Upcoming Events
CHPS Speaker Series – “Public Humanities as Environmental Humanities”
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesJoin CHPS Jan. 26 @ 5pm in Smathers Library 100! In this public talk, Nicholas Allen (University of Georgia, Department of English and Willson Center for Humanities and Art) will consider how the public and the environmental humanities together can prepare the ground, water, and atmosphere for modes of thinking that give shape to the […]
Everything You Wanted To Know About Grants But Were Afraid To Ask: A Workshop
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis four-session workshop organized by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere will be led by Bill Hart-Davidson (Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Education, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University). SCHEDULE - SMATHERS LIBRARY 100 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Charting Pathways to Intellectual Leadership (Goal Setting) This is a […]
Public Lecture By Maria LaMonaca Wisdom (Director, Faculty Mentoring And Coaching Programs, Duke University) – What Can The Humanities Teach Us About Good Mentorship?
University of Florida Gainesville, FL, United StatesDrawing on material from her forthcoming book, How to Mentor a PhD, Dr. Maria LaMonaca Wisdom will discuss how humanistic inquiry might help us think about effective mentorship practices for both graduate students and junior faculty in the 21st-century university. Over the past few decades, higher education leaders have sounded alarm bells at a broken system of PhD […]
Why A New Philosophical Anthropology?
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesStarting from the arguments presented in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s recent books The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (2021) and One Planet, Many Worlds: The Climate Parallax (2023), this talk will seek to explain why making a distinction between the globe and the planet as humanist categories calls for a new philosophical anthropology.
Leonard N. Moore, “Name, Image, and Blackness: Race and College Football”
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis interactive presentation will look at the racial dynamics of college football in the South in light of recent developments: the transfer portal, NIL, conference realignment, anti-DEI legislation, and the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions. The most dynamic of these developments has been Name, Image, and Likeness. Ironically, […]
Name, Image, and Blackness: Race and College Football
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesThis interactive presentation will look at the racial dynamics of college football in the South in light of recent developments. This is the second event in the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere's 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging.
Research Justice: A Workshop on Collaboration
A. Quinn Jones Museum and Cultural Center 1013 NW 7th Ave, Gainesville, FL, United StatesThis workshop will reflect on strategies for creating equitable research collaborations, generating shared research questions for university-based researchers and community organizations. This is the third event in the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere's 2023-2024 Speaker Series: Scales of Belonging.
Race, Detention, and Indigeneity in South Florida
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, Gainesville, Florida, United StatesBetween 2016 and 2019, thousands of migrant children were detained at the Homestead Temporary Shelter, a detention camp in South Miami-Dade County, Florida. This talk tells the story of the detention camp in relation to the military base, which is a crucial node in the hemispheric circulation of weapons, soldiers, and military expertise. This is […]