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The Bob Graham Center for Public Service provides a wide variety of programs for students and the larger public on topics related to public service, public leadership and civic engagement.

Latest Past Events

A Conversation with Mark Oppenheimer

Pugh Hall Ocora 296 Buckman Dr, Gainesville

Whoa, where did this come from? The Antisemitism of 2022 and Its Origins Watch the recorded event Mark Oppenheimer has been covering American religion for 25 years. He holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from Yale, and has taught at Stanford, Wesleyan, Wellesley, NYU, Boston College, and Yale, where he recently retired after 15 years

Public Humanities As Environmental Humanities

Smathers Library Rm 100 Gainesville

Nicholas Allen, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia, will speak about contemporary roles for the environmental humanities, which aim to help bridge traditional divides between the sciences and the humanities. This event is part of the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere:

Task Force Report: African & Native American History

Smathers Library Rm 100 Gainesville

In the walk of Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, UF President Kent Fuchs created a task force of students, staff and alumni to investigate UF's relationship with African and Native Americans from 1853 to the present. The public was invited to hear the report from the presidential task force on Tuesday, Jan. 17. Audience