Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Led by Anastasia Pantazopoulou, the “Imagineering Stories” workshop is centered around digital technologies which have transformed the way we conceptualize and tell stories creating a space where anyone can express themselves. More specifically, engaging with the goal of the Intersections group, the workshop aims at familiarizing the audience with digital storytelling, a digital technology that …

Family relationships are casualties of our toxic political environment. Preserve important family bonds while staying true to your values. Workshop Format: This is a two-part workshop combining an online eLearning course and an online, interactive workshop offered over Zoom. Part one consists of a 40 minute, interactive course. You complete this online before the workshop. Part two is …

Part of the Public Engagement Program Growing Strong: Empowering Girls in the 21st Century through Stories of Classical Female Mythological Figures and Contemporary Women. The project creates an interactive, thought-provoking space for young girls to reflect on their identity as active community members and the multiple roles they can assume by discussing the stories of …

In collaboration with the University of Florida's Disability Resource Center, English Department, and Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, Constructing Communities: Exploring Access through Education and Art! Bridging the Gap: Community Engagement in Public Education: Panelists Gerry Altamirano (Assistant Dean and Director of the Disability Resource Center, University of Florida), Maryam El-Shall (English …

Learn through practice (or just hang out) with stellar artists Sky Cubacub (Radical Visibility Zine, Rebirth Garments) and Ashanti Fortson (cartoonist and illustrator, CRESS & PETRA forth.) during a collaborative zine workshop! Panelists will discuss art, identity, and community building followed by Q&A. All participants are invited to make a zine along with the panelists--so …

Join the Black Graduate Student Organization for the upcoming virtual 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration: Social Justice through Diverse Lenses. Each of us in our own ways, whether through the lens of education, STEM to mass communication have the potential to lead, become agents of change, and continue to carry on the dream Dr. …

Join the Harn for conversations focusing on the exhibition Global Perspectives: Highlights from the Contemporary Collection. This live event will take place on the Harn's YouTube Channel.  Museum Nights is supported by UF Student Government and the Office of the Provost. Additional support for this evening provided by the UF Center for European Studies and is presented in …

In this panel, activists, and scholars present on the fight for access to healthy, native food and sustainable food production. It highlights connections between food availability in the Gainesville community and the larger dynamics of production and distribution worldwide. It also explores the native roots of food production, and connections between food diversity and land …

Please pre-register for the event through the Zoom link. Daniel Fernandez (History), Rothman Doctoral Fellow: “Circumventing Conservative Nativism: Transnational and National Efforts to Resettle Spanish Republican Refugees in Cuba, 1939-1945” In 1939, more than 500,000 Spanish Republicans crossed into France after the destruction of Spain’s Second Republic. Subsequently, Spanish refugees attempted a second exodus from …

A virtual film festival presented in the context of the France-Florida Research Institute project 'Inscriptions of the Self in the French and Francophone World' Organized by Dr. Sylvie Blum, Languages, Literatures and Cultures and Dr. Kole Odutola, Languages, Literatures and Cultures The program is available here: https://franceflorida.clas.ufl.edu/voyages-across-borders-a-film-festival/ To obtain a ticket and make an account, …

Speakers include Adeyemi Balogun (U Bayreuth), Sara Katz (Loyola U, New Orleans), Carmen McCain (Westmont College), Musa Ibrahim (UF), Murtala Ibrahim (Utrecht University), and Kabiru H Isa (Bayero University, Kano). Our distinguished discussants are Murray Last (University College London), Amidu Sanni (Fountain University), and Muhammad Sani Umar (Ahmadu Bello University). The workshop concludes with a …

A conversation with Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler Join the UF Center for Jewish Studies for a conversation with Professors Amy-Jill Levine (Vanderbilt University) and Marc Zvi Brettler (Duke University) about their new book, The Bible With and Without Jesus. Zoom registration. More information here.

This workshop navigates questions of feminist ethics, machine learning, and data practices. Prof. D’Ignazio will use her own current project on feminicide, counterdata collection, and social activism in Latin America to discuss projects involving human subjects, missing data, and feminist activism with faculty members. Faculty members interested in data, computation, and feminist approaches with different …

Prof. Catherine D'Ignazio (MIT) is a scholar of feminism and data literacy. On the occasion of her virtual visit to the UF Humanities Center in January, we are holding an informal discussion with graduate students interested in incorporating methods from data science into their humanistic work (be it scholarly work, creative work, or public-facing work). …

Dr. Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt, Independent Scholar In twelfth-century monastic culture in Europe, the fragility of life and the inevitability of death became codified in images of the Four Last Things:  Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell.  A fifteenth-century treatise by Denis the Carthusian titled De quatuor hominis novissimus (The Four Last Things of Man) is visualized in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. …

The broadly-defined field of “digital cultural heritage” has utilized emerging technologies such as virtual reality and 3D printing to increase access to aspects of our shared human past. Pedagogically, these technologies are often used to present virtual “tourism” where participants can “visit” reconstructed spaces or interact with 3D printed replicas of otherwise inaccessible artifacts. However, …

University of Florida, Centre for Greek Studies Polopolus Lecture Series 2021 Professor Mike Edwards Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway University of London ‘Isaeus in the Forest of Rhetoric and the Cosmos of Law’ Isaeus (c. 415-c. 340 BCE) was a member of the classical Canon of Ten Attic Orators, a professional speechwriter who in the …

The UF International Center invites you to celebrate Black History Month. Please join us for a presentation on “Race and History at the University of Florida: 115 Years of Cultural Transformation” to be held February 5th 12pm-1:15pm via Zoom. This webinar offers a retrospective look at the history of race at the University of Florida …

coloniaLab is a workshop for the collaborative digital editing of materials related to early Latin America, directed by Dr. Clayton McCarl at the University of North Florida. This webinar will feature Dr. McCarl and four of coloniaLab’s student collaborators, who will discuss projects related to colonial-era Florida and nineteenth-century Colombia. Emilia Thom will share her …

Please pre-register for the event through the Zoom link. Professor Fiona McLaughlin (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures), Rothman Faculty Fellow: “In Pursuit of Trans-Saharan Literacies” Dominant regimes of literacy in the Sahara, the Sahel, and the Maghreb are in Arabic and French, yet parallel vernacular literacies in African languages are used by many communities in this …

Dr. Michelle Bloom (U. California-Riverside) will present "Race-Ing in Cheng Yu Chieh's Yang Yang-The Métissage in Sino-French Cinema". This talk is part of the FFRI project Inscriptions of the Self in the French and Francophone World and accompanies the Voyages across Borders film festival organized by Dr. Sylvie Blum and Dr. Kole Odutola. More information …

In this 60-minute conversation, Aaron Hoover (Director of Executive Communications in the UF President's Office, Robin Lewy (Co-founder and Director of Programming at the Rural Women's Health Project, and Hadassah St. Hubert (Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access at the NEH) will discuss their humanities skills and provide an overview of their …

Join us for dance, storytelling and fashion at Museum Nights on February 11th, now on-line, and always free!  For more information, please visit https://harn.ufl.edu/museumnights PROGRAM STARTS AT 7pm at www.youtube.com/harnmuseumofart West African Storytelling with Dr. Kole Ade Odutola, Yoruba lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Florida. Dance with Barakissa Coulibaly, a master West African dancer …

Power inequities have allowed even well-intended museums and libraries to disrupt people’s knowledge of and access to cultural heritage. Libraries and museums were allies in or at least instruments of the political and legal dominance of one culture over others. Alternative or mitigative models to this colonization have emerged in response: decolonizing, postcolonial, postcustodial, and …