Upcoming Events

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Apr
22

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...

Apr
17

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...

Apr
9

Eating Shawarma and Samosas

Building Community with Bmore’s Refugee/Immigrant Foodways

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

April 9, 2019, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Description

The Mera Kitchen Collective is a community-driven, food-based cooperative focused on empowerment of refugee and immigrant women. Members of the Baltimore-based collective will talk about their...