Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

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 …

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, …