The Launch Pad at Toppel’s next weekly workshop, “Social Media Strategy,” will review tactics for using your favorite social networks as business tools. Learn to Tweet, Digg, and post your way to success. The workshop will be held on Monday, October 18 from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m. at the Toppel Career Center library. Free to attend. The workshop is open to UM students, alumni, and members of the community. Lunch will be served. RSVP to [email protected].

The University of Miami’s Department of Philosophy will host Paul Audi, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who will present “Grounding: The Whole Nine” on Monday, October 18 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the CAS Gallery on the Coral Gables campus. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305-284-4757.

Debra Lieberman, assistant professor of psychology in UM’s College of Arts and Sciences, will present “The Architecture of Human Kin Detection: Altruism, Inbreeding, and Morality” on Monday, October 18 at 12:20 p.m. in the Cox Science Center, Room 166. For more information about this event, please contact Isaac Skromne, assistant professor of biology, at [email protected].

The University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) will present a “Conversation with the Secretary” on Monday, October 18 at 7 p.m. at Casa Bacardi, 1531 Brescia Avenue, on the Coral Gables campus. The event will feature Carlos M. Gutierrez, non-resident scholar at ICCAS, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and co-chair for the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba in the George W. Bush administration. Jaime Suchlicki, director of ICCAS and the Emilio Bacardi Moreau Professor of History at UM, will moderate the discussion. A reception starts at 6:30 p.m. $10 donation to support ICCAS. RSVP to ICCAS at 305-284-CUBA (2822). Open to the public.

The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies and the George Feldenkreis Program in Judaic Studies, along with the Center for Latin American Studies, will host Aviva Ben-Ur, associate professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ben-Ur will present “The Hispanic/Jewish Connection in the United States” on Monday, October 18 from 4:15 to 5:45 p.m. in the Miller Center Auditorium, 105 Merrick Building.

Ben-Ur is the author of Sephardic Jews in America: A Diasporic History (New York University Press) and teaches a variety of courses in Jewish history, including American Jewish Diversity; Jewish Travelers: Exploration and Imagination, Medieval to Modem Times; and Jews in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

To RSVP, e-mail [email protected], call 305-284-6882, or fax 305-284-5274. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited.