Artists & Scholars in Public Life at the University of Florida and Beyond
UF is proud to be a member-institution of Imagining America (IA), a national consortium committed to using the arts, humanities, and design to enact a more just and liberatory world. Faculty, staff, students, and community partners are invited to join the UF Imagining America Working Group and advance public scholarship through IA gatherings, collaborative projects, and resources.
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Recent Projects
2008
Since 2008, the Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) has traveled to the Mississippi Delta annually on a field research trip with undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff to collect oral histories with civil rights veterans and notable residents.
The trip partners with the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization and other research allies.
The annual Mississippi Freedom Project research trip serves to place undergraduate, graduate, and staff researchers in a dynamic environment to gather hands-on experience and knowledge of progressive social movements. As researchers in the Delta, trip participants work with community groups and education programs to collect oral histories with civil rights veterans and notable residents of the Delta, lending the collected oral histories a unique focus on connecting the lessons of civil rights movement organizing with Mississippi’s current social and political climate.
2008
Since 2008, the Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) has traveled to the Mississippi Delta annually on a field research trip with undergraduate students, graduate students, and staff to collect oral histories with civil rights veterans and notable residents.
The trip partners with the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization and other research allies.
The annual Mississippi Freedom Project research trip serves to place undergraduate, graduate, and staff researchers in a dynamic environment to gather hands-on experience and knowledge of progressive social movements. As researchers in the Delta, trip participants work with community groups and education programs to collect oral histories with civil rights veterans and notable residents of the Delta, lending the collected oral histories a unique focus on connecting the lessons of civil rights movement organizing with Mississippi’s current social and political climate.
2008
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere has co-sponsored a project of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), which conducts ongoing research in the Mississippi Delta on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi by interviewing veteran civil rights activists and leading scholars of the movement.
The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of 200+ oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of the Mississippi Delta.
The collection centers on activism and organizing in partnership with the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization in Sunflower, Mississippi.
2008
The Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere has co-sponsored a project of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), which conducts ongoing research in the Mississippi Delta on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi by interviewing veteran civil rights activists and leading scholars of the movement.
The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of 200+ oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of the Mississippi Delta.
The collection centers on activism and organizing in partnership with the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization in Sunflower, Mississippi.
2007
A performance directed by Prof. Mikell Pinkney, UF School of Theatre and Dance, is a good example of how faculty and students can work internationally and then return that experience to the local community.
“Where Can We Run? The Rwanda Experience” began with the UF Arts in Medicine/CAHRE program working in Africa to provide medical and emotional assistance to those impacted by genocide (1990s).
Once the students returned home to the US, they transformed their experience into storytelling, poetry, songs and video.
“Rwanda serves as a model for the devastation that can occur as a result of cultural divisiveness, for the capacity for healing in a wounded society, and for the roles that the arts can play in such healing,” says Jill Sonke, director of CAHRE. “Our goal is to bring the arts to genocide survivors and their families in Rwanda and to bring these important messages home to Florida communities.”
2007
A performance directed by Prof. Mikell Pinkney, UF School of Theatre and Dance, is a good example of how faculty and students can work internationally and then return that experience to the local community.
“Where Can We Run? The Rwanda Experience” began with the UF Arts in Medicine/CAHRE program working in Africa to provide medical and emotional assistance to those impacted by genocide (1990s).
Once the students returned home to the US, they transformed their experience into storytelling, poetry, songs and video.
“Rwanda serves as a model for the devastation that can occur as a result of cultural divisiveness, for the capacity for healing in a wounded society, and for the roles that the arts can play in such healing,” says Jill Sonke, director of CAHRE. “Our goal is to bring the arts to genocide survivors and their families in Rwanda and to bring these important messages home to Florida communities.”
2005
Organized by: Neta Pulvermacher, Assistant Professor- School of Theatre and Dance
Neta Pulvermacher is the director of Our Children Foundation Dance Project in Harlem. Currently her company, Neta Dance Co. has worked in residence for the project. Since 2005, the company has held free showings of works and Q& A discussion with the children and teens after the performances.
The Our Children Dance Exchange Project has held fourteen week dance-making workshops where two UF alumni, Matt Reeves and Colette Krogol work with the program which culminates with a program of thestudents choreography. This choreography workshop program is
funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan
Community Arts Fund.
For more information: www.netacompany.org
2005
Organized by: Neta Pulvermacher, Assistant Professor- School of Theatre and Dance
Neta Pulvermacher is the director of Our Children Foundation Dance Project in Harlem. Currently her company, Neta Dance Co. has worked in residence for the project. Since 2005, the company has held free showings of works and Q& A discussion with the children and teens after the performances.
The Our Children Dance Exchange Project has held fourteen week dance-making workshops where two UF alumni, Matt Reeves and Colette Krogol work with the program which culminates with a program of thestudents choreography. This choreography workshop program is
funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan
Community Arts Fund.
For more information: www.netacompany.org
2000
At the end of each semester, students of IUF 1000 complete the This I Believe (TIB) audio essay (adapted from ThisIBelieve.org). In this assignment, students identify a value or belief that guides them, and they explain how a course work relates to that value or belief. Beginning Summer 2016, students of IUF 1000 have been invited to enter their audio essays in the competition for the TIB Scholarship, sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Affairs. The Finalists of the competition and the recipients of the TIB Scholarship have their entries included in the course’s new digital collection, IUF 1000: What is the Good Life @ UF. This collection is intended to serve as a resource for current students to consult, to recognize students in IUF 1000 for the exceptional quality of their work, and to provide the UF community with the opportunity to learn more about the purpose and content of the course. Audio essays will continue to be added each semester the competition is conducted.
For more information, contact Andrew Wolpert, Director of IUF 1000, at wolpert@ufl.edu
2000
At the end of each semester, students of IUF 1000 complete the This I Believe (TIB) audio essay (adapted from ThisIBelieve.org). In this assignment, students identify a value or belief that guides them, and they explain how a course work relates to that value or belief. Beginning Summer 2016, students of IUF 1000 have been invited to enter their audio essays in the competition for the TIB Scholarship, sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Affairs. The Finalists of the competition and the recipients of the TIB Scholarship have their entries included in the course’s new digital collection, IUF 1000: What is the Good Life @ UF. This collection is intended to serve as a resource for current students to consult, to recognize students in IUF 1000 for the exceptional quality of their work, and to provide the UF community with the opportunity to learn more about the purpose and content of the course. Audio essays will continue to be added each semester the competition is conducted.
For more information, contact Andrew Wolpert, Director of IUF 1000, at wolpert@ufl.edu
2000
The Veteran’s History Project is one of the program’s longest-running collections, organized after the Library of Congress approached SPOHP in 2000 to collect oral histories with World War II veterans for the nationwide Veteran’s History Project.
Research topics include a range of military conflicts, including oral histories veterans from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, military operations in Central America, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and more.
The broad scope of the Veteran’s History Project collection is owed to the determined work of its volunteers, led by Coordinator Ann Smith and the entire team of dedicated community members who generously donate their time and energy.
We currently have 325 WWII interviews, with more every week. We will be collecting some at The Atrium and have formed a meaningful partnership at Altrusa House. Altrusa House provides day care and has begun interviewing veterans. Nancy Hult and Ray Jones are willing to follow guidelines for SPOHP and for the Library Congress participation. We welcome their participation.
2000
The Veteran’s History Project is one of the program’s longest-running collections, organized after the Library of Congress approached SPOHP in 2000 to collect oral histories with World War II veterans for the nationwide Veteran’s History Project.
Research topics include a range of military conflicts, including oral histories veterans from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, military operations in Central America, the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and more.
The broad scope of the Veteran’s History Project collection is owed to the determined work of its volunteers, led by Coordinator Ann Smith and the entire team of dedicated community members who generously donate their time and energy.
We currently have 325 WWII interviews, with more every week. We will be collecting some at The Atrium and have formed a meaningful partnership at Altrusa House. Altrusa House provides day care and has begun interviewing veterans. Nancy Hult and Ray Jones are willing to follow guidelines for SPOHP and for the Library Congress participation. We welcome their participation.