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 Department of Music presents clarinetist Natalie Groom and pianist Hui-Chuan Chen, whose program Composers Unheard, Composers Celebrated spotlights works for clarinet and piano that have been previously under appreciated. The performance will include works by Marie-Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen, a Prussian princess; Mojgan Misaghi, a member of the Iranian Female Composers Association; Ke-Chia Chen, professor at Curtis Institute of Music; Fazil Say, world-renowned Turkish piano soloist; and Gwyneth Walker, a prolific American composer known primarily for her choral works.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the Opening Reception for the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Opening Reception will including a public program featuring Levester Williams, Michelle D. Wright, and Lisa Freiman.
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the early-career survey Levester Williams: all matters aside, an exhibition curated by Lisa D. Freiman, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University. The exhibition presents a selection of the Philadelphia-based conceptual sculptor’s work from the past decade, including sculpture, video, sound art, and installation.
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 Fall 2024 Humanities Forum presents food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist Karla Tatiana Vasquez in conversation with food designer and artist Krystal C. Mack. In 2015, first-generation Salvadoran American, Karla T. Vasquez, began an online project to document recipes like the ones her mother made during her childhood. Over time, the project grew to include not only recipes, but also stories from the women who created them, offering a portrait of life for Salvadoran women both before the civil war and after their arrival in the United States. Vasquez will discuss The SalviSoul Cookbook and her efforts to preserve the food and stories of Salvadoran moms, aunts, grandmothers, and friends.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents Playing with Climate Science: Scenes from a playwright’s CIRCA/IMET Artist Residency, featuring Susan McCully. Actors will read scenes from a new play by McCully focused on climate science and social justice.
"The President's Own" United States Marine Band Brass Quintet joins UMBC music faculty and students for a night of incredible brass music in the annual Brash Bash. The evening will feature a virtuosic set by the Marine Band Brass Quintet that culminates in a performance alongside a large UMBC student/faculty brass ensemble. Collaborative works with the Marine Band Brass Quintet and the UMBC Faculty Brass Quintet will also be performed.
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 annual Webb Lecture features Amanda Herbert, who will speak on Authorship, Authenticity, Erasure: British Atlantic Women’s Recipe Books, 1600–1850. British Atlantic women’s recipe books are crucial historical sources, offering evidence of the consumer and scientific revolutions, the rise of the city, female alliances, networks of knowledge and inquiry, and, perhaps most importantly, women’s authoritative voice. In this talk, Amanda Herbert demonstrates how free white women worked to deliberately erase Black food-workers from their practices of recipe writing, collection, and record-keeping; close reading of ingredients, techniques, and adaptations, however, can help us to recover Black culinary innovations and contributions.
The Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents an arts alumni panel featuring Jack Wojcik ’17, visual arts, and Vagensis ’13, theatre, who will share their post-graduation stories. Attendees are invited to bring questions about professional practices and career-building.
The Department of Music presents the Anansi Trio, a group of like-minded musicians drawing from a wide range of global traditions. With Mark Merella on the hybrid drum kit, Larry Melton on bass, and UMBC's Matt Belzer on saxophones, they create music that is unique and experimental yet remains accessible. The trio's program will feature creative interpretations of works by Daymé Arocena, Nate Smith, and Matt Belzer.
Maryland Humanities developed the One Maryland One Book (OMOB) initiative “to bring together diverse people in communities across the state through the shared experience of reading the same book.” This year's One Maryland One Book is What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy, and UMBC will participate in a statewide conversation about the title, which explores the impact of a 7.0 earthquake on the intersecting lives of a community in Haiti. This book discussion is held in partnership with the Arbutus Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library.
The annual Ancient Studies Week Lecture features Phillip Mitsis of New York University. In reading ancient philosophers, we often face unsettling claims. A case in point is Plato’s view of hatred: he thinks that children must be taught to love the right things and to hate bad things. This talk examines the place of hatred in our moral lives and asks such questions as “Should we hate racism, genocide, sexism, etc., or is there no place for that?”
The Department of Music presents pianist Teodora Adzharova, who will perform a program of works by Michael Hersch and Galina Ustvolskaya. Laureate of numerous national and international competitions, Adzharova has had a career that has taken her to multiple performance venues in the United States, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Macedonia and the Czech Republic.
