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Humanities Writing Retreat

In the week after the spring semester 2022 ended and before Summer A began, 33 faculty members, staff, and doctoral students from the University of Florida gathered for a productive week of writing at the beautiful Austin Cary Forest Campus northeast of Gainesville.

Publication Subventions

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere continued to support humanities book publications with its publication subvention. In collaboration with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of the Arts, seven publication subventions were awarded during the 2021-22 academic year.

Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education

In 2022, Lauren Burrell Cox and June Ke, former graduate students associated with the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere and the University of California Humanities Research Institute respectively, released Under Review: Rethinking Humanities Graduate Education, a podcast that examines humanities graduate education to amplify graduate students’ perspectives. The podcast hosts met […]

“Look at the Water Coming!” — Remembering the 1896 Hurricane in Florida and Imagining the Storms to Come

The Storymap “Look at the Water Coming!” — Remembering the 1896 Hurricane in Florida and Imagining the Storms to Come” is an interdisciplinary public humanities collaborative by five UF faculty members, supported by two graduate students. Cynthia Barnett (Journalism), Jack Davis (History), Terry Harpold (English), Barbara Mennel (Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere), […]