UM and FIU Host Atlantic Narratives Symposium

January 21, 2010 — Coral Gables — The College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami and the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University (FIU) will present Atlantic Narratives ? a two-day symposium on Thursday, February 4 and Friday, February 5, 2010. This symposium brings an international group of acclaimed scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines together to examine and discuss groundbreaking research on the production and reception of narratives in and about the Atlantic world in the period up to the mid-nineteenth century. On Thursday, February 4th the opening session, 'Atlantic Enlightenments,' will be held at FIU at 2 pm in the Frost Art Museum, (10975 SW 17th Street, Miami). On Friday, February 5th, sessions will be held at UM, beginning at 10 am with 'History and Memory in Atlantic Narratives' and continuing at 2 pm with 'Intercolonial Atlantic Narratives,' followed by a closing roundtable at 4:30 pm. The UM sessions will be held in the College of Arts and Sciences Gallery/Wesley House, (1210 Stanford Drive, on the Coral Gables campus). Guest speakers for the symposium include professors from University of Illinois-Chicago, McGill University, University of Virginia, Brigham Young University, Rutgers University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ohio State University. They will be joined by a strong cohort of humanities researchers currently studying the Atlantic World at both UM and FIU.