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Author Roxane Gay to speak at the 26th annual MLK Convocation
Roxane Gay, a critically acclaimed author, will speak at Loyola University Maryland’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, at 7 p.m. in McGuire Hall.
In her lecture, “Roxane Gay With One N,” the author will discuss social issues as it relates to her ongoing work in feminism, body image, and social justice. A book signing will follow the lecture. This event is free and open to the public; however, tickets are required and should be reserved by Jan. 16, 2019. To get tickets, visit www.loyola.edu/mlk.
Advocacy As Fundraising Development Roundtable
You're invited to GBCA's next Development Roundtable! Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Nicholas Cohen (Maryland Citizens for the Arts) and Nicholas Redding (Preservation Maryland) about how effective advocacy strategies with policymakers can lead to successful fundraising as well as the inverse - wherein effective fundraising efforts can result in increased participation with advocacy.
WHO: Nicholas Cohen, Maryland Citizens for the Arts. Click link for bio.
Nicholas Redding, Preservation Maryland. Click link for bio.
Sadie B. Feldman Family Lecture: Refugees and America: Past, Present, and Future
Help us mark UNESCO International Holocaust Remembrance Day as Mark Hetfield of HIAS and Anne Richard, former Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration in the Obama Administration, discuss immigration in American, past, present, and future.
MICA Mixed Media Speaker Series: Martha Rosler
The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is bringing artists, designers, scholars, curators and educators to campus as apart of its spring 2019 Mixed Media Speaker Series. The first artist is Martha Rosler, who works in video, photography, text, installation and performance. She will participate in a public lecture.
Sadie B. Feldman Family Lecture: Where the Birds Never Sing
Join us as author Jack Sacco shares the realistic, harrowing, at times horrifying, and ultimately triumphant tale of an American GI in World War II as seen through the eyes of his father, Joe Sacco — a farm boy from Alabama who landed at Omaha Beach, fought his way through Europe, and liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. Presented in partnership with the Baltimore Jewish Council.
Booklovers' Breakfast featuring James Forman
Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. Since 2011, Forman has taught constitutional law and a course called “Race, Class, and Punishment” at Yale Law School. A graduate of Brown University and Yale Law School, he worked as a law clerk for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. His book, Locking Up Our Own, was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. Admissions: $60.00 per person; Table of 10 $550. VIP $100 per person.
A Hot Time In the Old Town: the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 with Historian Wayne Schaumburg
On a cold Sunday in February, 1904, a gentleman flicked his cigar butt on the sidewalk in front of Hurst’s dry goods store where today’s Royal Farms Arena now stands. This particular everyday act, however, turned catastrophic as one of the glass “eyes” in the sidewalk meant to bring light into a storage space below was missing. The still smoldering cigar fell right through the open hole and landed on a box of dry goods. The resulting fire burned for more than a day, destroyed over 1500 buildings and caused damages in the order of $100 million (in 1904 dollars).
Indelible Images: The Quest for Saving African American Photographs
Ross J. Kelbaugh has been an avid collector of 19th and early 20th century photography for over 45 years. Part of his collecting has focused on African American photographs, which has enabled him to amass one of the most important collections, including a number of national treasures. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will feature his collection in a major exhibition this fall. This lecture will introduce some of his discoveries and the stories behind these national treasures.
Time Travel Tours
In January, 2018, the Peale received a mysterious package which included detailed plans on how to build a 200-year time machine.
The decision was made to follow the plans and build the time machine in secret. After nine-months of construction at a remote location, the time machine has been thoroughly tested and proven safe, and we are thrilled to now offer Time Travel Tours to the general public, as well as researchers, educators and historians.
One-Man Performance, Devin Allen: Space of the Un-Entitled
Hear the artist and photographer Devin Allen talk and perform as he muses about his exhibition "Devin: Allen, Spaces of the Un-Entitled. The exhibition is a visual analysis of architecture and its impact on people of impoverished communities and runs at the Peale from February 7 – March 22, 2019. The event costs $20, and the exhibition is free to the public.
"A Cello Named Pablo"
Children’s Book Reading with Cellist Amit Peled
From the basketball courts of rural Israel to the grand symphony halls of the world playing one of the most famous string instruments of all time, cellist Amit Peled will read about his story with the cello and legacy of the great Pablo Casals and how dreams can come true!
David Driskell: Memories of Romare Bearden
Dr. David C. Driskell, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of African-American art, will give a lecture discussing his personal memories of Romare Bearden and his incredible works as an artist. Discover Bearden through the eyes of a friend and one of America’s greatest art scholars.
A Little Vienna in Shanghai
Join Dr. Meredith Oyen as she explores the many paths Jewish refugees took to arrive in Shanghai, explains how they experienced the war and the postwar transitions, and discusses how China now remembers its part in their rescue through the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum.
It's More Than History! - From Dry Documents to Full Lives
From Dry Documents to Full Lives - Illuminating the Lives of the Enslaved and Their Descendants
This illustrated lecture shows the broad range of historic records, archival materials, photographs, and other sources used to explore the lives of the enslaved and document their descendants. Based on work from the Hampton Ethnography Project, Weidman will show the step-by-step research that can lead to discovering fuller histories of the enslaved and to identify family groups and the lives of descendants.
The History of the NAACP: The Baltimore Connection
Enjoy a living history performance, film and talk about the NAACP and its leaders from the Jim Crow and Civil Rights era. See a living history performance of activist Juanita Jackson Mitchell, hear a lecture on the Baltimore branch by Professor Prudence Cumberbatch and conclude with a film screening of Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & The NAACP (57 min). NAACP artifacts and panels covering 97 years of Maryland history will be on view.
China Through Yiddish Eyes
Join Dr. Kathryn Hellerstein as she explores the poems and travel writings of Melech Ravitch from his visit to China in 1935. Ravitch was one of Warsaw’s most influential literary figures in the interwar period. His vivid, sometimes disturbing writings helps readers experience his own wonder at the novelty of traveling to these fabled places while drawing connections and a sense of familiarity between his Yiddish readers and der vayter mizrakh (the Far East).
Sara Ahmed: "Complaint as Diversity Work"
UMBC Humanities Forum — Joan S. Korenman Lecture
“Complaint as Diversity Work”
Sara Ahmed, independent feminist scholar and writer
Tuesday, February 19, 7 p.m.
Recital Hall, Fine Arts Building