In conjunction with the exhibition Spectrum of Process, on display from February 9 through March 2, the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents a discussion, Research and Process, featuring faculty and students involved in the “Can You Catch a Deep Fake?” and “Artifacts” research projects.
The Center for Social Science Scholarship, celebrating its fifth year, presents a 5th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture, featuring Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D., who will speak on Putting the Public in Public Health. This event is part of the Spring 2024 Social Sciences Forum.
In conversation with UMBC’s Jason Loviglio, writer and artist Jenny Odell will discuss her recent book, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture, which shows us how our painful relationship to time is inextricably connected not only to persisting social inequities but to the climate crisis, existential dread, and a lethal fatalism. This lecture is part of the Spring 2024 Humanities Forum.
The annual Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality features May Sudhinaraset, who will speak on Structural Inequities in Maternal and Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare: US and Global Contexts. This event is part of the Spring 2024 Social Sciences Forum.
The Center for Social Science Scholarship, celebrating its fifth year, presents a 5th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture, featuring Thomas F. Schaller and Paul Waldman, who will discuss The White Rural Threat to Democracy. This event is part of the Spring 2024 Social Sciences Forum.
The annual Low Lecture features Kevin Dawson, associate professor of history at the University of California, Merced, who will speak on Liquid Motion: Canoeing and Surfing in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444–1888. “Liquid Motion” examines how African women and men perceived, understood, and interacted with oceans and rivers through swimming, underwater diving, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing. Africans inspire us to rethink assumptions about maritime history, by considering maritime traditions that Westerns lacked. Enslaved Africans carried these maritime traditions to the Americas, where they used them to benefit their exploited lives and enslavers exploited them to generate wealth. This event is part of the Spring 2024 Social Sciences Forum.
The annual Lipitz Lecture features Christine Mallinson, who will speak on "What Does Language Do and What Can We Do With It? " This event is part of the Spring 2024 Social Sciences Forum.
How do climate scientists share their research and data with the wider public in a way that non-specialists can understand? How do different communication strategies engage diverse audiences? How might art contribute to this urgent work? This panel discussion is held in conjunction with the spring Library Gallery exhibition, Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone, and features the artist in conversation with scientists and media historians specializing in science communication.
The Social Sciences Forum presents the Distinguished Lecture in Psychology, featuring Raquel Matos of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, who will speak on “A 50 years ‘celebration’: Examining 5 decades of Mass Incarceration and Gender Studies.”
The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Jared DeMarinis, administrator of the Maryland State Board of Elections. The speaker will give remarks and answer questions about the challenges to election administration and integrity posed by political misinformation, ideological polarization, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
The annual Mullen lecture features Heidi Williams, professor of economics at Dartmouth College, who will speak on Innovation and Productivity Policies: a Budgetary Perspective.
The Center for Ethics and Values presents a panel discussion, Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy, featuring Kimi Yoshino, editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Banner, Melissa Block, former host and correspondent for National Public Radio, and Joe Saunders, associate professor of philosophy at Durham University in the United Kingdom.
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.
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.
