Applications are available from the Florida Humanities Council. All costs, including room, board, and seminar materials are covered . Space is limited. Seminars are filled as participants apply and are accepted. Once accepted, applicants receive a list of seminars available and choose from this list.
All seminars take place in the Tampa Bay area.
Spend a week learning more about the beliefs and cultural traditions of these Florida citizens. Agriculture, fishing, sponging, mining, cigar making, tourism, construction and teaching are all forms of work that have engaged Floridians. In this seminar, we will travel from fishing docks to factories to explore the values and meaning our society attributes to various kinds of labor, and how they have changed over time. Many decry the reshaping of Florida. Wetlands and hammocks become shopping malls and trailer parks.