Upcoming Events
Carlos Eire (Yale): The History of the Impossible
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, GainesvilleCarlos Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, will give a public lecture on “The History of the Impossible.”
Name, Image, and Blackness: Race and College Football
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, GainesvilleThis 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.
Race, Detention, and Indigeneity in South Florida
Smathers Library 1508 Union Rd, GainesvilleBetween 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 […]