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November 4th, Wednesday
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg lectures on Joseph's Dream in the Book of Genesis
11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
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Geometry and Physics Seminar: Closed Symmetric Differentials of Degree 2 and the Geometry of Complex Surfaces
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Professor Bruno de Oliveira of University of Miami
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BUSINESS AND HUMANITIES IN MILAN, ITALY – SUMMER 2010
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- INFORMATION SESSION: Meet the professors, hear details about the courses, get an application…
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Colloquium
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Speaker: Dr. Stewart E. Barnes, University of Miami
Title: Taking Faraday's law for a spin-gauge theories and spin batteries
- Speaker: Dr. Stewart E. Barnes, University of Miami
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The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An economic evaluation of Plan Colombia
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
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The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
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"Shakespeare, Humanities, and Modern Culture"
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Inaugural Lecture & Reception for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
November 5th, Thursday
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"The Animal Moment: The Visual & Verbal Animal"
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
- Lunch Seminar for faculty and graduate students, in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
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"After the Humanities"
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- Lecture & Reception in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
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What Ever Happened to the War on Drugs in Latin America?
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
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Mathematics Colloquium: Slice Knots and the Alexander Polynomial
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Dr. Daniel Ruberman of Brandeis University
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W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Cuba in Africa: A View from the Angolan Trenches by Lazaro Bentancourt
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LOWEDOWN
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Happy Hour
November 6th, Friday
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"The Future of the Profession: From Nuts & Bolts to Rumors & Theories"
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
- Lunch Seminar for faculty and graduate students, in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
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"A Tale of Three Hamlets: Repetition & Revenge"
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- Lecture & Reception in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
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Applied Math Seminar: Insurgent Wars, Pandemics, Global Emissions and Market Crises: One Model Fits All?
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Professor Neil Johnson of University of Miami
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Alumni Exhibition
5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- In conjunction with Alumni Weekend, the Dept of Art and Art History presents an exhibition of artworks by UM alumni.
November 9th, Monday
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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program/Department of Anthropology presents Professor Jean Comaroff
7:00 PM
- "Nations with/out Borders: The Problem of Belonging in Africa, and Beyond"
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November 11th, Wednesday
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Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room
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MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA AT BOOKS AND BOOKS
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- ABDELLAH TAΪA will present the recent English and Spanish translations of his novel Salvation Army. He will discuss his work with Ralph Heyndels and Gema Perez
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Allen Wells and Tropical Zion
7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
November 12th, Thursday
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Lowe Art Museum ANNUAL RECYCLED BOOK SALE
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Thursday, November 12 - Sunday, November 15, 2009
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"MÉLANCOLIE ET PASSION" COURSE PARTICIPATION BY ABDELLAH TAΪA
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
- Abdellah Taïa is a young Moroccan writer and intellectual figure living in Paris and writing in French. He is the author of several novels...
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Philosophy Colloquium "Emotions, Reason & the Functional Imaging of Moral Deliberations" by Dr. Colin Klein
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
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Mathematics Colloquium: Graph Theoretic Methods in Algebraic Statistics
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Dr. Alexander Engström, Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
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The Sugar Babies
7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
November 13th, Friday
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Aerospace Studies/Air Force ROTC Blood Drive
11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Blood Drive to benefit "Branches" after school tutoring program
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"The Sugar Babies" Roundtable Discussion with Filmmaker Amy Serrano.
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
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Combinatorics Seminar: A Combinatorial Optimization Problem from Genomics
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Professor Eric Gottlieb of Rhodes College
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Applied Math Seminar: A Class of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems and Weak Lyapunov Stability
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Professor Gaetano Zampieri, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Verona
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Keynote Address for the Society for the Study of
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Childhood in the Past Annual Conference
November 15th, Sunday
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FAMILY DAY
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
November 16th, Monday
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College Council Meeting in Physics Conference Room
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- College Council meeting in Physics Conference Room
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Climate Change as a Human Security Concern: From Evidence to Action
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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MALS Information Forum
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
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Friends of Philosophy Dialogue "Bertrand Russell & Humanism" by Dr. James Nickel & Dr. Harvey Siegel
7:30 PM
November 17th, Tuesday
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Dr. Ángeles Encinar presents “La guerra civil española en la narrativa breve de Manuel Rivas y Juan Eduardo Zúñiga”
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- This talk will be delivered in Spanish. Dr. Encinar is a Professor of Spanish, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus and is currently a Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas...
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21st Century Competitiveness in Latin America: The Role of Education
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
November 18th, Wednesday
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Brown Bag Lecture Series, Fall 2009
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
- Dr. David Maimon
Presentation Title: "Alcohol Sales, Collective Efficacy and Adolescent's Alcohol Use: Opportunity and Control in the Study of Adolescents' Alcohol Use." <... -
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- Dr. David Maimon
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Geometry and Physics Seminar: Seiberg-Witten Equations and End-periodic Dirac Operators
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Professor N. Saveliev of University of Miami
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Pizza Seminar
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Dr. Geoff Sutcliffe
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- Dr. Geoff Sutcliffe
November 19th, Thursday
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Boren Fellowship Informational Webinar
2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Opportunities for U.S. Graduate Students to study in world regions critical to U.S. Interests
- Opportunities for U.S. Graduate Students to study in world regions critical to U.S. Interests
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The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
November 20th, Friday
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Barrett Watten presents "Nonsite Parataxis: Ulf Stolterfoht's 'Fachsprachen' and John Ashbery's 'Europe'"
12:00 PM to 2:30 PM
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2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Boren Scholarship Informational Webinar
- Opportunities for U.S. Undergraduate Students to study in world regions critical to U.S. Interests
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English Faculty Colloquium: Mihoko Suzuki, "Daughters of Coke: Women and Legal Discourse in Civil War England"
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
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Philosophy Colloquium "The Effect of Vagueness on Meaning" by Dr. Stephen Schiffer
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
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Mathematics Colloquium: Gauge Theory of Faddeev-Skyrme Functionals
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
- Professor Sergiy Koshkin of University of Houston-Downtown
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Applied Math Seminar: Modeling the Impact of Non-timber Forest Product Harvest in Variable Environments
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Dr. Orou Gaoue, ITME Post Doc, Department of Biology, University of Miami
November 23rd, Monday
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College Faculty Meeting at the Wesley/College Gallery
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- College Faculty meeting at the Wesley/College Gallery
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Africana Studies Film Series
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
November 24th, Tuesday
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Mathematics Colloquium: Evolutionary Implications of Influenza Medication Strategies
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Dr. Zhilan Feng of Purdue University
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A Symposium on H1N1 Influenza
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Talks by UM scientists on various aspects of H1N1 influenza and an opportunity for questions and discussion.
November 30th, Monday
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Rethinking Economic Populism: Peron and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
- with Professor Claudia Kedar
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December 1st, Tuesday
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Information Session for Study Abroad in Paris, Summer 2010
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- POL 323 - "Global Warming Politics and the European Union"
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- POL 323 - "Global Warming Politics and the European Union"
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“The African Union Convention on Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.”
5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
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Geometry and Physics Seminar: Spectra of Categories and Applications to Low Dimensional Topology
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Professor L. Katzarkov of University of Miami
