Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere 10-Year Anniversary Event

The University of Florida’s Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (founded in 2005 and launched in 2009) invites you to the Celebration of its Ten-Year Anniversary April 5, 2019 2:00pm Welcome, Kent Fuchs, President, University of Florida Introduction, Steve Seibert, Executive Director, Florida Humanities Council Keynote, Jon Parrish Peede, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities […]

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UF Synergies: Knowledge and Law in the Caribbean

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 @ 4:00pm, Walker 201D  Knowledge and Law in the Caribbean Matthew Strickland (History) “Civilizing Slaves: Imperialism, Anglicanism, and African Slavery on Codrington Plantation”  Matthew Strickland’s presentation discusses the lives of enslaved people on Codrington Plantation on Barbados and the role of religious conversion that occurred there from 1710 to emancipation in […]

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