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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.