Humanities Events Archive 2024-2025

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PREVIOUS EVENTS

Sep 11

Dark Waters: Behind the Environmental Legal Battle Exposing Corporate Cover Up

Sep 12

Faculty Lunch Forum with Joy Connolly, President of the ACLS

Sep 12

Future-Proofing the Humanities

Sep 12

Humanities Center Fall Reception

Sep 18

Posture Myths and Truths: The Scientific Origins of Our Health Beliefs About Slouching

Sep 19

Paths to Research

Sep 23

Cattle, Horses, and Reindeer: The Origins of Eurasian Pastoralism

Sep 26

Faculty Lunch Forum with Michael Bérubé and Pepper Stetler

Sep 26

Foreseeable Futures in the Humanities

Sep 30

Arctic Security in an Era of Geopolitical Competition

Oct 2

BRIGHTENing Career Thinking for Linguists and Others Who Study Language, Culture, and Communication

Oct 7

Toward Gender Equality in the Arctic

Oct 14

Faculty Lunch Forum with Meghan Sullivan

Oct 14

Can College Courses Make Us Happier? A Proposal for Transforming Campus Life

Oct 16

Paths to Research

Oct 17

Jacques Derrida's Faith in Democracy

Oct 17

Info Session for the Humanities Engagement Certificate Program

Oct 17

August Clarke Reading

Oct 18

On Freedom: Timothy Snyder in conversation with Stephen Norris

Oct 18

SPE: Markets of Unreal Estate: Property transfers and social stratification in Hyderabad's slums

Oct 18

Coffee and Conversation with Sarah Stitzlein

Oct 22

An Evening with Steven Bognar

Oct 23

Ukraine, War, Love: Stories of Donetsk and Odesa

Oct 23

Westboro Baptist Church: the Inside Scoop

Oct 28

The Arctic Council in Arctic Governance

Oct 29

The City At War: Everyday Life in Kharkiv 2022 – 2024

Oct 30

Faculty Lunch Forum with Barry Lam

Oct 30

The Humanities and Artistic Creation in the Age of Automation

Nov 4

Partners in Knowledge: What Are We Learning from Arctic Communities for Our Common Sustainable Future?

Nov 6

New Books at Miami

Nov 7

"Poetry as Life Form: From Derrida to Baudelaire” - A Works-in-Progress Lecture

Nov 7

Author Reading and Discussion: Pepper Stetler and Nik Money

Nov 11

‘Samoyeds’ and Ethnic Shows: At Least Two Historicities

Nov 13

Transforming Gender Norms: Opening Small Spaces for Big Change in Rural Mali and Ecuador

Nov 14

Grayson Kirk Distinguished Lecture A Relational Approach to Community Development: Experiences in Ecuador and Mali

Nov 14

Color Blind Literature: Fiction in the Age of Identity Politics

Nov 18

Under the Shadow of a Mushroom Cloud: An Indigenous Nenets Hunter, the Tsar Bomba, and Entangled Sovereignty on a Russian Arctic

Nov 19

Out of the marshes and into the nuclear age: the politics of modernisation in late Soviet Belarus, 1965-1980

Nov 20

Teaching Truth in a Populist Age

Nov 20

Hope, Humanities, and the Future of Democracy

Nov 22

Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth: A Conversation with Dr. Rodney Coates

Dec 2

Living Codices: Student Life Through Mesoamerican Eyes

Dec 6

SPE: Ottoman Militarization and Society before World War I

Jan 21

Book Proposal Workshop

Jan 24

The Research Methods Workshop

Feb 12

Humanities Student Collective

Feb 13

The Music Was Never Supposed to Stop: Reflections on The Left Academy

Feb 17

Ecocinema & Ecopedagogy: A Down-to-Earth Introduction

Feb 18

Dwelling with Digital Damage: Repair Beyond the Environmental Technofix

Feb 19

Humanities Engagement Social

Feb 19

The 2025 Arthur C. Wickenden Lecture

Feb 20

Inside Scholarly Book Publishing

Feb 27

POSTPONED: The Humanities after Humanism

Mar 7

Colloquium Lecture: The Space of Utopia in Thought and Practice

Mar 12

Reading in Bad Times

Mar 13

Crisis Management in Higher Education: A Lunch Forum with Charles Dorn

Mar 13

Paradoxes, Tensions, and Dilemmas: The Humanities in Higher Education History

Apr 3

The Natural History of Sex: Philosophical-Botanical Reflections

Apr 8

The World Food Made

Apr 9

From Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Racist Appropriations of Classical Antiquity

Apr 9

Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It

Apr 10

Altman Program Symposium: ‘Humanities Futures’

Apr 10

Why Can't Machine Vision See the Past? Analog Art History and the Future of the Humanities

Apr 11

Altman Program Symposium: ‘Humanities Futures’

Apr 11

On Black Media Philosophy

Apr 14

The Post-Soviet Cultural Mélange: Looking for the Missing Ingredient in Russia and Beyond

Apr 17

Bittersweet: Black College Life at a Predominantly White Institution

Apr 22

Interview and Book Signing by Narine Abgaryan

Apr 24

Miami Digital Humanities Forum

Apr 24

New Music, Meaning and Context with American Wild Ensemble

Apr 24

Teaching Within the Law: A Conversation

Apr 25

2025 McComb Creative Writing Conference

May 2

SPE: "Revising the Past: Approaches to History Education in the Late Ottoman Empire”

May 7

Democracy, Human Rights, and a Just Peace in Ukraine

May 8

Coffee & Conversation with Judd Klinger

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