March 2nd, Monday

• Creative Writing Reading Series presents poet & critic Tim Peterson

  8:00 AM
  
  
  

• "Portage, Wisconsin: How to Read a Landscape" by William Cronon, professor of history, geography and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin.

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Presented by the American Studies Program, the Department of History and the Office of the President
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March 3rd, Tuesday

• Organicarte Roundtable: Tamalyn Dallal Presents "From Bogota to Zanzibar: A Woman’s Dance Across Borders and Ideologies"
  

  11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
  
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March 4th, Wednesday

• A COLLOQUIUM ON AND WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN

  2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• College Staff General Forum

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Staff General Forum
  
  

• "Nanofluids and Nanochannels" by Professor Elisa Riedo, Georgia Institute of Technology

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Presented by the Department of Physics
  
  

• A LECTURE BY TAHAR BEN JELLOUN "Ecrire dans la langue de l’autre"
  
  

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • THIS LECTURE IS PART OF THE COLLOQUIUM ON AND WITH TAHAR BEN JELLOUN THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THAT SAME AFTERNOON AT THE C.A.S. CENTER FROM 2 TO 5 P.M. (RECEPTION TO FOLLOW AT 6:15)...
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March 5th, Thursday

• "Impounded:Dorthea Lange's Suppressed Photographs of the Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II" by Linda Gordon

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• “Serial and Parallel Random Number Generation: Theory and Practice”

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • By Michael Mascagni, professor in the Department of Computer Science, Florida State University. Presented by The Center For Computational Science and the Department of Computer ...
  
  

• 40 Days 1001 Nights Film and Panel with Filmmaker Tamalyn Dallal

  7:00 PM
  
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• Diaspora Women's Dance Festival (March 5-7, 2009)

  7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
  
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• “TRIALOGUE” BETWEEN FAITHS:JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM by Dr. Jacob Neusner.
  
  

  8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Presented by The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies
  
  

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March 6th, Friday

• Philosophy Colloquium "The Semantic Significance of Disagreement" by Dr. Gurpreet Rattan

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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March 9th, Monday

• “The European Union relations with the United States: Cooperation and conflict in trade and security”
  

  4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • By Francesc Granell,University of Barcelona.Presented by The Jean Monnet Chair and the European Union Center of Excellence.
    
    
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• Distinguished Speaker Series: Gina Athena Ulysse + performance

  7:00 PM
  
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March 10th, Tuesday

• Gina Athena Ulysse Organicarte Workshop

  1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • Alter(ed)natives: Gina Athena Ulysse Organicarte Workshop
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March 11th, Wednesday

• Chairs' Meeting

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

• Celebrate MFA Alumni: Four Readings

  4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • An English department, creative writing Reading Series
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• Appignani Foundation Lectures on Science, Reason & Secular Ethics

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
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March 12th, Thursday

• Philosophy Colloquium "The Impossibility of Your Own Death" by Mark Johnston

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Cooper Fellows Lecture Series: "Have the Humanities Declined?" Presented by Dr. John Paul Russo, professor of English

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Recent decades have witnessed the steady erosion of undergraduate majors in most fields of humanistic study, as well as a general decline in the number of students in humanities...
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March 13th, Friday

• Mathematics Colloquium: Buffon Needle and Buffon Noodle Probability

  3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  
  • Professor Alexander Volberg, Salem Prize Recipient, of Michigan State University
    
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Why You Have Never Really Existed" by Mark Johnston

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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March 23rd, Monday

• "Most Likely Solution," by Osamu Watanabe, professor of Math & Computing Sciences, Tokoyo Institute of Techonolgy.

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Presented by The Center for Computational Science Distinguished Lecture Series
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• College Council Meeting (CANCELED)

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Council meeting (CANCELED)
  
  

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March 24th, Tuesday

• College Faculty Meeting at the College/Wesley Gallery

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • College Faculty Meeting at the College/Wesley Gallery
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: Intervals in Subgroup Lattices of Finite Groups

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. John Shareshian of Washington University
    
  
  

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March 26th, Thursday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Descartes and Virtue Epistemology" by Dr. Ernest Sosa

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• "Smith the Critic: Mimesis, Sympathy, and Satisfaction"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • By James Chandler, Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago. Presented by the Department of English and the College of Arts & Sciences Center for Hum...
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Optimal Timing and Delay of the Use of Antiviral Drugs in Pandemic Influenza: Mathematical Challenges for Policymakers

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Jianhong Wu, Canada Research Chair, MITACS Centre for Disease Modeling at York University
    
  
  

• Distinguished Speaker Series: Ruth Behar

  7:00 PM
  
  • “The Portable Island: How to Be Cuban in an Age When the Soul is Global and Everything Cuban is Chic”
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March 27th, Friday

• Philosophy Colloquium "The Nature and Probative Value of Philosophical" by Dr. Ernest Sosa

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• "Re-presenting Oceania:Arboresence and Errancy in French Caribbean Literature" by Jean Michael Dash
  

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Michael Dash is presenting a lecture as the opening keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and Ma...
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Global Existence and Regularity of Weak Solutions to Large Cross Diffusion Systems via Nonlinear Heat Approximation Methods

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Dung Le of University of Texas at San Antonio
    
  
  

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March 28th, Saturday

• "Microcosms and Macrocosms: Inner and Outer Spaces in Texts",
  AY 2009 Modern Languages and Literatures Gradudate Student Conference

  9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Graduate Student Conference
    March 27 – 28, 2009
    Hosted by the Department of
    Modern Languages and Literatures
    University of Miami, Coral Gables
    
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• “In or Out: Belonging in the Hispanic Caribbean Literature”,
  by Dr. Marc Brudzinski
  

  12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Marc Brudzinski is presenting a lecture as the second keynote speaker for the AY2009, Modern Languages and Literatures Graduate Student Conference entitled: "Microcosms and ...
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March 30th, Monday

• Geometry and Physics Seminar: The Zero Locus of an Admissible Normal Function

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Greg Pearlstein of Michigan State University
  
  

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March 31st, Tuesday

• Launch party for "Mangrove," UM's new creative writing journal, featuring a reading by acclaimed author and alumni Tom Cavanagh.

  4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
  
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