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Humanities Forum — Adrian De Leon

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

In this Humanities Forum talk, Adrian De Leon, Assistant Professor, History, New York University, discusses Diaspora’s Boondocks: Hinterlands in Filipino American History. How were the native people from the margins of empire, from Christianized lowlands peasants to sovereign indigenous people in the mountainous highlands, thrust into the center of late Spanish and American imperial projects of race-making across the Pacific? In this talk, Adrian De Leon re-routes the history of Filipino American migration to its indigenous roots in the bundok (Tagalog: the hinterland) of Northern Luzon.

Juan Sebastián Delgado: Imaginary Tangos

216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents cellist Juan Sebastián Delgado, faculty fellow for diversity in the arts, who will discuss Imaginary Tangos: Research, improvisation, and performance practice in contemporary tango music. In this talk, he will discuss and analyze different works featuring the cello by prominent living composers that showcase a distinctive style, musical narrative, and contemporary practices.

Inscape Chamber Orchestra

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

Inscape, praised by The New York Times, as "brilliant," performs a program featuring Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (arranged for chamber orchestra), and Osvaldo Golijov's Tenebrae.

46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture — Nikki M. Taylor

University Center Ballroom

The 46th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture, organized by the Department of Africana Studies, presents Nikki M. Taylor, professor of history at Howard University, who will speak on Seizing Justice with their Own Hands: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance. In this lecture, Taylor contends that enslaved black women carried deep and personal ideas about justice, which they exercised to resist slavery and ultimately end the tyranny of their enslavers. This event is part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum and Humanities Forum.

CANCELED — A Conversation with Jelani Cobb: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today

University Center Ballroom

Jelani Cobb’s riveting, hopeful keynotes are up-to-the-moment meditations and breakdowns of the complex dynamics of race and racism in America. Whether speaking on Black Lives Matter and activism, the battle zones of Ferguson or Baltimore, the legacy of a black presidency, or the implications of the Trump era — or, more generally, on the history of civil rights, violence, and inequality in employment, housing, or incarceration in the US — Cobb speaks with the surety and articulate passion of only our best journalists.

New Bartók Quartet

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

Join us as we embark on a mesmerizing journey through the masterpieces of two renowned composers, Mozart and Bartók, performed by the New Bartók Quartet, comprised of Wanchi Huang and Airi Yoshioka on violins, James Stern on viola, and Eric Kutz on cello. This ensemble of exceptional musicians will enrapture your senses with their skillful interpretation and heartfelt expressions.

UMBC Symphony Orchestra and UMBC String Chamber Orchestra

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra and the UMBC String Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Philip Mann, in a program of music by William Grant Still, Carl Nielsen, Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, Max Bruch, and Arturo Márquez.

UMBC Chamber Players

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of Airi Yoshioka, in a program featuring works by Rachmaninoff, Borodin, and Brahms.

UMBC Gamelan Ensemble

The Music Box

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Gamelan Ensemble under the direction of Michelle Purdy. The ensemble performs on a central Javanese gamelan (a gong-chime orchestra of Indonesia), and also on a Balinese gamelan angklung (one of many types of gong-chime orchestras from the island of Bali, Indonesia).

UMBC Collegium Musicum

The Music Box

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum under the direction of Lindsay Johnson in a program entitled Phat Phancies and other English Ditties. The ensemble will perform a variety of short works in small consort groupings, using viola da gamba, recorder, and drum.

UMBC Camerata

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Camerata under the direction of Lulu Mwangi. A small choral ensemble consisting of auditioned singers from across the university. Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire: including Renaissance motets and madrigals, folksongs, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new American concert works.

Student Composers Recital

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents a concert featuring premieres of works by student composers.

UMBC Wind Ensemble

Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert HallCatonsville, MD, United States

The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Brian Kaufman, in a program of works inspired by the wonders of outer space. Peabody saxophone faculty Doug O’Connor will give the Baltimore premiere of Alexandra Gardner’s new saxophone concerto Time Unfolding. Additional works by Jennifer Jolley, Jim Colonna, Wataru Hokoyama, and Chandler L. Wilson take us on a journey of exploration beyond the “surly bonds of earth.”

Artist Talk: Tommy Kha

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

In conjunction with the exhibition Revisions: Celebrating 50 Years of the UMBC Photography Collections, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through December 15, the Library Gallery presents an artist talk by Tommy Kha, whose work is featured in the show.

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