November 4th, Wednesday

• Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg lectures on Joseph's Dream in the Book of Genesis

  11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
  
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Closed Symmetric Differentials of Degree 2 and the Geometry of Complex Surfaces

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor Bruno de Oliveira of University of Miami
  
  

• BUSINESS AND HUMANITIES IN MILAN, ITALY – SUMMER 2010

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • INFORMATION SESSION: Meet the professors, hear details about the courses, get an application…
  
  

• Colloquium

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Speaker: Dr. Stewart E. Barnes, University of Miami
    Title: Taking Faraday's law for a spin-gauge theories and spin batteries
  
  

• The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An economic evaluation of Plan Colombia

  5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  
  
  

• The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia
  

  5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
  
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• "Shakespeare, Humanities, and Modern Culture"

  6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  
  • Inaugural Lecture & Reception for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
  
  

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November 5th, Thursday

• "The Animal Moment: The Visual & Verbal Animal"

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Lunch Seminar for faculty and graduate students, in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
  
  

• "After the Humanities"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Lecture & Reception in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
  
  

• What Ever Happened to the War on Drugs in Latin America?

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Slice Knots and the Alexander Polynomial

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Daniel Ruberman of Brandeis University
  
  

• W.E.B. Du Bois Speaker Series
  Cuba in Africa: A View from the Angolan Trenches by Lazaro Bentancourt

  6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
  
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• LOWEDOWN

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • Happy Hour
  
  

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November 6th, Friday

• "The Future of the Profession: From Nuts & Bolts to Rumors & Theories"

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Lunch Seminar for faculty and graduate students, in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
  
  

• "A Tale of Three Hamlets: Repetition & Revenge"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Lecture & Reception in the inaugural event series for the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences Center for the Humanities
  
  

• Applied Math Seminar: Insurgent Wars, Pandemics, Global Emissions and Market Crises: One Model Fits All?

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Professor Neil Johnson of University of Miami
  
  

• Alumni Exhibition

  5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  • In conjunction with Alumni Weekend, the Dept of Art and Art History presents an exhibition of artworks by UM alumni.
  
  

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November 9th, Monday

• Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program/Department of Anthropology presents Professor Jean Comaroff

  7:00 PM
  
  • "Nations with/out Borders: The Problem of Belonging in Africa, and Beyond"
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November 11th, Wednesday

• Department Chairs' Meeting in Physics Conference Room

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

• MOROCCAN WRITER ABDELLAH TAΪA AT BOOKS AND BOOKS
  

  6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
  
  • ABDELLAH TAΪA will present the recent English and Spanish translations of his novel Salvation Army. He will discuss his work with Ralph Heyndels and Gema Perez
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• Allen Wells and Tropical Zion

  7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  
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November 12th, Thursday

• Lowe Art Museum ANNUAL RECYCLED BOOK SALE

  10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
  
  • Thursday, November 12 - Sunday, November 15, 2009
  
  

• "MÉLANCOLIE ET PASSION" COURSE PARTICIPATION BY ABDELLAH TAΪA
  

  2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  • Abdellah Taïa is a young Moroccan writer and intellectual figure living in Paris and writing in French. He is the author of several novels...
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• Philosophy Colloquium "Emotions, Reason & the Functional Imaging of Moral Deliberations" by Dr. Colin Klein

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Graph Theoretic Methods in Algebraic Statistics

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Alexander Engström, Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  
  

• The Sugar Babies

  7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
  
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November 13th, Friday

• Aerospace Studies/Air Force ROTC Blood Drive

  11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Blood Drive to benefit "Branches" after school tutoring program
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• "The Sugar Babies" Roundtable Discussion with Filmmaker Amy Serrano.

  12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
  
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• Combinatorics Seminar: A Combinatorial Optimization Problem from Genomics

  3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  
  • Professor Eric Gottlieb of Rhodes College
  
  

• Applied Math Seminar: A Class of Integrable Hamiltonian Systems and Weak Lyapunov Stability

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Professor Gaetano Zampieri, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita di Verona
  
  

• Keynote Address for the Society for the Study of
  Childhood in the Past Annual Conference

  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
  
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November 15th, Sunday

• FAMILY DAY

  12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  
  

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November 16th, Monday

• College Council Meeting in Physics Conference Room

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

• Climate Change as a Human Security Concern: From Evidence to Action

  6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
  
  
  

• MALS Information Forum

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
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• Friends of Philosophy Dialogue "Bertrand Russell & Humanism" by Dr. James Nickel & Dr. Harvey Siegel

  7:30 PM
  
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November 17th, Tuesday

• Dr. Ángeles Encinar presents “La guerra civil española en la narrativa breve de Manuel Rivas y Juan Eduardo Zúñiga”
  

  5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
  
  • This talk will be delivered in Spanish. Dr. Encinar is a Professor of Spanish, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus and is currently a Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas...
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• 21st Century Competitiveness in Latin America: The Role of Education

  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
  
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November 18th, Wednesday

• Brown Bag Lecture Series, Fall 2009

  12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
  
  • Dr. David Maimon
    Presentation Title: "Alcohol Sales, Collective Efficacy and Adolescent's Alcohol Use: Opportunity and Control in the Study of Adolescents' Alcohol Use." <...
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• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Seiberg-Witten Equations and End-periodic Dirac Operators

  4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • Professor N. Saveliev of University of Miami
  
  

• Pizza Seminar

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Dr. Geoff Sutcliffe
    will present
    How to Give a Successful Talk
    
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November 19th, Thursday

• Boren Fellowship Informational Webinar
  

  2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • Opportunities for U.S. Graduate Students to study in world regions critical to U.S. Interests
    
  
  

• The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
  

  4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
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November 20th, Friday

• Barrett Watten presents "Nonsite Parataxis: Ulf Stolterfoht's 'Fachsprachen' and John Ashbery's 'Europe'"

  12:00 PM to 2:30 PM
  
  
  

• 
  Boren Scholarship Informational Webinar
  

  2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
  
  • Opportunities for U.S. Undergraduate Students to study in world regions critical to U.S. Interests
  
  

• English Faculty Colloquium: Mihoko Suzuki, "Daughters of Coke: Women and Legal Discourse in Civil War England"

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  
  

• Philosophy Colloquium "The Effect of Vagueness on Meaning" by Dr. Stephen Schiffer

  3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
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• Mathematics Colloquium: Gauge Theory of Faddeev-Skyrme Functionals

  3:30 PM to 4:30 PM
  
  • Professor Sergiy Koshkin of University of Houston-Downtown
  
  

• Applied Math Seminar: Modeling the Impact of Non-timber Forest Product Harvest in Variable Environments

  4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • Dr. Orou Gaoue, ITME Post Doc, Department of Biology, University of Miami
  
  

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November 23rd, Monday

• College Faculty Meeting at the Wesley/College Gallery

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • College Faculty meeting at the Wesley/College Gallery
  
  

• Africana Studies Film Series

  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
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November 24th, Tuesday

• A Symposium on H1N1 Influenza

  7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
  
  • Talks by UM scientists on various aspects of H1N1 influenza and an opportunity for questions and discussion.
  
  

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November 30th, Monday

• Rethinking Economic Populism: Peron and the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

  4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
  
  • with Professor Claudia Kedar
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December 1st, Tuesday

• Information Session for Study Abroad in Paris, Summer 2010

  3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
  
  • POL 323 - "Global Warming Politics and the European Union"
    
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• “The African Union Convention on Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa.”

  5:00 PM to 7:30 PM
  
  
  

• Geometry and Physics Seminar: Spectra of Categories and Applications to Low Dimensional Topology

  5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
  
  • Professor L. Katzarkov of University of Miami
  
  

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