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Performing Arts & Humanities Building

Date & Time

July 9, 2026, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

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Maryland Humanities is excited to invite you to join us for Centering Community Voices: Exploring Stories That Shaped Us, our first statewide humanities conference this summer! Hosted at UMBC,...

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Off Campus

Date & Time

May 27, 2026, 9:30 am – 4:00 pm

Description

M“Realizing the Power of History: Past, Present, and Future Strategies” will take place on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at the Corcoran Museum, George Washington University, Washington, DC. This...

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Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

May 6, 2026, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

List of Faculty books: Let Us Alone: The Origins of Baltimore's Police State (University of Illinois Press) By Michael Casiano Assistant Professor, American Studies Poetry in General: How a...

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Online

Date & Time

April 27, 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Description

Join the "Masculinities in the Americas" seminar for a powerful conversation with Luciano Anahel as we explore Masculinity as a Tool: Transmasculine Performance as the Art of Negotiation Across...

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Location

Online

Date & Time

April 27, 2026, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Description

What do we need in these times of unwellness? What kinds of care can we imagine and build for ourselves if we engage our unwellness in new ways? Facilitated by Dr. Mimi Khúc, this interactive...

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View Event Details for Partner Event - Tarot for the Apocalypse: Collective Care in Times of Unwellness

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

April 24, 2026, 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Description

Alt Text as Poetry Workshop (This workshop is recommended for faculty and staff who are the site administrators for their department/program website and/or myUMBC page) In late April, new...

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Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : 7th floor

Date & Time

April 22, 2026, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Description

In celebration of National Library Week, the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery, in partnership with the Dresher Center for the Humanities, welcomes Dr. Kenvi Phillips, Inaugural Director of the...

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Location

University Center : 312

Date & Time

April 21, 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Description

UMBC will host the first One Maryland, One Book event for 2026, an evening with author Lawrence Burney. Burney’s book No Sense in Wishingwas selected as the 2026 OMOB as part of the America 250...

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View Event Details for UMBC BookFest '26: One Maryland, One Book

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Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 132

Date & Time

April 16, 2026, 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Description

Please join the Department of English on Thursday, April 16th at 7:30pm for a special event to honor Mr. Walter Lomax and the 5 year anniversary of the passing of the Maryland Walter Lomax Act. ...

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Location

University Center : 310

Date & Time

April 16, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Description

The Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Pluralism welcomes Rabbi Lauren Tuchman, the first blind Rabbi ordained in the United States, to campus to share her experiences and help our campus...

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View Event Details for Featured event: Critical Religious Pluralism Conversation with Rabbi Lauren Tuchman

Upcoming Events

Centering Community Voices: Exploring Stories that Shaped Us

Maryland's First Statewide Humanities Conference

Realizing the Power of History: Past, Present, and Future Strategies

NCPH Mini-Con. Register online by May 13

Dresher Center/CAHSS Book Celebration

Celebrating Humanities Books from 2025-2026

Partner Event: Masculinity as a Tool: Transmasculine Performance as the Art of Negotiation Across Drag, Ballroom, and Social Space

Partner Event - Tarot for the Apocalypse: Collective Care in Times of Unwellness

Virtual Workshop with Mimi Khúc

Workshop: Alt Text as Poetry

A New Model: The Barack Obama Presidential Library

Talk with Kenvi Phillips, Inaugural Director

UMBC BookFest '26: One Maryland, One Book

An evening with author Lawrence Burney

Partner Event: Five-Year Commemoration of the Walter Lomax Act

Hosted by the Department of English

Featured event: Critical Religious Pluralism Conversation with Rabbi Lauren Tuchman

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Maryland's First Statewide Humanities Conference

NCPH Mini-Con. Register online by May 13

Celebrating Humanities Books from 2025-2026

Virtual Workshop with Mimi Khúc

Talk with Kenvi Phillips, Inaugural Director

An evening with author Lawrence Burney

Hosted by the Department of English

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