“A Designed Life,” Re explains, “makes evident the political potential of design to connect people, their activities, experiences, needs and desires, and shape attitudes as it broadens insight into design’s relevance as a tool for diplomacy.” Continue Reading UMBC receives NEA Art Works grant for Margaret Re’s “A Designed Life”
Digital access isn’t an add-on for Hayden, it’s a core part of her mission and that of the library itself. “This is America’s library,” she shared. “This is your library.” Continue Reading UMBC welcomes Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden for conversation on digital access
UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities and College of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences are launching a major new five-year initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the humanities through a $750,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Continue Reading UMBC receives major award to support inclusive excellence in the humanities
“Now more than ever, it is crucial to consider the role of coalitions, forged across boundaries, in practicing public humanities and supporting the work of active and engaged communities,” said Dresher Center Director Jessica Berman, at the event. Continue Reading Baltimore Stories final event focuses on listening to communities, strengthening coalitions
UMBC’s annual Post-Election Forum and W.E.B. DuBois Lecture provided early opportunities for reflection on the results of the 2016 U.S. election, in addition to faculty voices in the local and national media. Continue Reading UMBC faculty guide reflection on the 2016 election through campus events and media
UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities will host a public conversation on October 29 about the importance of coalitions in empowering Baltimore communities toward social change. Continue Reading Empowering Baltimore communities toward social change
The edited volume includes 33 essays from leading Virginia Woolf scholars and approaches her writing from a variety of perspectives. Continue Reading Jessica Berman publishes new book that examines Virginia Woolf in global contexts
Now in its third cohort, UMBC’s Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity program recognizes and supports talented scholars who are emerging as cutting-edge researchers and educators in their fields. UMBC’s newest group of fellows was formally introduced to the university community at a welcome reception held December 10, 2015. Continue Reading UMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity pursue game-changing research
A $225,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities at University of Maryland (UMD) and the Maryland Humanities Council will fund a series of public programs that are designed to explore the way citizens of Baltimore are thinking about the narratives that influence the life and identity of the city. Major partners will include the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. The initiative, Baltimore Stories: Narratives and the Life of an American City (Baltimore Stories), seeks… Continue Reading UMBC is a major partner in NEH grant to transform narratives on race in Baltimore
Note: This story was updated on March 22, 2016. From 1763-1764, nearly 5,000 enslaved people in the Dutch colony of Berbice in South America rebelled. In studying the history of the rebellion on the surface, one might think it fits the pattern of many New World slave revolts. But as Marjoleine Kars discovered, an examination of the judicial records provides a much closer look into the internal dynamics of the rebellion. Kars, associate professor and chair of history, is currently finishing a book about the slave rebellion in Berbice. She recently published a paper based on her research in the February… Continue Reading Marjoleine Kars reveals the untold story of the Atlantic Slave Rebellion in the Dutch Caribbean
At a recent symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden featuring prominent international modernist research, Jessica Berman, director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities and professor of English, presented an invited lecture about her research on transnational movements of people in the development of twentieth century media, with a focus on global radio. Berman’s talk “Radio Relations and Transnational Listening” examined listening in the early days of radio in India. She argued that the diverse nature of the radio environment that used several languages, particularly in programs sent out over the All India Radio airwaves, helped to create a community among the… Continue Reading Jessica Berman presents research at prominent international symposium in Sweden
New Faculty Micro-Talks Tuesday, April 21, 5:30-7 p.m. Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery The Dresher Center for the Humanities, in partnership with The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, invites you to attend an afternoon of short talks by new faculty in the college. Please join us to meet tenure-stream faculty hired in the last two years and to learn about their research. A reception will follow. Schedule of speakers: Maleda Belilgne, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies and English Steph Cesaro, Assistant Professor, English Erin Hogan, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communications Michael Lane, Assistant Professor, Ancient Studies… Continue Reading CAHSS New Faculty Micro-Talks (4/21)
