Past Events

Join FIU in D.C., The Humanities Edge, and a small group of FIU students majoring in humanities for a unique learning experience in the nation’s capital.

Application deadline: April 30, 2023

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The event showcases different approaches to the art of commemoration, inspired by the exhibition Street Shrines at The Wolfsonian. IlluminArts will present a musical program that responds to artist Roberto Lugo's commemorative artworks, while an installation of original works by incarcerated artists will speak to the humanity of people who live behind bars.

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Zoom link will be sent to participants in advance of the program.

Join Dr. Karen G. Williams, assistant professor of anthropology, Guttman Community College, City University of New York, and Dr. Nicola Blake, interim vice president for academic affairs and provost, Guttman Community College, CUNY, for a webinar exploring various methods to transform and remix workplace observations. Specifically, faculty will focus on how to integrate ethnographic mapping and how to use different genres to support ethnographic writing.

For more information, please contact Marianne Lamonaca, lamonaca@fiu.edu

"This Will Never Happen Again"

We'll be opening the exhibit with a public reception

This event was held via Zoom

Virtual Workshop, Ethnographies of Work

This event was held via Zoom

Most everyone has heard about the railroad tycoon Henry Flagler and “the father of Miami Beach” Carl Fisher. But Miami was also built by thousands of unsung immigrants and migrants -- from the Bahamian workers and African-Americans who at one time represented almost half of the city’s population, to the waves of Cubans who began arriving in the 19th century, to the thousands of Puerto Rican families who settled in the Wynwood neighborhood after World War II, to the Haitians who struggled for acceptance under the leadership of visionaries such as Vitier Juste. Today’s vibrant and diverse South Florida is rooted in the paradox of its forgotten immigrant founders and the legacy of segregation that determined which stories we would tell, and which we would forget. If you think you know all the Miami history there is to know, come be surprised as our panelists recount the unwritten and half-forgotten histories of the city.

Our Panel

Michael Bustamante, FIU: Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Florida International University, specializing in modern Cuba, Cuban-America, and the Caribbean.

Victor Vazquez-Hernandez, MDC: Associate  Professor of History at Miami Dade College-Homestead whose specialties include the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

Donette Francis, UM: Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at the University of Miami, specializes in Caribbean literary and intellectual histories, American immigrant literatures and African diaspora literary studies.

Carl Juste, The Miami Herald: Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist Carl-Philippe Juste has worked for the Miami Herald since 1991, documenting international and national stories, including the forgotten Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery.