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.
