FIU's celebration of National Arts + Humanities Month offers many opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the community to engage, learn, and enjoy the rich variety of activities organized across FIU by academic units, arts and cultural centers, and student organizations. Join this journey of discovery with us in October and throughout the year. @FIU Humanities Matter.
Info Session: Making Study Abroad Possible
Making Study Abroad Possible Information Sessions are your introduction to study abroad. During this meeting we’ll discuss the different types of programs available, review their eligibility requirements, and provide you with important academic and financial considerations that may influence your program selection.
Workshop: From Career Fair to Career Offer
Join us for this essential follow-up workshop to learn the next steps in your job or internship search! We’ll cover how to effectively follow up with employers, tailor your resume, and leverage networking opportunities to maximize your chances of landing an offer.
A Conversation with Gail Tsukiyama on Writing Exile
Entering the Summer’s Garden: Asian-American Perspectives on Exile, Immigration, and Storytelling.
CARTA Workshop: Crafting the Next Step: Grad School for Creative Minds
Wondering if graduate school is the right path for your creative journey? This event will help you explore how advanced study can align with your artistic vision and career goals. Join us to discover resources and connect with peers as you navigate your next move in the arts, architecture, music, and beyond.
Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society): Game Night
Join Sigma Tau Delta for a night of de-stressing! Feel free to bring your own games!
Info Session: Making Study Abroad Possible
Making Study Abroad Possible Information Sessions are your introduction to study abroad. During this meeting we’ll discuss the different types of programs available, review their eligibility requirements, and provide you with important academic and financial considerations that may influence your program selection.
Humanities Edge and the Public Humanities Lab Celebrate National Humanities Month
FIU's celebration of National Arts + Humanities Month offers many opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and the community to engage, learn, and enjoy the rich variety of activities organized across FIU by academic units, arts and cultural centers, and student organizations. Join us October 9th at the Graham Center from 11 am to 1 pm, as representatives of FIU's arts, humanities, and cultural organizations will be present to introduce their offerings. Following the tabling event, we will host a Career Talk with FIU alumni who are contributing their skills to FIU. Panelists include Katie Coldiron (Green Library), Yessica Gispert (Dept of Art and Art History), Cayce Wicks (Dept of English), Susana Perez (The Wolfsonian), and Natalia Zuluaga (Patricia and Philip Frost Art Museum).
International & Public Affairs Employer Panel
Curious about careers that make a real impact—locally, nationally, or around the globe? Don’t miss this powerful panel where employers from the public and private sectors will share how you can turn your academic passions into purpose-driven careers!
iWitness Lunch Break
Join us for a showing of “The Creole Pig: Haiti’s Great Loss” and a conversation with the filmmaker, Dudley Alexis. Lunch will be served.
Department of Religious Studies: Interfaith Sukkot
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The Big Read 2025: Writing Home: Telling Stories with Heart: A Creative Writing Workshop with Ruth Behar
In this workshop we will learn how to write about family, tradition, leaving and finding home. All of us have heard stories about where our ancestors lived and how they and their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren have found a sense of belonging in Florida and elsewhere. Drawing on those stories, we will discuss how to write about home with heart.
Career Chats for Language Lovers
Are you majoring in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, or any other Modern Language? Passionate about turning your language skills into a meaningful career? Join us for Career Chats for Language Lovers, an exciting event designed especially for students in Modern Languages or those pursuing careers where language is a key tool.
Info Session: Making Study Abroad Possible
Making Study Abroad Possible Information Sessions are your introduction to study abroad. During this meeting we’ll discuss the different types of programs available, review their eligibility requirements, and provide you with important academic and financial considerations that may influence your program selection.
Exhibition Reception: Wandering Strangers
Miami Beach Culture Crawl: Free Guided Tour
We're partnering with the City of Miami Beach and neighboring institutions to present free monthly evenings of à la carte culture. Just hop on the complimentary trolley service stopping near participating locations (or grab your bike or comfy walking shoes!) and take in the best of South Beach's art, performances, screenings, and tours.
Writers on the Bay Reading Series: Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Body Moves (1988), Hurdy-Gurdy (1992), Hammerlock (1999), Buffalo Head Solos (2004), Fast Animal (2012), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and was nominated for a 2012 National Book Award, and One Turn Around The Sun (2017). His latest work of poetry, Voodoo Libretto, was published by Etruscan Press in 2022. His poems have been published in the Indiana Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Cortland Review, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and numerous other literary journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry. Seibles lives and teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Fall 2025 BFA Thesis II Art Exhibition
Join us in celebrating the opening of 'Clock In, Clock Out', presented by the Fall 2025 BFA Thesis II, curated by Sandra Ramos and Ronald Sanchez. Hosted by Laundromat Art Space, this exhibition also marks a decade of FIU’s collaboration with Laundromat.
'Clock In, Clock Out' showcases a diverse array of media, from animation to painting, enabling the creation of unique pieces that convey intent and precision. It invites viewers to reflect on the cycles of change we experience—what we carry with us, what we leave behind, and how art provides space to reimagine the familiar, the forgotten, and the invisible.
Howl-O-Ween at The Wolf: Dark Deco
Art Deco elegance meets Halloween flair as The Wolfsonian–FIU hosts its third annual family-friendly celebration.
On Sunday, October 19, Howl-O-Ween at The Wolf: Dark Deco invites guests of all ages to enjoy themed activities ranging from monster-inspired rain stick making with local artist Marie Louise Franco Luque to interactive story time, temporary tattoos and a haunted “snack exchange” where kids trade a ghostly look for a cookie. The afternoon also features bingo with prizes and a special Library Open House with spooky surprises.
Designed as a multigenerational program, the event blends creativity, play and seasonal fun against the museum’s distinctive Deco backdrop.
Info Session: Certificate in Professional and Public Writing BA in English: Writing and Rhetoric
Are you interested in improving your writing and digital communication skills in preparation for your career? Learn how to articulate skills you've gained as an undergraduate and learn about different career pathways.
Explore & Create Zines: A Miami Makers Workshop
Explore, create, and get inspired - join us for four mini workshops that will inspire your inner maker!
Info Session: Making Study Abroad Possible
Making Study Abroad Possible Information Sessions are your introduction to study abroad. During this meeting we’ll discuss the different types of programs available, review their eligibility requirements, and provide you with important academic and financial considerations that may influence your program selection.
History Department Colloquium: “Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery”
Join us on Thursday, October 23rd for our Fall Atlantic Colloquium Event! Dr. Seth Rockman of Brown University will speak on "Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery." See you then!
Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society): Book(less) Book Club Meeting
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Expos to Epcot: How World’s Fairs Gave Us Walt Disney World
From the spectacle of the Ferris wheel to the promise of a better tomorrow, world's fairs captured public imagination and set the stage for today's theme parks. In this talk, Bethanee Bemis, museum specialist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, explores how international expositions helped shape Walt Disney's vision through their immersive storytelling, technological optimism, and celebration of consumer culture.
Exhibition Opening: MOSAICO: Italian Code of Timeless Art & Eduardo Navarro's Cloud Museum
Experience an audiovisual journey across 2,000 years of Italian mosaic history, alongside the U.S. debut of three exceptional mosaic artifacts.
Info Session: Making Study Abroad Possible
Making Study Abroad Possible Information Sessions are your introduction to study abroad. During this meeting we’ll discuss the different types of programs available, review their eligibility requirements, and provide you with important academic and financial considerations that may influence your program selection.
