Dear Students,

Apply for Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. This will be a new annual two-day event at our main campus in Baltimore, Maryland and it will offer students across the country the chance to disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. Our event will be this spring, April 3^rd and 4^th, 2020 and our application portal is now open. 

This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. We hope to have 400 participants this year and will also be offering a select number of travel grants to help students afford participation. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), we will also have a wonderful keynote delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring graduate students and faculty in our humanities departments and centers. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend.

You can learn more at our conference site: https://krieger.jhu.edu/macksey-symposium/. I would also be glad to answer any questions you might have! This is just a one-time email, but if you would like to receive updates on the symposium, our mailing list is available at this link.

Best,

Natalie

Natalie Strobach, Ph.D.

Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly & Creative Activity (URSCA)

Director of the Humanities Collaboratory

Hopkins Site Director for the Amgen Scholars Program

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles Street, N703 Wyman Park Bldg. | Baltimore, MD 21218 

E-mail: mackseysymposium@jh.edu

Lisa Dougherty

Undergraduate Research Coordinator

Phone: 410-516-5097

To learn more about our programs see:  https://krieger.jhu.edu/ursca/

In conjunction with the exhibition Distal’s Musk: Rosy Keyser (more here), currently on view at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture from October 31 through December 14, the CADVC presents a lecture by the artist. 

The lecture will be held in the gallery space of the CADVC.

Rosy Keyser (born 1974 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a Brooklyn-based, American contemporary painter and sculptor, known for working in large-scale gestural, tactile abstraction. Frequently incorporating found detritus in her work such as beer cans, tarp, and sawdust, Keyser’s work investigates the tensions, instability, and transformations inherent in painting and sculpture. She is represented by CFA, Berlin and Maccarone Gallery in New York. Keyser has exhibited at institutions including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, and Ballroom Marfa, Texas, and has work in collections of several institutions, including The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, MI,The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom.

Admission to the lecture is free.

Plan Your Visit

UMBC is located about 10 minutes south of the Inner Harbor along I-95.

The CADVC is located in the Fine Arts Building. Free parking for this event is available in Lot 8, across from the Performing Arts and Humanities Building.

Please note: UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors.  If you would like to request accommodations (e.g., ASL interpreters, captioning, wheelchair access, etc.) for this event due to a disability, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make arrangements for program access. Please contact CADVC at cadvc@umbc.edu or 410-455-3188 with your specific request and be sure to mention the event title, date, and time.