April 1st, Thursday

• English Faculty Colloquium: John Paul Russo, "Purple and Bronze Are the Colors of Apocalypse: Jorie Graham and John Ashbery"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

• Andean Gateways: Spiritual Tourism and Race in the Sacred Valley, Peru

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
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• Workshop and presentation by Dr. Macarena Gomez-Barris, "Andean Gateways: Spiritual Tourism and Race in the Sacred Valley, Peru"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Gómez-Barris will make her paper available before Thursday so that participants can discuss it then. She will also do a preliminary presentation of how her work fits in her...
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• Guest lecture featuring humanitarian & Rising Star Outreach Founder Becky Douglas.

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Becky Douglas president of Rising Star Outreach assists those living in the leper colonies of Southern India obtain healthy, meaningful lives. Co-sponsored by the International ...
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• LOWEdown - Happy Hour

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Ink & Vino at the Lowe!
  
  

• Which Way Home: Movie Screening and Q&A

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
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April 2nd, Friday

• Trans Global / Global Trans Symposium

  9:00 AM to 6:30 PM
  
  • A one day symposium organized by the Queer Studies Group at UM featuring invited speakers: Judith Halberstam (USC), Neville Hoad (UT-Texas), and Jarrod Hayes (Michigan)
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• The Role of the Drum and Music in the Creation of Black Communities across the Diaspora
  

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
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• Department of Chemistry invites: S. Hong from the University of Florida

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • To discuss: Exploring New Ligand Designs for Asymmetric Catalysis
  
  

• Salon des Refuses - Opening Reception & BBQ - at the CAS Gallery

  5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Art & Art History Exhibition of Students' Art Work
  
  

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April 6th, Tuesday

• Climate Change as an Issue in Transatlantic
  Relations: Common Challenges, Divergent Politics

  11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
  
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• College Faculty Meeting at the Lowe Art Museum (Reception to follow)

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Faculty meeting at the Lowe Art Museum (Reception to follow)
  
  

• Biology hosts Special Seminar for Dr. Kenji Matsuno

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Kenji Matsuno will present a seminar entitled "Mechanisms of left-right asymmetric development in Drosophila" on April 6, 2010 at 3:30 pm in Cox 166.
  
  

• Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Center US Southern Command
  
  

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • The Department of Defense Role in Foreign Disaster Response - Haiti Earthquake Case Study
  
  

• US Southern Command Role in Humanitarian Assistance: Haiti Earthquake Case Study

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • A Lecture by William I. “Ike” Clark moderated by Professor Sherri Porcelain. Q+A to follow.
    
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• Combinatorics Seminar: On q-analogs of the k-equal Partition Lattice

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Julian Moorehead of University of Miami
  
  

• The Lady of Osogbo

  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  
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April 7th, Wednesday

• Department of Sociology, Spring 2010 Brown Bag Series

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Presenter: Dr. Krysia Mossakowski
    Title: "Unfulfilled Expectations and Symptoms of Depression among Young Adults in the United States."
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• The Poetics of Hip-Hop:
  Tracing the Black Aesthetic

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
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• "How Fronto's Letters Got Lost: The Circulation of Knowledge about Ancient Sexuality in Modern Times"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • lecture by Professor Amy Richlin
    Department of Classics, UCLA
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: On Uniformly Effective Boundedness of Shafarevich Conjecture-type

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Gordon Heier of University of Houston
  
  

• Lecture by Armin Schwegler, "Ritual Spanish and African tongues en Cuba y Miami"

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
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• Black Magic: Ritual Spanish & African Tongues en Cuba y Miami

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
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April 8th, Thursday

• Environment, Wonder, and the Sea: Rachel Carson and the Ecology of Latin America
  Lunch with Artist Kaiulani Lee

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
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• 2010 Faculty Senate Awards

  5:00 PM
  
  • The Faculty Senate has selected winners for two of its most prestigious awards. Manuel Huerta, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named recipient...
  
  

• Artists Support Haiti

  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Benefit Auction for UM Global Institute/Project Medishare to help the people of Haiti with medical, educational and agricultural needs.
  
  

• Silent auction to benefit UM Global Institute

  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

• 22nd Annual Gifford Arboretum Lecture

  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Dr. W. John Kress from The National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution will speak on "DNA Barcoding in Plants: The Future of Identification, Discovery, and Conser...
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• A Sense of Wonder: A Film and Performance by Kaiulani Lee

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
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April 9th, Friday

• THE FIRST JOINT ANNUAL STUDENT QUEER & TRANSGENDER STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

  9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
  
  • A student-run joint UM/FIU Queer and Transgender Studies Student Symposium on Friday, April 9, from 9 to 3:30 pm.
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• Dr. Jimmie R. Nelson '59 Lecture and the Department of Chemistry invites: Mark H. Thiemens'72 from the University of California, San Diego.

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • To discuss: New Isotope Effects and Probing the origin and evolution of the solar system, polar climate studies, Mars and the origin of life.
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Questioning Aristotle's Demonstrative Logic" by John Corcoran

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Talk by Christine Arce, "Son como son: Music and the Makings of
  Afro-Mestizo Culture in Veracruz, México"

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
    INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
    
    Professor Christine Arce, “Son como son: Music and the Makings of Afro-Mestizo ...
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• Combinatorics Seminar: On Lattice Path Matroids and Polymatroids

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Jay Schweig of University of Kansas
  
  

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April 12th, Monday

• Tell Me Something True: Book Reading and Signing with Author Leila Cobo

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
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• LEILA COBO,"Tell Me Something True"

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
  • ACCLAIMED MUSIC WRITER & TV HOST LEILA COBO WILL READ FROM HER NEW NOVEL, "Tell Me Something True" AND SIGN COPIES
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• Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Steve Stein

  4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • Grape Wars: The Conflict between Quantity and Quality in the History of the Argentine Wine Industry.
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April 13th, Tuesday

• TALK BY RAID ZARAKET, "ÉCOLE D’ALGER ET ALGÉRIANISME: LES DÉSILLUSIONS COLONIALES À TRAVERS LE DÉBAT ENTRE JEAN SÉNAC ET ALBERT CAMUS"

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Lecture in French by Raid Zaraket, University Paul Valéry-Montpellier III
    "ÉCOLE D’ALGER ET ALGÉRIANISME: LES DÉSILLUSIONS COLONIALES À TRAVERS LE DÉBAT ENTRE JEAN SÉNAC E...
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• Lyric Hybrid: A Dialog Featuring Creative Writing Program Faculty

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
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April 14th, Wednesday

• Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room
  
  

• Campaign Finance, Voting, Registration & Counting Votes

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Integrated Density of States of Schröedinger Operators with Periodic and Almost-periodic Potentials

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Leonid Parnovski of University College London
  
  

• Pizza Seminar

  5:00 PM
  
  • Mortadha Alkhawaja
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Miami
    will present
    Semantic Search in Geospatial Knowledge Bases
    
  
  

• Tribal Arts Society Lecture

  7:30 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  
  

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April 15th, Thursday

• Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York, UK

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

• LECTURE BY JACQUES CHÉVRIER, "50 ANS DE LITTÉRATURE SUB-SAHARIENNE : ÉTAT DES LIEUX"

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • PROF. J. CHÉVRIER, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS IV – SORBONNE, "50 ANS DE LITTÉRATURE SUB-SAHARIENNE : ÉTAT DES LIEUX"
    
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Numerical Solutions to Noisy Systems

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Sanja Zivanovic of Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands
  
  

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April 16th, Friday

• World Literature in the United States Today

  4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • Edwidge Danticat, Mitchell Kaplan, Walter K. Lew, R. Zamora Linmark, Becka Mara McKay, Pamela Thompson
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• Mathematics Colloquium: The Role of Light and Nutrients in Aquatic Trophic Interactions

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Hao Wang of University of Alberta
  
  

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April 19th, Monday

• College Council Meeting in Physics Conference Room

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Council meeting in Physics Conference Room
  
  

• Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program - Information Forum

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
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April 21st, Wednesday

• Pizza Seminar

  5:00 PM
  
  • Nelson Dellis
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Miami
    will present
    Remembering not to Forget
    
  
  

• ALBA: An Alternative for the People of Our America

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  • Presented by The CLAS sponsored Interdisciplinary Research Group on Dictatorships, Illiberal Democracies, & Democratic Transitions in Latin America
  
  

• ALBA: An Alternative for the People of Our America

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  • A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Magdalena Defort.
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April 22nd, Thursday

• Earth Day Film Festival

  9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  
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• Laura Giannetti-Food and the Senses: Pleasure, Sin and Guilt in Sixteenth-Century Italian Literature and Art

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Humanists, doctors, and food writers debated whether the concern for health or the pleasures of the senses should be the guiding principle in choosing food.
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• Pizza, Professors, and Political Science Careers.

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Career Information Session with Professor Chris Mann, "Working on Political Campaigns".
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• Mathematics Colloquium: A Non-neutral Theory of Dispersal-limited Community Dynamics

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Andrew Noble of University of Maryland
  
  

• Mending Miami Earth Day Celebration

  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Revolutionary Speakers & FREE Food
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• Book Presentation by Dr. David Ellison, A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • Dr. David Ellison will present and sign his newly published book, A Reader’s Guide to Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ )Cambridge University Press, Febraury 2010).
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April 23rd, Friday

• 8th Annual Latin America and Caribbean Studies Graduate Student Conference

  11:30 AM to 5:00 PM
  
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• The Department of Chemistry invites: Gopal Thinakaran from the University of Chicago.

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • To discuss Cell biology of Alzheimer's disease beta-amyloid production: A tale of two secretases.
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Irrealism Without Anarchy: Valuing Truth Within a (Partially) Nonfactualist Epistemology" by Lisa Warenski

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• A BILINGUAL POETRY READING BY RENOWNED CHILEAN POET, RAUL ZURITA,
  “TO SPEAK FROM THE WRECKAGE”: RAÚL ZURITA’s PURGATORY

  4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • A Bilingual Poetry Reading by Chilean Poet Raúl Zurita followed by a round table discussion with UM Professors.
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• UM Faculty and Students Exhibitions Preview

  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Annual Juried Student Competition Exhibition
  
  

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April 26th, Monday

• The Cuban Revolution (1959-2009): Relations with Spain, the European Union, and the United States.

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • A book presentation by Joaquin Roy
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April 27th, Tuesday

• DR. XAVIER RUBERT DE VENTÓS, "LA HISPANIDAD EN CUESTIÓN"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • DR. XAVIER RUBERT DE VENTÓS,
    Barcelona School of Architecture
    "LA HISPANIDAD EN CUESTIÓN"
    Talk will be conducted in Spanish.
    
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• Book Presentation by Dr. Patti Rose
  "Cultural Competency for Health Administration and Public Health"

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
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April 28th, Wednesday

• Department of Sociology, Spring 2010 Brown Bag Series
  
  
  

  1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • Presenter: Dr. Frank Samson
    
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April 29th, Thursday

• The Docent Guild Lectures of the Lowe Art Museum
  Math & Art: The Creative Connection

  11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
  • Lun-Yi Tsai of University of Miami
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Relativized Metaphysical Necessity" by Jessica Wilson

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• "The Pain of Social Rejection: Breaking and Restoring Bonds with Others", a Seminar by C. Nathan DeWall, Ph.D.

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: How Not to Learn Minimal Model Program

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • L. Katzarkov of University of Miami
  
  

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April 30th, Friday

• 2010 Spring Graduate Symposium

  2:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
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• The Department of Chemistry invites: W.E. Farneth from Dupont

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • To discuss Photovoltaics from Sustainable Energy Production: Technical and Policy Hurdles from an Industrial Perspective.
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Real Action Theory" by Benj Hellie

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

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