Past Events

2016-2017 American Studies Events

September 29th | 2:00 p.m. | Memorial 117 | 1111 Memorial Drive |Coral Gables, FL 33146

MATTHEW JACOBSON

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Race and Citizenship in US Political Culture: From the 1790 Naturalization Act to the Donald Trump Phenomenon

MATTHEW JACOBSON (YALE)

Matthew Frye Jacobson is a professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies at Yale University. His works include What have they Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (with Gaspar Gonzalez, 2006), Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2005), Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000), and. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998).

October 25th | 2:00 p.m. | Memorial 117 | 1111 Memorial Drive | Coral Gables, FL 33146

LYDIE DIAKHATE

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Some Bright Morning: The Art of Melvin Edwards

LYDIE DIAKHATÉ

Lydie Diakhaté is an independent curator and film producer, co-founder and co-director of the annual Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra (2006). Her objective is to produce and disseminate African and African Diaspora films and other arts. She is also an art critic specializing in the arts and cultures of Africa and the African Diaspora and has written for different magazines and newspapers. She was the former editor for a French Government Publication on youth and education.

October 27th | 12:30 p.m. | Cuban Heritage Collection Conference Room | Richter Library 2nd Floor | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL 33143

Digital Cultural Heritage - Preservation, Citizenship, and Sustainable Development in Afro Latin America

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Digital Cultural Heritage: Preservation, Citizenship, and Sustainable Development in Afro Latin America

AMICLAR PRIESTLEY

Amilcar Priestley is the Director of the AfroLatin@ project. The project aims to facilitate the digital curation of AfroLatino experiences and histories by encouraging the use of digital tools for the socioeconomic and political development of AfroLatino communities. Her lecture will focus on the ways in which digital cultural heritage collection, preservation, and engagement with digital technology can facilitate important aspects of citizenship including education, inclusion, and equality.

 

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November 7th | 12:00 p.m. | School of Nursing Conference Room | University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL 33143

Black Girlhood - An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

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https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/aimee-meredith-cox 

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Black Girlhood: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

AIMEE COX (Fordham University)

ABOSEDE GEORGE (Barnard/Columbia University)

Aimee Cox is  a cultural anthropologist and movement artist who teaches in the African and African American Studies Department at Fordham University. She is the author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship (Duke 2015) and the forthcoming edited volume, Gender and Space (MacMillan). She is also the founder of BlackLight, a young women of color-led activist art initiative that produced community based projects in Detroit, Newark, and New York City. 

 

Abosede George is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Barnard College and Colunbia University. Her book, Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development (OUP 2014), is the recipient of the Aidoo-Snyder Prize by the African Studies Association Women's Caucus. She currently works on The Ekopolitan Project, a digital archive of family history sources on migrant communities in nineteeth and twentieth century Lagos, West Africa. 

2015-2016 American Studies Events

OGUNDA MASA

"The Role of the Drum in the Practice and Preservation of Afro-Cuban Music"
September 15, 2015; 12:30 p.m., CAS/Wesley Gallery

CRYSTAL PARIKH (New York University)

"An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child in Minor U.S. Literatures"
September 17, 2015; 3:30 p.m., Ashe 427 (cosponsored by the English Department)

The Jamaican 1960s: A Symposium

CAROL TULLOCH (University of the Arts, London)

DEBORAH THOMAS (University of Pennsylvania)

FAITH SMITH (Brandeis University)

WAYNE MODEST (Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam)

SHERI-MARIE HARRISON (University of Missouri)

OBIKA GRAY (University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire)

NIJAH CUNNINGHAM (Hunter College, CUNY)

CHARLES CARNEGIE (Bates College)

MAZIKI THAME (University of the West Indies, Mona)

October 29-30, 2015; 9:00 a.m., Executive Conference Room, Alumni Center

SYD SHELTON

"A Riot of My Own"
October 29, 2015; 2:00 p.m., Whitten Learning Center

BRYAN WAGNER (Berkley)

"People's Court"
March 21, 2016; 12:30 p.m., Richter Library Third Floor Conference Room

2013-2014 American Studies Events

SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN (University of Virginia)

"Google and the NSA: A Tale of Corporate Social Irresponsibility?"
October 21, 2013; 4:30 p.m., CAS/Wesley Gallery

DIANA FUSS (Princeton)

"Bishop's Mourning"
October 28, 2013; 4:30 p.m., CAS/Wesley Gallery (cosponsored by the English Department)

ALEXANDRA VAZQUEZ (Princeton)

"Learning to Live in Miami"
March 24, 2014; 4:30 p.m., Goizueta Pavilion, Cuban Heritage Collection, Richter Library (cosponsored by the Cuban Heritage Collection)

HESTER BLUM (Penn State)

"Polar Imprints: The News at the Ends of the Earth"
March 27, 2014

ROBERT ART (Brandeis)

"U.S. Grand Strategy and Selective Engagement"
April 2014

2011-2012 American Studies Events

CHRISTINA GARCÍA and JOHN MURILLO (visiting writers in the Creative Writing program at UM)

Reading from their work to kick off the Polyglot Writers series (organized by Creative Writing, cosponsored by American Studies)
September 6, 2011; 7 pm, CAS Gallery AND September 7, 8:30 p.m., Books & Books, Lincoln Rd, Miami Beach

‌ALEXANDER VON HOFFMANN (Harvard)

"Housing Matters: America's Quest for Decent Homes" (organized by the Office of Civic & Community Engagement, cosponsored by American Studies)
September 12, 2011; 5:30 p.m., Glasgow Hall, School of Architecture

ERIC FONER (Columbia)

"The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" (organized by the History Department, cosponsored by the Center for the Humanities and American Studies)
September 22, 2011; 4:30 p.m.,Storer Auditorium

KATHLEEN DUVAL (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 

"Independence Lost: The Gulf Coast and the American Revolution" (organized by the Atlantic Studies Research Group, the Center for the Humanities, cosponsored by the History Department and American Studies)
October 6, 2011; 4:30 p.m., 3rd floor Conference Room, Richter Library

AMERICAN STUDIES SPRING 2012 SPEAKER SERIES: 

"GLOBAL SOUTH: THE U.S. SOUTH IN THE WORLD"

All talks held in Richter Library, 3rd Floor Conference Room

 DON DOYLE (University of South Carolina)

"America's International Civil War"
February 2, 2012; 3:30 p.m.

WAI CHEE DIMOCK (Yale)

"Gilgamesh on Three Continents"
March 6, 2012;  4:30 p.m.

JENNIFER GREESON (University of Virginia)

"Locke's American Enlightenment: Atlantic Slavery and the Birth of the Liberal Individual"
April 5, 2012; 3:30 p.m.

JESSICA ADAMS (Independent Scholar)

"Memories of Unseen Landscapes: Confederate Migration and Southern Hybridity"
April 19, 2012; 3:30 p.m.

FIRST AMERICAN STUDIES SUMMER INSTITUTE:

Atlantic Geographies, May 14-17, 2012, Cuban Heritage Collection conference room / Richter Library 3rd floor conference room, 9 am-5 pm. A 4-day institute for 12 advanced PhD students and recent postdocs, with a keynote lecture on Monday May 14 (open to everyone) by Vincent Brown (History / African American and African Studies, Duke U.). More information on the Atlantic Geographies website. Co-sponsored by the University of Miami Libraries, Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, English Department, Geography & Regional Studies Department, History Department, Modern Languages and Literatures, Department's Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, Philosophy Department, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Humanities, the Graduate School, and the Africana Studies Program.

2009-2010 American Studies Events

SVEN BECKERT (Harvard)

Organized by the Department of History, co-sponsored by American Studies
November 19, 2009

MARCUS REDIKER (University of Pittsburgh)

Organized by the Department of History, co-sponsored by American Studies
January 28, 2010

IAN BAUCOM (Duke)

“Reading a Letter: Republicanism, Empire, and the Archives of the Atlantic”
February 9, 2010; 3:30 pm, Richter Library, Third Floor Conference Room

ALICIA SCHMIDT CAMACHO (Yale)

"Migrant Suffering and the Event Without Witness"
February 15, 2010; 3:30 p.m., Communication International Building 5063

EDWIDGE DANTICAT, MITCHELL KAPLAN, WALTER K. LEW, R. ZAMORA LINMARK, BECKA MARA MCKAY, PAMELA THOMPSON

World Literature in the United States Today: A Roundtable Discussion
April 16, 2010; 4:30 p.m., CAS Gallery/Wesley House

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