I will post approved out-of-class presentations on this website. I am also open to suggestions, but all out-of-class presentations must be approved by me. Students should submit one-to-two paragraph evaluation of each event to my email account (lindenme@umbc.edu). This should be an evaluation, NOT simply a summary. Remember, you must submit a one-paragraph evaluation within one week of the event to earn credit. You may earn up to 20 extra credit points in this category. Be sure to frequently check this page for new opportunities. You must submit your last evaluation by midnight April 26, 2003.
Approved Events
February 11, 7:30-10:30 pm
Synopsis of the Documentary
On a Sunday morning, September 15,
1963, while attending Sunday school in Birmingham, Alabama, four little
girls were brutally murdered
when a bomb ripped through the
basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Dead were Addie Mae
Collins (14), Carole Denise McNair
(11), Cynthia Wesley (14) and Carole
Rosamond Robertson (14). The bombing was one in a series of racially
motivated attacks across the
country, and one that had a
tremendous impact on America. Told through the eyes of people who were
there--survivors, witnesses, defenders
and prosecutors--this account
records the impact and aftermath of this senseless act.
February 18, 19 and 20 at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3
p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. (a Black History Month Event)
Movie: "And Still I Rise"
The Women's Center, RAC 226
Sponsor: The Women's Center
For more information contact Mikhel Kushner at ext. 52714.
February 19 at 7 p.m. (a Black History Month Event)
Speaker: Congressman Elijah Cummings
The Commons, Skylight Room
Come out and here the words of our own Congressman Cummings as he speaks
about using our past to pave the way to our future. For more information
contact Abigail Aiyepola at
abigaila@hotmail.com.
February 21 (a Black History Month Event)
Cornell West at Morgan State University
Sponsor: Office of Student Life
Transportation will be provided on a first come first serve basis.
Tickets are $5 and are available in the Office of Student Life. For more
information contact Lee Hawthorne at ext. 51754.
February 24,
Monday (Public Television Documentary)
American Experience presents "The Pill"
The documentary will premier on PBS television stations.
See the local listings for exact time the program will be aired.
Learn more about the film online at:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill
February 28 at 1 p.m. (a Black History Month Event)
Movie: "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
The Commons 2B10
Sponsor: Office of Diversity and Social Justice Initiatives
For more information contact Danette Gerald at ext. 53918
Tuesday 4 March 2003 4:00 pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC University of Maryland Baltimore
County "Atomic Culture: Cold War Civil Defense" JAYNE LOADER, Co-Master
of Quincy House, Harvard College In 1977 Jayne Loader joined Kevin
Rafferty and Pierce Rafferty to produce a documentary based on 10,000
U.S. Government Films on nuclear attack and civil defense. The Atomic
Café, using only original audio and video with no narration, debuted in
1982 to critical acclaim worldwide. It has been shown continuously
since, and was recently released on DVD.
Wednesday 5 March 2003 1100-1150 am
Fine Arts 006 UMBC
Join Jayne Loader and Prof. Joseph N. Tatarewicz for an extended
discussion of Civil Defense then and now.
Sponsors
Center for the Humanities
Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery
The Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Department of History
Department of English
The Cold War Museum
March 5, at 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
"One Year Later: RAWA, Afghan Women and the Continued Need for
Resistance"
Cabaret, The Commons
Sponsor: Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) and Women's
Studies
Tahmeena Faryal, of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of
Afghanistan (RAWA) will speak about the status of women and girls in
Afghanistan today, 18 months after September 11, 2001. NO PHOTOGRAPHS
PERMITTED
Dr. Anne Brodsky, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Affiliate
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at UMBC will be presenting with
Tahmeena Faryal at Wednesday's talk - One Year Later: RAWA, Afghan Women
and the Continued Need for Resistance. Dr. Brodsky has been working with
RAWA for 2.5 years to support their efforts to raise awareness of the
plight of Afghan women under fundamentalist oppression, give voice to
Afghan women's lives and concerns, and document the active resistance of
RAWA and other Afghan women to the Taliban and other jehadi factions,
including those now part of the interim government.
March 11th 4:30 pm, Tuesday
Commons, Skylight Room
Carol Bier will speak on Islam: Religion and Culture.
Beir will present cultural and religious issues to generate discussion
about a shared heritage of monotheism, beginning with the five pillars
of faith (creed, prayer, pilgrimage, fasting, alms-giving).
She will look at the role and significance of Islamic holy sites of
Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem.
Historian of Islamic Art, Carol Bier, served for 17 years as Curator
for Eastern Hemisphere Collection at The Textile Museum in Washington,
D.C. and has taught for 8 years about pattern in Islamic art at the
Maryland Institute College of Art.
For more information check out the
Maryland Humanities
Council website.
Sponsored by Maryland Humanities Council, UMBC Women's History Month
Planning Committee, Office of Student Life, President's Commission for
Women, Women's Studies, Women Involved in Learning and Leadership
Program, Women's Center, Center for Women and Information Technology,
English Language Center, Interdisciplinary Studies, Office of the
Provost
March 18 at 3 p.m., Tuesday
University Center, room 312
Howard Rolston,
Director of Planning Research and Evaluation, Administration for
Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
"Welfare Reform Experiments—Past, Present and Future."
Social Sciences Forum
March 19th, 1:00 pm
Commons, Cabaret
Laura Wexler, author of Fire In A Canebrake: The Last Mass
Lynching in America.
Ms. Wexler’s book is a nonfiction account of the shotgun lynching of two black men and two black women at the Moore’s Ford bridge in Walton County, Georgia, on July 25, 1946. With this masterfully written historical narrative, a gifted new author chronicles one of the most horrific racial crimes in the twentieth-century America, and offers an unforgettable portrait of a time, a place and a century.
A graduate of Penn State and the University of Kansas (masters degree in creative writing), Ms. Wexler’s work has been published in Utne Reader, Double Take, and the Oxford American. She is currently a senior editor at Style magazine and the Baldwin Writer-in-Residence at the College of Notre Dame in Baltimore.
For further information, contact Christopher Corbett in the English Department – Extension 52165 or corbett@umbc.edu.
April 15th, 7:00 pm, UC Ballroom
We are extraordinarily lucky to have Karen Armstrong
coming to UMBC. She gives only a handful of talks in the U.S. per year.
If you are interested in religion or religious studies in any way or
form, you should come. If you are interested in the Muslim world, you
should come. Ms. Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun, who has
written stunningly illuminating books on Christianity, Judaism, and
Islam. Her book "The Battle for God" on religious fundamentalism will
make you view the world in a whole new light.
April 23rd at 4:00 pm, Wednesday
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Artist, educator, philanthropist,
collector, and art historian, Professor David Driskell, is one of
the learning authorities on African American art. He has grondbreaking
exhibitions and has written extensively and lectured around the world on
this topic.
Thursday, May 1, 2003 (10-11:00 pm)---PBS
television
RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION "The Story We Tell" (part
two of three)
Tuesday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m.
BS 120 - Ms. Patricia Jessamy, States Attorney in
Baltimore City. Ms. Jessamy will discuss her career as a lawyer and the
States Attorney in Baltimore.