Attention all UMBC students:

A graduate student in the Department of Geography & Environmental Systems is sponsoring a survey that looks to understand how students comprehend waste, climate change and environmental justice. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and is for UMBC graduate and undergraduate students.

The goal of the project is to see if students make connections between environmental justice, waste and climate change at universities. By understanding if those connections are made we hope to look at how to utilize power to make changes surrounding waste and environmental justice at UMBC.

Link to survey: https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_czNGVHvEwnLufVc

Please contact Mackenzie Bodman (mbodman1@umbc.edu) for more information.

For UMBC students only: Please take the following survey that looks at how students on UMBC's campus understand waste management, climate and environmental justice. 

Linked here

The deadline is December 23, 2022 and the survey should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Please contact Mackenzie Bodman mbodman1@umbc.edu for more information.

Archival Silent NOISE considers the invisible, ignored, and silenced areas of our artistic disciplines.  By exploring approaches to re-visibilizing and reimagining the archives of our disciplines in the field and in the classroom, Archival Silent Noise will create a space to honor and generate joyful noise and good trouble.  Submissions from any academic and artistic discipline are welcome. We also invite professionals in nonacademic settings to submit proposals. We are looking for proposals for panel discussions, workshops, conversations, papers, essays, happenings, and artistic presentations.

Professor's Dr. Kalima Young (EMF) and Ada Pinkston (Arts Education) have been selected to be Towson University's new College of Fine Arts and Communications Co-Lab Directors from 2021- 2024.

Please consider submitting a proposal and circulating it to interested parties: https://invisiblearchitectures.com/open-call/

The CFP is free and open to faculty and students.

Archival Silent NOISE will take place on Towson University's campus over four days. Conference Dates: April 13 - 16, 2023. 

Proposal Due January 17th

TO APPLY, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS GOOGLE FORM https://forms.gle/1QUuy74dM5yZ2Yvy7

Take a break from studying, have some pizza, and join HCST to watch and discuss There's Something in the Water. Discussion about environmental racism and how to narrate environmental problems to reach a broad audience led by Mirjam Voerkelius (UMBC HCST & History). 

Baltimore Field School 2.0 creates a framework for UMBC graduate students, staff, and faculty to collaborate with community partners in building ethical and sustainable research and teaching projects focused on public humanities. The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has awarded a public engagement grant of over $150,000 to support Baltimore Field School (BFS) 2.0: Undoing & Doing Anew in Public Humanities. The award will further develop a planning intensive that moves away from extractive research models and helps build ongoing Baltimore-based humanities projects. The grant will fund collaborative projects developed with community fellows and will focus on food and land justice, racial equity, and journalism/public information. As part of UMBC's Public Humanities program, the innovative field school and community fellows project is led by Sarah Fouts (principal investigator), Nicole King (co-investigator), Jasmine Braswell (project coordinator), and Tahira Mahdi (evaluator). The award will broaden the reach of the Baltimore Field School (BFS), launched through a $125,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2020. 

Today we proudly announce our new cohort of eight Community Fellows:

• Betty Bland-Thomas of South Baltimore Partnership. Bland-Thomas will work with Courtney Hobson.

• Yesenia Mejia of Creative Alliance. Yesenia will work with Tania Lizarazo. 

• Curtis Eaddy II of Presidential Brands. Curtis will work with Bill Shewbridge. 

• Eddie Conway and Cameron Granadino of Real News Network. Eddie and Cameron will work with Beth Saunders. 

• Tisha Guthrie of Poppleton Now and Baltimore's Renters United. Tisha will work with Nicole King.

• Lisa Snowden of Baltimore Beat. Lisa will work with Jasmine Braswell.

• Aishah Alfadhalah of Mera Kitchen Collective. Aishah will work with Sarah Fouts.

• Eric Jackson of the Black Yield Institute. Brother Eric will work with Charlotte Keniston. 

Eleven UMBC graduate students, staff, and junior faculty in the social sciences and humanities will receive a $3,000 stipend for their participation in the Baltimore Field School 2.0 in Summer 2023. Applications for this workshop will open in December 2022.

Full descriptions of the Community Fellows, their projects, and our BFS 2.0 team are included on the BFS website: http://baltimorefieldschool.org/ Inquiries and questions can be directed to Sarah Fouts: sfouts@umbc.edu.

Full press release is attached.