The Center for Ethics and Values presents Energy Wars at Home and Abroad: A conversation with Andrew Light, Philosopher and Former Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the Department of Energy (2021–2025). The conversation will be moderated by Blake Francis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Context of Science and Technology Program.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents a panel discussion, Entrepreneurship for Social Impact in the Arts and Humanities. Entrepreneurship is often defined as the process of identifying, developing, and bringing a new venture to life, often involving innovation, risk-taking, and the creation of economic value. This panel will highlight the entrepreneurial work of UMBC arts and humanities faculty in both their research and teaching.
The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC) presents Pedagogy Study Hall, a collaborative exhibition, research project, and public humanities residency by interdisciplinary artist Tomashi Jackson and policy analyst and economic advocate Nia K. Evans. The project examines systems of investment and disinvestment in the arts and humanities as reflections of broader civic and economic structures. Drawing on Baltimore’s grassroots history of cultural labor and social justice organizing, Pedagogy Study Hall offers a multilayered model for public memory, artistic research, and civic pedagogy.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble, directed by Matthew Belzer, in a program of music by Charles Mingus, Quincy Jones, Pat Metheny, Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Wheeler, and Fred Sturm.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Mel Chin, known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that enlist science as an aesthetic component to developing complex ideas. Chin's work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Museum of Modern Art, High Museum of Art, the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University. He was the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant.
The study of Greek art is heavily influenced by the notion of the ideal and idealized human body, which has long been assumed to exclude various aspects of bodily difference and disability. In this Humanities Forum talk, Debby Sneed will present a marble sculpture of a korē (maiden) that was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis in the late 6th century BCE.
Join us for two evenings of cutting edge modern dance as the Department of Dance presents Baye & Asa, who have presented their work at The Joyce Theater, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Jacob’s Pillow, Pioneer Works, Guggenheim Works & Process, and the American Dance Festival. Named one of Dance Magazine’s "25 to Watch" in 2022, they were recipients of Dance Magazine’s 2023 Harkness Promise Award.
The Department of Music presents the Livewire 15: Blazing Trails new music festival. Through concerts and other events, Livewire celebrates the innovators, the brave, the experimental, the “firsts”: the trail blazers. The festival features music by composer in residence Zosha Di Castri in addition to works by Julius Eastman, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, George Lewis, Joan Tower, Alison Knowles, John Cage, Beyoncé, David Baker, Jennifer Higdon, Myroslav Skoryk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and others, performed by RUCKUS, Ensemble Bravura, and other noted musicians.
How have histories of colonialism and their foundational language of gender, race, sexuality, and nation shaped the language, terminology, and theories of the modern plant sciences? How and why do botanical theories remain grounded in the violence of their colonial pasts? In wrestling with these difficult origins, Subramaniam develops the concept of migrant ecologies to retheorize plant migration and reproductive biology. She explore new biological frameworks that harness the power of feminist thought in order to reimagine and reinvigorate our love of plants.
The Livewire 15: Blazing Trails new music festival presents RUCKUS, the faculty ensemble in residence at UMBC, in a concert of works by Zosha Di Castri, Sofia Gubaidulina, Tania León, George Lewis, and Joan Tower.
For the second evening of the Livewire 15 new music festival, the RUCKUS ensemble is joined by UMBC affiliate faculty to present Julius Eastman’s concert-length work, Femenine.
How often do you get a chance to eat a work of art? RUCKUS presents a lunchtime performance of Alison Knowles’s groundbreaking Fluxus work, Proposition #2: Make a Salad. In a radical turn away from the conventions of classical music, Knowles frames the concert experience around a simple, everyday act. The performers will trade their instruments for whisks, knives, and colanders, and every audience member will be served.
With characteristic elan and virtuosity, Ensemble Bravura and conductor Philip Mann present a multifaceted and eclectic Livewire 15 festival finale exploring human interconnection, with works by David Baker, Jennifer Higdon, Miroslav Skoryk, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Joan Tower.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Rowan Bathhurst, Kei Ito, and Rachel Stein in a conversation about Climate Change through Science-Informed Art. This event will take place at The Crow's Nest in downtown Baltimore, where all three artists are in residence.
Join the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery for a special event honoring the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance. We invite you to read selections of prose and poetry from various writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Samples will be provided, however, readers are encouraged to bring any selections of their choosing.