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Register now for SOCY 698 – Health and Human Rights!

Grad students: Special Topic 6-week summer course!

SOCY 698 – Health and Human Rights   Special Topic course Instructor - Ilsa Lottes Summer Session 2 Meets:  Mondays 6:00 p.m. - 9:10 p.m. Dates:  07/10/2017 - 08/18/2017...

Posted: April 21, 2017, 4:53 PM

Register now for SOCY 204: Diversity & Pluralism!

Summer Session 2 -- this is a culture course!

SOCY 204 – Diversity and Pluralism An analysis of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexual orientation in society. The goal of the course is to have students understand the sociocultural nature...

Posted: April 21, 2017, 3:33 PM

Sedrick Smith: Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun

Sedrick Smith (cohort 18) has recenlty published an Op-Ed titled "Baltimore City College students 'crushed it'" in the Baltimore Sun. In the Op-Ed, Sedrick provides examples of how students in...

Posted: April 21, 2017, 9:38 AM

CFP: Moving from civil rights to human rights

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Oct. 25-28, 2017

The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) invites you to its 2017 Annual Meeting. As peace scholars, educators, and activists, we are challenged to rise up and present a new vision, a new...

Posted: April 20, 2017, 12:29 PM

Event: Day of Action at UMBC - May 1st, 2017

A day of celebration of our immigrant communities

Join us for a day of celebration of our immigrant communities! [We invite members of our community to share readings, spoken words, music, performance, or your own immigrant...

Posted: April 19, 2017, 5:40 PM

Dr. Amy Bhatt Featured in Immigration Documentary

Assistant Professor Dr. Amy Bhatt's research is featured in a new documentary about immigration in the Pacific Northwest, which aired on KCST Seattle. Check it out to learn about the history of...

Posted: April 19, 2017, 11:12 AM

Women's Center's Event: "Women in Activism"

With LLC panelists: Dr. Bev Bickel and Jacki Stone

We invite our LLC Community to the roundtable discussion "Women in Activism", organized by the Women's Center. This discussion features Dr. Bev Bickel, Jacki Stone (cohort 18), and Iman Said...

Posted: April 18, 2017, 2:56 PM

Dr. Christine Mallinson: "The revelatory power of language"

Podcast for the Maryland Council for the Humanities

Dr. Christine Mallinson has recently produced a 5-minute podcast titled "The Revelatory Power of Language," for the Maryland Humanities Council's "Humanities Connection" series for WYPR 88.1. In...

Posted: April 18, 2017, 11:45 AM

Holocaust Remembrance Day Event on April 24th

Prof. Rebecca Boehling: "Remembering Holocaust Victims"

Dr. Rebecca Boehling, Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program and the Global Studies Program at UMBC and former director of the International Tracing Service (ITS), will...

Posted: April 18, 2017, 11:27 AM