Activism and Art Opening and Film Screening
Catonsville Nine 50th continues
Our Catonsville Nine 50th Events continue…Please come out tomorrow (Sat. May 12) for UMBC Alum, Joe Tropea’s “Activism and Art” exhibit opening and screening of Lynne Sachs’ short documentary Investigation of a Flame. The exhibit is looking fabulous…artwork from C9 member Tom Lewis and great context pieces too…And Lynne Sachs (and others) will be there for documentary Q&A.
Activism and Art
On May 17, 1968 in Catonsville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, two women and seven men, three in clerical attire, arrived at the Selective Service office, Local Board 33, located in the Knights of Columbus building. They seized several hundred A-1 draft records from the office, dumped the files on the ground in the parking lot, doused with homemade napalm, and torched them in protest of the Vietnam War. This act of civil disobedience intensified protest against the draft, prompted debate in households in Maryland and across the nation, and stirred angry reaction on the part of many Americans. It also propelled the nine into the national spotlight.
The Catonsville action reflected not only the nature of the Vietnam antiwar movement in 1968, but also the larger context of social forces that were reshaping American culture in the 1960s. We are commemorating the 50th anniversary of this historical and fiery protest with a new exhibit utilizing the artwork of Catonsville Nine participant Tom Lewis, as well as historic photographs and materials, video from the award-winning 2013 documentary Hit & Stay, and other materials.
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COMMUNITY DISCUSSION PANELISTS
Joe TropeaActivism and Art Curator
Joe Tropea earned a Master¹s in historical studies with a concentration in Public History from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is currently the Curator of Films & Photographs at the Maryland Historical Society, where he creates exhibits, writes and edits the blogs underbelly and Aspect Ratio and co-founded and serves as the project manager for Preserve the Baltimore Uprising Archive. Tropea is the co-director of the award-winning 2013 documentary, Hit & Stay, and the director of 2018's Sickies Making Films.
Lynne Sachs
Lynne Sachs is an experimental filmmaker who makes films, videos, installations and web projects exploring the relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. After graduating from Brown University and majoring in history, she developed an interest in experimental documentary filmmaking while attending the 1985 Robert Flaherty Documentary Film Seminar. "Investigation of a Flame" won several awards and debuted at the Maryland Film Festival in 2001.
Joanna Raczynska
Joanna Raczynska earned her master's degree in documentary by practice from Royal Holloway College, University of London (2001). She first started making non-fiction films and videos in 1996, while a student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Her works have screened internationally and across the US, most recently at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. She has worked for a variety of non-profit organizations including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo NY (media arts director, 2002-2006), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Now she works in the department of film programs at The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Thomas Lewis, artist, teacher, and peace activist, was born in Maryland and was 28 at the time of the Catonsville Nine action.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Thomas Lewis was active in the civil rights movement and was a founding member of the Baltimore Interfaith Peace Mission. He was one of the "Baltimore Four," who poured blood on draft files at the Baltimore Customs House in 1967. Lewis did much of the up-front preparation for the Catonsville action, scouting the location of A-1 draft files and routes in and out of the building on the pretense of wanting to rent the Knights of Columbus basement for his wedding reception.After serving prison time for the Catonsville incident, Lewis continued to be active in the peace movement and to retain close ties to the Catholic Worker Movement.
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Stata Quantitative Research Software Now Available
CAHSS secures Campus-Wide Site License for Stata
The
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) has secured a
campus-wide site license for Stata, a
powerful quantitative statistical software package that allows users to analyze
and manage data as well as produce graphics. The addition of Stata further
enhances the university’s suite of available qualitative and quantitative
software packages, like SPSS, NVivo, SAS, and R.
The new campus-wide site license for
Stata is for Stata/MP 15, the fastest and largest version of the package, which
can enable users to analyze up to 20 billion observations and utilize up to
120,000 variables. This
software is available to all faculty, staff, and students. It provides a range
of options for importing, arranging, and coding data as well as for statistical
analysis – from standard techniques (e.g., linear regression, logistic
regression, and ANOVA) to advanced techniques (e.g., structural equation
modeling and forecasting). The software easily allows users to reproduce and
document all analyses and graphs. The acquisition of Stata aligns with efforts
to support UMBC's strategic plan, including the objective to "vigorously
promote a campus culture of multidisciplinary collaboration and
multidisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative activity."
Acquisition represents another significant investment in the university’s
research infrastructure.
CAHSS faculty and departments identified having a site license for Stata as a
critical need during a recent assessment of the College’s research
infrastructure that was led by Dr. Tyson King-Meadows of the Department of
Political Science, Associate Dean for Research and College Affairs. A survey of
departments revealed that Stata was the most used and most requested statistical
software package by faculty across multiple departments.
If
you are considering quantitative or mixed-methods research, or if you are
currently gathering or analyzing quantitative data, please consider leveraging
the power of Stata for your analytic strategy.
To download
Stata and for more information, see
https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Stata
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