Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

How does working with multiple languages, cultures, and communities change how we understand digital humanities as a discipline? Dr. Laura Gonzales, Dr. Ginessa Mahar, and Melissa Jerome explore this question by sharing their recent digital humanities work. In "Languages and Digital Humanities", the panelists will describe the processes, challenges, and lessons learned from work such as …

Join for an ePortfolio Workshop where we'll go over how to get started and how to navigate wix.com, what you'll need to include, and suggested guidelines for making a polished, reflective, and career-driven ePortfolio as part of the International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep.

This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series. Has the two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict become an impossibility? Is a “new-state” solution all that is left? Bernard Avishai has written that “a two-state solution can be preempted by catastrophe, inertia, demagogy, venal leaders, weak leaders — …

Ananda Cohen-Aponte Associate Professor of History of Art, Cornell University This talk explores a diverse array of visual and material culture, including paintings, sculptures, textiles, liturgical objects, and even quipus (mnemonic devices consisting of knotted cords) in the forging of an anticolonial consciousness in the eighteenth-century Andes. Conversely, it also explores artistic patronage and production …

University Galleries would like to invite everyone to attend A Public Conversation with Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and Jesús Fuenmayor, hosted by Dean Onye Ozuzu. Mrs. Fontals-Cisneros is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and art collector who founded the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) in 2002. CIFO is a non-profit organization established to support and advance cultural understanding and …

In this workshop, you will learn how to market your experiences – whether they be study abroad/internships abroad, club or campus involvement, volunteering, or others. The UF International Center will be hosting this workshop with guests from the Career Connections Center to provide insight on how to articulate your skills and how to best incorporate …

Are you interested in internationalizing your UF experience, and enhancing your learning inside and outside the classroom? Would you like to acquire the knowledge and skills to become a global citizen, competitive professional, and UF alumni? Join the UF International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep Program! The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion …

Please join the UF International Center on Oct. 06, 2021 from 10:00 - 11:00 am for a virtual info session about the Global Learning Institute (GLI). GLI is a cohort-based semester-long program aiming at providing faculty with relevant tools, pedagogies, and techniques to make their on-campus courses more global.

Register with this link: https://bit.ly/Sorrento10-06 Who is this program for? Are you interested in interning abroad in Italy? Would you like the opportunity to learn about Business in Europe, the History of the Mafia, or Mediterranean Culture while looking out on the shores of Sorrento? If so, then this program is for you! Register today to …

This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series. More information and registration here. Henriette Dahan Kalev is a professor emerita at Ben Gurion University in Negev, Israel. She is a political science and gender studies expert. Dahan Kalev specializes in political protests and gender resistance, mainly in marginalized …

Join Paloma Rodriguez on Oct. 07, 2021 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm for a virtual workshop from the Center for Teaching Excellence where you can explore how to enhance your courses with international perspectives. This session will also provide information about tools like virtual exchange, and you can also assess how internationalized your courses already are.

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP) at UF will host a public program in-person at Pugh Hall and virtually via Facebook Live titled “Mississippi Freedom Project Panel.” The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an experiential learning initiative where students interview civil rights movement veterans in the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta region. Join us and …

Register Here Featuring: Ivan Kalmar, professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, and the Hon. Newton W. Rowell Professor (left) Mehnaz Afridi, professor of religion and director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education center at Manhattan College (right) This event is sponsored by the Bud Shorstein endowment and the Center for the Global Islamic Studies.

Are you interested in language immersion while studying or researching overseas? Consider applying for the Boren Awards, and join The UF Honors Program for this one-time presentation followed by Q&A with Boren Awards Manager, Jeff Cary. RSVP for the info session at the associated link.

Join the UF International Center for an ePortfolio Workshop where we'll go over how to get started and how to navigate wix.com, what you'll need to include, and suggested guidelines for making a polished, reflective, and career-driven ePortfolio as part of the International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep. Attend in Person or on Zoom! …

Join in-person at the Matheson on Wednesday, October 13 to hear from authors Aaron Cometbus and Scott Satterwhite as they share about their book "Punkhouse in the Deep South." In their presentation, Cometbus and Sattewhite discuss the history of the famed “309 Punkhouse” in Pensacola, while shedding light on the largely ignored lives of average …

This workshop will help you ensure your ePortfolio represents your style while being easy to navigate and read. We will cover basic design principles for digital communication, tricks on how to best present your work and experiences, and trouble-shooting tips so that you can avoid the most common ePortfolio mistakes. Attend in Person or on …

A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Step into an evening composed of performances, tours, activities and more inspired by the photography exhibition Shadow to Substance. Museum Nights: Reframing the Lens invites you to play with the frame while experiencing this dynamic portrait of Black history and life. Dopenmic hosts an open mic at the Harn under their moto: “Come to understand. Stay …

Join Paloma Rodriguez on Monday, October 18th, from 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm for a virtual workshop where you will discover different types of virtual exchange (VE) activities designed by UF faculty and learn how international virtual exchange can benefit students and faculty alike. This session will provide information on the UF Global Classrooms initiative, …

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Please join us on October 19th from 2:00 - 3:00 pm for a virtual info session about the Global Learning Institute (GLI). GLI is a cohort-based semester-long program aiming at providing faculty with relevant tools, pedagogies, and techniques to make their on-campus courses more global. Program Information: Institute participants will attend eight workshops throughout the …

Are you interested in internationalizing your UF experience, and enhancing your learning inside and outside the classroom? Would you like to acquire the knowledge and skills to become a global citizen, competitive professional, and UF alumni? Join the UF International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep Program! The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion …

In this workshop, you will learn how to market your experiences – whether they be study abroad/internships abroad, club or campus involvement, volunteering, or others. We will be hosting this workshop with guests from the Career Connections Center to provide insight on how to articulate your skills and how to best incorporate them into your …

Perhaps no other color in history has been so celebrated and so reviled as the color purple. Although it has come to be known as the shade of royalty, the workers who labored to make the mucus-based dye in the Roman Mediterranean were often viewed as lowly and as smelly as the mollusks they harvested. …

“Latin America Writes Back 2.0: Political and Environmental Crisis in Science Fiction” commemorates and extends UF’s landmark 2005 symposium “Latin America Writes Back.” That symposium identified UF as an early pioneer in the growing field of Latin American SF studies and featured talks by author/scholar Edmundo Paz Soldán and scholar J. Andrew Brown. This new …

An artistic and academic event from October 21 – 23, 2021, at the University of Florida. Celebrating a unique collaboration with the "Brazilian Voices and the Brazilian Music Institute and with the support from the Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Digital Worlds Institute, Center for Arts, Migration, …

A public lecture by Prof. Kendall Marchman University of Georgia As the popularity of Pure Land Buddhist practice increased in Tang China, a handful of Buddhist monks were hard at work developing liturgical practices and writing apologetic treatises to support it. Anxiety—whether about Pure Land rebirth, the efficacy of practices, or outside skepticism—was a catalyst …