Baltimore Field School 2021… inaugural planning institute
The Baltimore Field School is a planning intensive focusing on building collaborative public humanities projects developed with community partners. Sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project seeks to create a model of ethical humanities research and teaching in Baltimore and cities like it. During 2021, we will focus on programming, a week-long summer institute, and a fall convening. The Baltimore Field School is committed to anti-racist and decolonial models of engagement working with communities in Baltimore.
The pilot Baltimore Field School will run for one week in summer 2021. Participants will develop or hone a new course or research project using humanities methods for publicly engaged research and programming in Baltimore. The field school will be based out of UMBC’s downtown classroom at the Lion Brothers Building in Southwest Baltimore and participants will be working with our partners Eric Jackson from Black Yield Institute and Curtis Eaddy II founder of the Beautiful Side of Ugly culture festival and the events and marketing manager for the Southwest Partnership.
Due to covid-19, the planning process and field school will involve primarily virtual programming in summer 2021.For more information contact Nicole King, Department of American Studies @ UMBC nking@umbc.edu