Juergensmeyer, director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, professor of sociology, and affiliate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written prolifically on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics.

In this co-presentation of the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences and Books & Books, the acclaimed investigative journalist and author discusses Fire in the Ashes, his latest book in a series vividly documenting the lives of inner-city children.

Nickels, an assistant professor of English at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, discusses his book Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude.

Miller, a professor of history at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, discusses his book Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History.

Linton, a disability advocate and consultant to the disability arts movement, is the author of Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity and My Body Politic.

The Heyrman Robert W. and Shirley P. Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, Leigh specializes in early American social and cultural history and is the author of  Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt.

Munro, an assistant professor of English at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, discusses her book South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom.

Knott is the interim exhibitions coordinator and curatorial associate for architecture and design exhibitions at the MIT Museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mohl is a professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the author of The Making of Urban America.

The famed advocate for people with autism spectrum disorders, animal behavior expert, and consultant to the agricultural industry, and bestselling author speaks on "Different Kinds of Minds.”

A professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Roberts specializes in Women and Gender; France; and the Second World War.

Garrard, a professor of art history emerita at American University, will also serve as keynote speaker at the Medieval Renaissance Baroque Symposium, February 21-24, 2013.

A prominent evolutionary biologist, Dawkins is the author of The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centered view of evolution.

The David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert in 20th-century American politics, urban history, civil rights, and race, Sugrue is the author of Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race.

Acclaimed Indian-born author Amitav Ghosh, best known for his works in English, will be the keynote speaker of the Law and Democracy Symposium.

The Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, Grafton specializes in the history of history: how historians and scholars from past eras viewed previous events.