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The slow poisoning of Freddie Gray

by AMST lecturer Rita Turner

The life of Freddie Gray, and of so many others, was endangered many times over by numerous forms of systemic racism before it was finally taken in the custody of police – an event that has...

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

Black and young in Baltimore: a roundtable discussion

featuring Dr. Kimberly Moffitt

For young people of color, growing up in Baltimore is often anything but Rockwellian. Most of the community lives below the poverty line and there’s a widespread distrust of law enforcement....

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:50 PM

Nepal Earthquake Response

The Conversation with Dr. Bissell

In response to a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal over the weekend, Richard Bissell wrote about the international relief effort in The Conversation. Bissell, a professor of...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 11:36 AM

CFP: 23rd Annual Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference

Submissions for Sessions under development

The Lavender Languages Conference. February 12-14, 2016 American University, Washington, D.C The Lavender Languages Conference is accepting paper submissions for the sessions that will take...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 9:41 AM

CFP: Narrative and Hypertext 2015

Papers Due - 12th June 2015

Narrative and Hypertext 2015 workshop on narrative systems To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2015, Cyprus This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 8:38 AM

Part-time job opportunity for Graduate Students

Copy editor for 2015-2016 academic year

Job description   Dr. Denis Provencher, editor-in-chief of Contemporary French Civilization (published by Liverpool University Press), seeks a UMBC graduate student to fill a part-time position...

Posted: May 2, 2015, 4:50 PM

Dr. Kate on "Re-Development and the uprisings"

Read the contributions of several UMBC scholars

"Baltimore riots: the fire this time and the fire last time and the time between" From The Conversation. Full article available...

Posted: May 1, 2015, 1:24 PM

2015 GWST Student Awards

Join us in congratulating these outstanding students!

The Gender and Women's Studies Department chose six outstanding graduating seniors to receive annual awards from the department. The awards were presented by Dr. Kate Drabinski, GWST Senior...

Posted: May 1, 2015, 11:47 AM

Baltimore Matters! (Updated May 16)

UMBC CAHSS faculty react to recent events in Baltimore

In light of the recent events in Baltimore, many UMBC CAHSS faculty members have shared their perspectives and offered contextual understandings.  The following is a list of articles to which UMBC...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 8:34 PM