You are invited to a screening of the film, “In Their Footsteps: An American Muslim Civil Rights Journey,” on Thursday, October 11, from 8:15pm to 9:15pm, in Lecture Hall One. The MSA will co-host the screening in collaboration with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the UMBC Black Student Union (BSU).
Click here to watch the trailer. RSVP is requested at: intheirfootsteps.eventbrite.com Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.The goals of the screening are: 1) to get feedback from attendees and 2) to have the attendees go beyond being inspired, to sign up during/after the screening with actions they can sign up for to start doing racial justice work. For this last piece, we will be reaching out to other organizations as well as professors on campus who are involved with racial justice work.
Public TalkDesigning America's Face in the Cold WarBeverly Payeff-MaseyThursday, October 237:00 p.m.Fine Arts Building Room 306UMBCDesign historian Beverly Payeff Masey will document the intersection of post-WWII American Modernism with the international political and cultural realities of the Cold War through her talk, "Designing America's Face in the Cold War." Beverly will present the work of Buckminister Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, Chermayeff & Geismar, and George Nelson as well as other architects and design professionals who worked on behalf of the United States International Agency in creating the American presence at international expos and World's Fairs beginning in 1958. This lecture is part of BaltimoreAIA's architecture month.Film Screening & DiscussionFace of a Nation: What Happened to the World's FairMina ChowThursday, November 157:00 p.mPerforming Arts & Humanities Building, Room 132UMBCThe CADVC will screen Mina Chow's film, "Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair" which explores the controversy surrounding American participation in World's Fairs. Mina's film has been presented at a number of film festivals so it's a treat to show this on campus. We're delighted that Mina will join us.
CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century's globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.Register for an October 9th, 3:30pm EST webinar about this exciting opportunity at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cT8QQu_ITC-h9lMSLKGzfwApplications are due November 27th and can be accessed at:
The Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State University and the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México invite scholars to submit 500 word abstracts on topics related to the character of the Black Panther in his various permutations in comic books and films for a two-day conference to be held April 19th and 20th, 2019 at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Interested scholars should send their abstract to BlackPantherConference2019@gmail.com by December 1st 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 1st 2018.
The abstract of 500 words should be accompanied by:
The conference organizers are also planning a co-edited volume for publication in English and Spanish in 2020 which will include a selection of the best papers presented at the Conference. Toward that end finalized papers of 8,000 words or less in MLA style need to be submitted electronically by May 30th, 2019.
Presentations may approach the subject from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary trajectories including but not limited to: history, post-colonial studies, comparative literature, comics studies, cinema studies and cultural studies which serve to elucidate the myriad ways in which the Black Panther character has influenced popular and scholarly thought over the past half century. V
Aaron Louis Rosenberg, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México
The Institute for Policy Studies
Cordially invites you to the 42nd Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Gala
5:30 pm Reception /7:00 pm Program
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Masters of Ceremony
Noura Erakat and Tope Folarin
Acoustic music performance by
Crank LuKongo, a native D.C. band.