Schedule

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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Tour: Green Library Special Collections
Althera “Vicki” Silvera, department head, Special Collections, FIU

FIU’s Special Collections play a vital role in providing primary source materials for humanities-based research.

Tour: Center for Excellence in Writing
Charles Donate, faculty administrator, 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.

Tour: Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Amy Galpin, chief curator 

The Frost Art Museum serves as an important hub for cultural activities on campus. Learn about its current exhibitions, collections, and internship opportunities.

Tour: FIU MMC Campus

Peer writing mentors serve as guides for a walking tour of the Modesto A. Maidique campus.

Meet in GL Breezeway.

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

Christopher Rodriguez Barake
Senior coordinator of academic support services and adjunct instructor, art and art history, FIU

Tovah Bender
Associate teaching professor, history, FIU

Shawn Anthony Christian
Chair and associate professor, English, FIU

This is an opportunity for students to meet as a group and one-to-one with staff members from multiple departments: admissions, financial aid, scholarship, and advising.

Jody Glassman, Director, University Admissions, FIU
Jawhara Graham, Assistant Director, University Admissions, FIU
J. Valdés, Assistant Vice President Enrollment Management and Services, FIU

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