FIU and UM together present symposium on“Atlantic Narratives”


WHAT:  UM’s College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities and the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University will present a two-day symposium on “Atlantic Narratives.” It will bring together an international group of acclaimed scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines together to examine and discuss groundbreaking research on the production and reception of narratives in and about the Atlantic world in the period up to mid-19th century.

The symposium is organized by the Atlantic Studies Research Group in the College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami.

WHO: Guest speakers for the symposium include professors from University of Illinois-Chicago, McGill University, University of Virginia, Brigham Young University, Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ohio State University. They will be joined by a strong cohort of humanities researchers currently studying the Atlantic world at both the University of Miami and Florida International University.

WHEN AND WHERE:  Feb. 4 and 5, 2010. The opening session, “Atlantic Enlightenments,” will be held on February 4 at 2 p.m. in the Frost Art Museum at FIU’s Modesto Maidique Campus, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami. On Friday, February 5, sessions will be held at the University of Miami, beginning at 10 a.m. with “History and Memory in Atlantic Narratives” and continuing at 2 p.m. with “Intercolonial Atlantic Narratives,” followed by a closing roundtable at 4:30 p.m. The UM sessions will be held in the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery/Wesley House, 1252 Memorial Drive, Ashe 227 in Coral Gables.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  Registration for the Atlantic Narratives symposium events is available at www.humanities.miami.edu/symposia/atlanticnarratives. Further information is also available through this link or please call 305-284-1580.

Media Contact:  Lissette Lanza  at 305-348-2232.

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About FIU:
Florida International University was founded in 1965 and is Miami’s only public research university. With a student body of more than 38,000, its 17 colleges and schools offer more than 200 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations and law. More than 100,000 FIU alumni live and work in South Florida. FIU has been classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a “High Research Activity University”. In August 2009, FIU welcomed the inaugural class of the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu.

 

 

 

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