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    Social Sciences Forum — Lipitz Lecture — John G. Schumacher

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    The rapid evolution of tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude confronts us with urgent questions: How do we understand and use these tools? How might we integrate these technologies effectively? Where do we set the academic and ethical boundaries for their use? John G. Schumacher's talk, Generative AI and Higher Education: Practical Insights for Today and Tomorrow, will explore the current generative AI landscape, offering practical insights for educators and institutions.

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    The Only Way Out Is Through — Artists Reception

    Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)

    The Intermedia and Digital Arts Master's Program presents The Only Way Out Is Through: The 2025 Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) MFA Thesis Exhibition. On view from March 25 through April 12, the exhibition features work by graduating students McCoy Chance, Ahlam Khamis, Ghazal Mojtahedi, Alexi Scheiber, and Mariia Usova.

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    Thomas Talawa Prestø: Africana Aesthetics and Polycentric Dance

    Dance Technology Studio

    The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA), presents Thomas Talawa Prestø, a pioneer in Africana performance studies and a foremost specialist in polycentric dance technique. As the founder of the internationally acclaimed Tabanka Dance Ensemble, Prestø has performed in over 30 countries and developed the Talawa Technique™, which has significantly enriched the field of dance with over 80 novel terminologies and concepts.

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    Ivalas Quartet

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Shriver Hall Concert Series presents charismatic rising stars the Ivalas Quartet in a program of three works traversing the musical heavens. Osvaldo Golijov took inspiration for his poignant Tenebrae from a planetarium visit with his son. Sparked by a lecture on physics, Eleanor Alberga’s rich and spellbinding quartet explores the ideas of swirling particles and stargazing from outer space. Finally, the group infuses one of Beethoven’s final works with “tremendous heart and beauty” (The Strad).

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    Guitar Fusions

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    Join us for the grand finale of UMBC’s 2025 Guitar Fest, a one-of-a-kind concert presenting guitar artistry across eras, geographies, and traditions. Featuring works ranging from J. S. Bach to Pat Metheny, this concert brings guitarist Felipe Garibaldi performing highlights of the classical and popular repertoires, along with original compositions. He is later joined by jazz guitarist Tom Lagana and classical guitarist Andres Palacios, creating an extraordinary fusion of guitar worlds, promising an unforgettable evening of music.

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    Cockeysville to Baltimore: Levester Williams

    Online

    Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture artist resident Levester Williams was recently featured in all matters aside, a survey exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman. The exhibition featured a selection of works produced during Williams’s artist residency research into the histories and mythologies of Cockeysville marble, a material used in both the Washington Monument in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood and the iconic exterior steps of local rowhomes. On April 1, the CADVC presents a webinar featuring Levester Williams in conversation with sound designer Dan Shields, moderated by Lisa D. Freiman.

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    Melissa Hyatt Foss: Rewilding Sound and Form

    216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

    The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Melissa Hyatt Foss, an instrument-maker, musician, composer-performer, researcher, and teaching artist who develops artistic and educational projects that explore pre-Colonial sound artifacts of the Americas and their applications in contemporary art and music. Foss is the Maryland Traditions Artist-in-Residence at UMBC where she shared her tradition and practice with Linehan Artist Scholars students and is guiding them to develop teaching materials that will enable public school teachers to introduce the practice, history, and cultural significance of clay instrument making to their students.

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    John Proctor is the Villain

    Proscenium Theatre

    UMBC Theatre presents John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower, directed by Susan Stroupe. In a high school English class, a group of lively teens are studying “The Crucible” while navigating young love, sex education, and the founding of a feminist club. Holding a contemporary lens to the American classic, the kids uncover more than one school scandal and discover their own power in the process. Alternately touching and bitingly funny, this new comedy runs on pop music, fury, and the audacity of a new generation coming-of-age.

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    Social Sciences Forum — Distinguished Lecture in Psychology — Gordon C. Nagayama Hall

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    The mental health needs of people of color are largely invisible because they underutilize mental health services and are not the focus of research. Neuroscience data suggest that pragmatic, problem-solving approaches are the most personally relevant for Asian Americans, the least likely ethnic group to use mental health services. In this talk, Gordon Hall will discuss the development of the Mind Boba app to make psychotherapy more personally relevant and accessible to Asian Americans.

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    David Russell, classical guitar

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents classical guitarist David Russell, who is world renowned for his superb musicianship and inspired artistry, having earned the highest praise from audiences and critics alike. Russell appears regularly at prestigious halls in main cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Madrid, Toronto, and Rome. Russell received a Grammy award for his CD “Aire Latino” in the category of best instrumental soloist in classical music.

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    Tomashi Jackson and Nia Evans: “Pedagogy Study Hall” — Structures of cultural support

    Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street, Baltimore

    The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosts an Exploratory Research Residency that invites artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. In 2025, CADVC hosts Tomashi Jackson’s “Pedagogy Study Hall” project as part of this program, which, in collaboration with policy analyst and economic advocate Nia Evans, will host a series of intermedia series of public discussions about investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities, looking to Baltimore as a critical case study in grassroots organizing in a system of gross structural inequity. The event will be a conversation about structures of cultural support with Ryan Patterson, Nick Hartigan, and Denise Griffin Johnson.

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    The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

    Fine Arts Recital Hall

    The Center for Ethics and Values presents a discussion, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, featuring three panelists — Kathy Baxter, Principal Architect of Ethical AI Practice at Salesforce; David Danks, Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, & Policy, UC San Diego; and Gabriella Waters, Director of Operations and Director of the Cognitive and Neurodiversity AI Lab (CoNA) at the Center for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems, Morgan State University. The conversation will be moderated by Blake Francis.

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    Humanities Forum — Tommy Orange — Canceled

    Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

    In this Humanities Forum talk, award-winning author Tommy Orange will converse with community-based visual artist and folklorist Ashley Minner Jones (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) about his recent novel, Wandering Stars. A follow-up to his bestselling debut, There There, Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family.

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    Humanities Forum — Nicole R. Fleetwood

    Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    In this Humanities Forum talk, Nicole R. Fleetwood emerges from her current book project, Between the River and the Railroad Tracks, part memoir and part cultural history of growing up in Hamilton, Ohio. Her exploration of her hometown is a lens to meditate on the cultural life and labor of the Black Midwest through its music, art, and community practices.

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    Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene

    011 Fine Arts Building

    The Department of Visual Arts presents a talk by multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer Ada Pinkston: The Aesthetics of Truth in a Post Truth Science Fiction or Remixing Public Memory Towards the End of the Anthropocene, inspired by musical selections including Triptych by Max Roach.

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