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
A conversation on food access and land sovereignty with Chris Newman of Sylvanaqua Farms and Brother Eric Jackson of Black Yield Institute. Moderated by Jamyla Krempel of WYPR. Sponsored by UMBC’s Introduction to Public Humanities.
Public humanities projects focus on the “public good” and the belief that we are in it (humanity) together. Yet human society is neither equitable nor fair. It takes immense collective and collaborative work to engage broad perspectives and publics and …