Events Dresher Center for the Humanities

Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:38:21 -0500
dresher, events

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
When: November 14th 5:30 PM
Where: Dresher Center Conference Room (PAHB 216)

Tyler Anbinder is a specialist in nineteenth-century American politics and the history of immigration and ethnicity in American life. His new book City of Dreams tells the story of New York City from the perspective of immigration, with memorable characters both beloved and unfamiliar, whose lives unfold in rich detail.

Event brought to you by the Faculty Working Group on International Migration and the Dresher Center for the Humanities.

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events/45055

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Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill - Film screening and conversation
When: November 15th 7 PM
Where: Performing Arts & Humanities Building : Rm. 132

Michelle Stefano, Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies, UMBC, and Co-Director, Maryland Traditions
Bill Shewbridge, Professor of the Practice, Media & Communication Studies, and Executive Producer, New Media Studio, UMBC

For 125 years, tens of thousands of steelworkers and associated personnel knew Sparrows Point Steel Mill in Baltimore, Maryland not only as a place of employment, but as the center of community life, with special importance, in the company towns of Dundalk and Sparrows Point. Created by the Pennsylvania Steel Company in 1887, and taken over by Bethlehem Steel in 1916, the mill became the world’s largest center for producing steel and for shipbuilding. As a key production site during both World Wars, Sparrows Point peaked during the 1960s, and saw a gradual decline in the decades that followed. Nonetheless, this is a story that lives on and, most importantly, needs to be told by those who know it best.

In 2012, Sparrows Point Steel Mill closed forever. Mill Stories: Remembering Sparrows Point Steel Mill presents a collection of personal stories based on over 30 ethnographic interviews collected at the time of the mill's closing. The film seeks to amplify the voices of former workers as a means of helping to safeguard and promote the living heritage of the recently closed mill and its surrounding areas.

http://my.umbc.edu/groups/dreshercenter/events/45263

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CIRCA Catalyst: Jaimes Mayhew’10 and Rahne Alexander

Queer Interiors
When: November 16th 7 PM - 8 PM (followed by reception)
Where: Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 132

IMDA MFA Program alumnus Jaimes Mayhew and Rahne Alexander will discuss their Baltimore Museum of Art installation Queer Interiors, which is presented as part of the BMA’s Commons Collaboration initiative related to Imagining Home. The project conceived and produced by Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew is comprised of a larger-than-life bed, shelving and other furnishings, personal artifacts, and a multimedia wall quilt known as the Baltimore LGBTQI+ Home Movie Quilt. This component of the installation pays homage to Baltimore album quilts and the AIDS Quilt, with the aim of presenting a crowd-sourced multimedia portrait of the city’s LGBTQI+ communities. The exhibition is now on view at the BMA through August 31, 2017.