Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

This workshop will highlight grant programs that support research by individual scholars. Teams meeting link: Join live event Dial-in phone number +1 202-600-8430 Conference ID: 828 416 704#

This workshop will highlight grant programs that support the work of archives and libraries. Teams meeting link: Join live event Dial-in phone number: +1 202-600-8430 Conference ID: 768 268 806#

The half-day workshop, scheduled for Friday, May 21, 2021, between 9 am and 1 pm ET, will have a series of paper presentations by Wendell Marsh (Rutgers U), Britta Frede (U Bayreuth), and Shobhana Xavier (Queen’s University). Rudolph Ware (U of California, Santa Barbara) will conclude the workshop with a talk on the same topic …

This workshop will provide a broad overview of NEH's grant programs from the perspective of an institution of higher education's grants/sponsored research office. Teams meeting link: Join live event Dial-in phone number: +1 202-600-8430 Conference ID: 853 038 604#

This Memorial Day we honor the Black women of the Civil War, specifically Harriet Tubman, and their many contributions to society. Speakers include Dr. Arlisha Norwood, Terri L. Bailey, and special guest Ernestine Wyatt, the great, great, great grand-niece of Harriet Ross Tubman. The program will include poetry, history, and family stories about Harriet Tubman …

This workshop will provide a broad overview of NEH's grant programs and provide an introductory view of the agency in Spanish. Teams meeting link: Join live event Dial-in phone number: +1 202-600-8430 Conference ID: 182 058 065#

Primarily historical, this presentation will focus on Thomas Jefferson’s role in establishing the Library of Congress, as well as his personal collection and classification, purchased by the Library of Congress after the War of 1812. More information and registration here. Melissa Adler is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the …

This workshop takes the rhetorical exercise of inquiry as a point of departure for navigating DLOC data. We will use rhetorical analysis as the framework for searching and analyzing items and collections in the database. Participants will employ a “search and serendipity” method as a point of entry into the portal and use the inquiry …

How has the pandemic affected your life and that of your family and friends? That was the question asked by the Matheson History Museum staff and Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) members. They sought stories, essays, poems, etc. about personal experiences during the pandemic. Writers were asked to tell the tale in 1000 words or …

Facilitated by Dr. Schuyler Esprit The Caribbean is a historically vulnerable region for many reasons, including its relationship to climate and the environment. The region’s experience with extreme disasters – from the magnitude 7earthquake in Haiti to Category 5 hurricanes barrelling through many countries’ and now the eruption of the volcano at St. Vincent’s La …

Historian Jonathan Nelson will discuss the railroad's contribution to the development of Florida, with the primary focus on Alachua County railroads. The construction of David Yulee's first cross-state railroad in the 1850's linked Florida with two oceans and made possible the mass migration of people and cattle. This put Gainesville on the map, and caused Alachua …

“Shadow to Substance” creates a chronological arc from the past to the present and into the future through historical photographs and the lens of Black photographers working today. The exhibition pictures histories of enslavement, Jim Crow Florida, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter. It does so through images that expand …

Florida Council for History Education (FLCHE) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to present at the 2021 conference via Zoom to be held July 31. FLCHE welcomes all submissions, but particularly presentations that reflect the theme, Debate and Diplomacy, and may relate to Florida’s role in history. All presentation sessions present on July …

This lecture draws on a forthcoming monograph on the role of reenchantment and the resurfacing of the song of the Earth in contemporary environmental fiction, including works by American and European authors Jean Giono, Barbara Kingsolver, Ann Pancake, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, Leslie Marmon Silko, Starhawk, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and others. Focusing on the braiding …

The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program to invites everyone to their open house event. They will be introducing our different oral history projects - including projects focused on Veteran’s history, Latinx diaspora, Black culture, immigrant experiences, and Florida queer history - as well as sharing opportunities for students and community members to get involved. In …

EVENT POSTPONDED Globalization is increasingly important in technical communication, requiring that technical communicators work with multilingual communities. How can technical communicators work in global contexts, specifically with multilingual communities? How does language influence all the work that technical communicators do? In this session, Dr. Laura Gonzales from the UF Department of English will answer these …

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 ePortfolio.

This event is part of the “Contemporary Israel and Its Challenges: A Series of Conversations” series. Join us for a live presentation by Günther Jikeli of Indiana University on the contemporary global spike in antisemitism, its roots, its spread, and prospects for the future. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the …

Join the UF International Center for a virtual info session to learn more about the Global Learning Institute. The Global Learning Institute is a cohort-based semester-long program offered through the Office of Global Learning at the UF International Center. This program provides faculty with pedagogies and techniques to make their on-campus courses more global. Institute …

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 …

Florida is home to four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs): Bethune-Cookman University, Edward Waters University, Florida A&M University, and Florida Memorial University. The Matheson History Museum and A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center invite you to join them on Thursday, September 23, at 7:30pm at the Matheson to celebrate the life of A. …