A&S Center for Humanities presents Atlantic Narratives history symposium

The College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami and the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University will present Atlantic Narratives, a two-day symposium on Thursday, February 4 and Friday, February 5, 2010. This symposium brings together an international group of acclaimed scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines to examine and discuss groundbreaking research on the production and reception of narratives in and about the Atlantic world in the period up to the mid-nineteenth century.
 
On Thursday, February 4th, the opening session, “Atlantic Enlightenments,” will be held at FIU at 2:00 pm in the Frost Art Museum. On Friday, February 5th, sessions will be held at the University of Miami, beginning at 10:00 am with “History and Memory in Atlantic Narratives” and continuing at 2:00 pm with “Intercolonial Atlantic Narratives,” followed by a closing roundtable at 4:30 pm. The UM sessions will be held in the CAS Gallery, 1210 Stanford Dr., on the UM Coral Gables campus.

The symposium is organized by the Atlantic Studies Research Group in the College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami. “We started the group at UM four years ago, and it's grown to become a lively interdisciplinary seminar drawing members from UM, FIU, and other universities and colleges in the region. This year we've been happy to have found a supportive home in the new Center for the Humanities,”said Tim Watson, associate professor of English.

Group co-founder, Assistant Professor of History Ashli White, added, “We thought the time was right to bring in prominent scholars from around the country to continue and extend that conversation about how the Atlantic Studies paradigm is changing humanities scholarship in the early twenty-first century."
 This is the first symposium organized by one of the Center's Research Group,” noted Director of the UM Center for the Humanities Mihoko Suzuki. “Atlantic Studies has become a productive focus of conversation among scholars of literature and history alike, and we are proud to be able to host this exciting symposium.”  

To register for the Atlantic Narratives Symposium events and for further information please visit www.humanities.miami.edu/symposia/atlanticnarratives or call 305-284-1580.

February 2, 2010