The Center for the Humanities is proud to support a variety of events for the University of Miami and South Florida community. The Events Calendar below promotes our own signature events, such as the Stanford lecture series, Rosenstiel lecture series, Bleich lecture, and Book Talks.
The Center's "Humanities Events" newsletter features humanities happenings at the University of Miami and in the SoFlo area and is distributed bi-monthly during the academic year.
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We look forward to seeing you at programs in the humanities!
Sara McDougall, Professor, Global History; Coordinator, Medieval Studies; John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center Bill Germano, Professor of English; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Catherine L. Newell, Associate Professor of Religious Studies Ada Limón, 24th Poet Laureate of the United StatesTuesday, February 4 @ 5:00pm
Edith Bleich Speaker Series
Friday, February 7 @ 3:30pm
Lecture / Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
"Getting Writing Done"
Monday, February 10 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books
Food Faiths: Diet, Religion, and the Science of Spiritual Eating
Thursday, February 20 @ 7:00pm
Kislak Center at the University of Miami
Marlene Daut, Professor of French & African Diaspora Studies, Yale University Pamela Geller, Professor of AnthropologyThursday, March 20 @ 7:00pm
Stanford Distinguished Professors Series
Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
Monday, March 24 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books
Becoming Object: The Sociopolitics of the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection
Steve Butterman, Professor, Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures & Gender and Sexuality Studies; Director, Portuguese Program; Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador, 2024-2026 (Institute of International Education): Ben Lauren, Chair and Associate Professor of Writing StudiesTuesday, April 1 @ 12:30 - 1:45pm
Workshop Series / "User's Manual to the Humanities"
"Insights into the Fulbright Award"
Monday, April 7 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books
Hold Me Down: Toward a Rhetoric of Feel
Monday, April 28, 2025
RCIF (Research, Creativity, and Innovation Forum)
Henry Green, Professor of Religious StudiesMonday, August 26 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables
Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands, by Henry Green & Richard Stursberg
Brian D. Blankenship, Assistant Professor of Political Science Charles Forsdick, Drapers Professor of French, Cambridge UniversityMonday, September 16 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma: Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics
Thursday, September 26 @ 5:00pm
Stanford Distinguished Professors Series
Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
Traci Ardren, Professor of Anthropology Eziaku Nwokocha, Assistant Professor of Religious StudiesMonday, October 7 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables
Everyday Life in the Classic Maya World
Monday, October 21 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables
Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States
Programs TBA...
Logan Connors, Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures Virgil Ortiz, Artist and DesignerMonday, December 2 @ 6:30pm
Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables
Theater, War, and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France and Its Empire
Sunday, December 8 @ 11:00am
Stanford Distinguished Professors Series
Lecture Location: Gables Campus, TBA