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 4El 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 12El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After – “Pluma y Plumero: palabras y papeles de Reinaldo Arenas featuring René Cifuentes*” (11 a.m.)
  • 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 22Deep 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 8Deep Dives Into Special Collections – “The Liberation of Paris: The G.I. and the Amazon” (1 p.m.)
  • September 17El efecto Mariel: Before, During, and After – “The Community Responds: Solidarity and Stigmatization” (11 a.m.)
  • September 10Deep 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.


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