Latest Past Events
Local Author Series: Jo Ann Lordahl
Alachua County Library Headquarters - Meeting Room AJoin local author Jo Ann Lordahl as she presents her book, A Secret Kept in Hawaii.
The Revolution Within: Religious Mediation and the Struggle for the ‘New Egypt’ – Yasmin Moll
The 2011 revolution unleashed passionate public concern about how to create a “New Egypt.” Islamic channels were important sites of these debates as rival television preachers gave media form to their competing visions of what a virtuous life entails and what an ethical polity looks like. Based on fieldwork in Cairo with the “New Preachers”
Humanities Writing Retreat 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere is canceling its annual Humanities Writing Retreat at the Austin Cary Forest. Instead, the Humanities Center is offering a Virtual Humanities Writing Support Group, which will focus on the transition from teaching to writing. The new deadline to RSVP is May