Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

The Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW) in downtown Gainesville is proud to be working with the UF African Studies Center to bring the work of two esteemed African artists to the Gainesville public. On Thursday, February 8, SAW will host a public installation presenting student comic & art work from Eastside High workshops, work about SAW …

David Filipov, former Moscow Bureau Chief of The Washington Postand writer for The Boston Globe, will speak at the Bob Graham Center on Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora about the U.S. news landscape and where Russia, Putin, and Russia-U.S. Relations currently reside within it. As former Bureau Chief for the …

Prof. Robert Kawashima, 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow (Dept. of Religion) Bhakti Mamtora, 2016-17 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of Religion) Thursday, 22 February – 4:00pm-5:00pm, Grinter Hall 471 (Center for African Studies Conference Room) How to Read Genesis 1-11 Prof. Robert Kawashima One of the great and enduring achievements of modern philology is the …

The Music and Aesthetics Symposium will examine the creation and performance of music and the aesthetic environment surrounding it. Composers, performers, artists, and of course, and audience will be on hand to share their thoughts and experiences. The two-day event will be structured around six concerts that will provide a rich variety of musical and …

The Ancient Philosophy Workshop is an annual conference that brings together specialists in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy from around the country and the world. There will be roughly eight talks, each followed by discussion, over the event’s two days, plus a talk by the Keynote Speaker at the end of the first day. A …

Digital Humanities Working Group (DHWG) Meet-Up John Rink (University of Cambridge) John Rink became Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge in 2017, following his groundbreaking work developing landmark digital humanities research projects on critical editions of Chopin. In this meet-up, we will have the opportunity to hear from a great pioneer …

Join other CoLABers for Idea Table Cafés where we will extend the benefits of CoLAB Workshops by expanding the connections and ideas that were generated during a CoLAB Workshop. This facilitated, casual environment will stimulate new possibilities of working with each other to combine research, teaching, and other collaborative opportunities. CoLAB Idea Table Café sessions …

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya (Ph.D., Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Los Angeles) is Associate Professor of Slavic in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics and Courtesy Associate Professor of English. She is the Coordinator and Graduate Advisor for the Slavic Program. Her current book project Collecting Objects, Materializing Ethics investigates the relationship between …

Jordan Fischer Smith Park ranger turned environmental writer Jordan Fisher Smith will speak on “Endangered Species, Endangered Truth: A Park Ranger’s Perspective,” at Smathers Library 100 on the UF campus Tuesday evening Nov. 7th at 6 p.m. The author of award-winning Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial and the Fight …

Dr. Roberto Gonzales of Harvard Graduate School of Education will present the keynote address, “Lives in Limbo: (Un)DACAmented and Navigating Uncertain Futures” at the Florida Society for the Social Science's (F3S) 13th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences: “Advancing Public Knowledge in a Changing Social Landscape.” Registration for the conference is free, and opens at …

Over the past several years, UF has collaborated with others in Gainesville to host a THATCamp-Gainesville event. “THATCamp” is The Humanities And Technology Camp, and it is an unconference: an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists, technologists, educators, archivists, and folks from many different backgrounds and fields come together to learn together, and to make connections …

“…a thoughtful meditation on the way we narrate our lives, and the flaws of memory.” – Winnipeg Free Press UF Peforming Arts in partnership with the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere invites you to TJ Dawe's "Burn Job." Punctuated with music tracks and manipulated sounds created live on stage, Fringe legend and …

- RSVP to skacord@ufl.edu by 15 June 2018 to participate. - Proposals due 22 June 2018. - Feedback returned 9 July 2018. 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 …

The School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida is proud to present visiting artist Dread Scott as part of the Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The Lecture Series is free and open to the public. Lectures begin at 6:15PM in Little Hall, Room 101. The lectures offer the community at …

The program “The Great Hunger” is an all-Irish related program, including Frank Martin’s Trio on Irish Folk Tunes, new arrangements of Irish traditional music for the ensemble, and at the center of the program, a newly commissioned poetry and music work, “The Great Hunger” by composer Ian Wilson. The new work celebrates one of the …

Seyeon Hwang, a doctoral student at UF, will present her oral history interviews with refugees resettled in Jacksonville and moderate a discussion with a panel of refugees based in Jacksonville and Miami. The program will also highlight national efforts for refugee advocacy in celebration of the Welcoming Week (Sep. 14-23), an event designated to bring …