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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March 4th, Thursday

• LOWEdown Happy Hour

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Contemporary Cuban Art at the Lowe!
  
  

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March 5th, Friday

• Stanford Distinguished Professor Bas van Fraassen - The Self: Beyond the Illusions of Reason

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • Having come, in the previous lecture, to indexicality, self reference, and “Moore’s Paradox,” the problem of the Self’s place in nature appears in a new light.
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• Student Conference Keynote Lecture by Patrick O’Connor, "Inopportune Visitors: Queer Writing in Neoliberal Argentina"

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference 'The Poetics and Politics of Love'
    Keynote Lecture by Patrick O’Connor
    Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of...
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Sobolev Inequalities on Probability Metric Spaces

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Mario Milman of Florida Atlantic University
  
  

• The Haiti Earthquake: IMAGES + VOICES
  

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
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March 6th, Saturday

• The 8th Annual MLL Graduate Student Conference:
  The Poetics and Politics of Love
  

  9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
  
  • The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Miami is pleased to announce its annual graduate student conference, “The Poetics and Politics of Love,” ...
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• Artist Symposium

  1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  • Cuba Avant-Garde
  
  

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March 8th, Monday

• Humanitarian Operations at Home and Abroad: The Canadian Forces Experience
  Monday

  5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  
  • The Departments of International Studies Presents:
    CAPTAIN(N) K.R. STEWART, CD, Canadian Navy
    
  
  

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March 9th, Tuesday

• Philosophy Colloquium " Is There a Problem about Revising Logic?" by Hartry Field

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Combinatorics Seminar: Signed Eulerian Quasisymmetric Functions

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Matthew Hyatt of University of Miami
  
  

• Jane Alison presents "The Sisters Antipodes"

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami Reading Series
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March 10th, Wednesday

• Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room

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

• Spring Into Art

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Friends of Art Auction
  
  

• “The United State and the Caribbean: Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti and the US and International Responses”

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • The Departments of International Studies and Political Science and The CLAS sponsored Interdisciplinary Research Group on Dictatorships, Illiberal Democracies, & Democratic Tran...
  
  

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March 11th, Thursday

• Mathematics Colloquium: How to Lose as Little as Possible

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Herbert Wilf, Thomas A. Scott Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
    
  
  

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March 12th, Friday

• Experimental Philosophy & The Ethics of Autonomy Conference

  9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

• Department of Chemistry invites J. Sivaguru from North Dakota State University

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • To discuss: Stereocontrol in Light Induced Reactions in Solution and within Water Soluble Containers.
  
  

• Mathematics Colloquium: Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Dispersal in Multi-trophic Communities

  4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Priyanga Amarasekare of University of California Los Angeles
  
  

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March 13th, Saturday

• Experimental Philosophy & The Ethics of Autonomy Conference

  9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 15th, Monday

• Philosophy Colloquium "In Defense of the Moral/Conventional Distinction" by Nicholas Southwood

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 17th, Wednesday

• "Climate and Human Health: Present Realities and Future Uncertainties"

  12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
  
  • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Grand Rounds
  
  

• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Galois Groups and Birational Invariants of Functional Fields

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Fedor Bogomolov of New York University
  
  

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March 22nd, Monday

• College Council Meeting in Physics Conference Room

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

• 
  REBUILDING FOR RESILIENCE: HOW SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CAN INFORM HAITI’S RECONSTRUCTION
  

  7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • A public forum on the reconstruction of Haiti to provide science and engineering recommendations for rebuilding the island’s communities and infrastructure with reduced vulnerab...
  
  

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March 23rd, Tuesday

• Lecture by Anthony J. Cascardi, "Free Speech: Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics"
  

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
  • Lecture by Dr. Anthony J. Cascardi,University of California, Berkeley, “Free Speech: Cervantes and the Discourse of Politics”
    
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• Combinatorics Seminar: Cyclic Sieving and Polygon Multidissection Enumeration

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Brendon Rhoades of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  
  

• R. Zamora Linmark presents "Prime Time Apparitions"

  8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • Lyric Hybrid: New Writing at the University of Miami Reading Series
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March 24th, Wednesday

• From Race to Culture: The Museum of Man in Interwar France
  

  12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  
  

• The Department of Sociology Brownbag Series, Spring 2010
  

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: On the Present State of the Andersen-Lempert Theory

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Shulim Kaliman of University of Miami
  
  

• Tribal Arts Society Lecture

  7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  
  

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March 25th, Thursday

• The Crisis of the 1590s Reconsidered: Philip II, His Enemies, and Climate Change
  

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

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Career Information Session with Professor Jonathan West, "Careers in Public Service".
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March 26th, Friday

• Philosophy Colloquium "Language & Social Reality" by John Searle

  12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  
  

• The Department of Chemistry invites R. Bruschweiler from Florida State University

  2:30 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • To discuss: Linking protein dynamics with thermodynamics by NMR and computer simulations.
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "Consciousness & Neurobiology" by John Searle

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  
  

• Talk by Professor Heather Willis Allen, "Investigating language-learning motivation from an activity theory perspective: Contributions and challenges"

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
    INVITES YOU TO A LECTURE BY
    Professor Heather Willis Allen
    "Investigating language-learning motivation from ...
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March 27th, Saturday

• Protagonistas de los 60: Caminos, esplendor y obstáculos del teatro cubano

  9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
  
  • A Conference on Cuban Theater and Cultural Policies of the 1960s with its Protagonists
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March 28th, Sunday

• Curator Lecture

  2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection
  
  

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March 29th, Monday

• National Humanities Grant Workshop with Ann R. Meyer, Ph.D.

  9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  
  • Anne Meyer, Ph.D., Sr. Program Officer, Div. of Research Programs at the NEH, conducts a workshop on fellowship funding opportunities with the National Endowment for the Humanities
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March 30th, Tuesday

• TALK BY ALIA BACCAR, "IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UNE PAYS ÉMERGENT EN MÉDITERRANÉE:LA TUNISIE"

  11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  
  • Lecture in French by Alia Baccar, UNIVERSITY OF LA MANOUBA (TUNIS) & UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS
    "IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS UNE PAYS ÉMERGENT EN MÉDITERRANÉE:LA TUNISIE"
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• “A SYSTEM OF RESPONSE: FROM SEARCH & RESCUE TO PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN DISASTERS.”

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  
  

• A System of Response: From Search and Rescue to Public-Private Partnerships in Diasters

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• A System of Response: From Search and Rescue to Public-Private Partnerships in Disasters

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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March 31st, Wednesday

• Pizza Seminar

  5:00 PM
  
  • Justin Stoecker
    Department of Computer Science
    University of Miami
    
    will present
    
    Stereo Visualization of the Haiti Earthquake
  
  

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