Upcoming events for the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

AY 2022-2023 Events

	MLL Undergraduate Awards Ceremony May 11, 2023 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Miller Center Auditorium \| Merrick Building 105 Join us as we recognize our graduating Seniors for all of their achievements. Open to all MLL graduating Seniors and their families Reception will be held afterwards * This event is sponsored by the Michelle Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	End of Year Celebration Monday, May 8th, 2023, @ 5:00 PM Scharlin Patio Join us for a social gathering of food, friends, and fun * This event is sponsored by the Michelle Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Dancing into Retirement: George Yúdice's Farewell Lecture Thursday, April 27th, 2023 @ 4:00 - 6:30 PM Lakeside Pavillion 1000 Reception will follow this event. Event open to the public. *This event is co-sponsored by the Michelle Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies
	A New Era in Native American & Global Indigenous Studies:An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Miami April 24, 2023 @ 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM April 25, 2023 @ 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM Lakeside Pavilion \| Shalala Center Activity Room - North *This event is sponsored by UM NAGIS Working Group with support from the UM Indigenous Heritage Committee, the UM Institute for the Advanced Study of the Americas, Library Indigenous Studies Group, and UM Libraries
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema April 21, 2023 @ 4pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Snacks and drinks will be served. The Human Resources * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Fish Out of Water April 21, 2023 @ 3pm Scharlin Patio The purpose of this event is to encourage speakers of foreign and second languages to use their own voices in non-native ways, in the company of their peers. *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Exploring the Caribbean: New Questions, Methods, and Debates April 21, 2023 @ 9am-6pm This event will be held via. Zoom. *This event is sponsored by The Marta S. Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, Michelle Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Center for Global Black Studies, the Department of English, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Department of History from the University of Miami. The Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC) from Florida International University.
	Italian Film Club April 19, 2022 @ 5pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually as we discuss & express our ideas. Everyone is welcome to participate. 7 Women and a Murder * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Arabic Film Series April 18, 2023 @ 6:25pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Join us in person for film discussions. Everyone is welcome to participate. The Time That Remains *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Cine en Español \| Movie Series for SPA 202 April 17, 2023 @ 6:30pm Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Buena Vista Social Club * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema April 14, 2023 @ 4pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Snacks and drinks will be served. The Farewell Party * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	German Film Series April 14, 2023 @ 3pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually on Zoom as we discuss & express ideas about the movie in the target language. Home 2 Home *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian (LAB) Film Series April 10, 2023 @ 6:15pm Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 The films will be presented in their native tongue (Portuguese) with English subtitles. Everyone is welcome to participate. Hoje eu quero voltar sozinho * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Italian Film Club April 10, 2022 @ 5pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually as we discuss & express our ideas. Everyone is welcome to participate. It Was the Hand of God * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Cine en Español \| Movie Series for SPA 202 April 3, 2023 @ 6:30pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Machuca * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Italian Film Club April 3, 2022 @ 5pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually as we discuss & express our ideas. Everyone is welcome to participate. Still Time * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema March 31, 2023 @ 4pm Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Snacks and drinks will be served. A Matter of Size * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	German Film Series March 31, 2023 @ 3pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually on Zoom as we discuss & express ideas about the movie in the target language. Faraway *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Choreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation March 30, 2023 @ 10AM Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 In this presentation, Dr. Cuellar examines how bodies in motion both critiqued the nation through an analysis of written, photographic, cinematographic renderings of a festive Mexico from the late Porfirian regime to the immediate post-revolutionary era. *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Cine en Español \| Movie Series for SPA 202 March 27, 2023 @ 6:30pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. La Comunidad * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian (LAB) Film Series March 27, 2023 @ 6:30pm Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 The films will be presented in their native tongue (Portuguese) with English subtitles. Everyone is welcome to participate. Os anos 3000 eram feitos de lixo and Tsunami Guanabara * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series March 27, 2023 @ 5pm “Publishing Workshop” Run by Dr. Yolanda Martinez San-Miguel, Dr. Andrew Lynch, and Dr. Patoimbasba Nikiema Merrick 212 \| Chair's Office In this session we will discuss the entire submission, revision, and publication process for books and chapters in the fields of literary, cultural, and linguistic studies. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Arabic Film Series March 21, 2023 @ 6:25pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Join us in person for film discussions. Everyone is welcome to participate. Caramel *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Bioluminescence and Caravaggism: The Glowing Intersection Between Art and Science March 21, 2023 @ 9:30/10:45AM (ET) This event was held via. Zoom. Presented by Dr. Roberta Lapucci: Renowned Italian Scholar, Conservation Expert, and Leading Specialist in Caravaggio. *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian (LAB) Film Series March 6, 2023 @ 6:15pm Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 The films will be presented in their native tongue (Portuguese) with English subtitles. Everyone is welcome to participate. Divinas Divas * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Transcultural Expressions: Conflict, Identity and Revitalization in Multicultural Spheres March 2-3, 2023 (All-Day) Wellness Center \| Room 232 *This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the MLL Graduate Student Association.
	Marino Magliani Conversation and Meet & Greet February 23, 2023 \| 5:15pm Merrick 210.01 \| Conference Room 1 Italian author, graphic novelist, and translator Marino Magliani visits our Italian department as part of his American tour. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Ludovic Mompelat "Alexa, yolu have your reason and I have mine": Exploring the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence Knowledge and Human-like Reasoning \| Lecture February 8, 2023 \| 2:15pm Merrick 210.02 \| Conference Room 2 Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Get Together for French Majors and Minors January 31, 2023 @ 3pm Merrick 201 Come meet fellow French Studies faculty and students. Everyone is welcome to participate. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Japanese Film Series December 2, 2022 @ 5pm Communication International Building \| Room 3053 Join us in person to watch a Japanese film, eat some Japanese snacks, and get extra credit points! * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	German Film Series/ Deutsche Filmreihe December 2, 2022 @ 3:30pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Join us in person for film discussions in German. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Italian Film Club December 1, 2022 @ 7pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually as we discuss & express our ideas. Everyone is welcome to participate. Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	French Film Series November 30, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Join us in person for film discussions in French. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. Il A Deja Tes Yeux * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema November 30, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Zero Motivation * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Esther Bendahan Cohen Sepharad Between Pages \| Lecture November 28, 2022 \| 4:30pm Merrick 119 A brief journey through the history of Sepharad from the perspective of authors. The history of Sepharad can be found in the voices of authors such as Ibn Gabirol, or Emma Lazarus who wrote about her relation with the Spain that expelled its Jews in 1492. From memory there is a place for reunion and that is where a new Sepharad has been created. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Esther Bendahan Cohen The Writing Process as a Sephardic Author \| Lecture November 28, 2022 \| 10:30am MLL Conference Room 2 \| Merrick 210.02 A Moroccan-Spanish writer whose Jewish family went to Madrid when she was a child and where she studied Psychology and French Literature. She is director of the television program Shalom (RTVE) and the organizer of Centro Sefarad-Israel. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Italian Film Club November 17, 2022 @ 7pm This event was held over Zoom. Join us virtually as we discuss & express our ideas. Everyone is welcome to participate. A Breath of Fresh Air * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film Series November 16, 2022 @ 5:30pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Nannies * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema November 16, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Gett * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	German Film Series/ Deutsche Filmreihe November 4, 2022 @ 3:30pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Join us in person for film discussions in German. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema November 2, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. the other son * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Prof. Carlos Heusch Digital Calila Project: A Critical Digital Edition \| Seminar October 28, 2022 @ 10am Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Dr. Carlos Heusch, Full Professor of Medieval Hispanic Studies, is currently Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Prof. Carlos Heusch How was the performance of a jongleur in the Middle Ages? The movie "Antoni Rossell's sung Cid" \| Lecture October 27, 2022 @ 6:30pm Merrick 205 Dr. Carlos Heusch, Full Professor of Medieval Hispanic Studies, is currently Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	French Film Series October 26, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Join us in person for film discussions in French. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. Petite Maman * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series October 24, 2022 @ 2pm “Teaching Portfolio and Philosophy” Run by Andrew Lynch The statement of teaching philosophy is an essential document for the academic job market and the cornerstone of any teaching portfolio. It articulates who we are as teachers, how we envision teaching in our discipline, and what strategies we use to actively engage our students. The process of writing a teaching statement pushes us to reflect critically on our teaching practices and how we communicate about teaching. In this workshop we will discuss practical steps to draft a statement of teaching philosophy. Participants will also have the opportunity to review sample statements. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	German Film Series/ Deutsche Filmreihe October 21, 2022 @ 3:30pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Join us in person for film discussions in German. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Graduate Program Virtual Open House October 21, 2022 \| 2:00pm Are you interested in a Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies? Join us for a Virtual Open House. You will have the opportunity to meet with our award-winning Faculty, speak one-on-one with professors in your field, and learn about Miami as a vibrant cultural scholarly and civic space. Open House will be held on Zoom. * * * Please watch the recording of our Fall 2020 Open House (below) and get to know more about our program.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film Series October 19, 2022 @ 5:30pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. The Territory * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema October 19, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Vals with Bashir * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series October 17, 2022 @ 11am “How to Write a Diversity Statement” Run by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel & Cae Joseph-Massena with Dr. Joseph Pierce, Associate Professor at Stony Brook Workshop is virtual and is open to current MLL Graduate Students. Join us for the 3rd workshop in this series as we discuss how to write a diversity statement. Attendees are asked to review this recording prior to workshop. To access video, click here. The recording discusses both diversity and research statements. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Gimena de Rio Riande The Open Scholar: how to make our research more open, visible and reusable \| Workshop October 11, 2022 \| 12-2pm Location: MLL Conference Room 2 \| Merrick 210.02 & Zoom Open Scholarship encompasses Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources, and Open Science approaches, and deals with the philosophy of transparency and free sharing of research to help make the production of knowledge more accessible, discoverable, and reusable. In this workshop we will revise some practices that can collaborate with a more open and inclusive dissemination of knowledge, facilitating also public access to intellectual content and collaboration. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for the Humanities, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Gimena de Rio Riande Open, Equitable, and Minimal: Digital Humanities in Latin America \| Lecture October 10, 2022 \| 3pm Location: MLL Conference Room 2 \| Merrick 210.02 & Zoom Conversations on open and free technologies have been part of the Latin American Open Science agenda since the early 2000s, when the term "technological sovereignty" was already used by Latin American activists who wanted to have more control over the software they used and avoid dependence on equipment suppliers from the Global North. Latin American countries have the most unequal income distribution in the world which results in research inequalities across the region. Therefore, the allocation of resources for research in Latin America is ingreat disproportion with that in developed countries. Minimal computing can be a solution for the development of projects in Latin America and the Caribbean, where access to infrastructure such as web hosting or even reliable and affordable Internet access is limited for many humanities students and faculty. It can also help us to discuss and deal with the barriers and opportunities for a more open and equitable global Digital Humanities. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for the Humanities, Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Virginia Zavala "Youth, Quechua and neoliberalism in contemporary Peru" \| Lecture October 6, 2022 \| 5pm Location: MLL Conference Room 2 \| Merrick 210.02 This talk addresses the dilemma of urban Quechua youth under the simultaneous influences of neoliberalism and grassroots activism in Peru. Zavala analyzes the high demand for Quechua language courses among youth of an ascending middle social class in Lima, mostly of Quechua-speaking Andean migrant descent. While speaking Quechua has historically indexed ‘indianness’, linked to rurality and backwardness, it is now increasingly associated with the figure of the entrepreneurial subject and other linguistic and non-linguistic signs that enregister multicultural citizenship. The shifting values and meanings of Quechua, within a context of neoliberal economic growth and state policies of cultural branding in Peru, pose the risk of erasing ongoing processes of racialization of indigenous peoples in Peruvian society and fundamental gaps in access to education and economic resources. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Presenting Hija del camino \| a novel by Spanish writer and journalist, Lucía Mbomío October 5, 2022 @ 7pm Books & Books \| 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables Lucía Mbomío (Madrid 1981- ) is a Spanish journalist and novelist dedicated to celebrating the lives and experiences of Afro-Spaniards, denouncing racism in Spain, and fighting for environmental justice. She holds a BA in Communications and Journalism and an MA in International Aid and Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; plus a degree (diploma) in Documentary Filmmaking and Screenwriting from the Instituto de Cine de Madrid. As a fiction writer, she is the author of the successful novel, Hija del camino (Penguin Random House, 2019), a fictional work loosely based on Mbomío’s experiences as a Spaniard of African descent struggling to assert her identity and sense of home through her travels to London and Equatorial Guinea. This novel is currently being adapted as a TV series for Netflix. This event is free and open to the public. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Books & Books, Center for Global Black Studies, and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Lucía Mbomío Racismos cotidianos \| Lecture October 3, 2022 \| 11:15 to 12:45pm Location: MLL Conference Room \| Merrick 210.01 Lucía Mbomío (Madrid 1981- ) is a Spanish journalist and novelist dedicated to celebrating the lives and experiences of Afro-Spaniards, denouncing racism in Spain, and fighting for environmental justice. She holds a BA in Communications and Journalism and an MA in International Aid and Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; plus a degree (diploma) in Documentary Filmmaking and Screenwriting from the Instituto de Cine de Madrid. As a fiction writer, she is the author of the successful novel, Hija del camino(Penguin Random House, 2019), a fictional work loosely based on Mbomío’s experiences as a Spaniard of African descent struggling to assert her identity and sense of home through her travels to London and Equatorial Guinea. This novel is currently being adapted as a TV series for Netflix. During her talk at UM, Mbomío will lecture, in Spanish, on the experiences of quotidian racism in Spain, providing a brief history of Afro-Spaniards. She will also discuss her journalistic and literary work, especially her novel, Hija del camino, which she will be formally introducing to the Miami community on October 5th at 7 p.m. at Books & Books in Coral Gables. Lecture is open to all UM Students and Faculty. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for Global Black Studies, and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	French Film Series September 28, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Join us in person for film discussions in French. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulain * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Bate Papo Portugese Round Table Fall 2022 \| Wednesdays 2:25-3:25PM Merrick 210.1 \| Conference Room 1 Offered by the Portuguese Program at the Univeristy of Miami at the Department of Modern Languages and Litueratures. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film Series September 21, 2022 @ 5:30pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Conference Room 2 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Indianara * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series September 21, 2022 @ 4:00pm “The Academic Job Search: The Basics” Run by Tracy Devine Guzman Workshop is virtual and is open to current MLL Graduate Students. For those entering the academic job market, those who’ve already been searching, and those who hope to eventually be employed in academia! Join us to go over ‘the basics’. What materials should you be preparing? Where should you search for available posts? How do you interpret a job ad? What kinds of jobs are available? All graduate students, regardless of your year in the program, are welcome to join this informative workshop, the first in our series for this academic year. Those students who are now on or who will be entering the market next year are especially encouraged to attend. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	"Kolnoa" Series of Israeli Cinema September 21, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room 1 Please join us to watch and discuss each film. Bar Bahar (In Between) * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Get Together French and Spanish Majors Meeting September 20, 2022 @ 3:30pm Come learn about the Majors offered in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. In collaboration with Pi Delta Phi, French National Honor Society and Sigma Delta Pi, National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Meeting will be held in Merrick 205 If you have any question, please contact: Dr. Viviana Pezzullo and Dr. Omar Vargas. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series September 16, 2021 @ 11am “How to Write Effective CVs and Cover Letters” Run by Gema Perez-Sanchez & Patoimbasba Nikiema Workshop is virtual and is open to current CAS Graduate Students. Join us for our next workshop as we discuss CVs, cover letters, and the basic difference between teaching institutions and research institutions. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Mesa de Español Spanish Conversation Table Fall 2022 \| Tuesdays 5-6PM \| Wednesdays 2-3PM Covered Patio of Miami Herbert Business School (Silver Tables near Half Mood Empanadas) La Mesa de Español is open to all students, whether you are enrolled in a language class or not, up to and including 301. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.

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AY 2021-2022 Events

	Ralph Heyndels Friday, April 29, 2022 @ 4:00pm A Farewell Lecture "Roland Barthes: An Intellectual in the Party Nightlife. Desire and Melancholy" Lecture is open to the public and will be held over Zoom. * This event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Matthew Helmers LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series Friday, April 22, 2022 @ 4pm Merrick Building 205 \| Zoom Private High School Interview Workshop Run by Susanna Alles Torrent and Allison Schifani In this one-hour, interactive workshop, Dr. Helmers provides potential applicants with the do’s and don’ts of applying and interviewing for jobs in private high schools. From the application through to the on-site and demo teach, Dr. Helmers outlines the critical moments in the application process – and what specifically private schools are looking for in your materials and answers. Together, we will review your application materials, workshop cover letters and resumes, brainstorm demo teaches, and end with time for questions and dispelling misconceptions. Even if you haven’t considered a position in the private high school sector, this workshop will tighten your application materials – and offer possible other routes for employment after the degree. Matthew Helmers, Ph.D. serves as the English Coordinator at Ransom Everglades School in Miami, FL. He previously worked as a teacher, mentor, and college counselor for a top-ranked charter school, and a lecturer at several international and U.S. universities. In these roles, he has prepared numerous newly-minted and veteran postgraduate degree holders to make the jump into private high schools and reviewed hundreds of applications and conducted dozens of interviews over the past decade. Workshop will be a hybrid event with limited space in person (Merrick Building 205) and accessibility over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for the Humanities, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies.
	German Film Series/ Deutsche Filmreihe April 22, 2022 @ 3:15pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room Join us in person for two days of film discussions in German. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. Im Labyrinth des Schweigens (Labyrinth of Lies) * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Fish out of Water: An Evening of Accented Languages April 21, 2022 @ 4pm Experience a little bit of the magic and potential of speaking in non-native ways. Event will be virtual and is open to MLL Faculty and Students. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film Series April 20, 2022 @ 1pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Library Join us to watch the filme & stay for discussion. A ÚITIMA FLORESTA Film Series will be presented with English subtitles and is open to anyone in the UM Community who would like to participate. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Presenting Hija del camino \| a novel by Spanish writer and journalist, Lucía Mbomío Please note: THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2022. Books & Books \| 265 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables Lucía Mbomío (Madrid 1981- ) is a Spanish journalist and novelist dedicated to celebrating the lives and experiences of Afro-Spaniards, denouncing racism in Spain, and fighting for environmental justice. She holds a BA in Communications and Journalism and an MA in International Aid and Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; plus a degree (diploma) in Documentary Filmmaking and Screenwriting from the Instituto de Cine de Madrid. As a fiction writer, she is the author of the successful novel, Hija del camino (Penguin Random House, 2019), a fictional work loosely based on Mbomío’s experiences as a Spaniard of African descent struggling to assert her identity and sense of home through her travels to London and Equatorial Guinea. This novel is currently being adapted as a TV series for Netflix. This event is free and open to the public. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Books & Books, Center for Global Black Studies, and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Business Japanese \| Class Lecture \| JPN 432 Special Lecture in Japanese on the revival of Japanese Usukiyaki porcelain founded by the Inaba Samurai Clan by Mrs. Asako Kaplan, direct descendent of the Inaba Samurai Clan Friday, April 15, 2022 @ 10:30am Dooly Memorial Building \| Room 204 Please contact Etsuko Takahashi Collins (exc295@miami.edu) for more information.
	Racismos cotidianos \| Lecture Please note: THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2022. Miller Center Auditorium - Merrick Building 105 \| Zoom Lucía Mbomío (Madrid 1981- ) is a Spanish journalist and novelist dedicated to celebrating the lives and experiences of Afro-Spaniards, denouncing racism in Spain, and fighting for environmental justice. She holds a BA in Communications and Journalism and an MA in International Aid and Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid; plus a degree (diploma) in Documentary Filmmaking and Screenwriting from the Instituto de Cine de Madrid. As a fiction writer, she is the author of the successful novel, Hija del camino(Penguin Random House, 2019), a fictional work loosely based on Mbomío’s experiences as a Spaniard of African descent struggling to assert her identity and sense of home through her travels to London and Equatorial Guinea. This novel is currently being adapted as a TV series for Netflix. During her talk at UM, Mbomío will lecture, in Spanish, on the experiences of quotidian racism in Spain, providing a brief history of Afro-Spaniards. She will also discuss her journalistic and literary work, especially her novel, Hija del camino, which she will be formally introducing to the Miami community on Monday, April 18 at 6 p.m. at Books & Books in Coral Gables. Event will be hybrid with limited space in person (Miller Center Auditorium) and accessibility over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for Global Black Studies, and Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Dr. Sueli Carneiro MULHERES DE GELEDÉS E AS LUTAS CONTRA O RACISMO E O SEXISMO NO ATLÂNTICO NEGRO \| Lecture Tuesday, April 12, 2022 @ 11am (EST)/ 12pm (BR) (Women of Geledés and the Struggles against Racism and Sexism in the Black Atlantic) Moderated by Lidiana de Moraes Dr. Sueli Carneiro is a philosopher, writer, and activist whose work focuses on anti-racism and Black feminism. She is the founder and director of Geledés - Instituto da Mulher Negra (Black Women's Institute). In 2021, Professor Carneiro received the Kalman Silvert Life Achievement Award from the Latin American Studies Association for her vast and distinguished scholarship and longstanding commitment to education. Lecture will be in Portuguese with simultaneous translation to English over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, US Network for Democracy in Brazil, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies.
	German Film Series/ Deutsche Filmreihe April 8, 2022 @ 3:15pm Merrick 210.01 \| MLL Conference Room Join us in person for two days of film discussions in German. Everyone is welcome to participate. We will watch the movies (with English subtitles) together. Oh Boy (A Coffee in Berlin) * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series Friday, April 8, 2022 @ 11:30am Merrick Building 205 \| Zoom “What does it mean to work for the European Union? A Conversation” Run by Susanna Alles Torrent and Allison Schifani Lithuanian national, Ieva Mainardi has been working within the EU institutions for over 20 years. She has a BA in English philology, MA in International Relations and Diplomacy and MA in EU and International Law (Vilnius University). Her EU career started at the European Commission Delegation in Lithuania where she was following-up inter alia EU pre-accession programs. She later moved to the European Commission in Luxembourg and subsequently to the Court of Justice of the European Union where she worked as a Lawyer-Linguist. Since 2012 she has been managing teams of language professionals at the European Parliament also being involved in the inter-institutional cooperation of the EU translation services, IT project follow-up, Advisory Committee on Harassment and its prevention at the workplace and the Parliamentary Project Portfolio on Skill Sharing. As the EU Fellow, she is carrying out a research on Change Management with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the service of public administrations. Workshop will be a hybrid event with limited space in person (Merrick Building 205) and accessiblity over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for the Humanities, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies.
	Jennifer Boum Make Public Talk Thursday, April 7, 2022 @ 1pm "Ecofeminism Visions: The Promise of Decolonial Ecological Caring in the Works of Gisèle Pineau and Jessica Oublié." Public Talk will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	La Florida Missions Spaces of Globalization, Resistance, and Transformation Lecture and Symposium April 7 - 8, 2022 Mission activities in Spanish La Florida began in 1565 and continued for nearly two centuries. Outstanding scholars in precontact and early modern Florida anthropology, archaeology, cultural studies, ethnohistory, linguistics, literature, and theology will convene in this symposium to share their efforts in documenting the story and struggles of the indigenous peoples of Florida as they were drawn into a tumultuous web of colonial missionary and global connectivities that changed their world forever. For more information, visit: https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/sc-la-florida-missions-symposium-april-2022
	Dr. Karina Xavier LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series Friday, March 25, 2022 @ 11:30am “Your Humanities Degree and The 'Real' World"” Run by Susanna Alles Torrent and Allison Schifani Karina Xavier, PhD is a Sustainability/ESG/Corporate Communications professional working with private sector enterprises to develop compelling and effective global communications to inspire engagement and commitment to shared purpose from stakeholders. Karina’s work focuses on highlighting and advancing corporate responsibility initiatives that truly make a positive sustainability impact. Karina has also led US communications for the Corporate Citizenship/Philanthropic initiatives of 2015’s largest corporate contributor to higher education, Banco Santander/Santander Universities (UNESCO). Previously, she launched the MIT-Brazil Program, an international STEM collaboration program at MIT. She has also done cross-cultural consulting for a creative broadcast production company based in LA. Karina is a native speaker of English and Portuguese, near-native speaker of Italian and Spanish, and is proficient in French. She holds a BA in International Relations and Italian Studies, an MA in Italian Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and PhD in Renaissance Italian Literature from UC Berkeley. “What are you going to do with that degree in the real world?” is one of the most common questions asked of humanities students. In this conversation we'll challenge the notion of a "real" world where there is neither a need nor a place for a humanities degree. We'll idenitfy all the ways a humanities training is increasingly relevant and strategize practical ways of applying what we've learned to the job search and beyond. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film Series March 23, 2022 @ 1pm Merrick 210.02 \| MLL Library Join us to watch the filme & stay for discussion. SER TÃO VELHO CERRADO Film Series will be presented with English subtitles and is open to anyone in the UM Community who would like to participate. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Hugo Achugar Tuesday, March 22, 2022 @ 4:00pm Public Lecture "On Latin American Culture and XXIst Century Challenges" This lecture will be held in person in the Whitten Learning Center 120 & over Zoom. * This event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies, and the “Americas Initiative” in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters at Florida Atlantic University.
	Santiago Achugar Award Ceremony Monday, March 21, 2022 @ 5:00pm Join us with Dr. Hugo Achugar as we recognize the students who received the Santiago Achugar Award. This ceremony was held over Zoom. * This event is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies.
	Dr. Alex Gil LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series Friday, March 11, 2022 @ 11am “Beyond the Tenure-Track Academy: Paths, Possibilities and Gambits in Humanities Careers” Run by Susanna Alles Torrent and Allison Schifani Alex Gil is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. His research interests include Caribbean culture and history, with a focus on twentieth century poetry; digital humanities and technology design for different infrastructural and socio-economic environments; and, the relations of power and material extent of the cultural and scholarly record. Gil collaborates with very diverse faculty, students and library colleagues in humanities research, pedagogy and knowledge production that involves the use of advanced computation, digital media design, and network technologies. At Columbia, he coordinates the Butler Library Studio, a tech-light library space focused on digital scholarship and pedagogy, and now a broadcast, Studio Remote. He is also co-founder and moderator of Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities, a trans-disciplinary research cluster focused on experimental humanities and public engagement; one of the creators and main editors of archipelagos journal: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, and co-organizer of the conference series, The Caribbean Digital together with Kaiama L. Glover and Kelly Baker Josephs. This workshop will provide students a wider perspective on the types of jobs outside the traditional tenure-track career. Based on his experience as a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, Alex Gil will outline possible trajectories that allow you to have the flexibility to choose, as opportunity arises, between faculty and non-faculty careers, while remaining in academia, and even teaching and researching. While Digital Humanities is one of the most common paths to achieve this goal in today's Higher Ed, the talk will cover librarianship in general and the life of centers. Workshop will be a hybrid event with limited space in person (Merrick Building 205) and accessiblity over Zoom (link will be provided after registration). * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Dr. Julio Torres Workshop \| February 22, 2022 @ 10am Critical Tasks in Action! In this workshop, we explore the use of task-based language teaching (TBLT) to go beyond the promotion of language performance and development. Recently, TBLT scholars have endorsed the concept of critical tasks, which is the use of pedagogic tasks that promote learners' critical thinking on the sociopolitical structures of their local communities with a goal to promote change (Ellis, 2021; Crookes & Ziegler, 2022; Serafini, under review). The goal of the workshop is to promote the design of critical tasks following a TBLT methodology to help students challenge monolingual and standardized language ideologies by considering multilingual competencies, sociolinguistic principles and critical language awareness. Participants will reflect on their local context regarding these issues and will see models of critical task-based lessons. Participants will leave the workshop with an outline of a critical task-based lesson they wish to implement. This workshop is open to the public and will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Dr. Julio Torres Public Lecture \| February 16, 2022 @ 5pm The Effects of Instruction on Heritage Language Learners Heritage language learners are individuals who enroll in classes to (re)learn their family language in an instructed setting. Their family or heritage language is a minority(-ized) language in the society at large. As such, they are (multi-)bilingual speakers of the heritage language(s) along with the majority language(s) of the society. The collaborative efforts from scholars and practitioners from different disciplines (e.g., sociolinguistics, applied linguistics) have been essential to better understand and serve the needs of these learners. This has led to the field of heritage language education. Within this broad field, however, I will focus on research that has investigated the effects of instruction on heritage language learners’ language development and performance. The first part of the talk will consist in broadly framing the key issues at stake with regard to heritage language learning outcomes, which includes the results of a recent exploratory meta-analysis. During the second part of the talk, I will share quantitative and qualitative data from empirical studies under a task-based language learning framework that shed light into how heritage language learners respond to instruction. This Lecture is open to the public will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Andrew Ross Book Presentation \| January 21, 2022 @ 4pm Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (Macmillan, 2021) Event was held over Zoom. Book Signing took place immediately following event at the Thomas P Murphy Design Studio Terrace. Books were available for purchase. Through visceral, frontline reporting from the motels and encampments dotting central Florida, renowned social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross exposes the overlooked housing crisis sweeping America’s suburbs and rural areas, where residents suffer ongoing trauma, poverty, and nihilism. As millions of renters face down evictions and foreclosures in the midst of the COVID-19 recession, Ross reveals how the Sunbelt cocktail of ineffective government planning, property market speculation, corporate investment in housing, and poverty wages have combined to create this catastrophe. Urgent and incisive, Sunbelt Blues offers original insight into what is quickly becoming a full-blown national emergency. Andrew Ross is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A contributor to many renowned newspapers, including the New York Times, and is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including Bird On Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City. His new book is Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing (Holt/Metropolitan Books). More information is at https://andrewtross.com * This event is sponsored by the School of Architecture, The College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Center for Global Black Studies, CAS - American Studies, and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	End of Semester Gathering December 3rd @ 3:30pm-5:00pm \| Scharlin Patio Join us as we celebrate the end of the Fall Semester. Open to MLL faculty, graduate students, & staff * The event will be outdoors, and social distancing will be observed, so we can meet and greet safely.
	Aurélie Vialette Graduate Seminar \| December 3, 2021 @ 10am-12pm Mahoney / Pearson Com 112 Letters and Musics, clave.cat: A Digital Humanities Workshop This workshop is specially suited for graduate students interested in conducting a digital humanities project, since we will be discussing challenges faced while modeling, choosing the digital infrastructure, and online publishing. I will present a DH project involving the archive of nineteenth-century composer and politician Josep Anselm Clavé (1824-1874), which is comprised of correspondence, scores, and administrative documents. I will show how the creation of a web/network of people, musicians, politicians, among other figures, reveals the collaboration of 19th-centiry artists and politicians in important social, political and musical movements. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Aurélie Vialette Lecture \| December 2, 2021 @ 4:30pm-6pm Miller Center Auditorium Located in Merrick Building 105, Room 119. "Imperial Surrogacy in the Penal Colonies in the Philippines: the Perpetuation of the Spanish Race" In this talk, I address the question of gender and race in the Spanish penal colonization process. I argue that sending male and female criminals to the Philippines and encouraging the convicts’ families to accompany them there as well revealed that both labor and procreation were central to the project of using prisoners to build the colonial structure. It was furthermore a way to develop a racial politics that implied that Spanish criminals would “better” the indigenous population in the Philippines. I contend that the racial politics of the penal colony was a biopolitical device. The process shows how the reforming of citizens and the controlling of their biological capacities went hand in hand with a philosophy of punishment and a conquest of indigenous people through a racial discourse in the service of developing agricultural penal colonies. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Simone Lagrand “Pays Mêlé”: a Poetic Digital Recital December 2, 2021 @ 4:20pm-5:35pm The 15 min film screening will be followed by a Q&A with the author *Villa Albertine* artist in Residence Simone Lagrand will be in conversation with the students of FRE 303 of Fall 2021: Introduction to Intellectual Movements of the Francophone Caribbean as well as MLL’s faculty Dr. Cae Joseph Massena, Dr. Nadia Naami & Dr. Allison Schifani. The event will be held in English over Zoom. To view recording, click https://miami.zoom.us/rec/share/WrxTthf70X_0E8SSub_Bz2hWKx17OWzx6YdK9lNtja-I2CjfTv2fGzewTDAENGrF.jcu7BP5PtXQ080fR * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
	Class Final Presentation Mosqoy-Sueños-Dreams: The History and Stories of a Quechua Social Enterprise \| Nicole Weber November 30, 2020 \| 3:00pm - 4:00pm Nicole is a senior majoring in biochemistry and Spanish, with minors in public health, international studies, and psychology. After graduation, she hopes to spend a year abroad improving her Spanish and then plans to pursue a degree in medicine.
	Italian Film Club November 18, 2021 & December 2, 2021 @5pm Join us virtually on Zoom as we discuss & express ideas about each movie. Both films are available on Netflix On My Skin \| November 18* Forgive Us Our Debts \| December 2 * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Brazilian Film Screening and Discussion November 10, 2021 @5pm Join us as we watch & discuss this documentary film by Eliza Capai. ESPERO TUA (RE)VOLTA Merrick Building \| Room 205 * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	German Virtual Film Series/ Deutsche virtuelle Filmreihe October 22 & November 5, 2021 @ 3:15pm Join us on Zoom for two days of film discussions in German. The movies must be watched in advance and are available online with your UM Password. Event is virtual and is open to UM Faculty & Students. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	Graduate Program Virtual Open House October 22, 2021 \| 2:00pm Are you interested in a Ph.D. in Literary, Cultural, and Linguistic Studies? Join us for a Virtual Open House. You will have the opportunity to meet with our award-winning Faculty, speak one-on-one with professors in your field, and learn about Miami as a vibrant cultural scholarly and civic space. Open House will be held on Zoom. * * * Please watch the recording of our Fall 2020 Open House (below) and get to know more about our program.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series October 22, 2021 @ 11am “Teaching Portfolio and Philosophy” Run by Ager Gondra The statement of teaching philosophy is an essential document for the academic job market and the cornerstone of any teaching portfolio. It articulates who we are as teachers, how we envision teaching in our discipline, and what strategies we use to actively engage our students. The process of writing a teaching statement pushes us to reflect critically on our teaching practices and how we communicate about teaching. In this workshop we will discuss practical steps to draft a statement of teaching philosophy. Participants will also have the opportunity to review sample statements. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series October 13, 2021 @ 10am “How to Write a Diversity Statement” Run by Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel Workshop is virtual and is open to current MLL Graduate Students. Join us for the 3rd workshop in this series as we discuss how to write a diversity statement. Attendees are asked to review this recording prior to workshop. To access video, click here. The recording discusses both diversity and research statements. Workshop will be held over Zoom. To join visit: * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series October 1, 2021 @ 11am “How to Write Effective CVs and Cover Letters” Run by Patoimbasba Nikiema & Logan Connors Workshop is virtual and is open to current MLL Graduate Students. Join us for our next workshop as we discuss CVs, cover letters, and the basic difference between teaching institutions and research institutions. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	LCLS Graduate Program \| Workshop Series September 17, 2021 @ 10am “The Academic Job Search: The Basics” Run by Allison Schifani & Susanna Allés-Torrent Workshop is virtual and is open to current MLL Graduate Students. For those entering the academic job market, those who’ve already been searching, and those who hope to eventually be employed in academia! Join us to go over ‘the basics’. What materials should you be preparing? Where should you search for available posts? How do you interpret a job ad? What kinds of jobs are available? All graduate students, regardless of your year in the program, are welcome to join this informative workshop, the first in our series for this academic year. Those students who are now on or who will be entering the market next year are especially encouraged to attend. Workshop will be held over Zoom. * This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.
	An Online Presentation Series Fall 2021 \| Multiple Dates September 14 \| September 28 \| October 5 \| November 2 Presented by The Andrew W. Mellon CREATE Grants Program Join us for a series of presentations that has been specifically created to provide first-hand accounts to students exploring the field of archives and information science. The series will serve as part of a new and innovative course designed to give students hands-on interdisciplinary experience in critical archival studies using materials and resources from the University of Miami Libraries' distinctive collections—introducing them to the fundamentals of archival theory and practice used in libraries, archives, and museums. This free and online event series is open to the public and will feature talks and discussions led by experts who are actively engaged in Caribbean archival curating, preservation, and theorization. * This series is co-sponsored by the University of Miami Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies.

AY 2020-2021 Events

Patoimbasba Nikiema

Public Lecture

"Reassessing the Return to the Homeland: A Constructive Analysis of Exile in African and Caribbean Literature”

April 26, 2021 @ 1:30pm

Co-Sponsored Talk

Jeffrey Ravel

“Acceleration? Digital Resources and the Speed of Scholarship”

April 23, 2021 @ 10:30am

* The talk is sponsored by UM Center for the Humanities and brought to you by the Interdisciplinary Researcj Group (IRG)in Theatre & Performance Studies and the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures.

Roundtable Black Lives Matter Across the Globe

A Lecture Series

April 16th @ 4pm

Please view a recording of the lecture on our Black Lives Matter Across the Globe | a Lecture Series page.

* This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund, and the Marta S Weeks Chair in Latin American Studies.

LCLS Graduate Program | Workshop Series

April 15, 2021 @ 10am

"Informational Interview"

Run by Gema Pérez-Sánchez, with guest alumna

Dr. Mary Bartsh of Miami Elite Language Services

Workshop is virtual and is open to current MLL Graduate Students.

* This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.

German Virtual Film Series/ Deutsche virtuelle Filmreihe

April 9 & 23, 2021 @ 2:30pm

Join us on Zoom for two days of film discussions in German. The movies must be watched in advance and are available online with your UM Password. Event is virtual and is open to UM Faculty & Students.

* This event is sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Joseph Carter Memorial Fund.

Co-Sponsored Virtual Book Presentation

Obra Selecta (Selected Works) by Jorge Duany

April 5, 2021 @ 7pm

This event is free and open to the public. It will be conducted in Spanish.

* The Virtual Book Presentation with The Green School at Books & Books and Cuban Research Institute, FIU. Cosponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Miami.