2011-2012 American Studies Events

American Studies spring 2012 speaker series:
"Global South: The U.S. South in the World"

All talks held in Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room

Thursday February 2, 3:30 p.m.

DON DOYLE
McCausland Professor of History
University of South Carolina
"America's International Civil War"

Tuesday March 6, 4:30 p.m.

WAI CHEE DIMOCK
William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies Yale University
"Gilgamesh on Three Continents"

Thursday April 5, 3:30 p.m.

JENNIFER GREESON
Assistant Professor of English University of Virginia
"Locke's American Enlightenment: Atlantic Slavery and the Birth of the Liberal Individual"

Thursday April 19, 3:30 p.m.

JESSICA ADAMS
Independent Scholar
"Memories of Unseen Landscapes: Confederate Migration and Southern Hybridity"

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First American Studies summer institute:

Atlantic Geographies, May 14-17, Cuban Heritage Collection conference room / Richter Library 3rd floor conference room, 9 am-5 pm. A 4-day institute for 12 advanced PhD students and recent postdocs, with a keynote lecture on Monday May 14 (open to everyone) by Vincent Brown (History / African American and African Studies, Duke U.). More information on the Atlantic Geographies website. Co-sponsored by the University of Miami Libraries, Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, English Department, Geography & Regional Studies Department, History Department, Modern Languages and Literatures, Department's Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, Philosophy Department, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Humanities, the Graduate School, and the Africana Studies Program.

Past Events

Tuesday September 6, 7 pm, CAS Gallery, and Wednesday September 7, 8:30 pm, Books & Books, Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach ($10): Cristina García (novelist) and John Murillo (poet), both visiting writers in the Creative Writing program at UM this semester, reading from their work to kick off the Polyglot Writers series, organized by Creative Writing, cosponsored by American Studies. View the flyer here.

Monday September 12, 5:30 p.m., Glasgow Hall, School of Architecture: Alexander von Hoffmann (Harvard U.), "Housing Matters: America's Quest for Decent Homes", organized by the Office of Civic & Community Engagement, cosponsored by American Studies. View the flyer here.

Thursday, September 22, 4:30 pm: Eric Foner, Columbia University, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery," Storer Auditorium. Sponsored by the History Department; cosponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the American Studies Program. View flyer here.

Thursday, October 6 4:30 pm: Kathleen Duval, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Independence Lost: The Gulf Coast and the American Revolution," 3rd Floor Conference Room, Richter Library. Sponsored by the Atlantic Studies Research Group, the Center for the Humanities; cosponsored by the History Department and the American Studies Program.