Lyric HybriD Reading Series

A. Manette Ansay

Sep. 16th

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Good Things I Wish You
The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill and Midnight Champagne returns with a compelling tale of two summer romances, separated in time by over one hundred and fifty years.

At forty-two, Jeanette Hochmann—newly divorced from her husband of more than a decade—struggles to reassemble her life with her young daughter. Lately, the world seems bereft of the passion that’s always inspired and sustained her, first as a child prodigy at the piano, later as a teacher and writer of fiction. Now, she can’t seem to get traction on her latest book, a novel based on the forty-year relationship between nineteenth-century German pianist Clara Schumann and her husband’s handsome young protégé, the composer Johannes Brahms.

Through a chance encounter, Jeanette meets a native of Leipzig, Clara’s birthplace—a mysterious entrepreneur whose casual help with translations of diaries and letters blooms into something more. There are things about men and women, he insists, that do not change. The two embark on a whirlwind emotional journey that leads Jeanette to a similar crossroads faced by Clara Schumann—as a mother, as an artist—well over a century before.

Beautifully designed, enhanced with photographs, sketches and notes from both present and past, A. Manette Ansay’s original blend of fiction and historical fact captures the timeless nature of love and friendship between women and men.

USpeak: open Verse and Story Performance Series

Crissa-Jean Chappell, YA novelist and UM Alum

Sep. 4th

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Crissa-Jean Chappell holds an MFA in screenwriting and an interdisciplinary PhD in film theory, philosophy, and literature. She teaches creative writing and cinema studies at Miami International University of Art and Design. For eight years, she wrote a weekly film column for the Miami Sun Post. Her reviews of art and culture have appeared in magazines such as Film Comment, Tate (London), New Times, Urb, Script, and others. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Confrontation and the Southwest Review. Her debut YA novel, Total Constant Order, was recently published by HarperCollins. It is a Florida Book Award medalist, a VOYA "Perfect Ten," and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.

Center for the Humanities

BookTalk Series

Mary Lindemann (History)

Liaisons dangereuses: Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great

BookTalk, an online video series, introduces our humanities faculty and their research to colleagues at UM and at other universities, as well as the general public, through clips of faculty members discussing their recently published books. Beginning fall 2009, this program will be presented in collaboration with Books and Books, Coral Gables.

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Center for the Humanities

BookTalk Series

Gema PÉrez-SÁnchez (Modern Languages)

Queer Transitions in Contemporary Spanish Culture: From Franco to La Movida

BookTalk, an online video series, introduces our humanities faculty and their research to colleagues at UM and at other universities, as well as the general public, through clips of faculty members discussing their recently published books. Beginning fall 2009, this program will be presented in collaboration with Books and Books, Coral Gables.

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Center for the Humanities

BookTalk Series

Mark Rowlands (Philosophy)

The Philosopher and the Wolf (interviewed by Frank Palmeri, English)

BookTalk, an online video series, introduces our humanities faculty and their research to colleagues at UM and at other universities, as well as the general public, through clips of faculty members discussing their recently published books. Beginning fall 2009, this program will be presented in collaboration with Books and Books, Coral Gables.

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Center for the Humanities

BookTalk Series

Patricia J. Saunders (English)

Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature

BookTalk, an online video series, introduces our humanities faculty and their research to colleagues at UM and at other universities, as well as the general public, through clips of faculty members discussing their recently published books. Beginning fall 2009, this program will be presented in collaboration with Books and Books, Coral Gables.

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Center for the Humanities

BookTalk Series

Tim Watson (English)

Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870

BookTalk, an online video series, introduces our humanities faculty and their research to colleagues at UM and at other universities, as well as the general public, through clips of faculty members discussing their recently published books. Beginning fall 2009, this program will be presented in collaboration with Books and Books, Coral Gables.

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Cooper Fellow Lecture Series

The Impact of Disasters on Youth

APR. 16

Dr. Annette La Greca, professor of Psychology
Addressing the impact of natural disasters (and other traumatic events) on children's functioning. Risk and protective factors that play a role in children's adjustment postdisaster will be discussed, as well as interventions to help children and families in the aftermath of disasters.

Appignani Foundation Series

Appignani Foundation Lectures on
Science, Reason and Secular Ethics

Apr. 10, 2009 (7:00pm)

Frances Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Professsor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. She is the author of Creation and Abortion; Morality, Mortality, Vol. 1: Death and Whom to Save From It; Morality, Mortality, Vol. 2: Rights, Duties, and Status; and Intricate Ethics.

Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published important papers in every major part of applied ethics, including abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, just war, the doctrine of double effect, our ethical obligations to animals, and the ethical implications of nuclear weapons.

Cooper Fellow Lecture Series

Have the Humanities Declined?

MAR. 12

Dr. John Paul Russo, professor of English and Classics
Examining the crisis in the humanities as a consequence of technological society, the proliferation of visual media, relationalism and the erosion of the individual, and the so-called decline of the West.

Appignani Foundation Series

Appignani Foundation Lectures on
Science, Reason and Secular Ethics

Mar. 11, 2009 (7:00pm)

William Wainwright is the Distinguished Professor Emertius of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His current
research is on the relationship between ethics and religion and the philosophical theology of Jonathan Edwards.

Michael Slote (Ph.D., Harvard University), UST Professor of Ethics. He has taught at Columbia University, Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Maryland, where he was the department chair for many years.

Nelson Lecture Series

Buckyball Maracas: Electrochemistry and Reactivity of Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Fullerenes

Funding Opportunities and Procedures in the Chemistry Division at the NSF

FEB. 13, 2009 (2:30-4:30pm)

Luis Echegoyen, Clemson University and National Science Foundation
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Cooper Fellow Lecture Series

Lessons from the world's greatest pitcher, leory satchel paige

FEB. 12 (4:00-5:00 PM)

Dr. Don Spivey, professor of history
Baseball and the Rethinking of the Struggle against Jim Crow.

Cooper Fellow Lecture Series

Charlotte’s Webb: Incest, History, and the Literary Imagination

Nov. 20

Dr. Mary Lindemann, professor of history
The Charlotte Guyard incest case of 1766 was a cause célèbre, a shock, and an embarrassment. But it was also the stuff of literature; nothing in the eighteenth century sold better than such “romances of real life.”

Cooper Fellow Lecture Series

How I Met Your Molecule: Tales of Attraction at the Molecular Level

Oct. 23

Dr. Angel Kaifer, professor of physical chemistry
Presented during UM’s festive Homecoming and Alumni week, this lecture looks at one the most basic yet spectacular actions in science, using everyday situations as examples.

Cooper Fellow Lecture Series

Philosophy and Literature in the 1950s: the Rise of the 'Ordinary Bloke'

Sept. 18

Dr. Colin McGinn, professor of philosophy
Exploring the role and status of the 'common man' in post-war British literature and philosophy