Dean Kimberly Moffitt & Christine Mallinson

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Congratulations to Christine Mallinson for being named the 2023-2024 Lipitz Professor!

Established by the Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation, the fellowship is intended "to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and/or research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences." 

"I'll be taking this year to move my research forward, especially my two current collaborative NSF funded projects at the intersection of language, culture, technology, and society -- and I'll be looking forward to sharing about our work with my colleagues at UMBC next spring!"

The 2023 Region II Program Committee is pleased to invite submissions for session proposals for the in-person Region II Fall Meeting in Annapolis MD, on November 12-15, 2023.

When thinking of potential topics, please keep in mind topics related to the current challenges faced by research administrators in this new era for our field. 

If you have a topic for a session and/or would like to submit a proposal, please visit the call for proposals  page to submit the idea/proposal to the Program Committee for consideration. If you have more than one topic or session proposal, please submit a new form for each. 

The Program Committee is also inviting submissions for session presenters who would like to be paired with others for the Region II Fall Meeting. Please visit the call for presenters page to complete the needed information.  

If you have any questions regarding the Fall Meeting, please contact Rebecca O'Brien at obrienr@umbc.edu. 

On this episode we hear a rebroadcast of a recent UMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar.  The lecture, which took place on March 29, 2023, featured the work of Dr. Andrea Roberts, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and Co-Director of the School's Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia's (UVA) School of Architecture.

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About The Series

Wednesday, May 17 - Thursday, May 18, 2023 
University Center Ballroom

***Reposted from the Department of Africana Studies. ***

Since the 1960s, 22 of the 54 African countries have witnessed civil wars that resulted in mass violence, displacement and refugee crises, economic and infrastructural destruction, and political and regional instability. Caused by complex historical drivers and experiences rooted in the colonial legacy of fragile constitutional and institutional structures, ill-prepared political leadership, sectarianism, ethnonationalism, religious intolerance, poverty and inequality, and stiff competition for scarce resources, among other factors, the wars have had devastating impacts on Africans especially women. Leading experts, activists, students, policymakers, and others will discuss these issues, including women, gender, conflict resolutions, and peacebuilding/peacemaking in Africa.

Join keynote speakers Aili Mari Tripp, Ph.D., Vilas Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Cyril Obi, Ph.D., Program Director at the Social Science Research Council, NYC and leader of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs along with a special panel of UMBC students for two days of discussion, African food, and music.

RSVPs/Registration is required no later than April 30, 2023 to reserve a seat. UMBC attendees should RSVP via Google form: https://forms.gle/H2VdVVY3dNDiHWSf8, also by April 30, 2023. Questions can be sent to: afst-conference@umbc.edu.

Guests should use the registration link on the website. Paid guests receive meals, a conference tote bag, event program and attend the evening banquet.

UMBC community members are not required to pay any registration fees, but they have to complete a Google Form to reserve a spot to attend the conference indicating the sessions they would attend. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/degree-in-africana-studies/events/117316  

This event is hosted by UMBC's Department of Africana Studies, and co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; the Center for Global Engagement; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; The Shriver Center; Language, Literacy and Culture PhD Program; and Departments of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; Political Science; and Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.