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The lives of LGBTQ+ people are often rendered invisible in dominant narratives of history, in omissions both stark and subtle.

Presenting spy comics from East Germany, the talk shows how the communist regime used comics as means of propaganda.

Beyond120, the signature professional development and experiential learning program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, connects students and alumni through internships, mentorship, research, international excursions and more.

In this talk, speaker Barbara Gruning of the University of Bicocca will present a comparative analysis between narrating difficult pasts in Germany and Italy from the second post-war to nowadays.

In 2007 Judy Batalion was researching at the British Library when she came across a dusty old book, Freuen in di Ghettos (Women in the Ghettos).

African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida is the first book to explore the creation and development of an African American Studies program at a major university.

While COVID-19 makes protesting in person even more dangerous than usual, international activists from Cape Town to Palestine have loudly proclaimed their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Let’s Talk Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Series is a monthly dialogue series that meets on the fourth Friday of each month.

Join the UF Levin College of Law and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service for a timely discussion about heirs property. This half-day event will feature two panel discussions exploring heirs property and identifying solutions to the challenges associated with it.

Nazi Germany took millions of people from occupied Eastern Europe to the Third Reich as prisoners and forced laborers. After World War II, more than five million returned to the USSR.

Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, will discuss the conditions that led some black abolitionists to believe slavery might only be abolished by violent force. Her research is the first to explore black abolitionists' tactical use of violence.

Dr. Cynthia Running-Johnson (Western Michigan University) will deliver a lecture based on the play ‘La conférence des oiseaux’. This event is free and open to the public.

Join us for a conversation with Naomi Seidman about the 93 — a group of girls from the Bais Yaakov school in the Kraków Ghetto that reportedly committed suicide rather than be taken as prostitutes by the Nazis.

What are the challenges and opportunities facing the theater community? Due to the pandemic, theater world-wide is in danger of losing its actors and technicians, not to mention its audience.

Join the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, the A. Quinn Jones Museum, and the City of Gainesville to celebrate Black History Month for two events that spotlight links between Africa and the African Diaspora.

In this lecture Dr. Beaman will discuss her ongoing ethnographic research on anti-racist mobilization and activism against police violence, and put that in conversation with anti-racist mobilization and the Black Lives Matter movement both in the United States and worldwide.

What impacts are the current media and political climate having on the first draft of history? How can citizens, government, and the press restore faith in civic life and the integrity of public policy?

In this talk, Dr. Tichavakunda highlights pressing findings from his year-long ethnography of Black engineering students at a historically White institution, Black Campus Life.

Recent cultural events have raised the question as to whether Jews are a race or ethnicity. Join us for a panel discussion featuring three faculty from the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.

The Let’s Talk Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Series is a monthly dialogue series that meets on the fourth Friday of each month.

After participating in the LinkedIn Learning’s BHM Challenge, join Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Bianca Evans-Donaldson for an open discussion around this month’s activities and why representation in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and beyond, matters.

The guiding question for this Cafe is "When should digital speech be restricted?" and it will be moderated by Kestrel Ward, a UF librarian and member of the National Forum for the Prevention of Cyber Sexual Assault.

While representation is on the rise for women in business, women are still underrepresented in the field globally. It has been proven that women make significant positive changes to organizational culture and processes and the bottom line.

The model of the solitary scholar writing articles and books in the library has given way to a diverse array of approaches to humanistic research.

Now more than ever, students and faculty are asked to be proficient in the latest digital tools and technologies while considering how these materials may be useful to their teaching and research.

“Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” traces the roots, routes, and reverberations of the largest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire.