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Daniel Pesca Receives SEED Grant

An Initiative to Imagine a More Inclusive Piano Canon

Daniel Pesca will co-lead a multi-institutional effort to bring music departments and piano studios from five institutions around the country together to research, perform, record, and teach the...

Posted: September 20, 2021, 12:10 PM

Zareen's Hazara family members fleeing Afghanistan

Supporting Zareen and Ali to support others in danger

Zareen and Ali are dear friends and colleagues of many of us and we know that they work tirelessly to advocate for the rights of people from their country of origin, Afghanistan. Both Zareen and...

Posted: September 17, 2021, 10:33 AM

Constitution Day Lecture 9-17-21, Noon

Dr. Jennifer Cobbina, Michigan State University

Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America. 9-17-21, Noon to 1:30 To access the event use the link below.  Password is FL21SSF....

Posted: September 16, 2021, 3:02 PM

Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference: Oct 20-23, 2021

Justice and the City in an Age of Social Division

Following a successful 2020 virtual conference in place of the long-planned XIth Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference (REP) in Baltimore, organizers are planning a hybrid in-person and virtual...

Posted: September 15, 2021, 1:39 PM

Now on our website: Virtual Tour of "A Designed Life"

Check out the virtual gallery of Curator Margaret Re’s exhibition, A Designed Life, as featured this summer 2021 at the Design Museum of Chicago!  Visit our website to view the exhibition:...

Posted: September 15, 2021, 11:17 AM

Reminder: Looking in the Mirror Series

Join us for conversations that will help us heal and grow. As quoted in President Freeman Hrabowski's book, The Empowered University (2019), "as a healthy campus, we must look in the...

Posted: September 14, 2021, 2:32 PM

UMBC Public Policy Graduate Program Info Session

Learn about local grad school opportunities!

The School of Public Policy at UMBC is hosting a virtual information session about the Public Policy graduate programs on Thursday, September 23. Please join us! Thursday, September 23, 2021...

Posted: September 14, 2021, 2:03 PM

CAHSS Faculty Media Training Workshop

The CAHSS Dean's office and the Office of Institutional Advancement will be hosting a virtual media workshop for faculty on October 1st from 10am - noon.  The workshop will provide tips,...

Posted: September 14, 2021, 11:58 AM

The Systemic Repression & Fictionalization of Joseph Bologne

Written by Josh Miller

Miller explores the racial prejudice composer Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, experienced during his life and in the historical record, arguing that historians and musicians should...

Posted: September 14, 2021, 10:22 AM