Nicole King In 2025, UMBC’s Public Humanities program entered a pivotal phase of restructuring, increased recognition, and expanded teaching and community engagement. The most significant development was the merger of the Public Humanities Minor with the Orser Center for the Study of …
In June 2024, Sarah Fouts presented as part of an online professional development workshop series titled “Teaching the Publicly-Engaged Humanities to Undergraduates.” Organized by HumanitiesX, DePaul University’s Experiential Humanities Collaborative, and the Public and Applied Humanities Program at the University …
Baltimore Field School (BFS) 2.0: Undoing and Doing Anew in Public Humanities MONDAY, July 17 Meet at The Lion Brothers Building, 875 Hollins St MORNING (10:00am – 12pm)@ The Lion Brothers Building (875 Hollins St – entrance on Poppleton Street) …
Join us at The Real News Network on April 26 at 6pm for the debut of the “To Say Their Own Word” Archival Project! Register HERE. In 1980 Marshall “Eddie” Conway (April 23, 1946 – February 13, 2023) helped organize a prisoners’ educational …
About this event… Central question: How could scholars work with journalists and organizers to better serve the public and share access to public information without being extractive? Join us for a discussion on how independent media outlets can reimagine journalism and …
MoreBFS 2021 Culminating Event: Scholarly Reportage and the End of Extraction
We have so many great BFS events in November 2021 offered by fellows, consultants, and partners… including our culminating event on November 30, 2021. See below: Join us for a special edition of the lunchtime series, CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now, …
Summer Institute – June 21 – 25, 2021 Programming for the 2021 Baltimore Field School will be virtual and panels recorded with participants permission. All texts are suggestions for contextualizing the work of the summer institute. We will be focused …
The Baltimore Field School kickoff event A View from Somewhere: Moving Towards Anti-Extractive Fieldwork Approaches was Tuesday, April 20 at 5:30pm in partnership with Red Emma’s bookstore and cafe. If you missed it, check out the video on Red Emma’s YouTube page: VIDEO …
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 5:30 – 7pm via zoom webinar host by Red Emma’s Bookstore & Cafe You can register at eventbrite and find info on the event facebook page. Now more than ever, journalism that resists extractive, exploitive, and tokenistic practices …
Expose the question, the answer hides. –James Baldwin, “The Creative Process,” 1962 The Inaugural Baltimore Field School, June 21 – 25, 2021 Theme: Community Control of Land, Community Control of Stories How can scholars and university students support land sovereignty …
MoreBFS THEME 2021: Community Control of Land, Community Control of Stories