Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

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. All workshops will be held virtually, via Zoom. Please …

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 Magdalene in Late-Trecento Siena” As one of the most beloved female saints during the fourteenth century, Mary Magdalene occupied a unique role in medieval art …

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 examines technology from everyday apps to complex algorithms to show how these seemingly benevolent tools have the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination. …

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, and the closing of archives? What strategies can we develop to address extended review times for submitted manuscripts? How can we account for increased care-work …

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 that is funded and organized through the U.S. government. Volunteers serve in roughly 60 countries around the world in six different sectors including environment, agriculture, …

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 citizen, competitive professional, and UF alumni? Join the UF International Scholars Program and Peace Corps Prep Program! The International Scholars Program is a commencement medallion …

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 to form reading groups on humanities themes. Join us for an intimate discussion with conveners and members of the four 2020-21 reading groups as they share their …

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. Because of the increasing interest in Digital Humanities and the way this approach disseminates knowledge in an effortless way while it connects language learners inside …

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 is “I am, Yo Soy, Mwen se, Eu sou Poderosx: Resisting violence against Womxn.” The theme aims to bring awareness to gender violence throughout the …

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 …

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 in the United States. In this event, the project team will discuss their work highlighting marginalized voices from U.S. history while providing undergraduate and graduate …

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 information and registration here.

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 and demonstrates that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic Church. Presentation by author Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Associate Professor of Art …

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 UF Ailigéadar Irish Dance. Dive into the collection – UF Art History students Ava Bender and Ella McGiver share an European ARTWORK brought out from …

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 importance, though, the lack of an authoritative text and usable interface have made this resource more difficult to use than it should be. Our three‐year …

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 from Gainesville and surrounding areas to explore how they are harvesting crops. Register here. More information here.

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 Islamic revival and formulations of American exceptionalism as “tri-faith America” (Schultz 2012). By 1968, the MSA had spread to over 100 campuses and had become …

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. All workshops will be held virtually, via Zoom. Please …

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 …

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 two of the most devastating Gulf Coast weather events of the late 19th century, the 1896 Cedar Keys Hurricane and the 1900 Galveston Hurricane. “‘I …

In this conversation, award-winning author Trouillot and literature scholar Ménard will explore how the stories Black women tell about our experiences, our lives, and the world allow for a fuller understanding of numerous issues affecting humanity. This event is free and open to the public. This event kicks off Blackness 360°: Art, Culture, Health, and Futures, …

Heather Burnett (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS et Université de Paris 7) 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 same language run fewer risks of losing information in translation, and often share social and cultural references …

Join us on Thursday, March 18, at 5 pm for Exploring Digital Humanities Projects. In this event, invited speakers will discuss their experiences using digital resources. Humanities Engagement Scholars are able to join this event in Canvas; interested undergraduate students should email Alexandra Cenatus at acenatus@ufl.edu to receive a Zoom link.

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 …

Terry Harpold, Department of English, University of Florida This talk is part of the FFRI guest speaker series: Francophone Artists, Bande dessinées and Diasporic Graphics. More information is available on the FFRI website.  Zoom registration

Our beliefs, the stories we tell ourselves, the decisions, and actions we take every day, define possible futures going forward. Greta Thunberg started Fridays for Future, based on her frustration and despair that her future, and the future of generations to come, is being made impossible by the “hopeful” empty promises of hypothetical distant climate …

More information here. Event registration here. “In Limbo, Esther Figueroa deftly navigates between steamy romance, backdoor deals and dangerous plunges into the inferno of Jamaica’s environmental disasters. But the novel’s other side is its tender and evocative celebration of love, friendship, place and belonging. The author (like her heroine) emerges triumphant at the end of …

The Center for Global Islamic Studies has planned a few online lectures during the spring semester: two lectures about Islam in America by Justine Howe and Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, and another about Sufism and Ifa by Oludamini Ogunnaike. The events will take place via Zoom, and you can find the links for registration after each event. …

This lecture examines the representation of the woman warrior figure in a groundbreaking hyper-real martial arts film from Hou Hsiao-hsien, an art-house director from Taiwan better known for his portrayal of 20th century historical trauma. With the 2015 film The Assassin, he turns his attention to examine individual trauma. What personal cost do you pay …

Come hear about different sectors and countries that Peace Corps volunteers serve in throughout South America. In this panel there will be five speakers all representing different Peace Corps sectors and countries in South America including three UF Alumni. UF's Peace Corps Prep program will also be discussed along with general information about Peace Corps …

Book Talk: Moderated by Dr. Ali Altaf Mian (University of Florida) In Works Righteousness, Anna L. Peterson examines the place of practice in contemporary ethical theory. Peterson argues that rather than assuming that pre-established moral ideas guide action, ethicists should acknowledge and explore the relationship between ideas, actions, and results. Both an analysis of alternative …

Are you interested in international careers but aren’t sure where to get started or what you need to do while at UF to prepare? Save the date for our first ever International Scholars Program alumni panel! We will be joined by professionals from different fields who have had unique journeys getting to where they are …

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 …

Dr. Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at University of California, Berkeley Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson lectures on the work of Louise Nevelson, the Ukrainian-American sculptor whose career intersected with the feminist art movement. Her talk focuses particularly on Mrs. N’s Palace (1964-77), Nevelson’s largest sculpture. Comprised of some hundred found objects, painted black, the work echoes …