Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Please join us for the second installment of Careers at USAID and the Department of State. In honor of Black History Month, USAID and the Department of State will host …

"Myths and Societies: A Cross-Cultural and Intertemporal Approach" and will present 14 papers and span the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds in their themes. We are employing a respondent system …

Workshop leader: Dr. David M. Perry (History Advisor, University of Minnesota and freelance journalist) How does working with the public fit into academic life in the year 2021? This active …

Join us 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 …

Please pre-register for the event through the Zoom link. Allison Raper (Art History), Rothman Doctoral Fellow: “The Lady in Red: Francesco di Vannuccio's Croce Dipinta and the Iconography of Mary …

UF students are invited to a virtual book discussion with Professor Ruha Benjamin on her 2019 book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. In this book, Benjamin …

How has the pandemic affected humanities scholarship? What are particular challenges to research? How have faculty and graduate students adapted to increased time commitment for teaching, the suspension of travel, …

Come join us for a Peace Corps information panel where four panelists will be discussing their sectors and location of service. The U.S. Peace Corps is a 27-month service opportunity …

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 …

Online - Register to Attend at: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldOGhrTsiEt3cjQCDL4Jplnez5spbnLov In 2019, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere initiated a new program awarding small grants to faculty, staff, and graduate students …

In this panel the presenters are professors and a student who worked together to integrate two digital tools, the Social Book and ArcGis Story Maps, in two foreign language classes. …

Yulia Bosworth (Binghamton University) Historically, the use of a common language has been considered a unifying factor among speakers; interlocutors who are able to communicate with one another in the …

The Symposium was created to cultivate an intentional interdisciplinary investment in critical consciousness about Latin America and the Latinx community in the U.S. The theme of the Symposium this year …

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 …

Digital technologies open up exciting opportunities for new modes of teaching and research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences.  This session hosts a conversation exploring the public humanities in the digital sphere with Dr. Emily Pugh (Digital Humanities Specialist, The Getty Research Institute) and Dr. Anne-Marie Womack (Professor of Practice and Director of Writing, Tulane University; creator of AccessibleSyllabus.com). Panelists will address topics such as how digital technologies are utilized to reach and teach broader audiences, expand archival collections, and enrich research initiatives. The conversation will be moderated by Perry Collins, MLIS, MA; Copyright & Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of Florida.

Featuring: Ivanna Moreno, Alexandra Cenatus, and Dr. Margarita Vargas-Betancourt Moderated by: Dr. Manoucheka Celeste The Haitian American Dream Timeline (https://exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu/HaitianAmericanDream/) examines the events and the forgotten narratives of Haitian immigrants …

Prof. Michelle Bloom, University of California Riverside This event is part of the Guest Speaker Series: Francophone Artists, Bandes dessinées and Diasporic Graphics sponsored by the France-Florida Research Institute. More …

University of Florida’s College of the Arts’ YouTube channel. Sponsored by UF’s University Galleries. Link to book: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268108052/clothing-the-new-world-church/ The book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America …

The art of POETRY presented in Hungarian, Polish and Turkish (with English translations). The art of DANCE with performances by GASA – the UF Greek American Student Association and by …

When Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language appeared in 1755, it swiftly became the language’s most influential dictionary, and this dictionary is still widely used. For all its …

What challenges face Gainesville’s farmers? How have they tried to circumvent the problems posed by COVID-19? What measures are they taking to protect their customers? This panel brings together farmers …

In this lecture, Justine Howe (Case Western Reserve University) explores how the Muslim Students Association engaged two intersecting political and religious paradigms of the Cold War: the global project of …

Join us 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 …

The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion program that is open for enrollment to all undergraduate students. It helps structure your global learning experience through the completion of international …

Jeanne Ewert Kenneth Sassaman In this joint webinar, Jeanne Ewert and Kenneth Sassaman will present ongoing archival, genealogical, and archaeological research on the fates of once-thriving coastal communities upended by …