Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

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Since 2005, the Gainesville Latino Film Festival has featured hundreds of groundbreaking, highly acclaimed and thought-provoking films from Latin America. In 2017, our mission continues: to afford Gainesville the unique opportunity to see world-class cinema, innovative shorts, international award winners, and foster diverse experiences that link people through the art of cinema- launching Gainesville as …

The DHWG has grown quickly at UF since its launch in 2012, and now supports an active meet-up series and a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanties. At a large, comprehensive land-grant university like UF, DHWG members have found a variety of opportunities for exploring humanities scholarship in the digital age. But, we have also faced …

Dr. Matthew Goldfeder (Director of Fellowship Programs, ACLS) Two identical workshops will be offered: Thursday, 14 September, 2:00-4:00pm, Smathers Library 100 Friday, 15 September, 10:00am-12:00pm, Smathers Library 100 Since its foundingin 1919, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has been a bulwark of leadership, support, and national and international representation for the humanities and …

Dr. Matthew Goldfeder (Director of Fellowship Programs, ACLS) Two identical workshops will be offered: Thursday, 14 September, 2:00-4:00pm, Smathers Library 100 Friday, 15 September, 10:00am-12:00pm, Smathers Library 100 Since its foundingin 1919, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has been a bulwark of leadership, support, and national and international representation for the humanities and …

On-screen representations of teachers have far-reaching and significant implications. As narratives of schools on screen grow increasingly negative and news outlets scapegoat teachers, unions, and teacher educators as the cause for failing public schools, all Americans should be concerned about the threat these portrayals pose to civic life. Unchecked, negative public perceptions of educators contribute …

Digital technology has made the early twenty-first century a critical moment of opportunity by providing access to a wide range of library and archival materials and by offering new means of teaching, analyzing content, and presenting literary scholarship. While digital technologies have the promise of bridging institutional and geographic barriers, they have also continued to …

School of Art + Art History Visiting Artist Lecture Series on Art, Race and Social Justice Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is an interdisciplinary visual and performance artist. Her latest project, Pieta, was presented as part of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s IDENTIFY: Performance as Portraiture series. She received a 2016 Franklin Furnace award for performance. Selected exhibitions …

Each October organizations throughout the U.S. celebrate culture in America during National Arts & Humanities Month. Coordinated by Americans for the Arts, National Arts & Humanities Month grew out of National Arts Week, which the National Endowment for the Arts and Americans for the Arts started in 1985. The event became a month-long celebration in …

Pepón Osorio uses different objects, installations and video to portray political and social issues affecting Latino communities. He is influenced by his experience as a social worker in The Bronx, creating works that evolve from an interaction with the neighborhoods and people. An example is Tina’s House, a project created in collaboration with a family …

Dr. Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Art, women, and society came together in surprising ways at the end of the eighteenth century. “Society” only began to be conceptualized as an object for study at the end of the 1700s, in particular in reaction to the French Revolution. Art, especially engraving …

LaToya Ruby Frazier works in photography, video and performance to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare inequity, family and communal history. In 2015 her first book The Notion of Family (Aperture 2014) received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award. Frazier’s work is exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, …

In the years before the Civil War, faculty and students at Southern universities (and some Northern ones, too) turned to arguments from history, philosophy, religion, and economics to support slavery. These engaged scholars spoke to judges, legislators, and voters about the supposed benefits of slavery. Antislavery advocates, often outside of the academy, also turned to …

International Symposium on Colonial Latin American Art Sculptures, paintings, prints, retables, furniture, textiles, silverwork and other manifestations of Latin American colonial visual culture often coexisted within church interiors, civic spaces, and homes to create a large collection and decorative program of display. These decorative programs even at times traversed entire cities through extensive urban architectural …

Prof. Vandana Baweja, 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow (School of Architecture) Derek Boetcher, 2017-18 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of History) Prof. Jorge Valdés Kroff, 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow (Depts. of Spanish & Portuguese and Linguistics) Monday, 6 November – 4:00pm-5:30pm, Keene-Flint 05 (Dept. of History Conference Room) Global Networks of Tropical Architecture Prof. Vandana …

Bess de Farber (UF Smathers Libraries Grants Manager) This humanities fellowship- and grant-writing workshop will teach humanities scholars and students how to navigate funding websites in the humanities to confirm eligibility and appropriateness, and to create a checklist to plan a successful proposal submission. Participants will learn how to prepare proposal checklists using sponsor guidelines …

Cameron Rowland was born in 1988 in Philadelphia and received a BA from Wesleyan University, Connecticut. Rowland lives and works in Queens. Rowland has had solo exhibitions at Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne; Artists Space, New York; Fri-Art Kunsthalle, Fribourg; and ESSEX STREET, New York. Rowland has participated in group exhibitions at Whitney …

Marty Hylton and Sujin Kim (Historic Preservation) The University of Florida Envision Heritage initiative explores how new and emerging digital technologies can be used to document, conserve, and interpret historic buildings and resources. The presentation will discuss 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry and examine case studies. Envision Heritage was launched by the UF Historic Preservation …

Native American Heritage Month Speaker Series Dr. Philip DeLoria (University of Michigan - Ann Arbor) In his talk, Dr. DeLoria will address themes from his two main books: Playing Indian (Yale University, 1998), and Indians in Unexpected Places (2004, University Press of Kansas). His 1998 text, Playing Indian, addresses the historical phenomenon of "playing Indian", …

Schuyler Espirit (Dominica State College) Dr. Schuyler K Esprit, PhD, Registrar and Dean of Academic Affairs and Founder/Director of the Create Caribbean Research Institute at Dominica State College, will present on her work, climate and environment related issues, and engaging the idea of rethinking and rebuilding institutions. Dr. Espirit’s talk was originally part of the …

Hey Stranger... looking for a way to combine forces with other folks in the humanities and beyond? Collaborating with Strangers workshops connect students, faculty, and researchers on campus during 3-minute speed-meetings. You’ll walk away with more resources, solutions, and creative ideas than you ever imagined! Focused conversations will yield the following: 1) potential collaborative relationships; …

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere invites you to celebrate the invigoration of the humanities in CLAS by meeting our new colleagues. Faculty and staff members working in the humanities who have arrived in fall semester 2017 will introduce themselves and their areas of research. Find out about their expertise and mingle …

Alexis Baldacci, 2017-18 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of History) Prea Persaud, 2017-18 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of Religion) Friday, 8 December – 4:00pm-5:00pm, Grinter Hall 471 (Center for African Studies Conference Room) Daily Heroics: Women, Material Culture, and Everyday Life in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1989 Alexis Baldacci In her dissertation, Alexis Baldacci explores everyday life in …

Hey Stranger... looking for a way to combine forces with other folks in the humanities and beyond? Collaborating with Strangers workshops connect students, faculty, and researchers on campus during 3-minute speed-meetings. You’ll walk away with more resources, solutions, and creative ideas than you ever imagined! Focused conversations will yield the following: 1) potential collaborative relationships; …

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 …

Adrienne deNoyelles, 2017-18 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of History) Matthew Simmons, 2017-18 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of History) Thursday, 18 January – 4:00pm-5:00pm, Grinter Hall 471 (Center for African Studies Conference Room) The "Lung Block": Tuberculosis and Contested Spaces in Progressive-Era New York Adrienne deNoyelles, Department of History Adrienne deNoyelles' dissertation examines a 1903 reform …

The Black Graduate Student Organization in partnership with the MCDA would like to invite you to UF's annual MLK Celebration Keynote on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 in the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom at 7:00 pm featuring internet superstar, writer, comedian and producer Quinta Brunson. Quinta is best known for her work with BuzzFeed, her Facebook …

Navid Bargrizian, 2017-2018 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellow (School of Music) Elyssa Gage, 2017-2018 Tedder Family Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of History) Thursday, 1 February – 4:00pm-5:00pm, Grinter Hall 471 (Center for African Studies Conference Room) Microtonality, Technology, and (Post)Dramatic Structures in Harry Partch’s and Manfred Stahnke’s Theatrical Music Navid Bargrizan Exploring the intersections of microtonal music, …

UF’s Center for African Studies is devoting its 17th Carter Conference to creating a critical public forum about new methods and politics in curation and text-image studies. Emphasizing juxtapositions, sequences, montage, friction, and postcolonial politics, it will problematize archival, field, and curatorial techniques in the global humanities. We aim to interrogate art, fables, lexicons, dreams, …

Prof. Shifra Armon, 2017 Rothman Faculty Summer Fellow (Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese Studies) Cacey Farnsworth, 2017-18 Rothman Doctoral Fellow (Dept. of History) Thursday, 8 February – 4:00pm-5:00pm, Grinter Hall 471 (Center for African Studies Conference Room) Staging Curiosity: Skepticism and Science on the Spanish Stage: 1650-1750 Prof. Shifra Armon Spain has been accused of …