Ray E. Hershberger, professor of medicine in the Cardiovascular Division at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Patient Selection and Use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices in Bridge to Transplantation, Bridge to Decision, and Destination Therapy” on Tuesday, September 28 from 12 to 1 p.m. at University of Miami Hospital, South Building, first-floor Seminar Center A and B. This educational activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. For more information, call Yanay Tabraue at 305-243-1998 or e-mail [email protected].

The Departments of International Studies and Political Science will present “The Forum on Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Crises: Iran” on Tuesday, September 28 from 7 to 9:15 p.m. at the Learning Center, Room 110. Speakers will include Bruce Bagley, professor and chair of the Department of International Studies, who will present “Iran and the ‘West’: Strategic Stakes and Policy Options”; Bradford R. McGuinn, a faculty member in the Department of Political Science, who will present “The Iranian Search: Perception, Policy, Politics”; Ramon E. de Arrigunaga, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force (Retired), who will speak on “Military History of Iran”; Haim Shaked, international studies professor and director of the Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, who will present “Israel and U.S. Policies toward the Iranian Nuclear Threat”; and Major Brian Bissonnette, U.S. Army, deputy director of intelligence, Special Operations Command-South, who will speak on “Military Threat from Iran.”

As the responsibilities of administrative professionals expand, so do the opportunities to take charge and make an even bigger impact. You can influence and motivate others even when you don’t have direct authority. This audio conference focuses on techniques to direct and set expectations to achieve you and your supervisor’s goals, present your ideas in ways that get attention and support, effectively handle disruptive behavior, and communicate with clarity and confidence. This is a brown-bag lunch-and-learn session.

Date: Tuesday, September 28
Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155

To register for the session, visit ulearn.miami.edu.

Would you like to learn how to develop and retain your best and brightest employees? The Professional Development and Training Office offers two competency-based programs that focus on developing and improving employee skills. The competencies were developed by University practitioners and represent the critical skills required to meet current and future challenges of the University.

If you’re looking for ways to strengthen and/or develop your leadership skills, the Leadership Academy will help you achieve your goals. The Leadership Academy provides professional development programs for existing and future leaders of the organization.

The Administrative Support Program (ASP) provides frontline employees with the necessary tools for success. ASP focuses on critical skills, including interpersonal skills, communication, technology, and more.

Attend a competency-based programs overview session to learn more about the programs’ structure and benefits.

Miller School of Medicine campus: Tuesday, September 28, 9 to 11 a.m., Dominion Parking Garage, Suite 155

To register for the session, visit ulearn.miami.edu.

The Miami Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies presents the U.S. premier screening of El viajero inmóvil/The Immobile Traveler, a film by Cuban filmmaker Tomás Piard. The film, in Spanish with English subtitles, will be screened on Tuesday, September 28 at 7 p.m. at the Cosford Cinema. The screening will be followed by the panel discussion “Piard, Lezama, and Baroque Eroticism,” with Piard, Lezama specialist Enrique Márquez, and actors Jorge Alí and Davinia Castro. Lillian Manzor and Uva de Aragón will moderate the panel. The event is free and open to the public.

Inspired by Lezama Lima’s literary masterpiece Paradiso and shot entirely in Havana, the film re-creates the novel’s neo-baroque aesthetics through three interrelated narrative levels that mix fact and fiction. A philosophy student interviews the writer Lezama; a group of friends and researchers get together for a Lezamesque lunch to talk about the author; and, finally, the novel’s main characters take us to the most important and controversial passages of the novel, including the notorious Chapter 8.

The Immobile Traveler, a personal interpretation of Lezama’s genre-bending and exploratory text, takes a refreshing approach to the original work’s intimate, neo-baroque aesthetic to explore Lezama’s inner vision. Rather than a literal adaptation of Paradiso, it is an “invitation-homage” to Lezama that seeks to engage the spectator in new ways of approaching the writer’s life, work, and legacy.