Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

The St. Augustine Archival Society presents “Resilience Family Fest” at the Solomon Calhoun Community Center (1300 Duval St, St. Augustine, FL 32084) on Saturday, February 19, 2022, 12-4 PM EST, as a celebration of St. Augustine’s Black history and culture.“Resilience Family Fest,” held for the first time, will feature dance and musical performances, food trucks, …

Exporting Opposition: How Europe Has Become a Stage for African Dissent Michela Wrong is a writer and journalist with nearly 30 years’ experience covering Africa. She joined Reuters in the early 1980s and served as foreign correspondent in Italy, France and Ivory Coast. She became a freelance journalist in 1994, and moved to then-Zaire, covering …

PBS host Alexander Heffner considers the state of democracy in America today. Heffner will discuss the effects of divisiveness on discourse, campaigns, and governance as well as the influence of new media, dis/misinformation, and filter bubbles that polarize American society. In the context of the pandemic, what are possible prescriptions to correct this cycle? How …

For the past two years, we've been debating why we should trust science. At the same time, some, especially in and around the university, have been arguing that we need the humanities now more than ever to help us reason about our politics and values. But why are these two different endeavors? How did questions …

Has hunger for a developmental miracle blinded the west to the grim reality of Rwandan president Paul Kagame's international manhunt? Wrong will speak to her powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it, her book Do Not Disturb (2021) that upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one …

The Routledge Handbook on Islam in Africa is edited by Terje Ostebo and brings together cutting-edge research from a range of disciplines. The handbook argues that despite often being overlooked or treated as marginal, the study of Islam from an African context is integral to the broader Muslim world. The contributors are leading scholars in …

José Falconi (moderator), Panel Participants: Amalia Pica, Alice Miceli, José Gabriel Fernández “Plural Domains: Art in, of, from Latin America” includes one art history lecture and a panel discussion comprised of internationally recognized artists and a scholar, each with a distinguished career and record of exhibitions, publications and participation in public events. The events take …

The Let’s Talk Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Series is a monthly dialogue series that meets on the fourth Friday of each month. Sessions for Spring 2022 are Jan. 28, Feb. 25, Mar. 25, and Apr. 22. To RSVP for these sessions, please visit HERE. Participants will gain: (1) skills to build their intercultural competence, …

The 5th annual University of Florida Classics Graduate Student Symposium, "At the Margins: New Perspectives on the Ancient Mediterranean," brings together eight graduate speakers who will be presenting original research on topics varying from the treatment of women and slaves in Greek drama to the depiction of Nilotic pygmies in art to the agency of …

The UF Ethics in the Public Sphere group will be hosting a virtual Ethics Cafe this coming Monday, February 28, 4-5:30.  The zoom link is https://ufl.zoom.us/j/96971870154. Ethics Cafes are spaces for students to talk frankly with their peers about contemporary social issues that have an ethical dimension.  The guiding question for this Cafe is "When should digital speech be …

Dr. Mechthild Fend, Professor of History of Art, University College London Focusing on turn of the nineteenth-century France, from the eve of the Revolution to the Napoleonic period, this lecture seeks to explore relations between portraits of people and portraits of diseases. During this period both physical and mental disorders started to be visually recorded …

"Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War" is a superb geopolitical thriller that traces the roots, routes, and reverberations of the largest slave insurrection in the 18th century British Empire. In this contentious period of imperial conflict and the growth of the transatlantic slave trade, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica …

In 1959, jazz drummer Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown Jr. began to work on a collaborative project. It was to be a musical and artistic response to segregation and racism. The album was released as “We Insist: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite” in 1960, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. Before and …

The A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center is pleased to present the community book launch of African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida, edited by Jacob U’Mofe Gordon and Paul Ortiz. Friday, March 18, 2022 at 6:30 pm. The book provides an impactful overview of the history of African American Studies …

Youtube Video Premiere Hear about the lives of eight women who lived from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras in the deep south of Florida. Register here

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 coursework, international experience or language learning, and co-curricular activities. Additionally, you may co-enroll in the Peace Corps Prep Program, which includes sector-specific coursework and hands-on …

Changemakers Dialogue is honored to collaborate with the UF Chapter of Imagining America Consortium this Spring. Imagining America (IA) envisions a world where institutional, disciplinary, and communal divides become smaller and more diversified through the brave voices and actions of those seeking meaningful change. Changemakers is calling for all UF undergraduates, graduates, staff, and faculty …

Greece became a slave society in the sixth century BCE. Starting c. 594 BCE, Athens, Chios, and several other seafaring cities stopped enslaving their own citizens for debt and began to look elsewhere for labor to power their growing agricultural and mining interests. The majority of enslaved people in ancient Greece came from the Aegean’s …

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 …

The Let’s Talk Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Series is a monthly dialogue series that meets on the fourth Friday of each month. Sessions for Spring 2022 are Jan. 28, Feb. 25, Mar. 25, and Apr. 22. To RSVP for these sessions, please visit HERE. Participants will gain: (1) skills to build their intercultural competence, …

Dance Alive National Ballet presents performances featuring UF Symphony Orchestra, UF Concert Choir, Gainesville Civic Chorus, 3 UF Alumni from the field of opera: Dr. Anthony Offerle, Anna Feucht and Cooper Nolan, Maestro Raymond Chobaz conducting and Dr. Will Kesling directing choral groups. Dance Alive National Ballet is a professional ballet company with an international …

Join Paloma Rodriguez on March 29, 2022 from 10:30 am - 11:30 am for a virtual workshop where you can explore how to enhance your courses with international perspectives. This session will also provide information about tools like virtual exchange, and you can also assess how internationalized your courses already are.

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 polished, reflective, and career-driven ePortfolio as part of the International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep. http://tinyurl.com/gettingstarteduf

Join Engaging Arts & Culture for Vaccine Confidence is hosting an afternoon of fun and relaxation as we learn and reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine, and the current world.

This conference seeks to question tacit assumptions about the nature of empirical worlds that continue to constrict imaginative potentials and research horizons of ethnographic fieldwork. By bringing together scholars, writers, artists and performers working across institutional fields and thematic regions, we will collectively reconsider ethnography’s generative currency as method, evidence, and aesthetic sensibility across the …