Past Archived Events

Atlantic Studies Mao

"Americae Pars Magis Cognita, Frankfurt, 1592" 
by Theodoro De Bry
Special Collections
University of Miami Libraries

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Fall 2019

Wednesday, October 2, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Scott Heerman: "Abolishing Slavery in Motion"  

Thursday, November 14, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Ian Merkel, “The Place of Brazil and Brazilians in the Annales School and Structural Anthropology”

Spring 2019

Tuesday, February 19, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Graduate Student Lunch with Professor Ed Larkin (University of Delaware): "The Academic Job Market in English"

Tuesday, February 19, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room
Ed Larkin, Professor of English and MAterial Culture Studies: "Reading the Reuben and Rachel Spreadsheet"

Monday, April 1, 3:30-5:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Workshop for RJ Boutelle

Friday, April 12, 3:30-5:00pm
Center for the Humanities Conference Room
Kate Ramsey (paper TBA)

 
Fall 2017

October 11 at 3:30pm
Ashe Administration, Room 735
Martha Schoolman, Associate Professor of English, Florida International University

October 26, 2017 at 3:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Suite 100
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Nathaniel Cadle, Associate Professor of English, Florida International University

November 15, 2017 at 3:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Suite 100
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Jason Sharples, Assistant Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University

 

SPRING 2018

March 26, 2017 at 3:30pm
Otto G. Richter Library, Suite 100
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Kate Ramsey, Associate Professor of History, University of Miami

April TBD
Otto G. Richter Library, Suite 100
Center for the Humanities Conference Rm
Jenna Gibbs, Associate Professor of History, Florida International University

 

SPRING 2015

Monday, February 9, 2015 at 12:30pm
Workshop:  Amelia Hintzen (UM, History Grad Student), Geographies of Power: The Trujillo Regime, Sugar, and anti-Haitianism, 1930-1945. Ashe 621.

Thursday March 5, 2015 at 4:30pm
Visiting Speaker:
 Duncan Faherty, Associate Professor of English, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Otto G. Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conf Room
'To exclude the use of foreign sugars:' Haiti, Narrative Temporality, and The Early American Novel 
Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. Co-sponsored by American Studies Program, the Department of History and the Department of English 
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Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 12:30pm
Workshop:  Martha Schoolman (FIU, English), “Samuel Ringgold Ward’s Agricultural Aspirations.” Ashe 621

FALL 2014

Tuesday October 7, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Raphael Dalleo, Associate Professor of English, Florida Atlantic University
Afroantillanismo, the Marvelous Real, and the Occupation: Alejo Carpentier from Cuba to Paris to Haiti
Ashe Administration Building, Room 621

Thursday November 20, 2014
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Martin Nesvig, Associate Professor of History, University of Miami
"Power, Coconuts, and Regions of Refuge in Colonial Colima"
Ashe Administration Building, Room 621

Spring 2014

Thursday March 27, 4:30 p.m.
Otto G. Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room

"Polar Imprints: The News at the Ends of the Earth" 
Hester Blum, Associate Professor of English, Penn State University
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Friday, March 28 - 11:00am
Otto G. Richter Library, Center for the Humanities Conf Room, Suite 100

Oceanic Studies Workshop
Hester Blum, Associate Professor of English, Penn State University

Spring 2011

Friday March 4, 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
CAS Gallery, UM

Symposium in honor of Sandra Paquet: “The Present Future of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies”
Sandra Paquet Symposium

Tuesday March 29, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
CIB 3055

Warren Dym (History, UM), "Mercury, Magistral, and Salt: Silver Refining and the Enlightenment in Barrels"
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Tuesday April 5, 3:30 p.m.
3rd floor conference room Richter Library, UM

Jane Landers (Vanderbilt U), “The Atlantic Lives of Francisco Menéndez: Mandinga Captive, Warrior for the Yamasee, and Vassal of the Spanish King in Florida and Cuba”

Thursday April 15, 4:30 p.m. 
CAS Gallery

Jane Rhodes (Macalester College), "From Jim Crow to Sigmund Freud: Transnationality, Psychoanalysis, and the remaking of a Black American."

Friday April 15, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
FIU

Jason Pearl (English, FIU), "Desert Islands and Urban Solitudes in the Crusoe Trilogy."
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FALL 2010

Thursday October 15, 12:30-2:00 pm - CIB 5063

Monsters, Ruins, and the Indian Experience  
Yvette Piggush (History, FIU)
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Thursday November 18, 12:30-2:00 pm - CIB 5063

Karl Gunther (History, UM)

"Dealing with Heretics: Protestants and the Sword in the early English Reformation"
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SPRING 2010

February 4-5, 2010

Atlantic Narratives Symposium

Thursday March 25, 12:30-2:00 pm - CIB 5063

Rebecca Brienen (Art History, UM)
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Friday April 23, 12:30-2:00 pm - Memorial 125D 

Jenna Gibbs (History, FIU)

“By birth a Briton, my heart clings to America”: Susanna Rowson’s
Antislavery and Feminist Ideals in Transatlantic Perspective
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FALL 2009

Tues., Sept. 29 12:30 - 2:00 pm - CIB 5063 

Monique Bedasse "Black Internationalism: Jamaica and Tanzania Chant Down Babylon in Theory and Praxis."

Wednesday, October 21 12:30 pm - CIB 5063

John Funchion “Exporting Locality: Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants and Transatlantic Regionalism after the Revolution.” 

Tuesday, November 17 12:30 pm - Wolfson 4027

Eduardo Elena "Point of Departure: Travel and Nationalism in Ernesto Guevara's Argentina." 
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