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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...

The Fractal Caribbean

New Literatures of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn

Date & Time

September 12, 2019, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Description

Mayra Santos-Febres, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras This talk explores the efforts of contemporary Hispanic Caribbean writers to represent a reality that...

Dialogue and Digital Storytelling for Intergroup Solidarity

Faith Communities and Immigration in Baltimore

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 102

Date & Time

September 10, 2019, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

Professors Felipe Filomeno and Tania Lizarazo will present the process and results of a community-based research project that is using dialogues and digital stories for cooperation between...

Ibrahim Er (LLC) and Olha Martynyuk (Fulbright Researcher)

CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now Spring 2019

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

April 22, 2019, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Description

CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now lunchtime series showcases exciting new faculty work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting with short, informal presentations and time for...

Forgetting Lyric

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and American Sentiment

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

April 17, 2019, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Description

The history of American poetics is a mostly untold story, partly because 19th-century American poetics has been misunderstood as having begun with 'the romantic lyric,' an idealized genre...