About the College
February 1st, 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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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
February 2nd, Tuesday
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Combinatorics Seminar: Reduced Decompositions of Permutations
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Drew Armstrong of University of Miami
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Black History Month
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- "J.A. Rogers Discovers Montmarte (Paris) during the Jazz Age"
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- "J.A. Rogers Discovers Montmarte (Paris) during the Jazz Age"
February 4th, Thursday
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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
- Dr. Pengzi Miao of Monash University
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LOWEdown Happy Hour
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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African Film Festival
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- "Awaiting for Men" directed by Katy Lena N'diaye (Senegal)
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- "Awaiting for Men" directed by Katy Lena N'diaye (Senegal)
February 5th, Friday
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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.
February 9th, Tuesday
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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
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Artist Michael Lucero Lecture
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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God Knows Everything but is not a Snitch
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
February 10th, Wednesday
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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
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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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7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
THE FORUM OF ARMED CONFLICT AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES: AFRICA
February 11th, Thursday
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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
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- What happens to the cosmopolitan dream of world
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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)
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- "Come Back to Sudan" directed by Daniel Junge and Patti Bonnet (Sudan)
February 12th, Friday
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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
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- Some well-informed analysts see China dominating
February 13th, Saturday
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Art Lovers for Haiti
3:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Art, music, silent auction.
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- Art, music, silent auction.
February 14th, Sunday
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Lowe Art Museum Family Day
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Latin American Folktales
February 15th, Monday
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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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- Alicia Schmidt Camacho
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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
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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
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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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- Presentation on 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
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Geometry and Physics Seminar: Conjugation Spaces and 4-manifolds
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Professor I. Hambleton of McMaster University
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Combinatorics Seminar: Nowhere-Harmonic Colorings of Graphs
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Benjamin Braun of University of Kentucky
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Tribal Arts Society Lecture
7:30 PM
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The Story of Cuban Jewry: Myth and Reality
8:00 PM
February 18th, Thursday
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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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- Submission Deadline: November 1, 2010
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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
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“Looking for Love: Italian Renaissance Prostitution Reconsidered” A Cooper Fellows Lecture.
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
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An Evening with Sandy Skoglund
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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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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- "Kinshasa Palace" directed by Jose Laplaine (Democratic Republic of Congo)
February 19th, Friday
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Call for Papers: 2010 Graduate Student Conference
8:00 AM
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Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
“Authorship”
- 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
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- William E. Wallace,
February 20th, Saturday
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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"
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- Eighteenth Annual Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Symposium "Authorship"
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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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- "Kinshasa Palace" directed by Jose Laplaine (Democratic Republic of Congo)
February 22nd, Monday
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Symposium on Geometric Analysis and Mathematical Relativity, Day One
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Piotr Chruściel of Oxford University
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- Piotr Chruściel of Oxford University
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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
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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
February 23rd, Tuesday
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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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- Lars Andersson of Albert Einstein Institute, Golm
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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
February 24th, Wednesday
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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
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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.
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African Diaspora Art and Healing
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
February 26th, Friday
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Philosophy Colloquium "Universal Legislation as the Form of Practical Knowledge" by Stephen Engstrom
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
March 1st, Monday
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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
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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
March 3rd, Wednesday
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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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