CAS Gallery Associate Professor of History, University of Miami Professor and Chair, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University Public Lecture Poetry Reading Cosponsored with the University of Miami Libraries Seminar: Engage in conversation about career opportunities in 21st-century libraries and cultural institutions with a distinguished panel of University of Miami Library administrators and postdoctoral fellows, whose research interests include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Listen to their stories, learn about strategies to explore careers in libraries and archives as well as fellowship opportunities, and ask them your questions at this interactive session.
Fall Reception for Humanities Faculty & Graduate Students
Thursday
9-3-15
4:00 PM
For UM Faculty & Grad Students and by Invitation
Karl Gunther
Reformation Unbound:
Protestant Visions of Reform in England, 1525–1590
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Wednesday
9-9-15
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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Abena Busia
Locating the Politics of Feminist Knowledge: The "Women Writing Africa" Project
Negotiating Diasporas: Poems Old and New (Poetry Reading)
Thursday
9-10-15
3:30 PM
Otto G. Richter Library
Third Floor Conference Room
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Friday
9-11-15
12:30 PM
CAS Gallery
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Expanding Career Opportunities for PhDs in the Libraries
Friday
9-25-15
12:30 PM
School of Nursing, Executive Board Room
For UM Faculty & Grad Students
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Charles Eckman, Dean of Libraries, Otto G. Richter Library
Kelly Miller, Associate Dean, Learning & Research Services
Timothy Norris, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow
Martin Tsang, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow
C. H. Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University Thursday Public Lecture: Friday Lunch Seminar: Associate Professor of Classics, University of Miami Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian School of Nursing, Executive Board Room
Frans de Waal
Humans as Animals: Primate Politics, Culture, and Morality
10-15-15
7:00 PM
Storer Auditorium
Public Invited
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10-16-15
12:30 PM
Student Activities Center - Iron Arrow Room, Third Floor
For UM Faculty & Grad Students
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Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Roman Satire and the Old Comic Tradition
Wednesday
10-21-15
8:00 PMBooks & Books
Public Invited
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William Walker
Art Libraries and Visual Resources
Tuesday
10-27-15
12:30 PM
For UM Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
Associate Professor of English, University of Miami Professor of History, Art History, and Film, University of Southern California Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian School of Nursing, Executive Board Room
Kathryn Freeman
British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835
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Wednesday
11-11-15
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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Vanessa Schwartz
Get That Picture!: Speed and the Invention of the Global Media Event in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
Thursday
11-12-15
7:00 PMPublic Lecture:
CAS Gallery
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William Walker
Humanities Resources in South Florida Collections
Friday
11-13-15
12:30 PM
For UM Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of Miami
Traci Ardren
Social Identities in the Classic Maya Northern Lowlands:
Gender, Age, Memory, and Place
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Wednesday
12-2-15
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Texas, Austin Otto G. Richter Library Professor and Chair of History, University of Miami Professor of Classics, New York University CAS Gallery Presidential Historian Maurice Gusman Concert Hall
the Center for the Humanities
Modernities Interdisciplinary Research Group
Sabine Hake
Ferdinand Lassalle, the First Socialist Celebrity
Tuesday
1-19-16
4:30 PM
Third Floor Conference Room
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Mary Lindemann
The Merchant Republics:
Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790
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Wednesday
1-20-16
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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the Center for the Humanities
Antiquities Interdisciplinary Research Group
David Konstan
Of Love and Loyalty: The View from Classical Antiquity
Thursday
1-21-16
4:30 PM
Public Invited
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This program is sponsored by the Florida Humanities Council in partnership with the University of Miami Center for the Humanities. It is part of the Pulitzer Prizes Centennial Campfires Initiative, a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prizes Board and the Federation of State Humanities Councils in recognition of the 2016 centennial of the Prizes.
Jon Meacham
The Art of Leadership:
Lessons from the American Presidency
Tuesday
1-26-16
7:00 PM
Public Invited
Professor of History, Boston College Otto G. Richter Library Professor, Otto G. Richter Library; Former Dean and University Librarian School of Nursing, Executive Board Room Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami School of Nursing Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Thursday Public Lecture: The Kay Pacha Symposium is presented in co-sponsorship with the Center for the Humanities, the Department of Anthropology, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Miami Institute for the Americas, and the University of Miami Libraries. This symposium, featuring specialists in ancient Andean art and archaeology, will present the latest research on objects from the exhibit that speak to Andean relationships with the natural world. The symposium, open to the general public, will be followed by an opportunity for the audience and scholars to enter into a conversation about the different values we can bring to understanding our delicate ecosystems. Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University Brave New University Lunch Seminar Generations and Contemporary American Fiction
This lecture is presented with the support of the ACCAC Distinguished Lecturers Program
Robin Fleming
Living with the Fall of Rome: Britain in the "Dark Ages"
Friday
2-5-16
4:30 PM
Third Floor Conference Room
Public Invited
William Walker
National Archives
Tuesday
2-9-16
12:30 PM
For UM Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
Amie L. Thomasson
Ontology Made Easy
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Wednesday
2-10-16
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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2014-2015 Center for the Humanities Fellows Symposium - Part I
Friday
2-12-16
3:00 PM
Executive Board Room
For Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
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Richard Burger
Violence, Warfare, and Religion in the Emergence of Early Peruvian Civilization
2-18-16
7:00 PM
Storer Auditorium
Public Invited
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Symposium
Kay Pacha: Reciprocity with the Natural World
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Lowe Art Museum
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The Present Future of the University and the Humanities Lecture Series
Jeffrey J. WilliamsBrave New University (Public Lecture)
Shaping a Scholarly Career:
Alternatives to Monograph and Articles (Lunch Seminar)
Generations and Contemporary American Fiction (Cosponsored by the Department of English)
Thursday
2-25-16
4:30 PM
Otto G. Richter Library,
Third Floor Conference Room
Public Invited
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Friday
2-26-16
12:30 PM
School of Nursing, Executive Board Room
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Friday
2-26-16
4:00 PM
Otto G. Richter Library
Third Floor Conference Room
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School of Nursing Professor and Dean Emeritus of Architecture, University of Miami Professor and Chair of History, Swarthmore College Designing the Liberal Arts for Uncertainty The Seating Chart Professor of History, Carleton University School of Nursing
2014-2015 Center for the Humanities Fellows Symposium - Part II
Thursday
3-3-16
3:00 PM
Executive Board Room
For Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
Nicholas N. Patricios
The Sacred Architecture of Byzantium:
Art, Liturgy, and Symbolism in Early Christian Churches
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Wednesday
3-16-16
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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The Present Future of the University and the Humanities Lecture Series
Timothy BurkeDesigning the Liberal Arts for Uncertainty (Public Lecture)
The Seating Chart:
The Ritual Life of Sovereignty in Africa's Cold War
(Cosponsored by the Department of History)
Thursday
3-17-16
4:30 PM
Otto G. Richter Library,
Third Floor Conference Room
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Friday
3-18-16
2:00 PM
Otto G. Richter Library,
Third Floor Conference Room
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the Departments of History and English
Mark Salber Phillips
On Historical Distance
Friday
3-25-16
12:30 PM
Executive Board Room
For Faculty & Grad Students
Professor of African and African American Studies; Founding Executive Director, Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Harvard University Wednesday "Crates to Classroom: The Birth of the Hiphop Archive at Harvard University" Thursday Seminar: "Black Lives Matter" Thursday Public Lecture: Friday Lunch Seminar: "Defending and Representing Hiphop Culture: 'Did You Mean What You Said?' " Professor of Philosophy, University of Miami Seminar: Seminar: Cosponsored by the University of Miami Libraries Wednesday Seminar:
Marcyliena Morgan
Hiphop and the Global Influence of American Cultural Politics
4-6-16
5:00 PM
(Presented by the Office of Academic Enhancement)
CAS Gallery
4-7-16
12:30 PM
Discussion with Professor David Ikard's AAS290 students
Dooley Memorial, Room 209
4-7-16
7:00 PM
Storer Auditorium
Public Invited
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4-8-16
12:30 PM
Philosophy Seminar Room, Ashe Administration, Rm 735
For Faculty & Graduate Students
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Berit Brogaard
The Superhuman Mind:
Free the Genius in Your Brain
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Wednesday
4-13-16
8:00 PMBooks & Books
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Expanding Career Opportunities for Humanities PhDs
Adina Berk
Senior Editor, Oxford University PressMatthew McAdam
Senior Acquisition Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
Thursday
4-14-16
3:30 PM
School of Nursing, Executive Board Room
For UM Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
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Scholarly Publishing Seminar
Adina Berk
Senior Editor, Oxford University PressMatthew McAdam
Senior Acquisition Editor, Johns Hopkins University Press
Friday
4-15-16
12:00 PM
School of Nursing, Executive Board Room
For UM Humanities Faculty & Grad Students
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The Future of Academic Publishing
Peter Berkery
Executive Director, Association of American University Presses (AAUP)Peter Potter
Director of Publishing Strategy, University Libraries, Virginia Tech
4-20-16
4:00 PM
Otto G. Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room
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