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English Writer in Residence Lia Purpura is scheduled to present readings from her new book It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts on Friday, April 10...

Felipe Filomeno, an assistant professor of political science, has been awarded the Early Career Prize of the Economics & Politics Section of the Latin American Studies Association. The award...

Humanities Forum Thursday, April 9 | 4:00 p.m. Rebecca Adelman, Assistant Professor, Media and Communication Studies, UMBC  Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery  Editors manipulate the tiniest...

Social Sciences Forum Wednesday, April 8 | 4:00 p.m. Elizabeth Fenn, Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery  Elizabeth Fenn’s lecture tells...

For more than a quarter of a century, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has been considered the foremost authority on the American critic and journalist H.L. Mencken as well as the editor of his works....

On Thursday, April 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall, UMBC music faculty and guest join forces with students to perform the titanic Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20 by Felix Mendelssohn, and more...

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents the exhibition Out of Rubble, which reacts to the wake of war — its realities and its representations. The rubble that each war leaves behind...

On Saturday, March 28 at 4:00 p.m. in the Concert Hall, as part of the Department of Music’s Jazz Festival, the Maryland All State Jazz Band presents high school students from around the state...

On Friday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall, as part of the Department of Music’s Jazz Festival, the UMBC Jazz Faculty Ensemble will perform an eclectic concert of creative, improvised...

UMBC’s Department of Theatre presents These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, directed by Nyalls Hartman. Performances will be presented March 26 through 29 in the Black Box Theatre in the...