February 1st, Monday

• College Council Meeting in Physics Conference Room

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

• Mathematics Colloquium: Einstein Metrics, the Bach Tensor, and Metric Degenerations

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Brian J. Weber, RTG/Simons Center Postdoc of Stony Brook University
  
  

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February 2nd, Tuesday

• Combinatorics Seminar: Reduced Decompositions of Permutations

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Drew Armstrong of University of Miami
  
  

• Black History Month

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • "J.A. Rogers Discovers Montmarte (Paris) during the Jazz Age"
    lecture by Dr. Thabiti Asukile
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February 4th, Thursday

• Atlantic Narratives Symposium

  2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • A two-day symposium organized by the Atlantic Studies Research Group at the University of Miami.
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Critical Metrics for the Volume Functional on Compact Manifolds with Boundary

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Pengzi Miao of Monash University
    
  
  

• LOWEdown Happy Hour

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

• African Film Festival

  8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • "Awaiting for Men" directed by Katy Lena N'diaye (Senegal)
    "Heartlines" directed by Angus Gibson (South Africa)
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February 5th, Friday

• Atlantic Narratives Symposium

  9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
  
  • A two-day symposium organized by the Atlantic Studies Research Group at the University of Miami
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Huckleberry Finn & Moral Motivation" by Dr. Alan Goldman

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• LAM Membership Preview

  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection.
  
  

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February 9th, Tuesday

• The Lure of Beijing: A View From Latin America

  2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  
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• American Studies Lecture Series

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • "Reading a Letter: Republicanism, Empire, and the Archives of the Atlantic" lecture by Ian Baucom, Professor of English and Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Instit...
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• Trees of Africa and the African Diaspora

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• Combinatorics Seminar: Eulerian Quasisymmetric Functions and Cyclic Sieving

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Michelle Wachs of University of Miami
  
  

• Artist Michael Lucero Lecture

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

• God Knows Everything but is not a Snitch

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
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February 10th, Wednesday

• Department of Sociology Brownbag Series - Spring 2010
  

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Title: "Do Non-Cognitive Traits Influence Romantic Partner Arrangements? Evidence from a Sample of Young Adults."
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• Building Latin American Studies: Some Ideas and Possible Strategies

  2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: On Real Determinantal Quartics

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor I. Itenberg of Université de Strasbourg
  
  

• Haitian Students Speak: Envisioning Haiti's Future

  6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Looking Forward on the Future of Haiti
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• 
  THE FORUM OF ARMED CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES: AFRICA
  

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

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February 11th, Thursday

• 8th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies

  8:00 AM to 9:00 PM
  
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• Philosophy Colloquium "States & Counterfactuals" by Dr. Kit Fine

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Susan Stanford Friedman: Cosmopolitanism, Women, and War: From Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • What happens to the cosmopolitan dream of world
    citizenship during a time of war? What is women’s
    relationship to patriotism when the nation denies them
    ful...
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• African Film Festival

  8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • "Come Back to Sudan" directed by Daniel Junge and Patti Bonnet (Sudan)
    "Paris Selon Moussa" directed by Cheik Doukoure (Guinea/France)
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February 12th, Friday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Counterfactuals & Frames" by Dr. Kit Fine

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Edward Friedman: The Rise of a Superpower China

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Some well-informed analysts see China dominating
    the world in the years ahead and re-shaping politics
    in a direction favorable to authoritarianism rather
    tha...
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February 13th, Saturday

• Art Lovers for Haiti

  3:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • Art, music, silent auction.
    All proceeds to benefit Haiti through World Vision.
    
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February 14th, Sunday

• Lowe Art Museum Family Day

  12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • Latin American Folktales
  
  

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February 15th, Monday

• Beyond the Civil Society Agenda

  2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  
  • Civic Participation and Practices of Governance, Governability and Governmentality
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• American Studies Lecture Series

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Alicia Schmidt Camacho
    Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies, Yale University
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• Lecture Invitation from The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies: Prof. Ed Morgan

  8:00 PM to 10:30 PM
  
  • Ed Morgan on “A Sovereign Palestine? The Ins and Outs of International Law”
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February 16th, Tuesday

• Re-visioning Latin American Studies For the 21st Century
  

  9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
  
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• Informational Session

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • Informational Session on Study Abroad Course,Global Warming Politics and the European Union (POL323), (to be held in Paris, France, during July of 2010).
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• Mia Leonin presents "Havana and Other Missing Fathers"

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami Reading Series
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February 17th, Wednesday

• Terrorism

  3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • Presentation on Terrorism
    By
    Bernard Finel
    
    Are We Winning?
    The Future of Terrorism
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• Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room -- CANCELLED

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

• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Conjugation Spaces and 4-manifolds

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor I. Hambleton of McMaster University
  
  

• Combinatorics Seminar: Nowhere-Harmonic Colorings of Graphs

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Benjamin Braun of University of Kentucky
  
  

• Tribal Arts Society Lecture

  7:30 PM
  
  
  

• The Story of Cuban Jewry: Myth and Reality

  8:00 PM
  
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February 18th, Thursday

• Call For Papers: Medieval Renaissance and Baroque Symposium, "Food For Thought, For Writing and For Art"

  8:00 AM to 6:30 PM
  
  • Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010
    The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium
    of the University of Miami, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures,
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Axiomatic Thin Position and Applications

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Jesse Johnson of Oklahoma State University
  
  

• “Looking for Love: Italian Renaissance Prostitution Reconsidered” A Cooper Fellows Lecture.

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• An Evening with Sandy Skoglund

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

• African Film Festival

  8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • "Kinshasa Palace" directed by Jose Laplaine (Democratic Republic of Congo)
    "Shoot the Messenger" directed by Ngozi Onwurah (Nigeria/UK)
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February 19th, Friday

• Call for Papers: 2010 Graduate Student Conference

  8:00 AM
  
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• Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium
  “Authorship”
  

  9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  
  • The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium of the University of Miami invites papers on the many facets of authorship in the pre- and early-modern period...
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• "The Haiti Earthquake" - A Lecture by Professor Timothy Dixon

  1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • Prof. Dixon will discuss the general geologic situation of Haiti, geologic and other hazards associated with the Haitian environment and prospects for rebuilding Port au Prince ...
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• The Haiti Earthquake

  1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Are There No Things That Are Scientific Theories?" by Dr. Steven French

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque Symposium, First Keynote Presenter: William E. Wallace, "Who Is the Author of Michelangelo's Life?”

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • William E. Wallace,
    Barbara Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History,
    Washington University in St. Louis
    “Who Is the Author of Michelangelo's Life?”
    
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February 20th, Saturday

• Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque Symposium Second Keynote Lecture: Jane Tylus, "Sublime Authorship: Translating Gaspara Stampa"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium "Authorship"
    Second Keynote Lecture: Jane Tylus,
    Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literatur...
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• African Film Festival

  8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
  • "Kinshasa Palace" directed by Jose Laplaine (Democratic Republic of Congo)
    "Shoot the Messenger" directed by Ngozi Onwurah (Nigeria/UK)
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February 22nd, Monday

• Symposium on Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Relativity, Day One

  10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  
  • Piotr Chruściel of Oxford University
    and Jim Isenberg of University of Oregon
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• College Faculty Meeting at the Lowe Art Museum

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

• 2010 McKnight-Zame Distinguished Lecture: Spaces of Positive Curvature

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Richard Schoen, Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
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• Friends of Philosophy Dialogue "Is Morality Objective?" by Colin McGinn

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
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February 23rd, Tuesday

• Symposium on Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Relativity, Day Two

  10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  
  • Lars Andersson of Albert Einstein Institute, Golm
    and Hugh Bray of Duke University
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Riemannian Manifolds of Constant Scalar Curvature

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Richard Schoen, Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
  
  

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February 24th, Wednesday

• Department of Sociology Brown Bag Series, Spring 2010 #2

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Presenter: Hilary H. Cook
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• Pizza Seminar

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• Exploring Haiti’s Underdevelopment: Past Challenges and Future Prospects

  6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  • Answering critical questions about Haiti's underdevelopment
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February 25th, Thursday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Unity of Apperception" by Stephen Engstrom

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Pizza, Professors, and Political Science Careers

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Career Information Session with Professor Greg Koger, "Working on Capitol Hill or in the White House".
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• Law of the Jungle

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
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• Law of the Jungle

  5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  
  • Journalist and Author John Otis will discuss his new book.
  
  

• African Diaspora Art and Healing

  7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  
  

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February 26th, Friday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Universal Legislation as the Form of Practical Knowledge" by Stephen Engstrom

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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March 1st, Monday

• Stanford Distinguished Professor Bas van Fraassen - Against Naturalism: a Parting of the Ways

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • This lecture focuses on the contrast between naturalism and empiricism in epistemology and philosophy of science (with metaphysics left aside).
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March 2nd, Tuesday

• Higher Education in Haiti After the Earthquake: Assessing the Impact and Strategizing for the Future

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Presentation and discussion strategizing how best to support Haitian students, faculty and administrators
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• Combinatorics Seminar: On the Half-plane Property and the Tutte-group of a Matroid

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Rafael S. Gonzalez D'Leon of University of Miami
  
  

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March 3rd, Wednesday

• Indigenous Groups in Latin America: Political, Economic and Social Change
  

  12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  • Program and Lunch
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• Stanford Distinguished Professor Bas van Fraassen - Will the Real Anti-Realist Please Stand Up?

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • This lecture argues that the metaphysical answers harbor troubling ambiguities, and that the realist arguments tend to demolish only anti-realism as [mis-]conceived from a reali...
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