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the serpent under’t

Ongoing Event Theatre
All Day • Proscenium Theatre

UMBC Theatre presents the serpent under’t, an experimental dance theatre adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, conceived and directed by Nigel Semaj. Blending movement, dance, and spoken text, this reimagining draws inspiration from horror and the macabre of Edgar Allen Poe. Join us as we explore the shadows of the human psyche where ambition, guilt, and fate intertwine with the supernatural.

View Event – the serpent under’t, Thursday, October 29, 2026

Mary Celenza: Television and Podcast Producer

Visual Arts
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm • 216 Performing Arts and Humanities Building

Mary Celenza, a showrunner, director, and writer with over 25 years of experience in television and audio production, will discuss her extensive career. She is currently the Head of Current and Executive Producer at Treefort Media, where she oversees series for Audible, Wondery, Netflix, and Focus Features.

View Event – Mary Celenza: Television and Podcast Producer, Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Humanities Forum — Nishant Upadhyay: Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity

Humanities
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm • Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Indians on Indian Lands unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.

View Event – Humanities Forum — Nishant Upadhyay: Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity, Thursday, November 5, 2026

Artist roundtable on experimental praxis

Visual Arts
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm • Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC)

In conjunction with Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll, the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents an artist roundtable on experimental praxis moderated by Ernest Shaw in conversation with Ada Pinkston and Lehna Huie.

View Event – Artist roundtable on experimental praxis, Thursday, November 5, 2026

Stephanie J. Williams: Things That Don’t Have Names

Visual Arts
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm • 427 Fine Arts Building

Interdisciplinary visual artist Stephanie J. Williams will tell us about her artistic practice, which bridges sculpture and animation. Her work navigates hierarchies of taste, unpacking how “official” histories are constructed in order to understand contemporary social coding.

View Event – Stephanie J. Williams: Things That Don’t Have Names, Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Social Sciences Forum — Natanya Duncan: Redeemed: Women of the UNIA and Du Bois’ “Damnation of Women”

Humanities
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm • University Center Ballroom

This talk by Natanya Duncan, director of the Africana Studies Program and associate professor of history at Queens College, will examine how the women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) set the stage for W.E.B. Du Bois’ expanded ideas on gender and nation building in the 20th Century.

View Event – Social Sciences Forum — Natanya Duncan: Redeemed: Women of the UNIA and Du Bois’ “Damnation of Women”, Tuesday, November 10, 2026