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The H.E.ART schedule is filled with presentations, hands-on workshops, tours, and activities for you to discover new things, share ideas, and have fun. We will explore the skills that humanities studies offer such as critical thinking, problem solving, global and intercultural sensitivity, written and verbal communications, and so much more.

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Monday, July 31
Tuesday, August 1 
Wednesday, August 2
Thursday, August 3
Friday, August 4

Monday, July 31

  • 9:00 AM–10:00 AM / Welcome and Introduction to 2023 Summer H.E.ART Program

    William Anderson, Jr.
    Associate vice president, Office of Research & Economic Development, FIU

    Marianne Lamonaca
    Program director, Humanities Edge, FIU

    Kirk Paskal
    Program director, Humanities Edge, MDC

  • 10:00 AM–11:00 AM / The Humanities: What are they and why do they matter?

    Tori Arpad-Cotta
    Chair, art and art history, and associate professor, art, FIU

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

    Carmen Lopez
    Associate professor, senior, history, MDC

    This panel will explore the definition of the humanities and interpretive frameworks for viewing the world that they inspire. Panelists will discuss how humanities disciplines’ perspectives help us to be effective, responsive, global citizens and support our individuality as well as how we function in our communities, workplaces, and families.

  • 11:00 AM–12:30 PM / Tapping into Creativity

    Michelle Grant-Murray
    Associate professor and coordinator, dance, MDC

    Creativity is a full body workout! The physical, cognitive, emotional, cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and historical body activates to generate an internalized community that gives birth to innovation. Participants will work through exercises that spark the imagination to generate creative concepts. We will share ideas in a non-judgmental, safe, and healthy learning environment. Participants will leave with detailed strategies that can be utilized to charter creative needs.

  • 12:30 PM–1:30 PM / Lunch
  • 1:30 PM–2:45 PM / Collaborative Humanities Project: Exploring the Theme of Work through Oral History (Session One)

    Rebecca Friedman
    Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, and professor, history, FIU

    Enrique Rosell
    Program manager, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FIU

    What is the relationship between work/labor and the humanities? How can concepts from the humanities help us understand our individual and collective approach to work? Professor Friedman will discuss ways the humanities help us think through the meaning of work: Is it liberatory or obligatory? Or both? Does work breed a sense of pride and/or identity or is it a slog? Or both? Enrique Rosell will present an oral history tutorial. This will equip students with tools and knowledge to conduct an interview on their subjects’ relationship to work. 

  • 2:45 PM–3:00 PM / Break
    Location TBD
  • 3:00 PM–4:45 PM / Collaborative Humanities Project: E-portfolio workshop

    Maikel Right
    Associate director of Instructional Learning Technology, Honors College Faculty Fellow, FIU Online Web Based Courses, FIU

    Jenille “Jeni” Lopez
    Instructional design consultant, FIU Online Web Based Courses, FIU

    Kieron Williams
    Instructional design consultant, FIU Online Web Based Courses, FIU

    Brian Chico
    Instructional design associate, FIU Online Web Based Courses, FIU

    In this session, students will be introduced to Portfolium, an e-portfolio tool powered by Instructure, the creators of Canvas. Here is where you will develop a personal e-portfolio with help from the FIU Online Learning Design Innovation team and peer mentors from the Writing Center. This portfolio will be shared with peers and  can later be used to connect to recruiters, others in your field, or prospective employers. You will be able to access it on the web or via the iOS app store and create an account or log in using your Google or LinkedIn account.

  • 4:45 PM–5:00 PM / Evaluation

    https://fiu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1z6os7MGo75YEJM

Tuesday, August 1

  • 9:00 AM–10:00 AM / Theoretical Approaches: Research, Creative, and Critical Thinking Skills

    Tori Arpad-Cotta
    Chair, art and art history, and associate professor, art, FIU

    Taurie Gittings Wheeler
    Associate professor, humanities, MDC

    Daniel Royles
    Associate professor, history, FIU

    Central to the humanities are both the interpretation of social behavior and the fostering of creativity. 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.

  • 10:00 AM–11:00 AM / Collaborative Humanities Project: Exploring the Theme of Work through Oral History (Session Two)

    Rebecca Friedman
    Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FIU, and professor, history, FIU

    Enrique Rosell
    Program manager, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FIU

    Students will reflect on the interviews about work/labor that they conducted on Monday night with the goal of building knowledge to use for their creative assignments throughout the week.

  • 11:00 AM–12:30 PM / Collaborative Humanities Project: Exploring the Theme of Work through Creative Writing, "Everyone is a Creator"

    Omar Figueras
    Professor of English composition, literature, creative writing, and humanities, MDC

    In this workshop, students will explore creative capacities of awareness, intention, patience, and collaboration. Using the materials collected in the ethnographic fieldwork and guided through a series of brief writing exercises, students will create an original piece of writing. We will read excerpts from Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act: A Way of Being and other multi-genre short selections regarding work life. We will also consider how memories, dreams, and the unconscious affect the creative process and reflect on daily creativity.

  • 12:30 PM–2:00 PM / Career Luncheon. What I did with my Degree? Careers in the Humanities: FIU Alumni Perspective Panel

    The career luncheon features an FIU alumni panel and informal “table” conversations with peers, graduate students, alumni, faculty, and local professionals about academic pathways and careers in the humanities.

    Panelists
    Jason Fontana, BA, history, '18, MA, history, '19
    Gianna Di Bartolomeo, BFA, art, '07, MFA, art, '19
    Darwin Rodriguez, MA, history, '18
    Nicholas Cabeza, BA, English, '22, MA, English, '24

  • 2:00 PM–3:30 PM / The Humanities in Action

    Julio Capó, Jr.
    Deputy director, The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, FIU, and associate professor, history, FIU

    Michael Grafals
    Assistant teaching professor, English, FIU

    Shewonda Leger
    Assistant professor of multilingual writing and pedagogy, FIU

    Ana Menéndez
    Author and associate professor, English, FIU

    Imani Warren
    Adjunct lecturer, art and art history, FIU

    This panel will feature faculty insights on the ways that humanities knowledge and methods—from local and community research, and the craft of fiction, to literary theory and visual art—can be employed to engage a broad range of issues such as the intersection of cultural heritage and the influence of place or the ethics and commitments of creative production. Panelists will discuss examples from their work as teachers, researchers, and artists with an aim to invite questions from students about how to develop creative thinking, creativity, narrative competence, and intercultural perspectives through the humanities.

  • 3:30 PM–3:45 PM / Break
  • 3:45 PM–4:45 PM / Undergraduate Research Panel

    Ashley Rodriguez
    Senior coordinator, The Humanities Edge, FIU. moderator

    FIU students and faculty share their experiences and insights around research programs, such as the Humanities Edge Undergraduate Research Conference, the Humanities Edge Collaborative Research Grants, and the FIU Undergraduate Research Journal.

    Alejandro Arias, BFA, art, ’23
    Emily Chaffins, BA, English, '23
    Shewonda Ledger, Assistant professor of multilingual writing and pedagogy, FIU
    Leonardo Rodrigues, BA, history, ’24
    Andrew Ruby, BA, English, ’24

  • 4:45 PM–5:00 PM / Evaluation

    https://fiu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ctP6g6gd30g9aOa

Wednesday, August 2

Thursday, August 3

Friday, August 4