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SUMMARY:Janet Echelman: Radical Softness
DESCRIPTION:Internationally recognized artist Janet Echelman will present her groundbreaking work\, which seamlessly merges sculpture\, architecture\, and urban design with fields like engineering\, material science\, and computer science. Her building-scale experiential sculptures\, crafted from materials such as knotted fiber and atomized water\, are designed to transform with the movement of wind and light\, offering viewers an immersive environment to inhabit rather than just an object to observe. By blending traditional craft with modern computational software and performance elements like choreographed dancers\, Echelman combines ancient craft with original computational design software to create artworks that have become focal points for urban life on five continents. \nOprah ranked Echelman’s work #1 on her List of 50 Things That Make You Say Wow!\, and received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts in 2014\, honoring “the greatest innovators in America today.” Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellowship\, Harvard Loeb Fellowship\, and Fulbright Lectureship\, Echelman was named an Architectural Digest Innovator for “changing the very essence of urban spaces.” Her TED talk Taking Imagination Seriously has been translated into 35 languages with more than two million views. \nThis event is presented by UMBC’s Center for Innovation\, Research\, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA). \n\nJanet Echelman’s educational path has been nonlinear. After graduating from Harvard College\, she lived in a Balinese village for five years\, then completed separate graduate programs in painting and psychology. Tufts University recently awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts for her public artworks\, noting that she never formally studied sculpture or engineering. It was an unexpected loss of her painting materials while on a Fulbright that began her journey from collaborating with fishermen on a beach in India to crafting her monumental fluidly-moving aerial sculptures today\, in urban centers from London\, Madrid\, and Amsterdam\, to Shanghai\, Singapore\, Santiago\, and Sydney. \nEchelman’s permanent commissions have transformed urban environments worldwide\, and include Remembering the Future at the MIT Museum (2025)\, Butterfly Rest Stop in Frisco\, TX (2024)\, Current in Columbus\, OH (2023)\, Bending Arc at the St. Pete Pier in Florida (2020)\, Earthtime Korea in South Korea (2020)\, mist sculpture Pulse (2018) in front of Philadelphia City Hall\, Dream Catcher (2017) on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood\, CA\, Impatient Optimist (2015) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle\, Every Beating Second (2011) at San Francisco International Airport\, Her Secret Is Patience (2009) in downtown Phoenix\, and She Changes (2005) in Porto\, Portugal. \nIn 2025\, Chronicle Books published Radical Softness: The Responsive Art of Janet Echelman\, a 288-page visual compendium of Echelman’s oeuvre which accompanies a traveling mid-career museum retrospective. \n\nAdmission is free. The talk will be followed by a book signing. Please register in advance for this event here. \n\nThe Fine Arts Recital Hall is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building. Free parking for this event is available in nearby Lot 8. \n\nImage: Janet Echelman: Butterfly Rest Stop\, Frisco\, TX\, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Echelman.) \n\n\nThis event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative. This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race\, color\, religion\, sex\, national origin\, or any other protected category under applicable federal law\, state law\, and the University’s nondiscrimination policy. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/janet-echelman-radical-softness/
LOCATION:Fine Arts Recital Hall\, MD
CATEGORIES:All Events,Arts and Culture,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Diffused Eroticisms: Love\, Friendship\, and Bisexuality in the Writings of Iris Murdoch
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Ethics and Values presents Diffused Eroticisms: Love\, Friendship\, and Bisexuality in the Writings of Iris Murdoch\, a conversation featuring Miles Leeson\, Reader in English Literature\, Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre\, University of Chichester\, and Mark Hopwood\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, UMBC. \nWhile she is pre-eminent as one of the twentieth century’s great novelists and philosophers\, Iris Murdoch’s life as a poet has languished in the shadows. Yet throughout her life she wrote\, revised and re-wrote a sizeable collection of poems; publishing some but keeping many private and—ultimately—shut in a chest in her attic. \nTheir recent discovery marks a significant literary event. Ranging over nearly six decades\, these searing\, confessional poems balance craft with playfulness; psychological insight with Murdoch’s own personal feelings. As an autobiographical account\, they are unlike anything else. They shine a new light on Iris Murdoch’s turbulent relationships with men and women\, her decades-long marriage and extraordinary life. \nAt this event\, Miles Leeson—co-editor of the recently released Poems from an Attic (2026)\, a carefully edited collection of Murdoch’s posthumously discovered poems—will discuss Murdoch’s exploration of the boundaries of poetry\, philosophy\, relationships\, and sexuality with Mark Hopwood\, UMBC faculty member and author of the book The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2025). The event will include time for audience discussion and is free and open to all. \n\nMiles Leeson is Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Center at the University of Chichester\, UK. Among his many publications are Murdoch’s edited poems\, Poems from An Attic: The Selected Poems of Iris Murdoch (Penguin\, 2026)\, his essay collection\, Visiting Mrs Bayley and Other Essays (2026) and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Iris Murdoch due from Oxford University Press in 2028. He is the Lead Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review\, the ‘Iris Murdoch Today’ series with Palgrave Macmillan\, and hosts the Iris Murdoch Podcast. \nMark Hopwood is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UMBC. He is the author of The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2025) and co-editor of The Murdochian Mind (2022)\, and teaches classes in ethics\, political philosophy\, 20th century continental philosophy\, and the philosophy of art. \n\nAdmission is free. Advance registration is recommended but not required. \n\nThis event is presented by the Center for Ethics and Values and is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Dresher Center for the Humanities\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Gender\, Women’s\, and Sexuality Studies. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/diffused-eroticisms-love-friendship-and-bisexuality-in-the-writings-of-iris-murdoch/
LOCATION:Fine Arts Recital Hall\, MD
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SUMMARY:Stephen C. Angle: Progressive Confucianism\, Nei-Wai Citizenship\, and the Family
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Ethics and Values presents the Eminent Scholar Lecture\, featuring Stephen C. Angle\, Mansfield Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University\, whose talk is entitled Progressive Confucianism\, Nei-Wai Citizenship\, and the Family. \nIn its most general sense\, progressive Confucianism is the project of critically developing the on-going Confucian tradition in light of insights and challenges from modern thinkers and societies. Two of the core commitments of the tradition are that (1) all people have the inherent possibility of becoming more virtuous\, and our socio-political arrangements should support such growth as much as possible; and (2) internal (or nei) moral growth is inextricably linked to external (or wai) activity\, which is summed up in the regulative ideal of “inner sageliness\, outer kingliness.” In a contemporary\, post-monarchical context\, the most encompassing role for individuals can thus be called nei-wai citizenship. The thesis of this presentation is that playing one’s role within the family is a key aspect of nei-wai citizenship\, and that such a reframing allows us to see filiality in a broader light than most recent discussions. By viewing filial children as not only having particularist care for their parents but also — as citizens — being responsive to the ways more general structures impact their parents (and others’ parents)\, we can both answer some of the most pressing objections to contemporary Confucian-inspired social policies and also offer a compelling update to pre-modern Confucianism’s famous analogy between family and state. \n\nA dessert reception with the speaker will follow the talk. \nAdmission is free\, but registration is recommended. To reserve a seat\, please visit here. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law Program. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/stephen-c-angle-progressive-confucianism-nei-wai-citizenship-and-the-family/
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SUMMARY:Zoë Charlton: Third Watch
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Innovation\, Research\, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Zoë Charlton\, who will speak about the process behind creating Third Watch\, her new public art work featuring illuminated sculptures depicting three pregnant female figures\, inspired by African traditions. The three figures installed at the top of the North Avenue Market in Baltimore watch over the neighborhood and are meant to invoke a sense of peace\, protection\, and light\, qualities that the community hopes to embrace as it moves forward after years of struggle. Third Watch was made possible through a commission from the Inviting Light Initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies to help revitalize the Station North Arts and Entertainment District. Charlton will be joined by Adam Nelson and Peter Karis from Paradise Labs\, the team that she worked with to fabricate the work. \n\nAdmission is free\, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP in advance. \n\nZoë Charlton builds a visual language of assembly through drawing\, collage\, installation\, and animation as ways to bring fragments of history into conversation. Her work explores how identity\, place\, and material culture converge in the figure\, where personal inheritance and memory meet. Across large-scale graphite drawings and layered paper constructions\, she maps the relationship between body and landscape\, inheritance and visibility. Each work becomes a kind of ledger as an account of how objects and histories carry us\, how the past lingers in gesture and surface. Charlton is a Professor of Art and Director of the School of Art at George Mason University\, where she cultivates a culture of care\, inquiry\, and shared leadership within the arts in higher education. From 2003 to 2022\, Charlton taught full-time at American University in Washington\, D.C.\, where she earned tenure in 2009\, chaired the Department of Art (2015–2018)\, and became the first Black American tenured Full Professor in the department. Charlton’s practice extends beyond the studio into collective forms of making and leading. She co-founded ‘sindikit (2016–2022)\, an artist initiative that investigated intersections of art\, gender\, sexuality\, race\, and their economies\, and co-launched as a founding member\, Kindred CRAFT (Kindred Creative Residence + Agro-ForesT) (2022–23)\, a BIPOC and LGBTQIA+–led arts and ecology collective in Vermont. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in public collections including The Phillips Collection\, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. A recipient of Pollock-Krasner and Rubys Grants\, she has also served in public arts leadership roles\, holding two terms on the Maryland State Arts Council (2017–2023) and the Washington Project for the Arts (2018-2025)\, and currently sits on the board of Threewalls\, and serves as a trustee at The Phillips Collection. \n\nParadise Labs is a team of makers\, creators\, and problem-solvers specializing in museum\, zoo\, aquarium exhibit design\, as well as medical simulation assemblies and limited run manufacturing. With decades of experience\, they craft immersive exhibits that inspire curiosity\, spark wonder\, and connect people with the natural world. Whether it’s building larger-than-life sculptures\, crafting intricate habitats\, or designing hands-on interactive experiences\, Paradise Labs believe in the power of storytelling through design. \n\nImage: Zoë Charlton\, Third Watch\, photo by Side A Photography. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/zoe-charlton-third-watch/
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SUMMARY:Humanities Forum — Hanna Pickard
DESCRIPTION:Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture with Hanna Pickard\nWhat Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? A Philosophy of Addiction\nThis event\, rescheduled from February 23\, is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum \nAddiction science is at an impasse. Rates of addiction remain high. Translational results from decades of research conducted within the dominant brain disease paradigm are shockingly meager. Meanwhile\, theories of addiction multiply and compete\, fomenting disagreement about something as apparently simple as how addiction should be defined. Ultimately the cost of this impasse is borne by people with addiction themselves. Drawing on philosophy together with sources ranging from the history of the science of animal models to the voices of people who live with addiction\, Hanna Pickard presents a new paradigm that shifts our gaze away from a broken brain and onto the psychology and humanity of people who struggle with drugs. \nHanna Pickard is Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics and Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University. \n\nAdmission is free\, but reservations are encouraged. A reception will follow. \n\nThe Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture is presented by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics and Values\, and is co-sponsored by Dresher Center for the Humanities\, the Center for Public Health Research\, and the Human Context of Science & Technology Program. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/humanities-forum-hanna-pickard-what-would-you-do-alone-in-a-cage-with-nothing-but-cocaine-a-philosophy-of-addiction/
LOCATION:Fine Arts Recital Hall\, MD
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SUMMARY:Lynda Barry — What It Is: A Talk on Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk on creativity by award-winning author\, artist\, and cartoonist Lynda Barry. Author of 21 books\, Barry was the acclaimed creator of the seminal comic strip Ernie Pook’s Comeek\, and in 2019 received a MacArthur “genius” grant. \n“Why do people wish they could write\, sing\, dance\, and draw\, long after they’ve given up on these things?\,” asks Barry. “Does creative activity have a biological function? There is something common to everything we call the arts. What is it? It’s something I call ‘an image’\, something that feels alive and is contained and transported by something that is not alive — a book\, or a song or a painting — anything we call an ‘art form’. This ancient ‘it’ has been around at least as long as we have had hands\, and the state of mind it brings about is not plain old ‘thinking’. This talk is about our innate creative ability to work with images and what the biological function of this thing we call ‘the arts’ may be. Please note: There will be swear words\, party tricks\, and jokes about balls.” \nOn Friday\, February 20\, Barry will lead a drawing jam for anyone interested in creating comics. (The workshop is now sold out!) \n\nLynda Barry has worked as a painter\, cartoonist\, writer\, illustrator\, playwright\, editor\, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. The New York Times has described Barry as “among this country’s greatest conjoiners of words and images\, known for plumbing all kinds of touchy subjects in cartoons\, comic strips and novels\, both graphic and illustrated.” Widely credited with expanding the literary\, thematic and emotional range of American comics\, Barry’s seminal comic strip\, Ernie Pook’s Comeek\, ran in alternative newspapers across North America for thirty years. Barry has authored 21 books\, worked as a commentator for NPR\, and had a regular monthly feature in Esquire\, Mother Jones Magazine\, Mademoiselle\, and Salon. \nBarry has received numerous awards and honors for her work\, among them two William Eisner awards\, the American Library Association’s Alex Award\, the Wisconsin Library Association’s RR Donnelly Award\, the Washington State Governor’s Award\, the Holtz Center for Science & Technology Outreach Fellowship\, The Museum of Wisconsin Arts Lifetime Achievement Award\, and the 2017 Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society. She also received an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from Philadelphia University of Art in 2015\, and was inducted into the Cartoonist’s Hall of Fame in 2016. In 2019 Lynda Barry was honored as a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the Genius Grant). In 2020 she received the 2019 NCS Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year\, and in 2021 Oregon State University presented her with the Stone Award for Literary Achievement. \n\nAdmission is free\, but reservations are encouraged. Please note: this event is now at capacity\, and we are no longer accepting RSVPs. \nPlease plan to arrive early. We will be seating people between 6:30 and 6:50. Unclaimed seats may be provided to walk-ups or waitlisted people. \n\nThe Fine Arts Recital Hall is located in the Fine Arts Building. \nPlease plan to park in Parking Lot 8\, which is adjacent to the Performing Arts and Humanities Building\, and the Fine Arts Building as well. (Apple and Google maps can both be used to located Lot 8 — you may need to try “Lot 8” or “Parking Lot 8” — and parking will be free there after 5 p.m. \nThe Fine Arts Building is the large red brick building near the parking lot. Look for the large illuminated “Center for Art and Visual Culture” sign. Head toward the building\, and then turn right (away from the illuminated sign) when you reach it. Then\, turn left and walk down the steps. The Fine Arts Recital Hall will appear on your left. \nThere is also a route for handicapped patrons. Proceed to the building\, and look for the amphitheatre. You will see a pathway to a door on the walkway level. Proceed through the door\, then use an elevator to descend one floor to the Recital Hall entrance. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Lynda Barry. \n\n\nThis event is supported in part by the Arts+ initiative\, Visual Arts Visiting Artists and Designers\, and the Center for Innovation\, Research\, and Creativity in the Arts. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/lynda-barry-what-it-is-a-talk-on-creativity/
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SUMMARY:The Ethics of Cryptocurrency
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Ethics and Values and the Dresher Center for the Humanities present a panel discussion on The Ethics of Cryptocurrency\, with speakers: \n\nYaya J. Fanusie\, Director of Policy for Anti-Money Laundering & Cyber Risk at the Crypto Council for Innovation\nAmy Froide\, Professor of History & Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities\, UMBC\nTobey Scharding\, Assistant Professor of Management and Global Business\, Rutgers Business School\n\nThe discussion will be moderated by Michael Nance\, Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law Program. \n\nAdmission is free. \nThis event will also be livestreamed on UMBC’s YouTube Channel. \nRegistration is encouraged but not required. Please visit here to register. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; the Department of Economics; the Human Context of Science and Technology Program; and the Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law Program. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/the-ethics-of-cryptocurrency/
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CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Humanities,Social Sciences
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SUMMARY:Mel Chin: Constructing Liberation
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Innovation\, Research\, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) presents artist Mel Chin\, known for the broad range of approaches in his art\, including works that require multi-disciplinary\, collaborative teamwork and works that enlist science as an aesthetic component to developing complex ideas. Chin uses technology\, collage\, sculpture\, and large-scale installations to create a body of work centered around environmental\, political\, and social issues\, inserting art into unlikely places and forms\, including video games\, destroyed homes\, toxic landfills\, and popular television. Interested in creating greater social awareness and responsibility\, and making a place for possible political transformation\, Chin engages wide-ranging communities in the conception\, execution\, and success of his work. \nChin’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art\, Museum of Modern Art\, High Museum of Art\, the Menil Collection\, the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, and the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University. He was the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant. Read more about Chin on CIRCA’s event page. \n\nAdmission is free\, and a reception will follow. Please RSVP for this event. \n\nImage: Mel Chin\, The Eye of the Beholder (1 dollar denomination)\, from Erased U.S. currency series\, 1995. \n\n\n\n\nThis event is funded by the Arts+ Initiative and the College of Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences. \n 
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/mel-chin-constructing-liberation/
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SUMMARY:Energy Wars at Home and Abroad
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Ethics and Values presents Energy Wars at Home and Abroad: A conversation with Andrew Light\, Philosopher and Former Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the Department of Energy (2021–2025). The conversation will be moderated by Blake Francis\, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Human Context of Science and Technology Program. \nAndrew Light is Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy\, Philosophy\, and Atmospheric Sciences\, at George Mason University; and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth\, at the University of Chicago. \n\nAdmission is free. Preregistration is recommended\, but not required — please visit here to reserve a seat. \nUMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all faculty\, staff\, students\, and visitors. To request accessibility accommodations\, please contact ethics@umbc.edu. \n\nThis event is presented by the Center for Ethics and Values; the Human Context of Science and Technology Program; and the Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law Program. The event is cosponsored by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems and the School of Public Policy.
URL:https://umbc.edu/event/energy-wars-at-home-and-abroad/
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