Schedule

Graham Center, GC355

Marianne Lamonaca
Program co-director, Humanities Edge, FIU

Kirk Paskal
Program co-director, Humanities Edge, MDC

Phillip Carter
Director, Center for the Humanities in an Urban Environment, and associate professor, English and linguistics, FIU

Jairo Ledesma
Assistant professor, history and sociology, MDC

This panel will explore the very definition of humanities and the interpretive frameworks that they inspire for viewing the world. Panelists will discuss how humanities' perspectives enable us to be effective, sensitive, and global citizens who better function in our communities, families, and even within ourselves. 

Rebecca Friedman
Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab
Professor, History, FIU

Enrique Rosell
Program manager, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FIU 

What is the relationship between work/labor and the humanities? How can ideas/concepts from the humanities help us to understand our individual and collective approach to work/labor?   

In the first part of this session, Rebecca Friedman will talk with students about the ways in which the humanities help us to think through the meaning of work: is it liberatory or is it obligatory? Or both? Does work/labor breed a sense of pride/identity or is it a slog/a curse? Or both? Why and how?  

In the second part of this session, Enrique Rosell will take students through an oral history tutorial. This will equip students with the tools and knowledge to conduct an interview on their subjects’ relationship to work/labor.  

Daniel Royles
Associate professor, history, FIU

David Chang
Frost Professor of Art and graduate director, art and art history; founding director, Academy of Portrait and Figurative Art, FIU

Taurie Gittings Wheeler
Associate professor, humanities, theater and art, MDC

Interpretation of social behavior and the fostering of creativity are central to the humanities. These pursuits are not possible without a frame that, in turn, is determined by social theories or aesthetic approaches and related concepts. This session is intended to address some of the possible frames that can be used by historians, creative writers and literary critics, and visual artists and art critics. It will invite an exchange about theoretical and conceptual choices and discussion about the creative process.

Jairo Ledesma
Assistant professor, history and sociology, MDC

Ana Luszczynska
Dean, School of Environment, Arts and Society; and associate professor, English, FIU

Michael Grafals
Assistant teaching professor, English, FIU

What does it mean to be Latinx and/or Black? Who determines the elements of these identities? How do interpretations of these identities inform the guiding questions of various disciplines within the humanities? Who sets the frameworks within which each discipline? In this panel, we will discuss examples of the ways in which considerations of Latinx and Black identities can form the central modes of interpretation within the humanities.  

GC PIT

Tovah Bender
Associate teaching professor, history, FIU

David Chang
Frost Professor of Art and graduate director, art and art history; founding director, Academy of Portrait and Figurative Art, FIU

Shawn Anthony Christian
Chair, and associate professor, English, FIU

Yaobin Liu
Assistant teaching professor, English, FIU

Jason Pearl
Associate professor, English, FIU

Cayce Wicks
Assistant teaching professor; coordinator for student success in the rhetoric and writing program

Molly Castro
Digital humanities librarian, FIU

Zhaohui Jennifer Fu
Interim dean of libraries, FIU

Althera “Vicki” Silvera
Department head, Special Collections, FIU

During this tour, learn about FIU’s Special Collections and Digital Scholar Studio.
http://dss.fiu.edu/dss

Charles Donate
Faculty administrator, Center for Excellence in Writing, FIU

The Center for Excellence in Writing assists students in all stages of the writing process through face-to-face and online tutoring, workshops and community engagement. The Center trains advanced undergraduate students to serve as Writing Assistants (also known as Peer Writing Mentors; PWM). The PWMs are embedded in course sections to provide feedback on student writing and to help facilitate in-class activities. Each PWM serves as a mentor to a group of students in a class, guiding them in active-learning (virtual) discussions regarding course concepts, as well as in revising and improving their writing projects. They also host weekly office hours to meet one-to-one (virtually) with their assigned students.
https://case.fiu.edu/writingcenter

This is an opportunity for students to meet as a group with admissions, financial aid, and scholarship staff and academic advisors, and to seek one-to-one assistance from a bridge advisor.

GC Ballroom-Central

Daniel Royles, Associate professor, history, FIU
Franco Garcia, FIU, history

Glenn Hutchinson, Director, Center for Excellence in Writing, and assistant professor, English, FIU
Sabrina Martinez, FIU

Katie Coldiron, Digital archivist and program manager, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FIU
Maria Reyes Diaz, FIU

Moderator: Ashley Rodriguez
Senior administrative assistant, Humanities Edge, FIU

FIU faculty, staff, and students share their experiences working on humanities projects. 

Jason Fontana (BA ’18, MA, ’19)

Anaridia Molina (BA ’20)

Elizabeth Pino (BFA ‘19)

Andrew Ruby  (BA ’24)
2022 Humanities Edge H.E.ART cohort

Moderator: Ashley Rodriguez
Senior administrative assistant, Humanities Edge, FIU

FIU alumni with degrees in history, English, and art share how theoretical perspectives, creativity, research, and critical-thinking skills gained during their undergraduate studies have shaped their work.

Gianna Di Bartolomeo (BFA ’07, MFA ’19)

Francis X. Luca (PhD, '07)
Chief Librarian, The Wolfsonian–FIU

Darwin Rodriguez (MA ’18)

Moderator: Marianne Lamonaca
Program director, Humanities Edge, FIU

FIU alumni with degrees in history, English, and art share how their studies helped launch their careers.

Celebrate with us! Students gather with family, peers, faculty, and staff to share their H.E.ART experiences.