Event Calendar

Monday, August 28 @ 6:30pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

Spanish in Miami: Sociolinguistic Dimensions of Postmodernity

Andrew Lynch, Associate Dean for Program Development, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor, Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures; Editor in Chief, Heritage Language Journal

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Thursday, September 14 @ 3:30pm

Lakeside Pavilion

Fall Reception for Faculty, Colleagues, and Graduate Students in the Humanities

By invitation in honor of our colleagues in the humanities.

Friday, September 15 @ 12:30 - 2:00pm

Richter Library, Flex Space B

Thinking / Teaching with Machines: Rhetoric, Writing, and Artificial Intelligence

Ben Lauren, Associate Professor and Chair of Writing Studies

Part of the 2023-2024 Series: Teaching Writing in the Age of AI

Organized by the Center for the Humanities and Writing Studies

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Monday, September 18 @ 6:30pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books, Coral Gables

Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Ashli White, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History

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Thursday, September 21 @ 7:00pm

Stanford Distinguished Professors Series

Kislak Center at the University of Miami

"Strongmen and How to Push Back Against Them"

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies, New York University

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Monday, October 30 @ 6:30pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books

Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

Max Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of History

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Thursday, November 2, 7:00pm, Kislak Center at the University of Miami

Lady Blanka Rosenstiel Endowed Program in Polish Heritage

Ambassador Aldona Woś: "Polish-Estonian Relations and Their Importance in Current Events"

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Wednesday, November 8, 6:30pm, HistoryMiami Museum

"Tequesta in Context: From Deep History to Downtown Redevelopment" 

Traci Ardren, Professor of Anthropology

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Monday, November 13, 6:30 pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books

A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Batman Meme Project and its Parerga!

Simon Evnine, Professor, Department of Philosophy

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Thursday, January 18 @ 7:00pm

"When 'Fashion Ova Style' Sell Off...Buyers Beware"

Peréz Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

Patrica J. Saunders, Associate Professor of English

Donna Hope, Professor of Culture, Gender and Society, at the University of the West Indies 

Co-Sponsored by Peréz Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and University of Miami Center for the Humanities, Center for Global Black Studies, and the Department of English.

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Monday, January 29 @ 7:00pm

Stanford Distinguished Professors Series

Kislak Center at the University of Miami

"Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point"

Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University

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Monday, February 19, 6:30pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books

Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions during the Nazi Takeover

Hermann Beck, Professor of History

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024 @ 3:30pm

"Inventing Hemispheric Solidarity: The Pan-American University, the United States, and Miami," Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room

You are invited to attend a lecture by Steven P. Rodríguez, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History at Vanderbilt University and Scholarly Acquisitions Editor, Vanderbilt University Press.

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Thursday, February 23, 12:00 - 1:30pm

"Workshop: AI Focus Group"

Discussion with Faculty Participants from the College of Arts and Sciences

Organized by the Center for the Humanities and Writing Studies.

Reservation link and information forthcoming.

Thursday, February 29 @ 7:00pm

Stanford Distinguished Professors Series

Kislak Center at the University of Miami

Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University

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Monday, March 25 @ 6:30pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books

The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom

Alfred L Martin, Associate Professor, School of Communication

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Monday, April 8, 6:30pm

Book Talk @ Books & Books

Roman Satire

Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and College Diversity, College of Arts and Sciences; Professor of Classics

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Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 - 4:00pm

RCIF (Research, Creativity, and Innovation Forum)

"Humanities Hub" / Shalala Student Center

More information from RCIF and from the Center.

Wednesday, April 10, 12:00 - 4:00pm

RCIF (Research, Creativity, and Innovation Forum)

"Research brought to U! (Panel Presenations in the Humanities)" / Shalala Student Center

More information from RCIF.

Thursday, April 11, 4:00pm

Edith Bleich Speaker Series

Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room

"Why We Need Queer Kinship Now More Than Ever"

Jennifer Evans, Professor of History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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