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Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Ground Floor Atrium

Date & Time

October 11, 2019, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Description

Time to SLAM BIG and WIN BIG! It's the 7th Annual BIG PRIZE POETRY SLAM at UMBC's 2019 HOMECOMING! $200 Grand 1st Place Prize. Prizes for 2nd and 3rd Place. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11,...

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Location

The Commons : Main Street

Date & Time

October 11, 2019, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm

Description

Display of Spiro Collection on Main Street, Commons. Contact Prof. Esther Read (eread@umbc.edu) or Council of Majors President, Matthew Haworth, if you would like to help show the artifacts.

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Location

Fine Arts : 424

Date & Time

October 11, 2019, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm

Description

Please join us for this associate professor only workshop on book publications, facilitated by Dr. Carole Sargent, the Director of Scholarly Publications at Georgetown University as part of...

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Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

October 10, 2019, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Trimble, Stanford University, “The Visual Workings of Roman Slave Sales.” A reception will follow the lecture.

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Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : 7th Floor

Date & Time

October 10, 2019, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Description

Social Sciences Forum Mullen Lecture Sheila Olmstead Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin "The Economic Costs of Water Pollution"...

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Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn

Date & Time

October 10, 2019, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Description

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...

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Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 132

Date & Time

October 9, 2019, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Description

Student and faculty reading of Aristophanes’ Wasps, a hilarious and ribald comedy about a son who tries to cure his father of his manic obsession with serving on juries (in order to humiliate the...

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Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

October 9, 2019, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Description

Each year, Banned Books Week aims at celebrating our freedom to read and to engage with the wealth of information--some considered taboo or transgressive--that diversifies our perspectives and...

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Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

October 8, 2019, 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Description

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

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Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Forum

Date & Time

October 8, 2019, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Description

“Vergilathon” —a continuous reading of Vergil’s Aeneid, which depicts Trojan Aeneas’ escape from the burning ruins of Troy, his wanderings, and his struggles to gain a foothold in Italy in order...

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Events

7th Annual BIG PRIZE POETRY SLAM at UMBC's 2019 Homecoming

Spiro Collection

Come view artifacts from the Spiro Collection!

Associate Professors - University Press Books Workshop

On-Ramps to full professor

"The Visual Workings of Roman Slave Sales"

Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Trimble

The Economic Costs of Water Pollution

Mullen Lecture

The Visual Workings of Roman Slave Sales

Ancient Studies Week

Play reading of Aristophanes’ Wasps

2019 Banned Books Week Discussion

Illuminating the Tradition of Banning and Contesting Books

Bravado Magenta + Q&A with director Bocafloja

“Vergilathon”

a continuous reading of Vergil’s Aeneid!

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Come view artifacts from the Spiro Collection!

On-Ramps to full professor

Ancient Studies Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Jennifer Trimble

Mullen Lecture

Ancient Studies Week

Illuminating the Tradition of Banning and Contesting Books

a continuous reading of Vergil’s Aeneid!

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