For complete list of cosponsors, see events calendar on our website https://wst.ufl.edu/
- Perreo as Queer Feminist Resistance: A Creative Conversation was held on October 3rd 2020. The event featured Dr. Jade Power Sotomayor, DJ Sad Boy, and Dania Warhol. This Center event was organized and moderated by Dr. Jillian Hernandez and Center MA student Maria Saldana.
- Bodies Like Oceans: Queers in Nature A Discussion with Artist Shoog McDaniel was held November 18th 2020. This Center event was organized by Dr. Jillian Hernandez.
- Your Search Algorithm is Political, A talk by Safiya Noble was held on October 21st, organized by the African American Studies program, and cosponsored as part of the Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research Edna Saffy Lecture Series.
UF and community events including the following:
- Talking COVID: A Survival Guide for People of Color, organized by UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity (Dr. Manoucheka Celeste Convener)
- Two Centuries of the Equal Rights Amendment, sponsored by UF Levin College of Law
- Conversations in the Neighborhood: Let’s Talk About Food, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Public Humanities Series, included the following events:
- Food Access: Race, Class, and the Environment
- Suppressed Narratives: Oral History, Cookbooks, and Museums
- Food Memories of Latin America
- Fruits of the Past, Present, and Future: A Virtual – Workshop with Anna Tjé
- The Ecology of Food; Dishes of Africa and the African Diaspora
- Gainesville’s Food Producers; Madan Sara
- Visiting Artist Fatimah Tuggar: Methods, Making, Strategies in the Art of Fatimah Tuggar, sponsored by the School of Art + Art History
- 2020 Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit: Inspiring Women to be Confident Creators, Collaborators and Changemakers, sponsored by the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center at the UF Warrington College of Business and the UF Collaboratory for Women Innovators at UF Innovate
- Rethinking the Public Sphere: Data and Democracy, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, included the following events:
- Drone Publics: A Human-made Machine World, Dr. Katherine Chandler
- Data Feminism, Dr. Catherine D’Ignazio
- Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society, Dr. Ruha Benjamin
- Will Robots Feel Pain? The Politics of Race, the Governance of Technology, and the Future of Humanity, Dr. Sylvester Johnson
- I Am, Yo Soy, Mwen Se, Eu Sou Poderosx: Resisting Violence Against Womxn, Latina Empowerment Symposium, sponsored by UF HispanicLatinx Affairs
- Blackness 360° Series: Art, Culture, Health, and Futures, organized by Dr. Manoucheka Celeste as Black Affairs Faculty Fellow, sponsored by UF Black Affairs – details featured in this newsletter issue
- Radical Femininity: Women of Color Imaginaries, New Political Iconographies, organized by Dr. Jillian Hernandez with a grant from the UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere – details featured in this newsletter issue
- Documenting Migration Stories: The Haitian American Dream Digital Archive, organized by UF Mellon Intersections Group on Global Blackness and Latinx Identity (Dr. Manoucheka Celeste Convener)
- A Conversation with Novelist Yaa Gyasi, sponsored by UF Center for Jewish Studies