Congratulations to Adriana DiSilvestro on Her Publication in Antipode! Exploring the politics of conservation and extraction

We're thrilled to share that Adriana Maria DiSilvestro, PhD Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, has published a new article in Antipode, a leading journal of radical geography.

Article Title:
 Before the Conservation Fix: Ecological Displacement and the Making of Nature as Regulatory Subject

Read the full article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.70082

In this paper, Adriana draws from her master's research on wolf culling as a state response to caribou declines to explore how tensions between resource extraction and ecological protection shape environmental solutions. She writes:

"In this paper, I draw from my master's research on wolf culling as a state response to caribou declines to explore how tensions between resource extraction and ecological protection shape environmental solutions. Insights from this work continue to inspire my doctoral project on the regulatory politics of endangered species governance in the United States."

Please join us in congratulating Adriana on this outstanding accomplishment!

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Please join us on December 5, 2024, from 3:30 to 5 pm at UMBC as we celebrate the life and legacy of Maurice Berger (1956–2020), who was research professor and chief curator at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC), until his death in 2020.


Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger launches the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, in support of the exploration of, and research into, histories of race, representation and justice in visual culture, with the goal of creating accessible public programming. The event also celebrates the publication of “RACE STORIES: Essays on the Power of Images,” a collection of Berger’s award-winning essays co-published by Aperture and The New York Times, featuring speakers such as  Aruna D’Souza, Marvin Heiferman, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. Lowery Stokes Sims, Maleke Glee, Timothy Nohe, and others.

A reception will follow the program. 

This program is free, but registration is required at https://forms.gle/TLu5p5kuoTZJuVM19

To contribute to the Maurice Berger CADVC Program Fund, please visit https://shorturl.at/tYjBU

For more information about RACE STORIES, please visit https://aperture.org/.../race-stories-essays-on-the.../

For more information about the program, please visit https://cadvc.umbc.edu/celebrating-maurice-berger/


Please contact cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188 and specify the nature of your request as soon as possible if you need specific accommodations for this event or to experience the gallery exhibition.

Header: Levester Williams, "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore" (2021-2024) 4K color video/video installation still (Coming from behind, a hand with dark brown skin tone reaches around to the front of a marble column in a park-like setting. In the background a bland white marble border runs between a parallel strip of grass and a reflecting pool.) Photo courtesy of the artist. Body: Photo courtesy Steve Miller (Maurice Berger, at the opening of "Revolution of the Eye," stands smiling looking forward in front of a wall-spanning CBS logo.)
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Margie Burns, English department faculty member, has announced a new book, Jane Austen, Abolitionist: The Loaded History of the Phrase "Pride and Prejudice." Burns takes up literary studies along with history and cultural studies to explore "the tradition and the many newly discovered uses of 'pride and prejudice' before and after Austen’s popular novel." 

Congratulations, Margie!


Book link: https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/jane-austen-abolitionist/

Full book description from publisher:
The history of the phrase “pride and prejudice” before it became the title of Jane Austen’s most famous novel is largely forgotten today. In particular, most of the reading public is unaware that “pride and prejudice” was a traditional critique adopted by British and American antislavery writers. After Austen’s lifetime, the antislavery associations intensified, especially in America.
This is the only book about the tradition and the many newly discovered uses of “pride and prejudice” before and after Austen’s popular novel. Hundreds of examples in an annotated list show the phrase used to uphold independence—independent judgment, independent ethical behavior, independence that repudiated all forms of oppression. The book demonstrates how, in a natural evolution, the phrase was used to criticize enslavement and the slave trade. Eighteenth-century revolutionary Thomas Paine used it in Common Sense, and nineteenth-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass used it throughout his lifetime. Choosing her title for these resonances, Austen supported independent reason, reinforced writing by women, and opposed enslavement.
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