Decolonizing Representations in the Curriculum

513 East University Avenue,Gainesville FL 32601

26 February, 2022

Description

This community listening event is part of an ongoing grant-funded project between WUFT News and the Florida Humanities Council. This community listening event is part of an ongoing grant-funded project between WUFT News and the Florida Humanities Council. This community-driven project, entitled Broadcasting Hope: Evoking the Complexity of Black Lives in Florida, will produce a six-part podcast that will air on 89.1/90.1 NPR News and Talk and publish alongside a multimedia series on WUFT.org. For each of the six episodes, a community listening event will be hosted to share the pilot episode with the community, stir conversation and invite feedback. The first event was hosted at the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center on February 16 to share a pilot of episode one, which explores the roots of African heritage in Florida, colonial roots, and its legacies and the practice of decolonizing representations. This is the second community listening event of the six-part series and will highlight Black activism at the university, Black Thursday specifically, and decolonizing the curriculum. This program is presented in partnership with Florida Humanities, WUFT, UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF African American Studies, UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, I.R.I.E. Center, and Alachua County Public Schools. The Matheson History Museum preserves and interprets the history of Alachua County, Florida, and its environs.