Event Calendar

  5

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Martin Nesvig
Assosciate Professor of History
University of Miami

Promiscuous Power:
An Unorthodox History of New Spain

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  7

 Friday

Fall Reception for Humanities Faculty & Graduate Students

8pm at Moss Terrace, Shalala Student Center

  14

 Friday

Lunch Seminar:

Grant Writing Workshop for Graduate Students and Early Career Scholars

12:30pm at Executive Conference Room, Suite 102, School of Nursing
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  20

 Thursday

Stanford Lecture:

Hazel Carby
Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies & Professor of American Studies
Director of the Initiative on Race, Gender, and Globalization
Yale University

Where Are You From?

7pm at Kislak Center
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  3

 Wednesday

Lecture:

Julia Serano
Author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

4:30pm at South Activities Room, Shalala Student Center
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  10

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Herns Marcellin ‌& Toni Cela
Associate Professor of Anthropology & Affiliated Faculty
University of Miami

Les jeunes Haïtiens dans les Amériques/ Haitian Youth in the Americas

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  26

 Friday

Fellows Symposium:

9:00am to 5:00pm at Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
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  30

 Tuesday

Seminar:

Stacy Hartman
Project Manager
Modern Language Association

Articulating Humanities Expertise to Broad Audiences

3:30pm to 5:30pm at Executive Board Room, School of Nursing
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  7

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Caleb Everett 
Professor of Anthropology
University of Miami

Numbers and the Making of Us:
Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  15

 Thursday

Seminar:

Emily Sahakian
Associate Professor of Theatre and French
University of Georgia

Restaging Édouard Glissant’s Histoire de nègre (Tale of Black Histories): Consciousness-Raising Theatre Under Construction

4:30pm at Third Floor Conference Room, Otto G. Richter Library
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  15

 Thursday

Stanford Lecture:

Christopher de Hamel
Fellow, Corpus Christi College
Cambridge University

The Library of Saint Thomas Becket

7pm at Kislak Center
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  5

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Scott Heerman 
Assistant Professor of History
University of Miami

The Alchemy of Slavery:
Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  31

 Thursday

Stanford Lecture:

Catherine Hall
Emerita Professor of History
Chair of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
University College London (UCL)

Edward Long and the Making of "Race" Across the Black/White Atlantic

7pm at Kislak Center
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  6

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Tim Watson
Assosciate Professor of English
University of Miami

Culture Writing:
Literature and Anthropology in the Midcentury Atlantic World

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  11

 Monday

Lecture:

Bill Bulman
Associate Professor of History & Global Studies
Lehigh University

The Rise of the Majority in Revolutionary England and its Empire

4:30pm at Third Floor Conference Room, Otto G. Richter Library
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  15

 Friday

Lunch Seminar:

Jim Grossman
Executive Director
American Historical Association

Preparing Humanities PhD’s for the Future Instead of the Past

12:30pm at Learning Commons Flexible Program Space, First Floor, Richter Library
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  21

 Thursday

Edith Bleich Speaker Series:

Rudolf Dekker
Autobiographical Writing and History Research Group Director
Huizinga Institute - Research School for Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam

The Secret Diary of Constantijn Huygens, Jr. (1628-1697): Society, Politics, and Culture in the Late Seventeenth Century

7pm at Kislak Center
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  6

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Justin Ritzinger
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
University of Miami

Anarchy in the Pure Land:
Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  22

 Friday

Lunch Seminar:

Jerry Singerman
Senior Humanities Editor
University of Pennsylvania Press

Proposal to Book: The Nuts-and-Bolts of Scholarly Publishing

12:30pm at Executive Board Room, Nursing School
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  28

 Thursday

Stanford Lecture:

Francois Recanati
Research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France

Imagination and the Self

7pm at Kislak Center
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  3

 Wednesday

BookTalk:

Viviana Diaz-Balsera
Professor of Spanish
University of Miami

Guardians of Idolatry:
Gods, Demons, and Priests in Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions

8pm at Books & Books (Directions)
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  11

 Thursday

Showcase:

Inquiring Minds: Undergraduate Opportunities in Humanities Research

2:30pm to 7:30pm at Whitten University Center
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