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Apr
23

Featured event: UMBC BookFest '26: Lunch-and-Learn on Library Advocacy

Bigger Than Books: Understanding Attacks on Libraries

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : 259

Date & Time

April 23, 2026, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Description

What should you know about the current assaults on authors, readers, libraries, and librarians? How can you better advocate for libraries, access to reading materials, and the freedom to read? ...

Apr
15

Featured event: Essential Storytelling: Watercress and Writing Your own Story

With Newbery Award Honor Author Andrea Wang

Location

Fine Arts : 118

Date & Time

April 15, 2026, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

RSVP on the original myUMBC post The Global Asias Initiative is thrilled to support Newbery Award Honor Author Andrea Wang's talk at UMBC on Wednesday, April 15! This talk is made possible by a...
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Apr
13

Featured event: Silent No Longer: Advancing Fight for Disability Rights

Guest lecture with author Robert Stack

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

April 13, 2026, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Description

Silent No Longer: Advancing Fight for Disability Rights Join the Critical Disability Studies minor for an inspiring conversation about advancing disability rights and confronting systemic...
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Apr
13

Featured event: Gendered Mobilization & Body Politics in the Middle East with Nadje Al-Ali

Eminent Scholar Lecture

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

April 13, 2026, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Description

Join the Department of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies for an Eminent Scholar Lecture: Gendered Mobilization & Body Politics in the Middle East Nadje Al-Ali, Professor of...
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