The Dresher Center is happy to provide a sneak peek at our lineup for the Spring 2024 Humanities Forum. More information will be forthcoming.
-
Naomi André, David G. Frey Distinguished Professor, Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daphne Harrison Lecture - Opera's New Realism: Expanding Narratives and Representation
Featuring special guests: UMBC's Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson
Monday, February 12, 2024 at 6pm in the Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
-
Jenny Odell, writer and artist
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
In conversation with Jason Loviglio, Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC
Monday, March 4, 2024 at 4pm in the Skylight Room, The Commons
-
Emek Ergun, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Global Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Joan S. Korenman Lecture - Virginity in Translation: A Feminist Project of Rewriting Bodies Across Borders
Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 4pm in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
-
Sean D. Kelly, Teresa G. and Ferdinand F. Martignetti Professor, Philosophy, Harvard University
Evelyn Barker Memorial Lecture - The Proper Dignity of Human Being: Later Heidegger and the Philosophical Tradition
Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 4pm in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
-
Fan Yang, Associate Professor, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC
Race, Politics, and Rising China through Chimerican Media
Thursday, April 25, 2024 at 4pm in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
-
Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor, American Studies, Trinity College
When Your City Becomes a Campus: What Good is Higher Education for Our Cities
In conversation with Nicole King, Associate Professor, American Studies, UMBC
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 5:30pm in the Town Hall of the H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons at the University of Baltimore (This event is organized in partnership with the University of Baltimore's History Program. Shuttles to and from campus will be provided.)