Event Calendar

Welcome back, 'Canes!

Tuesday, September 14 @ 7:00 pm

Humanities Hour

Latine Off-Off-Broadway: An Intervention in US Theater History

Lillian Manzor, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures 

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Friday, September 17, 9:00 am - 2:30 pm

Faculty Fellows Symposium

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Wednesday, September 29, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Power and Pleasure: Court Life Under King John, 1119-1216

Hugh Thomas, Professor, History

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Wednesday, October 13, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture

Robyn Walsh, Associate Professor, Religious Studies

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Thursday, October 21, 5:00 pm

Lecture 

Revision: The Only Writing that Counts

William Germano

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Friday, October 22, 12:30 - 2:30 pm

Workshop 

Revising the Dissertation, Finishing the Book: a working seminar on scholarly writing

William Germano

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Thursday, October 27, 8:00 pm

Book Talk 

Urban Ecology and Intervention in the 21st Century Americas: Verticality, Catastrophe, and the Mediated City

Allison Schifani, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures

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Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm

Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11

Lindsay Thomas, Assistant Professor, English

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Tuesday, November 16, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Professional Development: Expanding Career Opportunities for Ph.D. Students

Christina Larson, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Center for the Humanities; Roxane Pickens, Ph.,D., Director, Learning Commons, UM Libraries; and Director, American Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences; Maryann Tobin, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

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Thursday, November 18, 5:30 pm

Lecture

Re-Viewing American Impressionism: Images of the Changing Landscape

Keidra Daniels Navaroli (McKnight Ph.D. Fellow, University of Central Florida) and Keri Watson, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, University of Central Florida)

Co-organized by the Lowe Art Museum and the Center for the Humanities

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Wednesday, December 1, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Queering and Querying the Paradise of Paradox: LGBT Language, New Media, and Visual Cultures in Modern-Day Brazil

Steven Butterman, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures

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Wednesday, January 26, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

Dominique Reill, Associate Professor, History

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Thursday, February 3, 7:00 pm

Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors: Lecture

Daphne A. Brooks, "Blackface Broken Records: White Women, 'Black' Sounds & the Rise of Radical Blues Women"

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Friday, February 4, 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors: Virtual Seminar

Daphne A. Brooks, "'Twice Militant' Friendships: Nina Simone, Lorraine Hansberry & James Baldwin"

Open only to University of Miami Faculty and Students

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Wednesday, February 9, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature

Nebil Husayn, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies

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Friday, February 25, 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Virtual Workshop

"Applying for ACLS Fellowships and Grants in the Humanities and Social Sciences"

John Paul Christy, Senior Director, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

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Thursday, March 3, 7:00 pm

Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors: Lecture

John McNeill, "Ingredients of Industrialization: Ecological Teleconnections and Global Environmental History"

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Tuesday, March 8, 7:00 pm

Lecture / Teach-in

Krista Goff, Gabrielle Cornish, and Dina Moulioukova, "Teach-in on the Invasion of Ukraine"

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Wednesday, March 9, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Nathaniel Deyo, Film Noir and the Possibilities of Hollywood

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Wednesday, March 23, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Rethinking the Romantic Era: Androgynous Subjectivity and the Recreative in the Writings of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley

Kathryn Freeman, Associate Professor, English

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Thursday, April 7, 7:00 pm

Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors: Lecture

Stephanie Burt, "Does Poetry have a Future?"

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Wednesday, April 13, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Love and Sex in the Time of Plague

Guido Ruggiero, Professor, History; and Cooper Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences

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Wednesday, May 4, 8:00 pm

Book Talk

Travel Narratives of the irish Famine: Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853

Catherine Judd, Associate Professor, English

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