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Global History as Urban History

A View from Edo, The Greatest City in the World

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn

Date & Time

October 23, 2019, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

Annual Robert K. Webb Lecture Amy Stanley, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University Edo (now Tokyo) was once the greatest city in the world. In 1800 – the era of Napoleon...

CURRENTS: Erin Hogan (MLLI)

Humanities Work Now

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

October 14, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

Fall 2019 Works-in-Progress Talks Patrimonial Persons: Poor Devils, Their Eves, and Hegemonic Masculinities in Franco’s Spain (1939-75) Erin K. Hogan, Associate Professor of Modern...

Queer Roots and Causes

Reframing Anti-Black Violence in the Lives of Youth

Location

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

Date & Time

September 18, 2019, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Description

The UMBC Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement (McNair Scholars) Program presents the Inaugural Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture Durell Callier, PhD, ’07, UMBC McNair Alum (REM 14)...

Construction of the Self, a Creative Writing Workshop

With noted Puerto Rican writer, Mayra Santos-Febres

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 428

Date & Time

September 13, 2019, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Description

The "self" has been traditionally considered the place from where all emotions and expression originate. The classic dictum "Know Thyself" has propelled all kinds of creative and reflective...