Events for October 18, 2024 - February 19, 2024

Miami XR 2025 Day 2

Newman Alumni Center (Multipurpose ABC) 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, United States

MIAMI XR 2025: Where Innovation Meets Imagination UMverse at the University of Miami invites you to dive into the cutting-edge world of XR at Miami XR 2025, Thursday and Friday, February 6+7. Join industry experts, tech visionaries, artists, and university scholars from around the globe to explore the latest trends and innovations in XR technology. Keynote speaker Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, will share insights on how virtual experiences are reshaping education, social interaction, and empathy. Experience the future of XR with interactive demos, panel discussions, and [...]

Free

Resurfacing Ghosts: Journalism, LGBTQIA+ Histories, and a Future of Care

Wolfson Building, 1021

Dr. Patrick Johnson, Marquette University, examines how journalism has historically marginalized LGBTQIA+ communities, leaving gaps that still echo in how we understand the past and present. Drawing on research and teaching, this talk invites us to reckon with what has been lost and explore how to bring these specters into the light to find a more inclusive and equitable future for storytelling, especially for those in the LGBTQIA+ community.

United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival

Bill Cosford Cinema 5030 Brunson Drive, Dooly Memorial 225, Coral Gables, FL, United States

The School of Communication is pleased to announce the second annual United Black Students and UTrailblazers Canes Black History Film Festival. We seek short films that reflect on University of Miami’s rich Black History. We welcome short films on any aspect of Black History (including Black diasporic history) as well as films from any genre, including, but not limited to documentary, news, comedy, experimental, and drama. Thematically, we invite short films that reflect on Blackness, broadly construed. We are particularly interested in films that are based on contents in the [...]