Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Power inequities have allowed even well-intended museums and libraries to disrupt people’s knowledge of and access to cultural heritage. Libraries and museums were allies in or at least instruments of the political and legal dominance of one culture over others. Alternative or mitigative models to this colonization have emerged in response: decolonizing, postcolonial, postcustodial, and

Join us for dance, storytelling and fashion at Museum Nights on February 11th, now on-line, and always free!  For more information, please visit https://harn.ufl.edu/museumnights PROGRAM STARTS AT 7pm at www.youtube.com/harnmuseumofart West African Storytelling with Dr. Kole Ade Odutola, Yoruba lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Florida. Dance with Barakissa Coulibaly, a master West African dancer

In this 60-minute conversation, Aaron Hoover (Director of Executive Communications in the UF President's Office, Robin Lewy (Co-founder and Director of Programming at the Rural Women's Health Project, and Hadassah St. Hubert (Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access at the NEH) will discuss their humanities skills and provide an overview of their