Library Past Events
Fall 2022
- August 11: The Restless Exile of Gerardo Machado: Book Presentation (6:30 p.m.)
Summer 2022
- May 20: Remembering a Cuban Patriot: The Papers of Colonel Ernesto Fonts y Sterling (6:30 p.m.)
- May 19: Come Fly With Me: A World Wings Research Grant Presentation with Camille Di Miao (1:00 p.m.)
Spring 2022
- May 3: Library Research Scholars and Adobe Scholars (3:00 p.m.)
- April 25: Preservation Week 2022 – Sustaining Collections: Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Book Collection (2:00 p.m.)
- March 31: Deep Dives into Special Collections – Tricky Books: April Fools’ Day in Special Collections (1:00 p.m.)
- March 3: Abrams Banning Grant Winner – Elizabeth S. Manley (1:00 p.m.)
- February 24: In/Tangible Pedagogies – Building an Interdisciplinary and Holistic Curriculum on Archival Studies (10:00 a.m.)
- January 27: Goizueta Fellows Forum (2:00 p.m.)
Fall 2021
- December 9: Florizines – Subculture in the Sunshine State (1:00 p.m.)
- November 11: Deep Dives into Special Collections – Pretty Pies and Scary Steaks: Food in Artists’ Books with Cristina Favretto (1:00 p.m.)
- November 2: In/Tangible Pedagogies – Roundtable Discussion – Post-Custodial Archives (1:30 p.m.)
- October 28: Creative Studio Presents – Posters with PowerPoint (3:00 p.m.)
- October 27-29: New Directions in Cuban Studies Conference
- October 14: Deep Dives into Special Collections – Letter, Art, Symbol: Typography and the Design of Language in Special Collections with Chelsea Jacks (1:00 p.m.)
- October 7: Understanding Relationality: Centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Academic Librarianship with Dr. Sandy Littletree (1:00 p.m.)
- October 6: Goizueta Fellows Forum (1:00 p.m.)
- October 5: In/Tangible Pedagogies – Steven Fullwood – Archival Survival: Love and Brilliance in Black Queer Archival Interventions (1:30 p.m.)
- September 28: In/Tangible Pedagogies – Jeannette Allis Bastian – Colonial Archives and Their Affects/Effects (1:30 p.m.)
- September 23: Deep Dives into Special Collections – Icebound: Myth, Fact, and Fantasy in the Jay I. Kislak Polar Collection (1:00 p.m.)
- September 15: Goizueta Fellows Forum (1:00 p.m.)
- September 14: In/Tangible Pedagogies – Michelle Caswell – Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (1:30 p.m.)
Summer 2021
- August 18: Goizueta Fellows Forum (2 p.m.)
- July 8: Fashioning Special Collections: a Catwalk Through the Rare Books and Archives (1 p.m.)
- June 10: El Archivo de Connie & Other Stories: A Conversation with Anna Veltfort (4 p.m.)
Spring 2021
- May 20: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “Reefs, Wrecks, & Rascals: The Pirate Legacy of the Spanish Main” (1 p.m.)
- May 3: Library Research Scholars Celebration (1 p.m.)
- April 29: Preservation Week 2021 – “Preserving Collective Community Memory: Florida Accounts from the Pandemic” (2 p.m.)
- April 26: Preservation Week 2021 – “Virtual Tour of the Conservation Lab at UML” (2:30 p.m.)
- April 12 & 13: Documenting Diversity and Democracy in Brazil
- April 8: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “Monsters and Creatures in Special Collections” (1 p.m.)
- March 25: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “You’re Cooking What?!” (1 p.m.)
- February 11: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “Love in the Stacks: Stories of Romance (and Heartbreak) from the Special Collections” (1 p.m.)
- February 4: El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After – “Diplomacy por la Libertad: Embajador Ernesto Pinto en conversación con Leticia Callava” (11 a.m.)
- January 28: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “Book of Fate: A Mysterious Manuscript for Interpreting Enigmas” (1 p.m.)
Fall 2020
- November 12: El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After – “Pluma y Plumero: palabras y papeles de Reinaldo Arenas featuring René Cifuentes*” (11 a.m.)
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*Please note this program is in Spanish.
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- October 29: Learning Forum Webinar Series – “A Passionate Collector: Voyaging Through the Kislak Collection” (2 p.m.)
- October 26: Book Traces Lecture (3 p.m.)
- October 22: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “Diving Deep: An Artists’ Book Trip Through the Oceanic Zones” (1 p.m.)
- October 20: Change the Subject Film Panel Discussion (6 p.m.)
- October 15: El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After – “The Mariel Effect: Social and Racial Tensions in the Wake of the Boatlift in South Florida” (11 a.m.)
- October 8: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “The Liberation of Paris: The G.I. and the Amazon” (1 p.m.)
- September 17: El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After – “The Community Responds: Solidarity and Stigmatization” (11 a.m.)
- September 10: Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “Selling Some Sand” (1 p.m.)
- August 13: The Boatlift Unfolds: Perspectives from Both Sides of the Florida Straits
Live with Mainly Mozart Series
The 2020 Live with Mainly Mozart series, co-presented by the University of Miami Libraries and Mainly Mozart Festival and made possible in part by a University of Miami rapid response grant, featured a unique series of seven online events.
You can find a link to the recordings here.