Jean Fernandez, English, Presents at “Ten Chairs”

Apr 9, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Jean Fernandez, English, delivered an invited talk on Reading Chairs as a panelist for the Baltimore Museum of Art’s exhibition event “Ten Chairs.” The panel consisted of a cross-disciplinary group of thinkers who addressed one of the chairs in the collection as seen though the eyes of their discipline. Speakers included Bill Leslie, Johns Hopkins University, Madeline Dobie, Columbia University, Melanie Adley, University of Pennyslvania and Arthur Molella, Smithsonian Insititution.

Humanities Forum: An Artist’s Life at the Border: Critical Partnerships with Science, History, and the Community (4/16)

Apr 9, 2015 / 2 minutes of reading

Thursday, April 16 5:30 – 7 PM Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Liz Lerman, choreographer, performer, writer and educator What happens to our various fields of study and action when we collaborate across disciplines and domains? What research methods do we employ in concert and separately that lead to problem solving? How does sharing these creative research ideas sustain inquiry, innovation, and the emergence of new knowledge? In this talk, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellow choreographer, performer, writer, and educator Liz Lerman will investigate her partnerships with collaborators across disciplines and around the world. She will explore the ways these collaborations… Continue Reading Humanities Forum: An Artist’s Life at the Border: Critical Partnerships with Science, History, and the Community (4/16)

Anna Shields, MLLI, to Present Talk at the Library of Congress (4/16)

Apr 8, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

On April 16, Anna Shields, associate professor of Chinese, will present a talk on her new book One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China (Harvard University Press, 2015). In the book, Shields shares her research on the friendship among writers in the mid-Tang era (780s-820s). According to the book’s website, Shields found that “their texts reveal the ways that friendship intersected the public and private realms of experience and, in the process, reshaped both.” Professor Shields is the author of another book on medieval Chinese literature: Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Collection from… Continue Reading Anna Shields, MLLI, to Present Talk at the Library of Congress (4/16)

Anne Rubin, History, on Tulsa Public Radio

Apr 8, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

As the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War approaches, Anne Rubin was a guest on Tulsa Public Radio’s “Studio Tulsa” program on April 1 discussing her book Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory (UNC Press 2014). Rubin, an associate professor of history, shared her research which examined the stories and myths about Sherman’s March to the Sea. “I started this project really under the spell of the mythologizing of Sherman’s March,” Rubin said, “…so much about what we think of the American Civil War, even today, is very Virginia-centric…and I do think once you shift… Continue Reading Anne Rubin, History, on Tulsa Public Radio

Robert Provine, Psychology, in the Baltimore Sun

Apr 7, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

In response to new research from Johns Hopkins University, Psychology Research Professor and Professor Emeritus Robert Provine was interviewed for an article in the Baltimore Sun discussing his research on human social behavior and attractiveness. The Johns Hopkins study found that human perception of attractiveness may be fluid, contagious, and often influenced by what is generally considered attractive by others. In the article, Provine said that it is fashion that is shifting constantly, rather than an evolutionary standard of beauty in culture. He noted that people don’t realize they are frequently pushed to like something new and different. “We are not always captain… Continue Reading Robert Provine, Psychology, in the Baltimore Sun

Mill Stories to be Screened at International Film Festivals

Apr 7, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

A film by Bill Shewbridge and Michelle Stefano has been selected to be screened at several prestigious film festivals in May and June. Produced by Shewbridge, professor of the practice of media and communication studies, and Stefano, visiting assistant professor of American studies, Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill is a documentary based on the stories gathered through the “Mill Stories” project. The project seeks to document the sociocultural impacts of industrial decline and help amplify the voices of those affected by it in the Baltimore region. The documentary has been selected to screen at three upcoming film festivals: the 14th Royal… Continue Reading Mill Stories to be Screened at International Film Festivals

Lia Purpura, English, to Present Reading at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (4/10)

Apr 6, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

English Writer in Residence Lia Purpura is scheduled to present readings from her new book It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts on Friday, April 10 at 8 p.m. The reading will be part of an event with the Poulenc Trio, a Baltimore-based wind trio that has been presenting virtuosic performances for over a decade. Purpura, whose work frequently appears in New Yorker magazine, will pair excerpts from her forthcoming book with a new arrangement for the Trio of Alfred Schnittke’s Suite in the Old Style. For more information on the event, click here. Update: On… Continue Reading Lia Purpura, English, to Present Reading at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts (4/10)

Felipe Filomeno, Political Science, Awarded Early Career Prize from the Latin American Studies Association

Mar 31, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Felipe Filomeno, an assistant professor of political science, has been awarded the Early Career Prize of the Economics & Politics Section of the Latin American Studies Association. The award comes in recognition of his article “Patterns of Rule-Making and Intellectual Property Regimes: Lessons from South American Soybean Agriculture”, published in the Journal of Comparative Politics in 2014. Below is a summary of Filomeno’s article: Around 1980, states and corporations from core countries led by the U.S. government started to demand from other countries reforms that increased the scope and strength of private intellectual property rights. The resulting global upward ratchet of intellectual property… Continue Reading Felipe Filomeno, Political Science, Awarded Early Career Prize from the Latin American Studies Association

Humanities Forum: Microscopic War: Fragmenting Vision in Contemporary American Militarism (4/9)

Mar 27, 2015 / 2 minutes of reading

Humanities ForumThursday, April 9 | 4:00 p.m.Rebecca Adelman, Assistant Professor, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Editors manipulate the tiniest elements of digital images to obscure combat atrocities. The U.S. Army invests deeply in a pixelated camouflage pattern that it expects will keep soldiers safely invisible. The NSA disaggregates human targets into miniscule bits of information. These seemingly disparate phenomena comprise a microscopic visual approach to militarization. It is here that Adelman considers the links between pixelized photos of violence committed by American military personnel, the Army’s failed multi-year, multi-billion dollar experiment with ‘digital’ camouflage, and the NSA’s… Continue Reading Humanities Forum: Microscopic War: Fragmenting Vision in Contemporary American Militarism (4/9)

Social Sciences Forum: Ecological Encounters on the Upper Missouri: The Making of Mandan Indian History (4/8)

Mar 27, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

Social Sciences Forum Wednesday, April 8 | 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth Fenn, Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Elizabeth Fenn’s lecture tells the story of North Dakota’s Mandan Indians, widely known for hosting Lewis and Clark during the winter of 1804-1805. The challenges the Mandans faced included epidemics of smallpox and whooping cough and invasions of Norway rats, which diminished Mandan numbers from more than 12,000 in 1500 to fewer than 300 in 1838. In this talk, Fenn will be speaking about her recent book, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History… Continue Reading Social Sciences Forum: Ecological Encounters on the Upper Missouri: The Making of Mandan Indian History (4/8)

Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (3/31)

Mar 27, 2015 / 2 minutes of reading

For more than a quarter of a century, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has been considered the foremost authority on the American critic and journalist H.L. Mencken as well as the editor of his works. Mencken was born and lived his entire life in Baltimore where he was long associated with the Baltimore Sun papers along with editing two of the nation’s most distinguished literary magazines – The American Mercury and The Smart Set. He was also the author of The American Language. Ms. Rodgers is the author of a critically acclaimed biography – “Mencken: The American Iconoclast” – published by Oxford… Continue Reading Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (3/31)

String Octets (4/2)

Mar 25, 2015 / 1 minute of reading

On Thursday, April 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall, UMBC music faculty and guest join forces with students to perform the titanic Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 by Felix Mendelssohn, and more rarely heard Octet, Op. posth. by Max Bruch. Featured performers will include UMBC string faculty Christian Tremblay and Airi Yoshioka, violin; Amadi Azikiwe and Nana Gaskins Vaughn, viola; Gita Ladd, cello; Laura Ruas, double-bass; and student performers Ariel Byrd and Erika Koscho, violin; and Michael Bradshaw, cello. Complete information is available by clicking here.

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