April 1st, Wednesday

• "Speech Technology: Insights into the technology behind speech recognition and unique applications" presented by IBM.

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • This is a Computer Science and Mathematics for Scientists Project Industrial Liaison Seminar. Refreshments will be served at 4:45 p.m.
    
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April 2nd, Thursday

• Jonathan Lamb, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Vanderbilt University: "Character, Person, and the Fictionality of the Novel"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Is it Intelligible to Ask Whether Pleasure is Good?" by Dr. Richard Kraut

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Eisenstein-Maass Series and Chern Forms on Moduli Spaces of Curves and Parabolic Bundles

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Leon Takhtajan of SUNY at Stony Brook
  
  

• Calypso Dreams Film and Panel with Filmmaker Geoffrey Dunn

  7:00 PM
  
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April 3rd, Friday

• Distinguished lecturer, Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias, Departamento de Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo.

  3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • Part of SEEDS(Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success)program.
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Against Absolute Goodness" by Dr. Richard Kraut

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• “Educating ‘Our Indians’ in ‘Our America’: Anti-Imperialist Imperialism and the Construction of Brazilian Modernity”, Dr. Tracy Devine Guzmán

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Me...
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• Art & Art History Department's "Salon des Refuses" an exhibition.

  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Opening reception
  
  

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April 6th, Monday

• Regionalism and the European Union

  3:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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April 7th, Tuesday

• Pandemic Influenza Preparedness & Response: US Policy & Global Realities
  

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• Global Public Health: “Oh, The Places you’ll Go & the People you’ll meet!!”
  

  6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  
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• Internationally-known glass artist Therman Statom

  7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 8th, Wednesday

• Arts Networking Event

  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  
  
  

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April 9th, Thursday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Proportionality in Self-Defense and War" by Dr. Jeff MchMahan

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• “ Who comes first, what comes second?Curricular sequencing in collegiate foreign language education” by Dr. Hiram Maxim, Emory University
  

  4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
    Dr. Hiram Maxim,Emory University
    “ Who comes first, what comes second?Curricular sequ...
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• Distinguished Speaker Series: Michelle Maldonado

  7:00 PM
  
  • “Evil Eye, Séances, Folk Christianity, and Orishas: The Study of “Bad” Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean”
    
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April 10th, Friday

• With Respect to the Third Sex: Negotiating Sexuality and Social Difference in India

  3:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Gayatri Reddy
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• “Detectives in the Classroom: L2 Development and the Sociocultural Mind” by Dr. Eduardo Negueruela

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce its Faculty Lecture Series for April 2009. The lectures will be held at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 210 Me...
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• Appignani Foundation Lectures on Science, Reason & Secular Ethics " The Ethics of Killing Civilians in War" by Dr Frances Kamm and Dr. Jeff McMahan

  7:00 PM
  
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April 11th, Saturday

• MOTLEY CREW: Curated by Hernan Bas

  6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Opening reception: Sat, April 11, 2009. 6:00PM - 10:00PM
    
    Wynwood Project Space
    2200a NW 2nd Ave
    
    UM and FIU grads present art chosen by Hernan Bas.
  
  

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April 13th, Monday

• "The Philosopher and the Wolf" a talk with Mark Rowlands, UM Professor of Philosophy, about his newly-released memoir.

  8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 14th, Tuesday

• Mangrove Undergraduate Reading

  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  
  • Featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation reading from authors published in the print issue of Mangrove
  
  

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April 15th, Wednesday

• Contemporary Colombia

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  
  

• “Whither Colombia? Drugs, Violence, Democratic Security and the Future of U.S.-Colombian Relations”
  

  6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
  
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• “Whither Colombia? Drugs, Violence, Democratic Security and the Future of U.S.-Colombian Relations”
  

  6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  • A Panel Discussion Moderated by Dr. Bruce Bagley, Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies.
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• Round Table Discussion: Queer Art Social Interventions

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Art and culture are well known for their role as vehicles of expression and communication. They become essential motors for change in repressive or unfair situations. What has b...
  
  

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April 16th, Thursday

• Cooper Fellows Lecture Series: "The Impact of Disasters on Youth" Presented by Dr. Annette La Greca, professor of psychology.

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Addressing the impact of natural disasters (and other traumatic events) on children's functioning. Risk and protective factors that play a role in children's adjustment post dis...
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• Garden Tour & Talk: “Disentangling one of Darwin’s great mysteries: The story of climbing plants."

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  • A celebration of Darwin’s 200th Birthday featuring Lucia Lohmann, of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
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• “Homo Baby Boom” de Anna Boluda (2008) 27 mins.
  

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • About the film:
    Six families with lesbian or gay parents in Catalonia and Valencia, Spain, tell how they had children and the reactions they have had to face. They also s...
  
  

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April 17th, Friday

• Best Practices Conference

  8:00 AM to 7:00 PM
  
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Wittgenstein & Situation Comedy" by Dr. Laurence Goldstein

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Polynomial Mappings

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Michael Zieve of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  
  

• UM Faculty Exhibition - Carsten Meier: Naturell
  UM Students/MFA

  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Annual two-part UM student exhibition onview until Sunday, June 17, 2009.
    UM Faculty - Carsten Meier: Naturell
  
  

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April 20th, Monday

• Air Force ROTC Cadets Are Making a Difference

  8:00 AM
  
  • Spring is the perfect time to get rid of those old athletic shoes taking up space. Air Force ROTC (Aerospace Studies) cadets are collecting old sneakers until 5pm on April 27th
  
  

• Air Force ROTC (Aerospace Studies) to Participate in Run

  8:00 AM
  
  • Air Force ROTC team of 29 will run April 30th to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma
  
  

• College Council Meeting

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Council meeting
  
  

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April 21st, Tuesday

• "Painted Walls, Pots, and Images on Stone in the Pueblo Rio Grande"

  7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Tribal Arts Society Lecture
  
  

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April 22nd, Wednesday

• Chairs' Meeting

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Chairs' meeting
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: The Minimal Period Problems for the Classical Forced Pendulum Equation

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Jianshe Yu of Guangzhou University
  
  

• Friends of Philosophy Dialogue "Philosophy as Way of Life & the Plurality of Happy Lives

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
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April 23rd, Thursday

• English Faculty Colloquium: Margaret Marshall, Associate Professor of English

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

• Presentation of poetry book: 'Tropología' by Dr. Eduardo Negueruela

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Presentation of poetry book: Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, April, 23rd, 2009, 7:00pm Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana
    
    Dr. Eduardo Negueruela, Directo...
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April 24th, Friday

• Conference of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies

  9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
  
  • April 24-25, The American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies will present a two-day conference on the "Fourteen Centuries of Islam's Encounter with the West." Please co...
  
  

• Combined Mathematics and ITME Colloquium: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Qing Nie of the Center for Mathematical and Computational Biology, University of California, Irvine
    
  
  

• “From ‘littérature-monde’ to ‘littérature migrante’: Towards a Theory of Migrant Literature in French” by Dr. Subha Xavier

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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April 27th, Monday

• College Faculty Meeting at the Lowe

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Faculty meeting at the Lowe
  
  

• Distinguished Speaker Series: Jeffrey Lesser
  
  

  3:30 PM
  
  • "How Shizuo Ozawa became Mario the Jap: Militant Ethnics and Ethnic Militancy in Brazil"
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• "How Shizuo Ozawa Became Mario the Jap: Militant Ethnics and Ethnic Militancy in Brazil"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Jeffrey Lesser, Winship Distinguished Research Professor
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April 28th, Tuesday

• Medical Punishment, Medical Crimes: The Sterilization of Black Women at the Mississippi State Penitentiary

  3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • A lecture on the indiscriminate, nonconsensual, sterilization of Black Women in the Mississippi State Penitentiary (1920s - 1940s).
  
  

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April 29th, Wednesday

• Air Force ROTC is Ready!

  8:00 AM
  
  • Air Force ROTC will run April 30th to benefit Leukemia & Lymphoma
  
  

• The First 100 Days of the Obama Presidency: A Public Forum

  2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
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• “Queer Literature Now: A Global Perspective”

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Queensland, Australia
    Steve Butterman, University of Miami
    Marc Brudzinski, University of Miami
    Brenna Munro, Universi...
  
  

• "Greek Heroism and the Meaning of Life"

  7:00 PM
  
  • Presented by Dean Michael R. Halleran
  
  

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April 30th, Thursday

• “The Image of Spain in 21st-Century Spanish Cinema” by Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito, University of Queensland, Australia
  

  2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Alfredo Martínez-Expósito is Head of School and Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Queenslnd, Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of th...
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Common Sense and Ontology" by Dr Avrum Stroll **CANCELLED**

  3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• “Prohibido decir toda la verdad” By Raúl Benoit

  6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
  
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May 1st, Friday

• 2009 Spring Graduate Symposium

  1:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  
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• A&S Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Recognition Reception

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • A&S Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Recognition Reception
  
  

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