Humanities Events Archive 2023-2024

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Aug 7

Lived Experiences: Black History in Oxford

Sep 7

Achieving Drawdown: Willeke Lecture Series 2023

Sep 12

Coffee and Conversation with Sunil Amrith

Sep 12

Why Migration Matters for Environmental Justice

Sep 20

A Future for the Humanities at Miami

Sep 20

The Path to Research in the Humanities

Sep 21

Symposium "Writing, Living, and Teaching Exile"

Sep 22

Symposium "Writing, Living, and Teaching Exile"

Sep 25

Meanings of Environmental Justice in Contemporary Practice

Sep 28

Life Without Earth: Claire Denis

Oct 4

Study Abroad in London Information Session

Oct 5

Heritage: Shaping Present, Past, and Future, Day 1

Oct 5

Monumental Change: Recent Responses to Controversial Sculptures in America

Oct 6

Heritage: Shaping Present, Past, and Future, Day 2

Oct 6

Anger, Intentionality, and the View from Within

Oct 11

Coffee and Conversation with Julian Yates

Oct 11

Noah's Arkive: Stories of Survival During Climate Catastrophe

Oct 12

The Capital Order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism

Oct 16

Fiction Reading: Rashi Rohatgi

Oct 19

The Path to Research in the Humanities

Oct 19

Harris/Singer Memorial Lecture

Oct 24

Coffee and Conversation with Winona LaDuke

Oct 24

The Next Energy Economy: Grassroot Strategies and the Future of Environmental Justice

Oct 25

Beyond the Endless Emergency: Contemporary Italian Documentary of Migration

Nov 1

Addressing Violence Against Women in North India: Rethinking the Role of Interactive Strategies

Nov 2

Islam in the United States Post 9/11

Nov 7

Of Fish Knives and Brooms: A Social Reproduction Approach to Solidarity

Nov 9

Blurring the Lines Between Medicine and Ecology While Saving Coral Reefs in the Florida Keys

Nov 14

Coffee and Conversation with Sandra Steingraber

Nov 14

To Sin by Silence: The Legacy of Rachel Carson in an Age of Climate Emergency

Nov 15

New Books at Miami

Nov 16

Faculty Lunch Forum

Dec 1

Half-Hearted Intentionality: The Politics of Being Seen

Dec 8

Societies, Politics, and Economies Research Cluster

Jan 26

Winter Research Workshop

Feb 1

Faculty Lunch Forum: How We Talk about the Humanities

Feb 1

Erika NJ Allen: Consuming Identity: If I Eat It, Am I It?

Feb 8

Reading Freedom Summer Screening

Feb 8

Lauren Haynes: 2024 juror, Miami University Young Painters Competition

Feb 12

Materials, Labor and Time: Toward an Ecology of Early Modern Art

Feb 13

Camille Wimbish: The State of Voter Rights: 60 Years after Freedom Summer

Feb 14

African American Women and Agrarian Activism in the Natural State, 1913-1965

Feb 15

The Department of Global and Intercultural Studies Career Day Employer Panel

Feb 15

What Can I Do With This Major? (Spring 2024 Session 1)

Feb 15

Demanding Justice for Tribal Lands: Environmental Wrongs Must be Made Right

Feb 15

Alice Pixley Young: Time Tripper

Feb 16

ScribeAmerica Virtual Information Session

Feb 16

Mimesis and Concept Subsumption; the Dialectic in Adorno and Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment

Feb 17

International Student Career Day

Feb 19

How and Why to Network: Landing the Interview w/ Ben Kaufman '24

Feb 28

Faculty Lunch Forum: “How We Explain Our Disciplines to Students”

Feb 29

Violent Infrastructure: Ecologies of Decay and Displacement

Feb 29

Gallery Conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier on Flint is Family

Feb 29

Art as Transformation: Using Photography to Effect Change

Feb 29

2024 Edward A. Puff Sr. and Edith Kottmyer Puff Memorial Lecture in the Study of Christianity

Mar 4

Orthodox Believers’ Reactions to Bolshevik Militant Atheism in the Early Revolutionary Years

Mar 5

Rachel Carson and Environmental Justice: Her Legacy for Today

Mar 7

ELEVATE: The Diversity and Inclusion Career Institute

Mar 7

From the Collapse of the USSR to the War in Ukraine

Mar 7

The Logic of Comets: Rethinking 17th-century French Studies

Mar 7

Hollis Hammonds: In Residence - Gifts of Time/Space

Mar 11

Covering the War in Ukraine as a Black Correspondent

Mar 12

The Dustbin of History: Rescuing Memories of the Mao Era

Mar 14

Diane Fellows: Contesting and Bridging Boundaries and Borders: Reflections on Contemporary Migration and Artists’ Empowerment and Action

Mar 15

Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity Conference

Mar 15

Paradoxes of Resistance: Maria Stewart and the Politics of the Public Sphere

Mar 16

Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity Conference

Mar 17

Heavy Metal & Global Premodernity Conference

Mar 18

The Life and Death of Justice: The Meaning of ‘Revolutionary Legality’ in the Soviet 1920s

Mar 18

The Alex and Lena Casper Memorial Lecture: Noah Feldman

Mar 19

Coffee and Conversation with Julie Sze

Mar 19

Climate Justice as Freedom

Mar 20

William H. Turner, “The Harlan Renaissance”

Mar 23

Transoceanic Trauma, Haunted Waters: Enslavement, Impressment, and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers

Apr 2

The 2024 Arthur C. Wickenden Lecture

Apr 2

Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

Apr 2

The 2024 John E. Dolibois History Prize Lecture: Michael Beschloss

Apr 3

Arthur C. Wickenden Lecture Luncheon

Apr 4

Brianna Gluszak: AWOOGA: A recontextualization of the gaze through visual art projects

Apr 10

Religion and the Russian Revolution

Apr 10

The Apocalyptic Imaginary in Two Contemporary Novels from a Comparative Literary Approach

Apr 11

Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: Queer Crip Feminist Ecologies of Loss

Apr 11

Sharon Koelblinger: Mirror Image

Apr 15

Publishing Symposium

Apr 16

Miami University Digital Humanities Forum

Apr 16

"KORE-EDA Hirokazu’s Cinematic Poetics" with Dr. Linda Ehrlich

Apr 18

2023 - 2024 Altman Symposium: Environmental Justice

Apr 18

"Portrait of a Big History: A Russian Artist Revisits the Past"

Apr 18

Black Ecofeminism and Abolitionist Ecology

Apr 18

Neil Daigle Orians: What are you haunted by?

Apr 19

"Everything is Going to Have to Be Put Back": Responsibility and Repair in the Anthropocene

Apr 22

In Defense of Enemies of the People: The Political Red Cross in Revolutionary Russia

Apr 25

Faculty Lunch Forum: “Are the Benefits of the Humanities a Goal or a Byproduct of Our Curricula?”

Apr 25

A Conversation with Rita Dove

Apr 29

“How can I learn all these words?”: Research-based strategies for teaching and learning L2 vocabulary

May 1

Portrait of Victor Hugo in Exile: Art, Objects, Politics

May 3

Societies, Economies, and Politics: Dr. Andrew Hebard, "Draining the Swamp: Contract and Corruption in the Work of W.E.B. Du Bois"

May 8

Their Legacy, Our Inspiration: Archiving the Stories of Black Women in Oxford

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