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2016
In Spring 2016, a Gainesville-wide speaker series will invite Florida residents from all backgrounds to share their stories about making Florida home.
Imagining Florida is a five-part series of lectures and discussions from January-April 2016. Talk writing with Gainesville author Lauren Groff at the ACLD Headquarters Branch Library. Unpeel the history of Florida citrus with Gary Mormino at the Matheson History Museum. Feast your eyes on African-Floridian art with Robin Poynor and Patricia Hilliard-Nunn at Santa Fe College. And dust off treasured artifacts from famous Floridians with curators from the UF Smathers Libraries.
2016
In Spring 2016, a Gainesville-wide speaker series will invite Florida residents from all backgrounds to share their stories about making Florida home.
Imagining Florida is a five-part series of lectures and discussions from January-April 2016. Talk writing with Gainesville author Lauren Groff at the ACLD Headquarters Branch Library. Unpeel the history of Florida citrus with Gary Mormino at the Matheson History Museum. Feast your eyes on African-Floridian art with Robin Poynor and Patricia Hilliard-Nunn at Santa Fe College. And dust off treasured artifacts from famous Floridians with curators from the UF Smathers Libraries.
2016
SPOHP 2009 public program featuring *Joel Buchanan* and including speakers Bernie Machen, Mrs. Evelyn Mickle, Zoharah Simmons, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and others. This program launched SPOHP’s African American History Research Project funded by the Office of the Provost.
2016
SPOHP 2009 public program featuring *Joel Buchanan* and including speakers Bernie Machen, Mrs. Evelyn Mickle, Zoharah Simmons, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson and others. This program launched SPOHP’s African American History Research Project funded by the Office of the Provost.
2016
The Florida Queer History Project, founded in June 2016, is a growing archive of oral histories dedicated to highlighting the queer experience throughout the last century. The project aims to provide a means for queer-identified individuals to express and document how their sexual orientations and gender identities have shaped their lives. The Project also seeks to document the contemporary LGBTQ+ Movement through a variety of fieldwork initiatives—most recently by attending the 2017 Pride weekend in Washington, DC.
2016
The Florida Queer History Project, founded in June 2016, is a growing archive of oral histories dedicated to highlighting the queer experience throughout the last century. The project aims to provide a means for queer-identified individuals to express and document how their sexual orientations and gender identities have shaped their lives. The Project also seeks to document the contemporary LGBTQ+ Movement through a variety of fieldwork initiatives—most recently by attending the 2017 Pride weekend in Washington, DC.
2016
In July 2016, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere sent a team of UF faculty (Jeff Pufahl, Arts in Medicine; Mike Spranger, UF IFAS Extension) and Reichert House Executive Director John Alexander Jr. to Performing Our Future, a workshop on arts and economic development in rural communities.
2016
In July 2016, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere sent a team of UF faculty (Jeff Pufahl, Arts in Medicine; Mike Spranger, UF IFAS Extension) and Reichert House Executive Director John Alexander Jr. to Performing Our Future, a workshop on arts and economic development in rural communities.
2016
inFESTation: for punk is a pestilence that refuses cure. inFESTation: when your local scene explodes to become the capital of punk nation. inFESTation: when the subterranean hive is alive with the frenetic drives of alternative futures. inFESTation: when the sounds of the underground surround us with microphones, drones, and pedal tones. With distorted baritones and sonic tombstones. inFESTation is amped up, and it won't back down. inFESTation: an abrasive invasive that scrapes your ears and perforates your shoes. inFESTation: when hardcore carves out the caverns in your ribcage. inFESTation is a domination of black. inFESTation: when the academy that dissected and defined punk leaves the ivory tower and goes out into the street! inFESTation: when punk and postpunk expression invades the way we think, the way we write, and what we do.
2016
inFESTation: for punk is a pestilence that refuses cure. inFESTation: when your local scene explodes to become the capital of punk nation. inFESTation: when the subterranean hive is alive with the frenetic drives of alternative futures. inFESTation: when the sounds of the underground surround us with microphones, drones, and pedal tones. With distorted baritones and sonic tombstones. inFESTation is amped up, and it won't back down. inFESTation: an abrasive invasive that scrapes your ears and perforates your shoes. inFESTation: when hardcore carves out the caverns in your ribcage. inFESTation is a domination of black. inFESTation: when the academy that dissected and defined punk leaves the ivory tower and goes out into the street! inFESTation: when punk and postpunk expression invades the way we think, the way we write, and what we do.
2016
The symposium “Ethics and the Built Environment” aims to gain deeper understanding of the relationship between ethics and the built environment, especially within the rapid pace of cultural and technological production, agricultural challenges, and climate change in our contemporary world; to promote the consideration of ethics in the production of the built environment; to initiate and sustain a dialogue between the fields of arts, humanities, and sciences on this common ground, thus providing a more holistic understanding of the subject; and to encourage the influence of humanities discourses in the scientific fields.
2016
The symposium “Ethics and the Built Environment” aims to gain deeper understanding of the relationship between ethics and the built environment, especially within the rapid pace of cultural and technological production, agricultural challenges, and climate change in our contemporary world; to promote the consideration of ethics in the production of the built environment; to initiate and sustain a dialogue between the fields of arts, humanities, and sciences on this common ground, thus providing a more holistic understanding of the subject; and to encourage the influence of humanities discourses in the scientific fields.
2017
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in conjunction with Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency hosted a free film screening of “Gator Tales,” the award-winning theatrical performance which highlights the experiences of the first generation of African American students at the University of Florida.
“Gator Tales” is an original play devised and directed by UF Arts Professor Kevin Marshall in conjunction with the Proctor Program at UF which premiered in 2015. This special film of the live theatre performance brings vividly to life the voices of those African Americans in Gainesville who struggled for civil rights and educational equality for all. Gator Tales was nominated for the 2015 Freedom Expression of Award by Amnesty International at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
Special Guests and Performances:
The Flossie B. McLendon Memorial and Reichert House Drill Teams will perform color guard presentation.
Special guests will perform dance entitled “Young, Gifted and Black,” and sing the “Negro National Anthem”
An invocation by Prophet George Young III will be followed by opening remarks from Commissioner Golston
The character’s stories in “Gator Tales” are drawn from the oral history archive of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Interviews with Joel Buchanan, Ron Coleman, Bernard Hicks, Thomas Holland Fay, Joseph McCloud, Maime Lee Leath, Evelyn Moore Mickle, Stephan Mickle, Leitha Nichols, David Padgett, Laura Scott Reaves, Samuel Taylor, Gladys Thompson and Albert White are featured in the production.
For more information please contact:
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, 352-392- 7168
Tamarra Jenkins, tamarraj@ufl.edu
Nigel Hamm with Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency, (352) 393-8202 or HammN1@cityofgainesville.org
2017
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in conjunction with Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency hosted a free film screening of “Gator Tales,” the award-winning theatrical performance which highlights the experiences of the first generation of African American students at the University of Florida.
“Gator Tales” is an original play devised and directed by UF Arts Professor Kevin Marshall in conjunction with the Proctor Program at UF which premiered in 2015. This special film of the live theatre performance brings vividly to life the voices of those African Americans in Gainesville who struggled for civil rights and educational equality for all. Gator Tales was nominated for the 2015 Freedom Expression of Award by Amnesty International at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
Special Guests and Performances:
The Flossie B. McLendon Memorial and Reichert House Drill Teams will perform color guard presentation.
Special guests will perform dance entitled “Young, Gifted and Black,” and sing the “Negro National Anthem”
An invocation by Prophet George Young III will be followed by opening remarks from Commissioner Golston
The character’s stories in “Gator Tales” are drawn from the oral history archive of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. Interviews with Joel Buchanan, Ron Coleman, Bernard Hicks, Thomas Holland Fay, Joseph McCloud, Maime Lee Leath, Evelyn Moore Mickle, Stephan Mickle, Leitha Nichols, David Padgett, Laura Scott Reaves, Samuel Taylor, Gladys Thompson and Albert White are featured in the production.
For more information please contact:
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, 352-392- 7168
Tamarra Jenkins, tamarraj@ufl.edu
Nigel Hamm with Gainesville Community Redevelopment Agency, (352) 393-8202 or HammN1@cityofgainesville.org
2017
Beginning Thursday, March 16th, The Samuel Proctor Radio show hits the airwaves at 8:00 a.m with host Aliya Miranda.
Tune in daily for interesting stories on people, places and events. Click link at.
http://s2.yesstreaming.net:2199/start/wubafm/
This week's episode explores what a safe space means to different students and faculty at the University of Florida and what influences them to create those spaces on campus. We'll be examining what it took to put institutes such as IBC and La Casita in place as well as the significance of Ethnic Studies programs for students of all walks of life.
2017
Beginning Thursday, March 16th, The Samuel Proctor Radio show hits the airwaves at 8:00 a.m with host Aliya Miranda.
Tune in daily for interesting stories on people, places and events. Click link at.
http://s2.yesstreaming.net:2199/start/wubafm/
This week's episode explores what a safe space means to different students and faculty at the University of Florida and what influences them to create those spaces on campus. We'll be examining what it took to put institutes such as IBC and La Casita in place as well as the significance of Ethnic Studies programs for students of all walks of life.
2017
Dr. Julian Chambliss and Curtis Michelson talk about their part in the amazing journey to discover a secret hidden since 1922. Lake Jenny Jewel near Orlando, Florida, was the site of a lynching amid the violence of the early part of the 20th century against African American citizens. Only in this case the victim escaped, and so birthed the events of the next 90 years, all from said victim, by the name of Oscar Mack.
Produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
2017
Dr. Julian Chambliss and Curtis Michelson talk about their part in the amazing journey to discover a secret hidden since 1922. Lake Jenny Jewel near Orlando, Florida, was the site of a lynching amid the violence of the early part of the 20th century against African American citizens. Only in this case the victim escaped, and so birthed the events of the next 90 years, all from said victim, by the name of Oscar Mack.
Produced by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
2017
Professor of Religion at UF, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is a UF professor of religion who participated in Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964. A former leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Laurel, Mississippi and Atlanta, Georgia, Simmons instituted a sexual harassment policy to protect the female volunteers of the project. Because of her reputation as an “Amazon,” who, “didn’t take any s***, especially off of men,” the Laurel Project was referred to as the “Amazon Project.” Dr. Simmons, a Sufi Muslim, draws on the compassion and inclusiveness of her faith in her work as a community organizer, scholar and writer. In 2016, at the invitation of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, she lectured in four European countries about the history and meaning of the African American freedom movement.
This vignette features clips from an interview with Dr. Simmons in which she details the beginning of the Laurel Project.
2017
Professor of Religion at UF, Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons is a UF professor of religion who participated in Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964. A former leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Laurel, Mississippi and Atlanta, Georgia, Simmons instituted a sexual harassment policy to protect the female volunteers of the project. Because of her reputation as an “Amazon,” who, “didn’t take any s***, especially off of men,” the Laurel Project was referred to as the “Amazon Project.” Dr. Simmons, a Sufi Muslim, draws on the compassion and inclusiveness of her faith in her work as a community organizer, scholar and writer. In 2016, at the invitation of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, she lectured in four European countries about the history and meaning of the African American freedom movement.
This vignette features clips from an interview with Dr. Simmons in which she details the beginning of the Laurel Project.
2018
Beginning in 2018, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has supported UF faculty participation in summer programs at the National Humanities Center (NHC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. These include: a one-month faculty residency at the NHC, and participation in virtual themed institutes that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
2018
Beginning in 2018, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has supported UF faculty participation in summer programs at the National Humanities Center (NHC) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. These include: a one-month faculty residency at the NHC, and participation in virtual themed institutes that focus on practical teaching, research, and professionalization skills.
2018
SPOHP panel moderated by Paul Ortiz. Featuring UF Alumni and current students discussing the intersections of Black and Latinx Histories at UF from the 1960s to present.
Join us for a discussion on the histories of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture (aka “La Casita”), including their founding and their entwined legacies. Not a formal panel discussion, this is intended to be an open dialogue between these speakers and the UF community.
Panelists include Dr. David Horne (Cal State Northridge), one of the organizers of the Black Thursday protest that led to the founding of the IBC. Dr. Horne is accompanied by Dr. Maria Masque, former director of La Casita.
Also speaking are UF Students Daniel Clayton and Christopher Garcia.
Introduced by graduate research assistant Juliette Barbera, Juanita Duque, and moderated by Dr. Paul Ortiz
2018
SPOHP panel moderated by Paul Ortiz. Featuring UF Alumni and current students discussing the intersections of Black and Latinx Histories at UF from the 1960s to present.
Join us for a discussion on the histories of the Institute of Black Culture and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture (aka “La Casita”), including their founding and their entwined legacies. Not a formal panel discussion, this is intended to be an open dialogue between these speakers and the UF community.
Panelists include Dr. David Horne (Cal State Northridge), one of the organizers of the Black Thursday protest that led to the founding of the IBC. Dr. Horne is accompanied by Dr. Maria Masque, former director of La Casita.
Also speaking are UF Students Daniel Clayton and Christopher Garcia.
Introduced by graduate research assistant Juliette Barbera, Juanita Duque, and moderated by Dr. Paul Ortiz
2018
The Scholars in Peru (IDH3931) study abroad course in Cusco, Peru focuses on community engagement and the preservation of cultural heritage. In partnership with the Archbishopric of Cusco and Peru's Ministry of Culture students help restore endangered adobe churches from the colonial era. The course also includes critical discussions of “voluntourism,” a weaving workshop, and on-site engagement with art and architecture. The course takes place in early May every two years, and is taught by Professors Regan Garner and Maya Stanfield-Mazzi.
2018
The Scholars in Peru (IDH3931) study abroad course in Cusco, Peru focuses on community engagement and the preservation of cultural heritage. In partnership with the Archbishopric of Cusco and Peru's Ministry of Culture students help restore endangered adobe churches from the colonial era. The course also includes critical discussions of “voluntourism,” a weaving workshop, and on-site engagement with art and architecture. The course takes place in early May every two years, and is taught by Professors Regan Garner and Maya Stanfield-Mazzi.
2018
Assembly for Action is committed to educating and enabling the next generation of leaders at the University of Florida to bridge the gap between student involvement and non - profit needs in Gainesville. This innovative program is the result of a collaborative effort with various student organizations, colleges, and institutions at the University of Florida and across Gainesville culminating in a four day conference. In addition to special lectures in leadership, social entrepreneurship, public speaking, and many other topics, Action Scholars will be paired with a local non - profit that best matches their preferences and work with that non - profit in an organized day of service. After learning about how non - profit function and the challenges they face, students will be tasked with synthesizing the information from the special lectures and experience to help write a proposal. The proposals will be considered by an independent panel of judges with the top students being asked to present. The winning group will receive a $2000 grant in seed money to be used in turning their community project into a reality. For more information, go to https://assemblyforaction.org/
2018
Assembly for Action is committed to educating and enabling the next generation of leaders at the University of Florida to bridge the gap between student involvement and non - profit needs in Gainesville. This innovative program is the result of a collaborative effort with various student organizations, colleges, and institutions at the University of Florida and across Gainesville culminating in a four day conference. In addition to special lectures in leadership, social entrepreneurship, public speaking, and many other topics, Action Scholars will be paired with a local non - profit that best matches their preferences and work with that non - profit in an organized day of service. After learning about how non - profit function and the challenges they face, students will be tasked with synthesizing the information from the special lectures and experience to help write a proposal. The proposals will be considered by an independent panel of judges with the top students being asked to present. The winning group will receive a $2000 grant in seed money to be used in turning their community project into a reality. For more information, go to https://assemblyforaction.org/
2018
In 2018, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, offered an inaugural funding opportunity for reading groups in the humanities. Groups use this as an opportunity for scholarly exchange on a shared topic of interest related to the humanities. Their long-term goals may include exploring the possibilities of a shared research agenda, deepening interdisciplinary knowledge, learning from one another, organizing a symposium, and developing future grant proposals. This program allows participants from across the campus and beyond to explore complex issues at a moment when cross-disciplinary collaboration is crucial to address shifting domains of knowledge and a rapidly changing world.
2018
In 2018, The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, with the support of the Robert and Margaret Rothman Endowment for the Humanities, offered an inaugural funding opportunity for reading groups in the humanities. Groups use this as an opportunity for scholarly exchange on a shared topic of interest related to the humanities. Their long-term goals may include exploring the possibilities of a shared research agenda, deepening interdisciplinary knowledge, learning from one another, organizing a symposium, and developing future grant proposals. This program allows participants from across the campus and beyond to explore complex issues at a moment when cross-disciplinary collaboration is crucial to address shifting domains of knowledge and a rapidly changing world.