Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia
The Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia series aims to provide a space where FIU faculty and advanced graduate students have the opportunity to present their research, exchange ideas with researchers in different disciplines, and nurture new projects. It is, primarily, a resource to promote FIU’s academic dialogue and research on Latin America and the Caribbean.
- From Haiti to the Greater South Florida: Defining Resilience Within Haitian Mother's Migration Stories
33rd Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia - November 29, 2023 - David Fairchild, the USDA, and the Building of a Botanic Garden Network
31st Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia - February 24, 2021 - Protecting the Socioenvironmental Heritage of Brazil
30th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- October 1, 2020 - No Lights, No Camera, No Action! Unfilmed Screenplays of Latin America
29th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Feb. 20, 2020 - Drought and Forest Fires in the Andes-Amazon Basin Region
28th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Jan. 16, 2020 - Central American Migration: Causes and Consequences of the Politics of Exclusion
27th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Dec. 5, 2019 - Society and Climate Change in Latin America
26th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Nov. 14, 2019 - Experiences and Perceptions of Ethno-Racial Discrimination in Latin America
25th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Apr. 17, 2019 - From Quebec to Haiti: plants, cultural identity and religion in the late 1930s
24th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Mar. 21, 2019 - Desarollo territorial y generación de capacidades transformadoras en Puerto Rico
23rd Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Feb. 28, 2019 - Gender, Race and Humanization of the Death Penalty in Cuba and the Spanish Domains, 1600s-1900s
22nd Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Nov. 15, 2018 - Racializing Politics, Validating Race: Racial Consciousness and Vote Choice in Puerto Rico
21st Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Oct. 19, 2018 - Blooming Brown Macroalgae in the Caribbean
20th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Sep. 20, 2018 - Science in the Classroom: How to Engage Students
19th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- April 19, 2018 - Evaluating Urban Disaster Risk Reduction: What we can learn from Latin America and the Caribbean
18th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Feb. 16, 2018 - Assessing the Usefulness of Multicultural Legal Instruments for Afrodescendants in Latin America
17th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Jan. 25, 2018 - Linking Botany and History in 20th Century’s Haiti
16th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Dec. 7, 2017 - The Challenges of the Digital Latin American and Caribbean Religion Archive
15th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Nov. 16, 2017In Search of Well-Being:Narratives of Survival of Dominican Deportees - 14th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Oct. 26, 2017
- Pope Francis and the Catholic Church in Latin America
13th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Apr. 6, 2016 - Indigenous Religions and the Building of Multicultural States
12th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Mar. 23, 2015 - Indigenous and African Descendants
11th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Oct. 21, 2014 - American Children at the Border
10th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Sep. 2, 2014 - Narco-Cultura in Modern Latin America
9th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Mar. 19, 2014 - Islam and Latin America
8th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Feb. 26, 2014 - Pope Francis of Argentina
7th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Mar. 27, 2013 - Music, Education and Policies in Contemporary Uruguay
6th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Feb. 4, 2013 - The Caribbean
5th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Mar. 22, 2012 - Brazil
4th Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Feb. 15, 2012 - Literature, the Arts & Latin American Sociopolitical Realities
3rd Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Sep. 21, 2011 - Immigration from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
2nd Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia-Feb. 23, 2011 - Spanish American Independence: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Outside-In, Inside-Out?
1st Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquia- Oct. 1, 2010