smathers Libraries) – “Learning How to Podcast: A Sense of Place” The text of a book is only a part of the story that it tells. As curator of UF’s …

Ingrid Kleespies (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) – “The Necessary man: Petr Chaadaev and the Invention of Russian Literature” and Emily Theobald (Ph.D. Candidate, Music) – “National and Transnational Politics in Post-1945 Polish Music”

Michele Bratcher Goodwin (Chancellor’s Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine) Virtual Event – Register Here to Receive Zoom URL In this talk, Professor Goodwin addresses the escalation of criminal punishments directed at pregnant women in the United States. Her talk reflects more than ten years of research addressing …

Paul M. Farber (Director, Monument Lab, Philadelphia) Virtual Event – Register Here to Receive Zoom URL Monument Lab Director and Co-founder Paul Farber shares insights on the reckoning and reimagining of our nation’s monuments. Over the last decade, artists, activists, and cultural organizers have pushed the status quo in public art, especially to reckon with symbols …

Please register for the event through the Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lceqsqD0jGdPJfVu5WqEF8OwdkzdU1e3t Professor Bonnie Ernst (Sociology and Criminology & Law) – “We Were All Feminists”: Punishment, Resistance, and Women’s Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration” “We Were All Feminists” challenges and reframes dominant narratives on mass incarceration by exploring the experiences of women and protest movements in …

In this virtual conversation, indigenous artists dig into their creative process and their musical influences. They also explore how they express their lived experiences and their relationships with healing. More information here. Zoom registration Moderator Renata Yazzie is a Diné (Din-EH) pianist, music educator, and musicologist-in-training whose work focuses largely on the expression of Indigeneity in …

Qingming Huang (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science) – “North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula” and Jeeye Song (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science) – “Treaty-Making and Colonization in East Asia: Vietnam and Korea in the Nineteenth Century”

Please join us for an informal conversation about the humanities and AI! Faculty members in the humanities who are teaching and researching artificial intelligence will present on their work. Staff members will share resources from across campus. Presenters will include: Hina Shaikh (Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research) David Grant (Philosophy) Jennifer Rea …

Please register for the event through the Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtf-yppz0tEtPxa2ei8xr1rHgCDO6oAmTe Licinio Nunes de Miranda (Ph.D. Candidate, History) – “Land of Light: Slavery, Freedpeople and Abolitionism in Brazil, 1880-1888” The province of Ceará was the first to abolish slavery in Brazil (1884), four years before the abolition occurred nationwide (1888). It was also there that the first popular …

POSTPONED ***Events with Brent Leggs have been postponed to September 23, 2022.*** Brent Leggs (Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and University of Pennsylvania) Without a thorough reckoning with the complex and difficult history of our country, especially when it comes to race, we will not be able to overcome intolerance, injustice, and inequality. …

POSTPONED ***Events with Brent Leggs have been postponed to September 23, 2022.*** Preserving African American Communities and Landmarks: A Conversation with Brent Leggs (African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund) and Diedre Houchen (Office of Resilience, Climate Change and Sustainability; Alachua County) *Reception to follow Brent Leggs is the founding executive director of the African American Cultural …

Joy Connolly (President, American Council of Learned Societies, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, Distinguished Professor of Classics) Virtual Event – Register Here to Receive Zoom URL The model of the solitary scholar writing articles and books in the library has given way to a diverse array of approaches to humanistic research: …

Meghna Sapui (Ph.D. Candidate, English) – “Edible Empire: Eating in Indian Anglophone Literature, 1820–1910” and Venu Mehta (Ph.D. Candidate, Religion) – “The Making of a Jaina Divinity: Devotion for the Jaina Goddess Padmāvatī among the Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jains in Gujarat”

Michael Stoop (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology) – “(Re)claiming Literacy: Appropriation, Modernity, and Mississippi Choctaw Language Revitalization” Michael Stoop’s research uses linguistic, historical, and anthropological methods to study the role of writing in the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians’ (MBCl’s) effort to revitalize their heritage language, Choctaw. The endangerment of the Choctaw language reflects two centuries of colonial imposition, …

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS) at the University of Florida in collaboration with the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) and the National Humanities Center (NHC) invites you to an informal conversation about podcasting the humanities. We will also celebrate the launch of Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education, …