Upcoming Events

Sep 24

5 PM

Deadly Delusions: Fake News and Terrorism

How extremists manipulate mass media to incite violence

University Center : Lounge · Dr. Barry Mauer, Associate Professor of English and on the faculty of the Texts and Technology Doctoral Program at the University of Central Florida, studies how fake news and inflammatory...

Sep 30

4 PM

Searching for Black Confederates

The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn · More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites articles, and commemorative organizations repeat claims that between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans...

Oct 8

4:30 PM

Bocafloja presents: Bravado Magenta

Documentary Screening + Q&A

Public Policy : 105 · Bravado Magenta is an exposé on the intersection of coloniality and patriarchy. A performative documentary which critically analyzes racialized masculinities through self-cartography and...

Oct 10

4 PM

The Visual Workings of Roman Slave Sales

Ancient Studies Week

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn · Jennifer Trimble, Associate Professor of Classics, Stanford University Slavery was a fundamental part of ancient Roman society, as was visual culture. We know a lot about these two topics...

Oct 16

5 PM

Nonfiction Reading: Bassey Ikpi

English Department Reading Series

The Commons : Skylight Room · The English Department Reading Series will be hosting Bassey Ikpi, a Nigerian-American, ex-poet, current writer, and mental health advocate. Her debut essay collection, I'm Telling the Truth, But...

Oct 23

4 PM

Global History as Urban History

A View from Edo, The Greatest City in the World

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn · Annual Robert K. Webb Lecture Amy Stanley, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University Edo (now Tokyo) was once the greatest city in the world. In 1800 – the era of Napoleon...

Nov 13

6 PM

The Future of Du Bois

Consciousness, Citizenship, and Epistemology in Africa

University Center : Ballroom · 41st Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Nimi Wariboko, Water G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics in the School of Theology and Chair of the Philosophy, Theology, and Ethics Department, Boston...

Dec 3

4 PM

Can the Children of Iberian Cinemas Speak? A Video Essay

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Dance Cube · Erin K. Hogan, Associate Professor of Modern, Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication, UMBC This presentation considers how the political appropriation of the child...

Apr 1

5 PM

Nonfiction Reading: Anthony Moll

English Department Reading Series

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery · The English Department Reading Series will be hosting Anthony Moll, a Baltimore-based writer and educator. His debut memoir, Out of Step, won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for bisexual...