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Humanities Forum Spring 2015

The UMBC Dresher Center Humanities Forum offers a program of events that illustrate the richness of contemporary work in philosophy, history, culture, language, literature and the arts. The Forum...

Posted: December 11, 2014, 11:27 AM

New ONLINE Winter Course - POLI 409: Disaster Politics

This is an online course only being offered in the January term. The course studies various natural and manmade disasters, from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina and the Sichuan Earthquake (China), in an...

Posted: December 9, 2014, 1:16 PM

Focus Group About Student Experience

December 12 @ 2:00 pm - Commons 331

The Student Experience Strategy Group (as part of UMBC' strategic plan) is holding a focus group to learn how students currently experience campus resources, particularly in areas of athletics,...

Posted: December 8, 2014, 6:43 PM

Dr King featured in the UK's Guardian

Murder mystery is not just a whodunnit; it's real life

The podcast phenomenon has shone a light on the outskirts of the city where residents, police and amateur sleuths live with the fallout from a 1999 killing.

Posted: December 8, 2014, 4:56 PM

LLC Study Social Fall 2014

We need to do this more often!

On December 5 the LLC GSO organized a Study Social event for students in our doctoral program. We were very happy to have folks from different cohorts working on papers, readings, proposals,...

Posted: December 5, 2014, 2:49 PM

Erin O'Keefe named one of Daily Record's Leading Women 2014

Congratulations to Public Policy PhD student (MPP, '10) Erin OKeefe, who was named one of the Daily Record's Leading Women 2014. The list honors women 40 years old or younger who have already made...

Posted: December 5, 2014, 2:20 PM

Apply for a Dresher Center Graduate Student Fellowship

Call for Proposals for Fall 2015 (due March 15, 2015)

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for two residential graduate student research fellowships. Funding will be given for the fall 2015 semester and is intended to promote...

Posted: December 5, 2014, 11:43 AM

December Capstone Presentations now ONLINE!

If you missed the capstone presentations of our December graduating seniors held on Tuesday, no worries! They are now online through our website. http://inds.umbc.edu/capstone-presentations/

Posted: December 4, 2014, 12:42 PM

CADVC's Dr. Maurice Berger wins major award

Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

The Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program has announced that Dr. Maurice Berger, Research Professor + Chief Curator for the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is...

Posted: December 4, 2014, 9:48 AM

Call for Applicants: 2015 Inst. for Critical Social Inquiry

With Talal Asad, Simon Critchley & Patricia Williams

The Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) at the New School for Social Research is now accepting applications for Summer 2015 on a rolling basis. Each summer, we offer advanced graduate...

Posted: December 3, 2014, 12:05 PM