April 4th, Wednesday

• African Diasporic Religion and Generation

  4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 5th, Thursday

• Mathematics Colloquium: Kaehler Version of Cheeger-Gromoll-Perelman Soul Theory with Positive Bi-sectional Curvature

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Professor Jianguo Cao of University of Notre Dame
  
  

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April 9th, Monday

• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Small Exotic 4-Manifolds

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor A. Akhmedov of Georgia Institute of Technology
  
  

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April 10th, Tuesday

• CAFTA: Current Status and Future Prospects for U.S.-Central American Trade—Who Benefits and Who Loses?

  2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 12th, Thursday

• Philosophy Colloquium " Against Non Being" by Graham Priest

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Laurence Breiner, Professor of English, Boston University: "Jamaican Precursors of 'Orature' Poetry"

  3:30 PM
  
  • Professor Breiner teaches Caribbean, postcolonial, and 17th-century literatures in the English and African American Studies departments at Boston University. He is the author of...
  
  

• Appignani Foundation Lecture on Science, Reason and Secular Ethics "When Fear Undermines Autonomy: Concretized Emotions and Deliberative Incapacity"

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Current philosophical interpretations of respect for autonomy fail to distinguish patients whose reactive fear and other emotions lead them to make bad decisions from patients w...
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April 13th, Friday

• Reception for Promoted Faculty (by invitation ONLY)

  5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 14th, Saturday

• The First Annual Florida Cervantes Symposium

  9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
  
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• 2007 Spring Graduate Symposium

  11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  
  • A student symposium organized by the English Graduate Organization.
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April 16th, Monday

• College Faculty Meeting

  3:30 PM
  
  
  

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April 17th, Tuesday

• A Reading by Adrian Castro and Rita Wong

  5:00 PM
  
  • Hosted by the Department of English and the UM Bookstore
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• Latino Food Ways: The Culture of Latin American Cuisine in Miami

  7:00 PM
  
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April 18th, Wednesday

• Chairs' Meeting

  3:30 PM
  
  
  

• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Gravity Probe B Relativity Science Mission:
  Instrument, Flight, Data Analysis, and the First Glimpses of the Result

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Alexander Silbergleit of GP-B W.W.Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
  
  

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April 19th, Thursday

• Promotion & Tenure Workshp

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• CAS Alumni Night at the Ring for "On the Town"

  8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Play at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, Alvin Sherman Family Stage
    Tickets for alumni 1/2 price ($9)
    Call CAS Alumni Relations at 305.284.2398
  
  

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April 23rd, Monday

• The Future of Coffee with the National Coffee Grower's Federation of Colombia

  8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

• College Council Meeting

  3:30 PM
  
  
  

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April 24th, Tuesday

• AlumNites Lecture: The Future of Florida and the Gulf Coast in the Face of Global Warming

  6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
  
  • Join the College of Arts and Sciences, the UM Alumni Association, and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science for an engaging presentation with Timothy Dixon, pr...
  
  

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April 26th, Thursday

• Will and Value: A Conference in Honor of Ramon M. Lemos by John Lemos and Noah Lemos

  1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• English Faculty Colloquium: Peter J. Bellis, Associate Professor of English

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • "Keeping Ragged Dick in Circulation: Horatio Alger and the Economics of City Space"
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Skepticism and Explanation and the Semantics" by Bernhard Nickel

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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April 27th, Friday

• Policies for Illegal Drugs in Andean Countries

  12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  
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• Faculty Scholarly & Creative Activities Recognition

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 30th, Monday

• Mathematics Colloquium: The Weak Hilbert's 16th Problem and Its Solution in Quadratic Case

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Chengzhi Li of Peking University, P.R.China
    
  
  

• Retirement Roast for Professor Kenneth Kurtz

  7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • A retirement roast for Kenneth Kurtz, professor of scenic design, will take place at 8:00 PM on April 30, 2007 at the Jerry Herman Ring Theatre.
  
  

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May 1st, Tuesday

• Mathematics Colloquium

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Bertrand Clarke of Department of Statistics at British Columbia
    
  
  

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