"Food traditions like snowballs and seafood connect New Orleans and Baltimore, two places with their own complex histories as major Southern port cities. But beyond the crabs and snowballs, our team-- Andy Dahl, Fernando Lopez, and I-- wanted to examine links between the two places through themes of migration and Mexican food. Thus, as part of the Homegrown Foodways Series: Baltimore and New Orleans, we introduce "El Camino del Pan y el Mole," which takes a visual ethnography approach to document these rich stories and relatively new Mexican foodways traditions in each city." (excerpt from Prof. Fouts LOC American Folklife Center Blog Post)

Behind the scenes selfie with Fernando Lopez, Andy Dahl, Sarah Fouts, and Jose Vargas lounging while his wife, Angela, is being interviewed at their house in Rosedale, Maryland. Photo by Fernando Lopez.

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Jose Vargas in front of his bakery on S. Highland Avenue, East Baltimore, Maryland. Photo by Andy Dahl.

El Camino del Pan a Baltimore

Gilberto (left) and Ivan, stars of El Camino del Mole a New Orleans, posing for Project Neutral Grounds in New Orleans's City Park. Photo courtesy of Fernando Lopez.

El Camino del Mole a New Orleans

On this episode we hear a rebroadcast of a special 5th anniversary event hosted by the UMBC Center for Social Science (CS3).

The roundtable, which took place in October of 2023, brought together three fabulous UMBC alumni from across the social sciences: Dr. Delta Merner, (GES '14), Lead Scientist, Science Hub for Climate Litigation at the Union of Concerned Scientists; Dr. Brent Gibbons, (PUBL '13), Health Policy Researcher in the Health Economics Program at RTI International; and Dr. Brittany Gay, (PSYC '21), Associate Director of Implementation Science at the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC).  The roundtable was moderated by CS3's Associate Director, Dr. Felipe Filomeno.  Click here for a full recording of the event.

Campus Connections

Stay tuned for a special Campus Connection featuring our new Production Assistant, Jean Kim, who details two fabulous programs for current students sponsored by CS3:

Data Science Scholars

GRANTED Award

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About The Series

The Spanish programs at Morgan State University and the University of Maryland Baltimore County present:

La bella en su jaula/The Beauty in Her Cage, a play by Argentinian playwright Rubén Mosquera, based on the real story of Felicitas Guerrero, who is remembered as one of the first cases recognized as femicide in Argentina in 1872. The production touches on the role of women in a society ruled by patriarchal values.

• A free performance of the play will take place at the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University on Wednesday, November 15 at 7pm. The entire production will be performed in Spanish with subtitles.

• On November 16, a dialogue with the playwright, Mosquera, and actresses, Zoe Bertona and Natalia Vacis, will take place on the UMBC campus at 5pm in Fine Arts Room 459.

By engaging in this dialogue, we hope to contribute to our collective understanding of gender-related issues, provoke meaningful discussions, and inspire action towards creating a safer and more equitable society.

Morgan State University sponsorship: the Department of World Languages and International Studies and the Latinx, Latin America and Caribbean Studies Minor.

UMBC sponsorship: Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; the Department of Gender, Women's + Sexuality Studies; the Language, Literacy, and Cultural Doctoral Program; the Dresher Center for the Humanities, the Latinx and Hispanic Faculty Association and the Latin American Feminisms Faculty Workgroup.

Please see the attached flyer for more details.

Please join us November 15 from 3-5 pm for the EHS Graduate Speaker Seminar Series via WebEx. The speaker's information and seminar topic can be found below. Please help us welcome this week’s speaker by attending the seminar, and please bring your questions and discussion points!

We hope to see everyone there!

Speaker Information:

Jeff Halverson, PhD, Professor, Dept Geography and Environmental Systems

Associate Dean UMBC Graduate School

Seminar Topic:

Weather Related Disasters

Location: 900 Walker Ave, Room 114, or online via WebEx

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Please note that the Dept of Emergency Health Services has temporarily moved (due to renovations of Sherman Hall) to the 900 Walker Building. Address is 900 Walker Ave. (building located behind the Walker Apartments, towards Wilkins Ave.) in the main EHS classroom Walker 114. Enter the front doors and follow the signs to the department area & classroom (Room 114). Link to map (see upper right corner on Walker Avenue, it is the building entitled Baltimore County Courthouse): https://mcac.umbc.edu/maps-and-directions/

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