CIRCA – Dresher Center Fulbright Drop-In Webinars
Information + Coffee & Tea
Join CIRCA and the Dresher Center for live webinar screenings on the 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar Programs. The webinar series will take place from 2:00 – 3:00 pm in the Dresher Center Conference Room (PAHB 216) on the dates below.
March 08, 2017
Fulbright Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa
March 28, 2017
Fulbright Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa
March 29, 2017
Fulbright Opportunities in American Studies
April 05, 2017
Fulbright Opportunities in the Western Hemisphere
Other upcoming Fulbright program webinars (register to participate individually):
March 15, 2017, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Fulbright Opportunities Across Asia
March 21, 2017, 2:00 – 3:00 pm (during UMBC spring break)
What’s New in Europe
March 22, 2017, – 2:00 – 3:00 pm (during UMBC spring break)
Fulbright Opportunities in Political Science
April 26, 2017, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Fulbright Opportunities in Education
May 10, 2017, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Fulbright Opportunities for Postdoctoral Scholars
Information on Fulbright webinars: http://www.cies.org/event-type/webinar-schedule Webinars are archived weekly.
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English Faculty at NeMLA 2017
The 2017 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will be hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, from March 23-26th at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel, and the English Department has four faculty members presenting their work at this exciting event.
Friday, March 24, 2017
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Christopher Allen Varlack, Lecturer of English, will be presenting a paper as part of the "Great Utopia: U.S. Writers in the Soviet Union Between the Wars" panel. His paper is entitled, "'No Good for ... My People': U.S. and U.S.S.R. Social Formations in McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth."
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Maleda Belilgne, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, will be chairing the first session of a panel entitled, "Why Afrofuturism, Why Now?" She will also be presenting a paper as part of that session. Her paper is entitled, "Speculations in Black: Livable Space, Conditional Futures in Black Text."
4:45 PM to 6:15 PM
Maleda Belilgne, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies, will be chairing the second session of a panel entitled, "Why Afrofuturism, Why Now?"
Sunday, March 26, 20178:30 AM to 10:00 AM
Piotr Gwiazda, Full Professor of English, will be presenting a paper as part of the "Our Most Difficult Translations" creative session. His paper is entitled, "Translating Grzegorz Wroblewski."
10:15 AM to 12:15 PM
Joseph Nash, a Graduate Assistant and member of the Texts, Technologies, and Literature MA program, will be presenting a paper as part of the "David Foster Wallace and the Fiction of the World" seminar. His paper is entitled, "
Vipassana and
The Pale King: Toward a More Useful Spiritual Vocabulary."
We look forward to these panels and to the thought-provoking work that each faculty member will be presenting. For more information about the conference, please visit
https://nemla.org/index.html.
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Book on the history of UMBC reflects its campus culture
This story, written by Max Cole, originally appeared here.
When George La Noue started the process of writing a book about the history of UMBC, he had a specific vision in mind, and knew he couldn’t accomplish his goal without the insight of administrators, faculty, staff, and students across the university. In many ways, the process of writing Improbable Excellence: The Saga of UMBC reflects the highly collaborative nature of the campus community, which is rooted in its founding 50 years ago.
Researching such a young university can be difficult because the archives are literally being formed in the moment. However, when La Noue, research professor of public policy and political science, was teaching a constitutional law class one day, he noticed that students became highly engaged when the discussion pivoted to the history of UMBC in the context of higher education desegregation—when students began to see UMBC’s story in the context of a national story.
“There is no course on UMBC history,” explains La Noue. “I couldn’t direct them to a source for where to begin, so they really had to learn what questions to ask throughout the research process.”Following the vibrant discussion, La Noue decided to create independent study research projects for a team of nine students to investigate different aspects of UMBC’s history. The topics ranged from the development of buildings on campus to the creation and growth of student organizations and academic departments.
Many of the students who completed the independent studies that helped inform Improbable Excellence went on to graduate school and law school, and credit the intensive research experience for helping to jump-start their careers.
David Bennett ’11, political science, is now a health policy advisor for Senator John McCain. He focused on the development of the social sciences at UMBC for his research project.
“I had the opportunity…to sit down with the various chairs of those departments…some of them who have been here for many, many years to discuss what that department looked like back then and what it looks like now. It’s really quite astounding to see the determination of folks who were in their early thirties to form these departments to [become] what they are today,” explained Bennett at the Roots of Greatness luncheon during UMBC’s 50th anniversary.
Another student, Yasmin Karimian ’11, political science, indexed the book and now works at Amazon in contract law.
It took four years to write the book, which is 424 pages in length and contains 1300 footnotes. In addition to his students, La Noue credits several UMBC colleagues for help with conducting interviews and tracking down research materials, including Ed Orser, professor emeritus of American studies; Joe Tatarewicz, associate professor of history; Tom Beck, chief curator at the Albin O. Kuhn Library; and Lindsey Loeper, Albin O. Kuhn Library archivist.
“A number of people contributed such important work,” says La Noue. “The book was much better because of everyone’s participation. They went in depth in areas that I didn’t have insight or time.”
The book is now on sale in the UMBC Bookstore. Learn more about it in the UMBC Magazine article “Deep Roots.”
Header image: George La Noue pictured at UMBC alumni reception in Annapolis. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
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