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SUMMARY:Social Sciences Forum — James Choi: How Much Should I Invest in the Stock Market?
DESCRIPTION:Social Sciences Forum lecture with James Choi\nHow Much Should I Invest in the Stock Market?\nThis annual Mullen Lecture is part of the Fall 2026 Social Sciences Forum \nIt is common to hear advice that you should invest 60% of your portfolio in stocks\, or 100 minus your age percent in stocks\, or all your long-term money in stocks. What does economics have to say about this matter? We will cover the basic approach economic theory takes\, some classic portfolio recommendations\, and new advances in how to adjust your investment allocation in light of the fact that most people’s biggest economic asset is their future wage income and Social Security benefits. \nJames Choi is Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. His primary research is in household finance and behavioral finance; his work on automatic enrollment has led to changes in pension plan design around the world. He has also published research on the effects of social identity and how to use psychology to increase preventive health behaviors. \nProfessor Choi is a two-time recipient of the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security. He has served as a Co-Director of the Retirement and Disability Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research\, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance and Management Science\, and a member of the FINRA Investor Issues Committee and the American Finance Association’s Ethics and Governance Committees. He holds a PhD in economics and an AB in applied mathematics from Harvard University. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is organized by the Department of Economics. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/social-sciences-forum-james-choi-how-much-should-i-invest-in-the-stock-market/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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SUMMARY:Lewis Hine in Maryland — Curatorial Tour and Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a Curatorial Tour and Opening Reception for the exhibition Lewis Hine in Maryland\, on display from August 24 through December 18. The exhibition will be accompanied by Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso. \nFrom 1908 to 1924\, documentary photographer Lewis Hine (American\, 1874–1940) traveled throughout the United States\, using his camera to document child labor on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). He photographed children working in coal mines\, cotton mills\, farms\, tenements\, and city streets. The NCLC used Hine’s photographs and eyewitness reports to support its campaigns for labor regulation and reform. His images appeared in pamphlets\, posters\, traveling exhibitions\, and lantern-slide presentations across the country. Ultimately\, these searing photographs helped shape labor legislation in the United States and established a model for documentary photography. \n\nLisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso \nLewis Hine in Maryland is accompanied by an installation of two works from artist Lisa Oppenheim’s Spine series\, in which she appropriates images by Lewis Hine from the Library of Congress. Enlarged to life size\, the photographs depict the backs of adolescent textile workers whose bodies were curved and misshapen by their labor. Oppenheim has bifurcated each image along the vertical axis of the spine\, emphasizing the physical impact of repetitive work on the body. Lisa Oppenheim/Lewis Hine: Spine/Verso places Oppenheim’s works in dialogue with a selection of photographs from UMBC’s Lewis Hine Collection\, displayed with their versos — or backs — visible to viewers. \nIn 2023\, with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grant\, Special Collections staff undertook a major initiative to rehouse the Lewis Hine photographs and digitize their versos. The backs of the photographs bear captions\, annotations\, and inscriptions by Hine and others employed by the NCLC\, testifying to their use in the organization’s publications and promotional campaigns. Together\, these materials reveal the many forms of labor documented in Hine’s work and the ways that labor is imprinted upon — and remains legible within — the bodies of his subjects. \n \nImage: Lisa Oppenheim\, Correct posture for 4663. Need for advice of examining physician\, 2016. Dye sublimation print on aluminum\, 41 3/4 x 61 1/2 inches; 106 x 156.2 cm (overall). Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery\, New York. \n\nVisitor Information \nAdmission to the opening reception and to the exhibition is free. For driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \n\nTop image: Lewis Wickes Hine\, Marie and Albert Kawalski. 615 S. Bond St.\, Baltimore\, Md.\, 1909. Gelatin silver print\, 5 x 7 in. The Photography Collections\, University of Maryland\, Baltimore County (UMBC)\, P825. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/lewis-hine-in-maryland-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T120000
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SUMMARY:Social Sciences Forum — Lily Qi: The Constitutional Promise of Representation
DESCRIPTION:Social Sciences Forum lecture with Maryland State Delegate Lily Qi\nThe Constitutional Promise of Representation\nThis Constitution Day Lecture is part of the Fall 2026 Social Sciences Forum \nDelegate Lily Qi will deliver remarks on the constitutional promise of representation and the participation of immigrant communities in American democracy\, followed by a moderated discussion. \nDelegate Qi has represented District 15 in Montgomery County since January 2019. She is the first Chinese-born legislator elected to the State House and chairs the Maryland Legislative Asian-American and Pacific-Islander Caucus. \nShe is the author of Elected American: From Red China to Blue Maryland (Temple University Press\, 2026)\, a political memoir and autobiography that explores her journey from Shanghai to the Maryland House of Delegates. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is hosted by the Institute of Politics and is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program\, the Department of Political Science\, the Center for Social Science Scholarship\, and the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/social-sciences-forum-lily-qi-the-constitutional-promise-of-representation/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T173000
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SUMMARY:Erle Ellis — How People Make Nature Better
DESCRIPTION:The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Lipitz Lecture\, featuring Erle Ellis\, professor of geography and environmental systems\, who will speak on How People Make Nature Better: Measuring Progress Toward a World Where People and Nature Thrive Together using the Nature Relationship Index (NRI). \nProfessor Ellis’s research investigates the ecology of human-managed ecosystems at local and global scales towards the goal of informing sustainable stewardship of the biosphere in the Anthropocene. \nAdditional information is forthcoming. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/erle-ellis-how-people-make-nature-better/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T153000
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SUMMARY:Wei Leng Tay: Migratory Paths\, from Photographic Representation to Materiality
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, artist Wei Leng Tay will discuss modes of narrative-making in her art\, taking migration as a central premise. From her beginnings in journalism to her current practice\, she will speak about shifting ideas and uses of representation and materiality in relation to the photographic medium. She will discuss ways migration moves through some of her works\, from topic to medium to form. The Other Shore\, a photographic and interview-based audio work\, tells a story of a new generation of mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong. you think it over slowly\, slowly choose…\, considers statelessness through the materiality of the photograph. Works in Untitled (family slides 60s–70s) question how the objecthood of photographs shape the ways personal and collective memory converge\, and how photographs can constitute ideas of history. Through these examples\, Tay will surface the complex relationships between history\, embodiment\, and representation entangled with the photographic image. \n\nBased in Singapore\, artist Wei Leng Tay works across photography\, video\, and installation and explores constructions of identity\, memory\, and history through her practice. Her works draw on long-term engagements with individuals\, families\, and communities\, and include research into photographic archives\, interviews\, and collaborative processes. Central to her practice is a sustained inquiry into the medium of photography through its materiality\, modes of circulation\, and communicative possibilities. By working at the intersection of the intimate and the structural\, Tay unpacks the complexities of belonging\, displacement\, and the politics of representation\, bringing attention to what it means to be human within today’s shifting political and cultural contexts. \nOriginally trained in biology at McGill University\, Tay’s early professional experience was in photojournalism\, working as a photo editor and photographer for news organisations such as TIME Magazine’s Asia edition in Hong Kong. This background continues to inform her inquiry into the instrumentalization of photography and the politics of image-making. Tay later completed her MFA at Bard College and has since developed a practice that bridges research\, pedagogy\, and collaboration. She was most recently a lecturer of art practice at Yale-NUS College and remains invested in teaching as a form of knowledge exchange and artistic inquiry. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis artist talk is supported by the Department of Visual Arts and CIRCA\, with additional support from the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery\, the Asian Studies Program\, the Center for Art\, Design\, and Visual Culture (CADVC)\, and the Global Asias Initiative. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/wei-leng-tay-migratory-paths-from-photographic-representation-to-materiality/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Forum — Orianne Smith: Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft\, Revolution and the Female Demonic
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Forum Lecture with Orianne Smith\nRomanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft\, Revolution and the Female Demonic\nThis event is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum \nThe Humanities Forum presents Orianne Smith\, professor of English at UMBC\, who will speak on Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft\, Revolution and the Female Demonic. \nThe Romantic-era witch was a remarkably flexible symbol of political and social disorder. The recent seventeenth-century witch hunts had already revealed deep anxieties about the subversive potential of women\, and the witches who stalk the pages of Gothic poetry and prose or glare menacingly from works of art by Henry Fuseli and William Blake embody revolutionary anger and the possibility of radical social transformation. Despite the fears surrounding such figures\, however\, the Romantic period also saw witchcraft open up in conceptually new ways\, enabling writers and artists to envision alternative means of interacting in the world that were not predicated on the subordination of women and other marginalized groups. Here\, Orianne Smith embarks on an interdisciplinary reimagining of witchcraft\, women’s writing\, religion\, and social reform\, providing original insights on the history of witchcraft and its influence on public discourse\, literature and art. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThe Humanities Forum is presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of English. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/humanities-forum-orianne-smith-romanticism-bewitched-witchcraft-revolution-and-the-female-demonic/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T160000
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SUMMARY:Hanna Garth — Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement
DESCRIPTION:The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality\, featuring Hanna Garth\, assistant professor of anthropology at Princeton University\, who will speak on Food Justice Undone: Lessons for Building a Better Movement. \nFood justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite their best intentions\, they often perpetuate food access inequalities and racial stereotypes. Hanna Garth shows how the movement has been affected by misconceptions and assumptions about residents\, as well as by unclear definitions of justice and what it means to be healthy. Focusing on broad structures and microlevel processes\, Garth reveals how power dynamics shape social justice movements in particular ways. \nDrawing on twelve years of ethnographic research\, Garth examines what motivates people from more affluent\, majority-white areas of the city to intervene in South Central Los Angeles. She argues that the concepts of “food justice” and “healthy food” operate as racially coded language\, reinforcing the idea that health problems in low-income Black and Brown communities can be solved through individual behavior rather than structural change. Food Justice Undone explores the stakes of social justice and the possibility of multiracial coalitions working toward a better future. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is hosted by the Department of Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Public Health\, and is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/hanna-garth-food-justice-undone-lessons-for-building-a-better-movement/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T163000
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SUMMARY:Manil Suri: A Room in Bombay
DESCRIPTION:Manil Suri\, distinguished university professor of mathematics and statistics\, and the author of the forthcoming memoir A Room in Bombay\, is joined by Aditya Desai ’09\, English and media and communication studies\, to discuss the book. \nManil Suri is the author of three internationally acclaimed novels — The Death of Vishnu\, The Age of Shiva and The City of Devi — and a book on popular mathematics\, The Big Bang of Numbers. He has served as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. A passionate promoter of both mathematics and the humanities\, he has motivated audiences worldwide to embrace both\, rather than just one or the other. \nAditya Desai is a writer\, editor\, teacher\, and activist who lives in Baltimore. He also works with several arts and racial justice organizations in Baltimore\, including the CityLit Project\, Baltimore Youth Arts\, and the Asian Pasifika Arts Collective. \n\nAdmission is free\, and a reception will follow the talk. \n\nThis event has been organized by the Asian Studies Program with support from the Global Asias Initiative. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/manil-suri-a-room-in-bombay/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Literary Arts
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Forum — Aisha Beliso-De Jesús: Excited Delirium: Race\, Police Violence\, and the Invention of a Disease
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Forum Lecture with Aisha Beliso-De Jesús\nExcited Delirium: Race\, Police Violence\, and the Invention of a Disease\nThis event is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum \nThe Humanities Forum presents Aisha Beliso-De Jesús\, Olden Street Professor of American Studies and Chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America\, Princeton University\, who will speak on Excited Delirium: Race\, Police Violence\, and the Invention of a Disease. \nIn 1980\, Charles Wetli — a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions — identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon\, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them\, examiners said\, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium\, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria\, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions. Beliso-De Jesús demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing\, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThe Humanities Forum is presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Critical Disability Studies Minor; the Department of Africana Studies; the Department of American Studies; the Dresher Center’s Disability Studies Working Groups in the Humanities; the Latin American Studies Minor; and the Department of Sociology\, Anthropology\, and Public Health. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/humanities-forum-aisha-beliso-de-jesus-excited-delirium-race-police-violence-and-the-invention-of-a-disease/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T173000
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SUMMARY:Amber Spry — The Technological Future: Shifting the Focus from What We Build to Who We Build It For
DESCRIPTION:The Social Sciences Forum presents Amber Spry\, assistant professor in the Departments of Politics and African + African American Studies at Brandeis University\, who will speak on The Technological Future: Shifting the Focus from What We Build to Who We Build It For. \nWe are at a crossroads where the technologies we create today will shape democracy\, work\, and community for years to come. Yet too often\, conversations about artificial intelligence focus on technical capabilities rather than human consequences — on what these systems can do\, rather than who they’re designed to serve. Dr. Amber Spry brings a unique dual perspective as both an academic researcher studying political behavior and identity\, and a practitioner embedded in the tech industry working on responsible innovation. In this talk\, she urges us to consider how the design of AI systems encodes choices about whose values are upheld\, whose intelligence counts\, and whose futures are prioritized. Drawing on her work developing frameworks for algorithmic fairness\, co-designing new technology with communities\, and studying how democratic institutions adapt to technological change\, Dr. Spry explores what it means to create innovation that genuinely serves the public good. She provides a vision for recognizing everyday people as partners in shaping technological futures\, and why making technology responsive to human experience isn’t just an ethical imperative\, it’s essential for creating technology that actually works for the complex\, interconnected world we live in. \n\nAmber Spry is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Politics at Brandeis University. She is a thought leader bridging social scientific insights with application in the tech industry\, most recently as Meta’s Academic Collaborator for Social Impact Research where she led the creation of measurement systems to understand social outcomes across Instagram\, Facebook\, AR and VR applications\, and artificial intelligence. She is a founding member of Meta’s Co-Design Lab\, a central organization that brings everyday people alongside engineers and designers to create new technologies with\, not just for\, the communities who use them. She also convened the Responsible Innovation in AI Workshop in collaboration with the New York Academy of Science and Arizona State University\, which gathered technologists\, academics\, and civil society to create actionable frameworks and guidelines for solving pressing technological challenges. \nSpry’s expertise is in research design and analysis focusing on identity\, beliefs\, and behavior in our social\, political\, and digital lives. Her forthcoming book Identity Inventory: What Group Ties Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About Politics argues that measurement matters for our understanding of identity politics in the US. She uses innovative survey design methods to observe identity across multiple dimensions\, demonstrating that our inferences about what groups want from the government can shift depending on how individuals are asked to self-identify. Her work has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and the National Science Foundation. \nSpry holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University\, and she is a proud alumna of UMBC where she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Media and Communications Studies. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis is event is hosted by Center for Social Science Scholarship\, with support from the Division of Research and Creative Achievement and the Department of Media & Communication Studies. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/amber-spry-the-technological-future-shifting-the-focus-from-what-we-build-to-who-we-build-it-for/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T170000
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SUMMARY:Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 — Public Program
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81\, on display at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery through May 22\, the Library Gallery presents a public program featuring Kaitlin Booher (William and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography\, Columbus Museum of Art) and Holly Avella (assistant professor of media studies and data analytics\, UMBC). \nBefore her appointment to the Columbus Museum of Art\, Kaitlin Booher served as the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art\, where she worked on a wide range of photography exhibitions and collection installations. With a background in psychology and counseling\, Holly Avella’s current work focuses on digital mental health and therapeutic platforms\, including AI and social media. \n\nAdmission is free\, and the discussion will be followed by a reception. \n\nFor driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \n\nImage: [Tommie peeking out of room window\, Ward 81\, Oregon State Hospital]\, 1976. © Mary Ellen Mark\, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/mary-ellen-mark-ward-81-public-program/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T173000
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SUMMARY:Warren Milteer\, Jr. — Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
DESCRIPTION:The Social Sciences Forum presents the annual Low Lecture\, featuring Warren Milteer\, Jr.\, associate professor of history at The George Washington University\, who will speak on Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era. \nAt the outbreak of the Civil War\, the vast majority of the nation’s people of color were enslaved. Yet nearly half a million of these people were free. For the first time\, Warren Eugene Milteer\, Jr. recounts the story of free people of color in the Civil War era United States. He shows how the nation’s growing divide in the years leading up to the war\, the events of the war itself\, and the policies of the postwar period shaped the lives of free people of color living in various regions of the country. His telling also reflects on the ways free people of color used their voices\, military service\, and political acumen to push for a better version the United States. Calling upon their experiences fighting for equal rights in the prewar years\, free people of color took advantage of the disruption created by the war to lobby for the end of discrimination across nation. \n\nWarren Milteer\, Jr. is a historian of the United States with research interests in early America\, the nineteenth-century U.S.\, the U.S. South\, free people of color\, race\, slavery\, and Native America. His publications include two academic books\, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (2021) and North Carolina’s Free People of Color\, 1715-1885 (2020)\, the independently published Hertford County\, North Carolina’s Free People of Color and Their Descendants (2016)\, as well as articles in the Journal of Social History and the North Carolina Historical Review.  Milteer was the recipient of the Southern Historical Association’s Charles S. Sydnor Award for the best book in Southern history in 2022\, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association’s Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction in 2022\, and the Historical Society of North Carolina’s R. D. W. Connor Award in 2014 and 2016 for the best journal article in the North Carolina Historical Review. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is hosted by the Department of History and co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/warren-milteer-jr-out-of-this-strife-will-come-freedom-free-people-of-color-and-the-fight-for-equal-rights-in-the-civil-war-era/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T190000
DTSTAMP:20260126T204621Z
CREATED:20260126T204621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T204621Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Forum — Jessica Hernandez: Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement
DESCRIPTION:Humanities Forum Lecture with Jessica Hernandez\nGrowing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement\nThis event is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum \nIndigenous scholar\, scientist\, and community advocate\, Jessica Hernandez (Binnizá/Zapotec and Maya Ch’orti’)\, discusses Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement. She offers readers an Indigenous\, Global-South lens on the climate crisis\, delivering a compelling and urgent exploration of its causes—and its costs. Hernandez shares how the impacts of colonial climate catastrophe—from warming oceans to forced displacement of settler ontologies—can only be addressed at the root if we reorient toward Indigenous science and follow the lead of Indigenous peoples and communities. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThe Humanities Forum is presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship; the Department of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems; and the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/humanities-forum-jessica-hernandez-growing-papaya-trees-nurturing-indigenous-roots-during-climate-displacement/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260217T220156Z
CREATED:20260217T220156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T220156Z
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SUMMARY:Melanie Killen — Creating Inclusive Classrooms in Childhood: Theory\, Research\, and Applications
DESCRIPTION:The Social Sciences Forum presents a lecture by Melanie Killen\, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, who will speak on Creating Inclusive Classrooms in Childhood: Theory\, Research\, and Applications. \nDevelopmental science perspectives on social exclusion provide a window into determining how to reduce social inequalities and increase positive social relationships. Children begin to understand concepts of fairness and equality early and recognize that social groups often exclude others for unfair reasons. Challenging groups to be more inclusive is costly\, however\, and may result in exclusion from their group which provides protection\, safety\, and enjoyment. Facilitating positive cross-group friendships helps reduce “in-group vs. out-group” attitudes which are a salient part of why biases form in the first place. The negative consequences of experiencing social exclusion based on group identity include depression\, anxiety\, and social withdrawal. This necessitates action to promote healthy child development and a more inclusive society. In this talk\, Killen will discuss her recent research findings on children’s viewpoints about fairness and social exclusion. Then she will discuss their school-based program called Developing Inclusive Youth. Her team is currently creating an AI-powered Teacher App to accompany the program\, which she will describe during the talk. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is hosted by the Department of Psychology and co-sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship and the Department of Education. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/melanie-killen-creating-inclusive-classrooms-in-childhood-theory-research-and-applications/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T200412Z
CREATED:20260127T200412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T200412Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 — Curator Tour and Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a Curator Tour and Opening Reception for Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81\, a photography exhibition on display from January 26 through May 22. \nIn 1976\, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark and sociologist Karen Folger Jacobs spent thirty-six days living in the Oregon State Hospital\, where they photographed the residents of Ward 81\, the hospital’s all-female\, high-security psychiatric unit. Their unprecedented access allowed them to create a deeply nuanced portrayal of women navigating psychiatric care in the mid-1970s. Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 brings together Mark’s photographs\, Jacobs’s newly uncovered audio recordings\, and rare archival materials\, offering an intimate and expanded view of this landmark documentary project. \n\nVisitor Information \nAdmission is free. For driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \nLibrary Gallery hours:\nMonday\, Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nThursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.\nSaturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. \n\nImage: Mary Ellen Mark\, [Mona and Beth in the shower\, Ward 81\, Oregon State Hospital\, Salem\, Oregon\, USA]\, 1976. © Mary Ellen Mark\, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/mary-ellen-mark-ward-81-curator-tour-and-opening-reception/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260127T195926Z
CREATED:20260127T194532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260127T195926Z
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SUMMARY:Social Strategies: Practice\, Reflection\, Archive
DESCRIPTION:How can we collect\, preserve\, and learn from art practices that aren’t primarily “objects” — projects that live in relationships\, events\, conversations\, care work\, and civic collaboration? This panel will open with a brief introduction to social practice as a contemporary art form and consider why archives\, memory\, and data are central when the work is ephemeral\, community-based\, or resistant to being “captured.” In a moderated discussion\, participants will consider what counts as evidence\, who gets to tell the story\, what gets kept or lost\, and how physical archives and digital collections might support community accountability — not just institutional storage. \nDiscussants will include Chloë Bass\, Jen de los Reyes\, Pablo Helguera\, Abigail Satinsky\, Daniel Tucker\, Dan S. Wang\, and Stephanie Smith. The event will be introduced by Rebecca Uchill and Stephanie Smith\, and moderated by Beth Saunders. For bios and other information about the participants\, please visit here. \nThis program corresponds with “Social Strategies\,” a collaborative research project organized by Center for Art\, Design\, and Visual Culture\, and is hosted and co-sponsored by the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. \n\nAttendees can enjoy the exhibition in the Library Gallery\, Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81. \n\nAdmission is free. For driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \n\nThe event is supported by the Orser Center for the Public Humanities\, and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences and the Citizens of Baltimore County.
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/social-strategies-practice-reflection-archive/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260523
DTSTAMP:20260519T144242Z
CREATED:20260120T152853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260519T144242Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81
DESCRIPTION:The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81\, a photography exhibition on display from January 26 through May 22. \nIn 1976\, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark and sociologist Karen Folger Jacobs spent thirty-six days living in the Oregon State Hospital\, where they photographed the residents of Ward 81\, the hospital’s all-female\, high-security psychiatric unit. Their unprecedented access allowed them to create a deeply nuanced portrayal of women navigating psychiatric care in the mid-1970s. Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 brings together Mark’s photographs\, Jacobs’s newly uncovered audio recordings\, and rare archival materials\, offering an intimate and expanded view of this landmark documentary project. \nAn opening reception and curatorial tour will be held on Thursday\, February 12\, at 5 p.m. \nA public program featuring Kaitlin Booher (William and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography\, Columbus Museum of Art) and Holly Avella (assistant professor of media studies and data analytics\, UMBC) will be held on Thursday\, April 2\, at 5 p.m. \nRead the review by Jack Livingston in BmoreArt\nRead the review by Rona Kobell in The Banner \n\nVisitor Information \nAdmission is free. For driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \nLibrary Gallery hours:\nMonday\, Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nThursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.\nSaturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. \n\nImage: Mary Ellen Mark\, [Laurie in the Bathtub\, Ward 81\, Oregon State Hospital\, Salem\, Oregon\, USA]\, 1976. © Mary Ellen Mark\, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/mary-ellen-mark-ward-81/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000
DTSTAMP:20251209T190500Z
CREATED:20250722T134939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190500Z
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SUMMARY:Picturing Mobility — Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with the exhibition the exhibition Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era\, on display from September 2 through December 19\, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents a panel discussion with Corey Lewis\, Ashley Minner Jones\, Oyinda Omoloja\, Elizabeth Patton\, and Beth Saunders. The conversation will be moderated by Sophia Blessit-Sottileo\, Dean and Vice Provost of the AOK Library & Gallery. \nPicturing Mobility explores what it meant to seek leisure and travel as a Black American during the Jim Crow era. The exhibition features snapshots and travel ephemera of Black leisure experiences primarily from the mid-Atlantic during the 1920s to 1960s. From beach outings to family road trips\, these images offer glimpses into everyday moments of happiness\, relaxation and community\, challenging dominant narratives that define the era solely through restriction and struggle. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on the emotional power of these images of Black resistance and mobility. \nExplore more about the Picturing Mobility exhibition. \n\n\nThe presentation of this exhibition and its public programs is supported by the Arts+ Initiative; the College of Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences; and an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council\, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund\, as well as individual contributors. \n\nImage: Mildred Grossman\, Gloria Ray on amusement ride at Coney Island\, New York\, NY\, 1958. Gelatin silver print. Mildred Grossman collection\, The Photography Collections\, UMBC (P89-25-176).
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/picturing-mobility-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T173000
DTSTAMP:20251209T190503Z
CREATED:20251031T165400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190503Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Dark Times: The Uses and Abuses of History in an Authoritarian Era
DESCRIPTION:Robert K. Webb Lecture\nDaniel Steinmetz-Jenkins\, Wesleyan University\nPart of the Fall 2025 Humanities Forum \nUntil recently\, the history profession has expressed skepticism about using history to understand contemporary events. Fear of political bias\, anachronism and simply bad historical comparisons were behind such skepticism. Moreover\, there were concerns that doing the history of the present would cause students to lose interest in the distant historical past–a worry inseparable from the drop in number of students majoring in history. On these grounds so called “presentism” was considered anathema to the discipline. However\, Brexit\, Covid 19\, and the current political turn toward authoritarianism\, have led to an explosion of historical works attempting to make sense of the booming buzzing confusion of the present moment. At the same time\, many historians have excelled at using historical comparisons to illuminate the current order of things. This lecture explains the origins of the recent turn to the present in the professional study of history\, while looking at its promises and perils for the field. \n\nDaniel Steinmetz-Jenkins is an Assistant Professor in the College for Social Studies at Wesleyan University. He runs an interview series for The Nation. His book\, Impossible Peace\, Improbable War: Raymond Aron and World Order\, is forthcoming from Yale University Press. \n\nAdmission is free. \nThe annual Robert K. Webb lecture is organized by the Department of History\, and is co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/daniel-steinmetz-jenkins-dark-times-the-uses-and-abuses-of-history-in-an-authoritarian-era/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T143000
DTSTAMP:20251209T190507Z
CREATED:20251021T171541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190507Z
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SUMMARY:Special Collections Open House
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Library Gallery for a Special Collections open house with Lindsay DiCuirci’s English 243 class! Rare books\, serials\, pamphlets\, and even comics from the historical publications collections in Special Collections will be on display. The student docents will be available to talk with you about each item. Highlights include: \n\na 15th-century Bible with it’s very own wormhole\nstar charts in a 16th-century astronomy book\n19th-century fashion magazines\nand a 20th-century comic book featuring one of Batman’s early adventures\nand more!\n\n\nAdmission is free. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/special-collections-open-house/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T170000
DTSTAMP:20251209T190508Z
CREATED:20251007T162408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190508Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Artists + Archives Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Long before institutions turned their attention to LGBTQ+ archives\, Queer individuals preserved\, shared\, and celebrated their own personal and community histories. Celebrating Archives month and LGBTQ+ History month\, the Queer Artists + Archives Symposium brings together artists\, archivists\, and historians — as well as those working across disciplines — to reflect upon the evolving role of archives in preserving and sharing the stories and histories of Queer artists. Participants include Rahne Alexander\, Alexander D’Agostino\, Leslie Cozzi\, Kate Drabinski\, Ben Egerman\, Hunter O’Hanian\, Joseph Plaster\, James Smalls\, and SHAN Wallace. \nThis symposium is held in honor of Amos Badertscher and in celebration of the recent publication Amos Badertscher: Images and Stories (Phaidon\, 2025). \n\nThe Queer Artists + Archives Symposium is free and open to the public. \nRegistration is required. Please complete the registration form by October 20\, 2025; requests after this date will be accommodated when possible. \nRefreshments and lunch will be provided. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/queer-artists-archives-symposium/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251016T173000
DTSTAMP:20251209T190512Z
CREATED:20251007T163802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190512Z
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SUMMARY:Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire
DESCRIPTION:Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire\nBanu Subramaniam\, Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies\, Wellesley College\nPart of the Fall 2025 Social Sciences Forum \nHow 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. \n\nBanu Subramaniam is the Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist\, Banu engages the feminist studies of science in the practices of experimental biology and is author of Botany of Empire (2024)\, Holy Science (2019) and Ghost Stories for Darwin (2016). \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nThis event is organized by the Department of Gender\, Women’s\, + Sexuality Studies\, and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship\, the Dresher Center for the Humanities\, and the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems. \n\nPhoto courtesy of the speaker. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/migrant-ecologies-plant-worlds-and-the-afterlives-of-empire/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Social Sciences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T173000
DTSTAMP:20251209T190513Z
CREATED:20250928T224125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190513Z
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SUMMARY:Disability and the Ideal in Archaic Greek Art
DESCRIPTION:Ancient Studies Week Lecture with Debby Sneed\, California State University Long Beach\nPart of the Fall 2025 Humanities Forum \nDisability and the Ideal in Archaic Greek Art \nThe 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 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. This sculpture represents a dwarf woman\, likely the daughter of a married couple whose names are preserved on the inscribed base. Altogether\, this sculpture and its base represent the best-attested dedication from the Acropolis in the Archaic period\, and yet it remains largely unknown to students of ancient Greek art because of the difficulties art historians have had placing her\, with her body\, into preconceived ideas about ideal Greek representations. With an approach informed by theories developed in the field of disability studies\, we can reassess this sculpture and\, with it\, our understandings of ancient Greek art\, display\, and dedication in 6th century BCE Athens. \n\nDebby Sneed is Assistant Professor of Classics at California State University\, Long Beach and Field Supervisor of the Athenian Agora excavations and summer program. She researches physical disability in the ancient Greek world and advocates for accessibility in the modern fields of Classics and Archaeology. \n\nAdmission is free. \n\nCo-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Critical Disability Studies Minor. \n\nPhoto: Sean DuFrene / Photographer\, Strategic Communications\, California State University\, Long Beach
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/disability-and-the-ideal-in-archaic-greek-art/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Humanities,Visual Arts
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251220
DTSTAMP:20251209T190517Z
CREATED:20250714T161049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T190517Z
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SUMMARY:Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era
DESCRIPTION:The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents the exhibition Picturing Mobility: Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era\, on display from September 2 through December 19. \nPicturing Mobility explores what it meant to seek leisure and travel as a Black American during the Jim Crow era. The exhibition features snapshots and travel ephemera of Black leisure experiences primarily from the mid-Atlantic during the 1920s to 1960s. From beach outings to family road trips\, these images offer glimpses into everyday moments of happiness\, relaxation and community\, challenging dominant narratives that define the era solely through restriction and struggle. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on the emotional power of these images of Black resistance and mobility. \nExplore more about the Picturing Mobility exhibition. \n\nPublic Programs \nFriday\, September 19\, 5 p.m. — Join us for a curatorial talk with Elizabeth Patton\, chair and associate professor of media and communication studies at UMBC\, followed by an opening reception. \nThursday\, December 4\, 5 p.m. — Join us for a panel discussion with Corey Lewis\, Ashley Minner Jones\, Oyinda Omoloja\, Elizabeth Patton\, and Beth Saunders. The conversation will be moderated by Sophia Blessit-Sottileo\, Dean and Vice Provost of the AOK Library & Gallery. \n\nVisitor Information \nAdmission to Picturing Mobility and the public program is free. For driving directions and parking information\, please visit here. \nLibrary Gallery hours:\nMonday\, Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nThursday: 12 p.m. – 7 p.m.\nSaturday and Sunday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m. \nPlease note — The Library Gallery will be closed from Wednesday\, November 26\, through Saturday\, November 29. \n\n\nThe presentation of this exhibition and its public programs is supported by the Arts+ Initiative; the College of Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences; and an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council\, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support comes from the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund\, as well as individual contributors. \n\nImage: Addison Scurlock\, Picnic\, #78\, [Highland Beach\, Maryland]\, c. 1931\, printed 1982. Gelatin Silver Print\, The Photography Collections\, UMBC (P82-17-014). \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/picturing-mobility-black-tourism-and-leisure-during-the-jim-crow-era/
LOCATION:Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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