The James T. and Virginia M. Dresher Center for the Humanities supports and promotes research into the historical, cultural, and social dimensions of the human experience at UMBC, in the Baltimore-Washington region, and beyond.

We encourage intellectual exchange and cultivate interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship among UMBC faculty, staff, and students.
We nurture a generation of humanities thinkers for the future.
We build partnerships that engage communities in addressing issues of equity, inclusion, and justice with the tools of the humanities
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Call for Proposals for 2025-2026 Humanities Forum

Since 1987, the Humanities Forum has offered a free program of events that illustrate the richness of contemporary work in philosophy, history, culture, language, literature, and the arts....

Posted: March 4, 2026, 1:30 PM

CANCELED: Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture

Due to tomorrow's campus closure for inclement weather, the Department of Philosophy's Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture with Hanna Pickard is canceled.

Posted: February 22, 2026, 10:06 PM