The New York Times Sunday Magazine has featured a series of short stories called “The Decameron Project” in homage to Boccaccio’s Decameron. This is a marvelous collection of stories by some leading contemporary writers, including Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, David Mitchell, Esi Edugyan, Miami native Karen Russell, and Miami writer Edwidge Danticat, who was featured at UM’s One Book, One U program this past year. Many of the stories simply focus on the current pandemic, but some engage with Boccaccio’s approach to storytelling. Since the Decameron itself was the July 2020 Virtual Book Club selection, the Center decided to use this project and these stories to extend discussion into August 2020. As such, we will hold another Zoom meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 13, at 7pm EST for anyone who wishes to discuss “The Decameron Project.” Anyone who is interested in participating and has NOT registered for the Virtual Book Club discussion of the Decameron should complete this brief form by Monday, August 3rd. Registrants will receive more details regarding the August 13th discussion.Thursday, August 13th at 7pm
Online Discussion of "The Decameron Project"
The Center for the Humanities presents its first Book Talk of the 2020-21 academic year with Professor of Classics, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill. Read more. In place of our traditional Stanford Distringuished Professors series, the Center is pleased to offer a Stanford Lecuture Online series. Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, will present the first online lecture of the year. Read more and register by Monday, September 21.Wednesday, September 16th at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
Thursday, September 24 at 7pm
Stanfords Online: "Are Decolonial Humanities Possible?"
Professor of English, Chantel Acevedo, will offer the Center's inaugural Humanities Hour lecture, featuring UM faculty. This online event is free and open to the public. Read more and register by Monday, September 28. Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Professor of Philosophy, Brit Brogaard. Read more. Join the graduate student-led Humanities Fieldwork Interdisciplinary Research Group for a discussion with Martin Tsang. This event it open to all UM faculty and students. Learn more and register. Assistant Professor of History, Scott Heerman, presents a Humanities Hour lecture. This online event is free and open to the public. Read more and register by Friday, October 9. Join us in hearing from the Center's 2019-20 fellows who will present research conducted as part of their fellowship. View the program and register here by Monday, October 19th. Join our friends at FIU's Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment for “Fake News: Objectivity, Subjectivity, and the Search for Truth." A panel of journalists, media experts, and philosophers wade through meanings of truth, objectivity, subjectivity, and veracity in the context of big data, the news media, social media, education, and the self. Join the webinar here. Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Associate Professor of Cinema and Interactive Media, Christina Lane. Read more. Thursday, October 1 at 7pm
Humanities Hour: "Historical Fiction—A Novelist’s Approach to Researching and Writing 19th Century Cuba"
Wednesday, October 7 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Brit Brogaard
Tuesday, October 13 at 10am
IRG Lecture: "Beyond Scholarship, Beyond Words: Emotional and Affective Aspects of Humanities Fieldwork in the Caribbean"
Tuesday, October 13 at 7pm
Humanities Hour: "Slavery's Emancipation: A Rashomon Effect"
Friday, October 23: 9am to 2pm
Online Fellows Symposium
Tuesday, October 27 at 7pm
“Fake News: Objectivity, Subjectivity, and the Search for Truth"
Wednesday, October 28 at 12:30pm
"What I'm Working On" with Prof Krista Goff
The Department of History will kick off its new series of interviews with UM History faculty with Professor Krista Goff, a historian of Russian and Soviet history. Learn how she became a historian, about her experiences conducting research in the Caucasus region, and about the new book project that she’s working on. Those with a UM email address can attend using this link.
Wednesday, October 28 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Christina Lane
Join us via Zoom for a panel discussion with PhD's who have found success in secondary education careers. Learn more and register by Monday, November 2. Join the Queer Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group for a discussion with Professor Matt Brim (College of Staten Islans, CUNY). Learn more and register. The workshop, presented by the Department of Philosophy is designed primarily for academics in the field of philosophy and will explore connections between science and humanism. Topics of discussion will include the viability of naturalism and the comparative status of scientific and other knowledge, the capacity or potential of scientism for setting limits on humanist self-understanding, the interplay between traditions or views of science and agendas of positive social change, and more. Learn more. In place of our traditional Stanford Distringuished Professors series, the Center is pleased to offer a Stanford Lecuture Online series. Professor Marybeth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita of American History at Cornell University will present. Read more and register by Monday, November 9. Physically distant, but socially engaged — join Miami Book Fair online for author readings and conversations, workshops, and even a Storybook Picnic for kids and their teddy bears. The 2020 Miami Book Fair will host over 300+ authors from all over the world in conversation, all virtual, all safe, all unique, all free starting Nov. 15. Learn more and register at miami bookfaironline.com Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Associate Professor of Musicology, Melvin Butler. Read more. Wednesday, November 4 at 4pm
Workshop: Careers in Secondary Education
Friday, November 6 at 10am
IRG Lecture: "Queer-Class Counternarratives in Higher Education"
Friday, November 6 & Saturday, November 7
Science and Humanisim Workshop
Tuesday, November 10 at 3:00pm
A Post-Election Panel Discussion
The Department of History will host a post-election panel discussion with History Professors Robin Bachin, Max Fraser, and Don Spivey. These three experts on American history, politics, and civic engagement will be putting the 2020 election into historical perspective and fielding questions from the audience. Registration details coming soon.
Thursday, November 12 at 7pm
Stanfords Online: "1774: The Long Year of Revolution"
Sunday, November 15- Sunday, November 22
Miami Book Fair
Wednesday, November 18 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Melvin Butler
Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Professor and Chair of PHilosophy, Mark Rowlands. Read more. Wednesday, December 9 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Mark Rowlands
Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Senior Lecturer of Anthropology and Interim Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Claire Oueslati-Porter. Read more and register. Floria Humanities continues to offer a variety of virtual programming. See the full schedule of events and register here. Floria Humanities continues to offer a variety of virtual programming. See the full schedule of events and register here." FIU’s Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment presents “Shut Up and Play,” a discussion led by NFL player and activist, Ryan Russell, on the long history of racism in sports and sports culture in the US. Learn more here. Univeristy of Miami's Special Collections continues their Deep Dives series with "The Book of Fate." Register for this great event here. In place of our traditional Stanford Distringuished Professors series, the Center is pleased to offer a Stanford Lecuture Online series. Dr. Antoni Trilla, professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Dean of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at The University of Barcelona, presents. Read more and register by Wednesday, January 27th.Wednesday, January 20 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Claire Oueslati-Porter
Saturday, January 23 at 11am
"Reimagining Monuments: Contemporary Interventions in Public Space"
Monday, January 25 at 6pm
"Hidden History of Florida"
Tuesday, January 26 at 4pm
"Shut Up and Play"
Thursday, January 28 at 1pm
Special Collections Deep Dives Series: "The Book of Fate"
Friday, January 29 at 4pm
Stanfords Online: "The 1918 'Spanish Flu' in Spain"
In his recent book, The Geography of Insight: The Sciences, the Humanities, How They Differ, Why They Matter, Richard Foley attempts to compare the purposes and strengths of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, drawing on his own experience evaluating tenure files at NYU and Rutgers University. Faculty from across the university are invited to partiipate in an informal discussion on how disciplines can be complementary rather than rivals. Karl Gunther, Associate Professor of History, will provide a brief introduction before welcoming attendees to share their own insights and to reflect on their disciplines. We encourage registrants to read the book (online access available to UM students and employees) over the winter break. Please register here by February 1. The Miller Center for Judaic Studies, the Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Center for the Humanities present a lecture by Hugh Thomas, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Humanities. Join the virtual lecture here. Florida Humanities presents a virtual discussion of Florida's painful history of racial violence. See the full schedule of events and register here. Founding Director of the Center for the Humanities, Mihoko Suzuki, will discuss two early modern European observers of Japanese society a century apart: the Portuguese Jesuit Luis Frois (1532–97) and the German physician and scientist Engelbert Kaempfer (1651– 1716). By juxtaposing these texts and considering the different historical contexts in which they were written, both for the authors and the Japanese society they took as their subject, Suzuki arrives at a comparative analysis of these early modern European encounters with Japan. Join here. Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Associate Professor of Art History, Heather Diack. Read more and register. Wednesday, February 3 at noon
Interdisciplinary Discussion of The Geography of Insight
Thursday, February 4 at 2pm
"The Crusades and the Jews in Europe and the Holy Land"
Thursday, February 4 at 5pm
"Strange Fruit in Florida"
Wednesday, February 10 at 3:30pm
Cooper Fellow Lecture: "Early Modern European Encounters with Japan"
Wednesday, February 10 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Heather Diack
This talk will show how challenges to the male/female binary can challenge other hierarchical (and emperically wrong) classification systems; how an emphasis on emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization; and how our concept of "invisible labor" can exposes the significant human efforts required of our automated systems, as well as of our digital humanities work. Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Professor of Philosophy, Michael Sote. Read more and register. Presented by the Jewish Heritage Alliance and other partners, The Women of Sefarad series begins with "The Crypto-Jewish Women of Spain." Professor Renée Levine Melammed, will discuss challenges faced by the conversos (Jews and descendants baptized from 1391-1492) who continued Jewish practices in secret. Register here. Join the graduate student-led Fieldwork Interdisciplinary Research Grooup for a talk with guest speaker, Amanda Waterhouse, PHD Candidate with the Department of History at Indiana University. Register here. In addition to providing a Stanford lecture in the 2021-2022 academic year, Luiselli will participate in a discussion of the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit, to be installed in late-February 2021. Learn more and register here. This film tells the story of a team of palliative care nurses from a small hospital and volunteer doctors from the US who care for villagers with little or no access to medical treatment, where pain and suffering are often endured rather than relieved, and where people with life-threatening illnesses turn to traditional healers- hoping for a cure. Join us for a panel discussion with filmmaker Lucy Bruell and some of the healthcare providers from the film. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a link to access the documentary, which you can watch at your leisure before attending the March 11th panel. Register here. Join us via Zoom for a workshop with Gisela Fosado, Editor at Duke University Press. Dr. Fosado publishes books in a wide range of areas in the humanities and social scienceswith and will offer her advice to faculty and graduate students. Learn more and register by Wednesday, March 17. Join the Critical Cultural Studies Graduate Collective for a Zoom discussion with Dr. Nick Petersen, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law. Learn about his team's examination of individual and neighborhood racial and ethnic disparities across multiple decision points within the county's criminal justice system and their discovery of disparities at every decision point that, regardless of ethnicity, resulting in disadvantages for Black defendants and neighborhoods while resulting in advantages for White defendants and neighborhoods. Register here. Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, Daid Kling. Read more and register. Attention Students: Interested in learning the basics of good poster design? Want feedback on your current design ideas? Join us for a “paper-to-poster” workshop to learn how a good poster design helps you present your research clearly and effectively. Students from all majors are welcome! If you have a great paper that you'd love to share at a poster symposium or conference, such as the College of Arts & Sciences Research Celebration in April, this workshop is for you! No need to register. Simply Join Here. As universities grapple with some of the wider ranging and material effects of racism, particularly anti-Blackness, three scholars engage questions about the relationship of racial identity to social movements, media production, and intelellectual property. Register here. Wednesday, March 3rd at 1pm
IRG Lecture: "Digital Humanities and Data Justice: Lessons From Intersectional Feminism" with Lauren Klein
Wednesday, March 3 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Michael Slote
Sunday, March 7 at 2pm
"The Crypto-Jewish Women of Spain."
Tuesday, March 9 at 10am
IRG Lecture: Architects of the Archive: ORal, Visul, and Textual Records in the Global History of Cold War Columbia
Tuesday, March 9 at 7pm
Seminar: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli
Thursday, March 11 at 7pm
Panel Discussion: "Oli Otya? Life and Loss in Rural Uganda"
Friday, March 19 at 4pm
Workshop: "Publishing Your Book: Advice from an Editor"
Tuesday, March 23 at 1:30pm
"Unequal Treatment: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Miami-Dade Criminal Justice"
Wednesday, March 24 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with David Kling
Monday, March 29 at 4:30pm
"Paper-to-Poster Workshop"
Wednesday, March 31 at 4:30pm
"Blackness and Anti-Blackness in American Public Life"
Professor of History, Michael Miller, will interrogates how Marne history, and property Assistant Professor of English and black feminist scholar of African American and diasporic literature, Marina Magloire, presents a Humanities Hour lecture. This online event is free and open to the public. Read more and register by Tuesday, April 6th. The University of Miami is proud to announce Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil, a virtual symposium established to highlight the unique and richly-textured Leila Míccolis Brazilian Alternative Press Collection. Learn more and register here. Join us via Zoom for a Book Talk with Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Logan Connors. Read more and register. Join the Theatre and Performance Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group for a discussion with Jeffrey Ravel, Professor of History at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology. Prof Ravel will also present his major Digital Humanities Theater initiative, the Comédie-Française Registers Project (CFRP). Learn more. Join the nine U-LINK Social Equity teams as they demonstrate the connections between this year’s One Book, One U selected text, So You Want to Talk About Race, and U-LINK scholarship by highlighting their activities addressing social inequality. The series of lightning presentations will be followed by a discussion by Dr. Zinzi Bailey, who will draw connections between the book, its critical message on anti-black racism, and our U-LINK teams’ work. Register here. This event is presented by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship. As part of our special Stanfords Online series, we are pleased to present a talk from Professor Martha Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. Jones is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Read more and registerWednesday, April 7th at 3:30pm
Cooper Fellow Lecture "Of Time and the River: The Marine in French History"
disputes over “who owns the river,” catch unexpected understandings of French connections
to their past, and how the built river landscape reveals the complementarity between modernity
and tradition in modern France. This online event is free and open to the public. Join here.
Thursday, April 8th at 7pm
Humanities Hour: "The Spirit Writing of Lucille Clifton"
Monday, April 12th and Tuesday, April 13th
Virtual Symposium: "Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil"
Wednesday, April 14 at 8pm
Online Book Talk with Logan Connors
Friday, April 23 at 10:30am
IRG Lecture: "Acceleration? Digital Resources and the Speed of Scholarship"
Tuesday, April 27 at 9:30am
One Book, One U: Race and Research
Tuesday, April 27 at 7pm
Stanfords Online: "What if Black Women Have Always Been the Vanguard of Voting Rights?"
Join the Miller School of Medicine & their partners with Every Mother Counts for a panel & film screening of "Giving Birth in America: Louisiana," moderated by Dr. Gauri Agarwal. The event is part of Miller's ongoing efforts to develop a curriculum on maternal health equity. Register here. Tuesday, May 4 at 6:00pm
Film Screening and Panel: "Giving Birth in America: Louisiana"