UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Humanities graduate students: please join our Career Diversity Panel! This Zoom event will feature panelists: Dr. Ivana Simic (Associate Director of the IRB, University of Florida), Dr. Jenny Kreiger (Netflix), and Dr. Matthew Loar (Director of Fellowships and Student Research, Washington and Lee University).

Click to register: https://calendar.ufl.edu/clas_humanities/event/37152-career-diversity-panel-for-humanities-graduate. Organized by the CHPS Graduate Humanities Engagement program in collaboration with the UF Department of Philosophy.

Join our Director, Dr. Jaime Ahlberg, in giving back today! Give to your favorite humanities departments and programs -- it's Gator Nation Giving Day! 🧡💙🐊 https://givingday.ufl.edu/pages/college-of-liberal-arts-and-sciences

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences invites applications for a full-time position at the rank of Lecturer, beginning Spring 2024, for the position of Assistant Director of Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Learning. This is a nine-month, non-tenure-accruing position to be renewed on a year-to-year basis, contingent on funding.

As a key part of the Center’s intellectual life, the Assistant Director of Digital Humanities and Undergraduate Learning will develop and oversee a suite of curricular programs, workshops, and events that expand opportunities for and engagement with the digital humanities for faculty and students. The Assistant Director will work to foster collaborations with industry and thought-leaders in order to connect the work of humanities research and increase impact beyond UF. The Assistant Director will also coordinate opportunities for undergraduates by way of the Alexander Grass Humanities Undergraduate Research Fund, including building infrastructure to support humanistic undergraduate research and administering programming in CHPS and beyond.

The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, and the compensation includes a full benefits package.

Applicants must hold a Ph.D. (preferably in a humanities field,
completed by time of appointment). We also prefer that applicants have one to three years of experience in one or more of the following areas: non-profit organizations, professional development workshops, public-facing writing, or cultural awareness and/or diversity initiatives; have taken advanced coursework in the digital and/or public humanities; has taught and/or have mentorship experience with students in higher education; have experience creating partnerships between higher education and non-academic entities.

Please find more details about the position and instructions on how to apply at this link: https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/529440/assistant-director-of-digital-humanities-and-undergraduate-learning-lecturer-chps

Faculty, students, staff, and community partners are invited to drop in during our Fall 2023 Open House!

Enjoy finger food and a beverage, learn about funding opportunities and grant resources, and connect with UF students, faculty, and community partners. Meet with the new CHPS Director, Dr. Jaime Ahlberg, alongside the Center staff. Tell us how we can support you!

Happy Halloween! Stop by Walker 200 this afternoon for SPOOKY HUMANITIES!! 🎃👻

Drop into the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere on Halloween for our Spooky Open House! Meet CHPS staff and hear from humanities professors who work with horror, bloodsuckers, plague, the eerie, and the paranormal. You will also learn about research and internship opportunities for humanities students. Candy provided, costumes encouraged! 🎃

This event is open to Humanities Engagement Scholars and all undergraduate students interested in the humanities. Stop by anytime between 3:00 and 5:00!

Join us today at Smathers Library 100. Hope to see you there!

Join UF's Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere on Oct. 21 @ 4 pm in Smathers Library 100 for
CHPS Speaker Series - "Why A New Philosophical Inquiry" (feat. Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty). Hope to see you there!

https://calendar.ufl.edu/humanities/event/27226-why-a-new-philosophical-anthropology

Join UF's Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere on Oct. 21 @ 4 pm in Smathers Library 100 for
CHPS Speaker Series - "Why A New Philosophical Inquiry" (feat. Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty). Hope to see you there!

https://calendar.ufl.edu/humanities/event/27226-why-a-new-philosophical-anthropology

Join CHPS on May 11th, 2023, 4pm at UF / IFAS Austin Cary Forest for a free, public talk: "What Can the Humanities Teach Us About Good Mentorship?" – Maria Wisdom (Duke University)

https://humanities.ufl.edu/event/public-lecture-by-maria-lamonaca-wisdom-director-faculty-mentoring-and-coaching-programs-duke-university-what-can-the-humanities-teach-us-about-good-mentorship/

CHPS Synergies, April 19 @ 4pm on Zoom: "The Politics of Pandemics in a Global Frame"

Suvendu Ghatak (Ph.D. Student, Department of English, University of Florida) – "Malarial Modernity: Colonialism and the Politics of Health in Modern South Asia"

In this presentation, Suvendu Ghatak reads across medical, administrative, and literary archives in English, Bengali, and Hindi, between 1780 and 1950, to describe how in colonial South Asia, malaria became marked as the pathology of primitivity and degeneracy.

Katherine McNamara (Ph.D. Student, UF Environmental & Global Health) – “People, Plants, and Pandemics”

Using two disease events as focal points — the emergence of malaria in the 17th century and the COVID-19 pandemic, Katherine McNamara’s research in Ecuador leverages archival and anthropological methods to explore how relationships between people and medicinal plants evolve as health ecologies shift.

Register on Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oceivqTwiGdWIz1ACunarBu11dl_DYOG3 #/registration

Join CHPS tonight @ 5pm at First Magnitude Brewing Company for the final meeting of “Humanities Happy Hour” to discuss chapters 7 and 8 of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What? This week Swamp Religion is on the menu! See you there.

https://humanities.ufl.edu/event/humanities-happy-hour-chapters-7-and-8/

It's today! Stop on by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in Walker Hall 200 for cookies and professional development!

Congratulations to Professor Stephen G. Perz (UF Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law) for his new book - The Road to the Land of the Mother of God: A History of the Interoceanic Highway in Peru, co-authored by Jorge Luis Castillo Hurdado, and published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2023.

Dr. Perz received a Publication Subvention grant through the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere funded by the Rothman Endowment and the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Amazing work! 🤩

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496225870/

Getting Published This panel is a nuts-and-bolts discussion of book publishing from the perspective of both authors and editors. It includes a presentation on the publication ...

UF Synergies: "Knowledge and History," April 3 @ 4pm on Zoom

Anton Matytsin (UF History Department) – “A History of History: The Academie des Inscriptions and the Remaking of the Past”

In this presentation, Dr. Anton Matytsin explores the origins of the modern discipline of history and the emergence of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism by examining the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, a learned society in Old Regime France that rethought the development of civilizations, moving away from biblical chronology and incorporating non-European cultures.

Rodrigo Borges (UF Philosophy) – “Knowledge After Gettier: The Place of Knowledge in Contemporary Philosophy”

This talk by Dr. Rodrigo Borges critically assesses the conventional philosophical wisdom that the examples introduced into the philosophical imagination by Edmund Gettier in 1963 shattered the ancient Platonic definition of knowledge as justified true belief.

Please join the event through the Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/96243866839

Join the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere on March 30th, 5pm @ First Magnitude Brewing Company for Humanities Happy Hour Part III! More info and link to the text below.

This week you can enjoy the flavors from the Soul Spice LLC food truck. See you there!

https://humanities.ufl.edu/event/humanities-happy-hour-chapters-5-and-6/

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere invites applications by PhD and Master students in the humanities and humanistic sciences at UF for the Graduate Humanities Summer Institute. Apply today!

https://envision.humanities.ufl.edu/the-graduate-summer-institute/

Co-sponsored by
The Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities
George A. Smathers Libraries
One Health Center of Excellence
UF Career Connections Center
University of Florida Graduate School
UF International Center - UFIC

Congratulations to Professor Trevor Mowchun (English, Film and Media Studies Program) for his new book: Metaphysics and the Moving Image: "Paradise Exposed!"

Dr. Mowchun received a Publication Subvention grant through the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere funded by the Rothman Endowment and the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Way to go! 🤩

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-metaphysics-and-the-moving-image.html

Join the UF Department of English for a Career Diversity Panel for Graduate Students on March 24th @ 3pm. Register on Zoom today!

https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrdOqtrjMjG9a21wcGKWVm4QPKxSaDGgnY #/registration

The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere invites all UF faculty, staff, students, and community members to public presentations by two candidates for the position of the next Director.

On March 7 and 9, join us for public talks on their vision of the directorship, followed by social hours.

Attend Dr. Jaime Ahlberg’s talk on Tuesday in Pugh Hall 210 or join on Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/97386185977?pwd=azUveDdqQlZRNmZTWkFJWEk5MUZBZz09

Attend Dr. Fiona McLaughlin’s talk on Thursday at Pugh Hall 210 or join on Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/93462357653?pwd=Vld4WlNRN1Z5OWNLVHpTSXNCMEpIZz09

Join the University Press of Florida on March 31 for a two-panel event on publishing and the humanities:

11AM EST: Getting Published
1PM EST: Career Paths in Humanities, Public Engagement, and Publishing

Register here: bit.ly/flsharp3

This virtual event is the final installment in a series made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is offered in partnership with African American Studies at the University of Florida, the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, and the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.

UF Synergies! "Space and Place," Mon. March 6 @ 4pm.

Zheyuan Deng (Ph.D. candidate, University of Florida - Religion Department) – “The Spatial Histories of Ahmadiyya in Nigeria”

Based on archives, newspapers, internal documents, oral interviews, and participant observations, Zheyuan Deng examines how spaces have been constructed, contested, and lived by Ahmadi Muslims in Lagos, and argues that space is essential to understand Muslims’ everyday life in the broader social contexts.

Konstantinos Alexakis (UF College of Design, Construction and Planning) – “The Plot of Whately’s Observations”

Konstantinos Alexakis will present on Thomas Whately’s seminal gardening treatise, Observation on Modern Gardening (1770), to explore the narrative potential of landscape architectural work: how landscapes can affect us emotionally; how they can reinforce, contradict, and even subvert ideas that people hold about nature.

Rachel Gordan (University of Florida - Religion Department) – “Becoming The Y: The Story of the 92nd Street Young Men’s Hebrew Association”

Beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending into the present day, Rachel Gordan tells the story of the 92nd Street Y, the surprisingly understudied American cultural institution that has played a unique role in weaving together two important strands of New York history, the city as both a cultural capital and a Jewish capital.

On Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvc-qgqD0iGd1XFPCMURKFKtpOdDOgGQmP #/registration

Humanities Happy Hour - Part II
Join the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere on March 2 from 5pm - 7pm at First Magnitude Brewing Company for a relaxed discussion of chapters 3 and 4 of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What?

Don't worry if you missed the first session! We always welcome new members to our interdisciplinary group of faculty, grads, and community members. Members of UF Philosophy might be especially interested.

Read Hacking's book for free using your Gatorlink VPN: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1bzfp1z

Read more about the Canadian philosopher's important work: https://holbergprize.org/en/holberg-prize/prize-winners/ian-hacking

Join the Humanities Engagement Scholars and the Sankofa African American Studies Society on Feb. 16 @ 5:30pm in the Scott Nygren Studio to learn about different careers in the humanities. This event features panelists working in healthcare, local government, and law. The event is geared towards UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences undergraduates interested in the humanities but is open to all students.

RSVP: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6xTcycVbGuZKvl4

Stop by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere in Walker Hall 200 for an info session on Valentine's Day from 3pm - 5pm for graduate students about the Public Humanities Internship Program and the Graduate Summer Institute.

Learn why you should apply for one of our Summer Public Humanities Internships at TeachRock, A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center, Hippodrome Theatre, or Florida Press by March 3rd, 2023!
https://envision.humanities.ufl.edu/internships/

Hear about the Graduate Humanities Summer Institute, a competitive five day workshop from May 8-12th to foster your academic and professional skills. Application opens Friday, February 10th.
https://envision.humanities.ufl.edu/events/ -8

Join CHPS on February 7 @ 4pm on Zoom for Synergies: Reproduction and Colonialism in Latin America

Paola Uparela (Spanish and Portuguese Studies) – “Well-Being Policies for the (Re)production of the Indigenous Population: Las Casas’s Remedies (1516) in Guaman Poma’s Good Government (1615)”

Dr. Paola Uparela’s talk contributes to the historical research on Felipe Guaman Poma’s proposal to the sovereign in the 17th century to stop abuses, illicit impregnation, and miscegenation of the Indigenous population, by connecting this research to the prominent intellectual, Bartolome de Las Casas, writing in the 16th century, one hundred years earlier.

Fernanda Bretones Lanes (History) – “Shores of Asylum: Fugitivity, Empire, and Slavery in the Colonial Caribbean”

Dr. Fernanda Bretones examines the making and unmaking of Spain’s religious sanctuary, an imperial policy that existed in the Caribbean during the 17th and 18th centuries that conferred asylum—and potentially freedom—to fugitive slaves who sought religious protection in Spanish colonies.

https://humanities.ufl.edu/uf-synergies-current-scholarship-in-the-humanities-22-23/

Don't miss Humanities Happy Hour this Thursday, February 2nd @ 5pm at First Magnitude for a relaxed discussion of the Preface and Chapters 1 - 2 of Ian Hacking’s The Social Construction of What? This event is open to faculty, grads, and community members!

Join us for beverages and food from the Stubbies Pop-up Sausages truck for intellectual comradery.

You can access a free e-copy of the text here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1bzfp1z