Public Humanities Lab (WPHL) at FIU

Our updated site is live! Feel free to check it out. wphl.fiu.edu

Also vote for Miami’s Goombay Festival as the top cultural festival in the USA. 10best.usatoday.com/awards/travel/…

Check out a project some of our staff have been working on - littlebahamasmiami.com

Join The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab's Careers in Humanities Series for an upcoming conversation with Jason Smith, Digital Projects Coordinator at @librarycongress! Feb 12 1:30-2:45pm SIPA 2, 5th floor conference room or Zoom.

We invite the public to this evening of art, dialogue, and reflection. Discover the power of art as a tool for resilience and activism in times of crisis. Conversation/Discussion at 7:30 pm via Zoom link: go.fiu.edu/ART-ByAnyMeans…

A Part of a Greater Impact Campaign This event launches a global Impact Campaign spanning Haiti, Guadeloupe, and Miami to explore the transformative power of art in fostering resilience and cultural autonomy across the Caribbean and beyond.

January 31st! 🎥 Location: Florita Hotel, Jacmel, Haiti 🇭🇹 Complimentary Cocktails: 5:00 PM Film Screening: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Panel Discussion: 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM Free Admission

check out our first Lunch Break for this semester! January 17th: 11am-1pm FIU Biscayne Bay Campus Atrium in AC II

Scenes from iWitness Lunch Break #FIU #iWitnessFIU

Announcing our 3rd call for OER! Join us in building a collection of free, reusable, remixable teaching resources for Caribbean studies. ‼️ CFP: #OER in #CaribbeanStudies 👉 Proposals due April 14, 2025 ℹ️ Info: tinyurl.com/OER-Caribbean

The Library Fair is the can't-miss event of the semester! Join us on February 5th from 11 AM to 2 PM on the 2nd Floor of the Green Library to discover all the cool resources available to you. 💙 Save your spot! Register now: ow.ly/nHpW50UG68v

Reminder that our final event in this iteration of the Caribbean Studies Book Talk Series is this weekend at Miami's Little Haiti Cultural Complex Caribbean Marketplace. Please join us and register at go.fiu.edu/AwakeningtheAs… 🇭🇹.

Join us this Sunday for a Photowalk to help assist with a LOC Grant! RSVP link - eventbrite.com/e/documenting-… #LittleBahamas #CoconutGrove #MiamiHistory

Join on on Sunday, January 19th at 1:00 PM in Miami for our final installment in this iteration of the dLOC Caribbean Studies Book Talk Series, featuring Marlene Daut talking about "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" from UNC Press!

Check out this fascinating piece by PhD student Sasha Wells (@_sashiee), just published in the Made by History section of Time magazine. Thank you, Sasha, for teaching us about the long history of Black resistance and community of Junkanoo in the Bahamas! time.com/7202192/junkan…

Yesterday there was the Ocean Drive Promenade Concert Series - in front of The Betsy Hotel with the Curtis Lundy Quartet! Thank you to everyone who made this possible.

Dec 7 was E. Ethelbert Miller speaking on Baldwin along with Dr. Shawn Christian, FIU Chair of English. The Curtis Lundy Quartet also performed.

Thank to everyone who supported Bold. Black. Baldwin. and all of our events this past week! Looking back we had an action packed week. Dec 1st was the Bold. Black. Baldwin Exhibition Opening Dec 3rd was Conversations & Deliberations with Alon Skuy, IPC Fellow & Matt Anderson