"Americae Pars Magis Cognita, Frankfurt, 1592"
by Theodoro De Bry
Special Collections
University of Miami Libraries
Events
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Friday March 4, 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Symposium in honor of Sandra Paquet: “The Present Future of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies”
CAS Gallery, UM
Sandra Paquet Symposium
Tuesday April 5, 3:30 p.m.
3rd floor conference room Richter Library, UMJane Landers (Vanderbilt U), “The Atlantic Lives of Francisco Menéndez: Mandinga Captive, Warrior for the Yamasee, and Vassal of the Spanish King in Florida and Cuba”
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Thursday April 15, 4:30 p.m.
CAS GALLERY - Jane Rhodes (Macalester College), "From Jim Crow to Sigmund Freud: Transnationality, Psychoanalysis, and the remaking of a Black American."
PAST EVENTS
February 4-5, 2010
Atlantic Narratives Symposium
Calendar
SPRING 2011
CANCELLEDTuesday February 8, 12:30-2:00 pm
CIB 5063
Veronique Helenon (History, FIU), “Caribbeans and Africans in the French Colonial Administration in Africa, 1880-1939”
Tuesday March 29, 12:30-2:00 p.m. CIB 3055
Warren Dym (History, UM),
"Mercury, Magistral, and Salt: Silver Refining and the Enlightenment in Barrels"
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Friday April 15, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
FIU, room TBD
Jason Pearl (English, FIU), "Desert Islands and Urban Solitudes in the Crusoe Trilogy."
FALL 2010
Thursday October 15, 12:30-2:00 pm
CIB 5063
Yvette Piggush (History, FIU)
"Monsters, Ruins, and the Indian Experience"
Thursday November 18, 12:30-2:00 pm CIB 5063
Karl Gunther (History, UM)
"Dealing with Heretics: Protestants and the Sword in the early English Reformation"
SPRING 2010
Thursday March 25, 12:30-2:00 pm
CIB 5063
Rebecca Brienen (Art History, UM)
Friday April 23, 12:30-2:00 pm
Memorial 125D
Jenna Gibbs (History, FIU)
“By birth a Briton, my heart clings to America”: Susanna Rowson’s
Antislavery and Feminist Ideals in Transatlantic Perspective
FALL 2009
Tues., Sept. 29 12:30 - 2:00 pm
CIB 5063
Monique Bedasse "Black Internationalism: Jamaica and Tanzania Chant Down Babylon in Theory and Praxis."
Wednesday, October 21 12:30 pm
CIB 5063
John Funchion “Exporting Locality: Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants and Transatlantic Regionalism after the Revolution.”
Tuesday, November 17 12:30 pm
Wolfson 4027
Eduardo Elena "Point of Departure: Travel and Nationalism in Ernesto Guevara's Argentina."
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Atlantic Studies Research Group
Since 2006, an active interdisciplinary research group in Atlantic Studies has been meeting regularly, with participating faculty and graduate students from Anthropology, Art History, English, History, and Modern Languages and Literatures. The Atlantic Studies group at UM is part of the remarkable flourishing of interdisciplinary research in the last decade that works across national boundaries while at the same time rethinking the regional models inherited from U.S.-based area studies. We support and encourage work in all aspects of the historical and contemporary Atlantic world, drawing on our interests in Atlantic history, the black Atlantic, trans- and circumatlantic studies, and postcolonial studies. UM is particularly well situated to facilitate such work, at the hub of the contemporary Atlantic world, linking Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America to each other and to Europe and west and southern Africa. The group currently receives financial support from the Center for Latin American Studies. In Spring 2010, with support from the Center for the Humanties, we will be organizing a national conference held jointly at UM and Florida International University, on the topic “Atlantic Narratives.”
At the heart of the Atlantic Studies project is an ongoing monthly works-in-progress seminar, in which faculty and graduate students meet to discuss precirculated chapters or articles. Presenters have included Edmund Abaka (History), Kristen Block (History, FAU), Tracy Devine-Guzmán (Modern Languages and Literatures), David Luis-Brown (English), Michael Miller (History), William Nelson (History), Frank Palmeri (English), Yvette Piggush (English, FIU), Bianca Premo (History, FIU), Kate Ramsey (History), Tim Watson (English), and Ashli White (History). The Atlantic Studies group has sponsored and cosponsored such visiting speakers as David Armitage (Harvard), Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique and Henry Robert Jolibois (Université d’État d’Haïti), Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State), Joyce Chaplin (Harvard), and Rob Nixon (Wisconsin). We also support and encourage dialogue between the Atlantic Studies group and other interdisciplinary programs and research groups at UM, including Africana Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Literary Studies, Haiti Research Group, Latin American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the new Hemispheric Studies Research Group.
Co-Conveners
Ashli White
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