Spring 2025 Social Sciences Forum

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:05:35 -0500

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February 4 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
The Mullen Lecture
"The Importance of Financial Literacy: Lessons From Many Years of Data"
Annamaria Lusardi, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Director of the Initiative for Financial Decision-Making, Professor of Finance (by courtesy), Stanford Graduate School of Business
Hosted by the Department of Economics.

March 27 | 5pm | AOK Library Gallery
Annual Lipitz Lecture
"Generative AI and Higher Education: Practical Insights for Today and Tomorrow"
John G. Schumacher, PhD, FGSA
Director, Public Health Research Center
Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, UMBC
Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.

April 3 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Distinguished Lecture in Psychology
"Making the Invisible Visible: Reducing Disparities Via Personally Relevant Interventions"
Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Ph.D.
Professor Emerit, University of Oregon
Hosted by the Department of Psychology.

April 16 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
The Low Lecture

“For Generations Yet Unborn: Observations and Challenges in Black Public History”
Amber N. Mitchell, Curator of Black History, The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Hosted by the Department of History.

April 24 | 4:30pm | AOK Library Gallery
The Eckert Lecture on Health and Inequality
“Recovering from the Opioid Epidemic in Baltimore and Beyond”
A panel discussion with Bakari Atiba, AA, Director of Community Engagement at Charm City Care Connection; Kelly Coble, LCSW-C, Program Director at Maryland Addiction Consultation Services (MACS); Brendan Saloner, Ph.D., Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; and Alissa Zhu, MSPH, Reporter, Baltimore Banner. Moderated by UMBC’s Brian Soller, Ph.D.

Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.

April 30 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
"Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur"
Discussion on the 10-year Anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising.
Dr. Derek Hyra, Professor, Public Administration and Policy
Founding Director, Metropolitan Policy Center, American University
with Derek Musgrove, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History, UMBC and Nicole King, Ph.D., Associate Professor, American Studies, UMBC.
Hosted by the Department of American Studies.