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For All the World to See Highlight of Addison Gallery Exhibition Series

fatwts03-sThe traveling exhibition For All the World to See: Visual Culture the Struggle for Civil Rights curated by Maurice Berger, CADVC, and organized by the CADVC opens Saturday, April 13 in the Addison Gallery of American Art of Andover, Massachusetts, and continues through July 31.

An opening reception for the exhibit, as well as two other spring exhibitions in the Addison Gallery, will take place Friday, April 26, 6 pm to 8 pm in the Addison. Additional programming inspired by the exhibition includes a panel discussion titled “Voices of a Generation: The View from Andover Hill,” featuring Phililips Academy faculty and alumni who will discuss their personal experiences as part of the American civil rights movement.

David Lansing, GES, Awarded Ashby Prize

“Performing Carbon’s Materiality: the production of carbon offsets and the framing of exchange,” an article by David Lansing, assistant professor of geography and environmental systems, has been awarded the Ashby Prize.  The Ashby Prize is awarded by the journal Environment and Planning A to the two ‘”most innovative articles” to appear during the calendar year.  Environment and Planning A, an interdisciplinary journal of urban and regional research, publishes more than 150 articles each year.

Alumna Teresa Foster Awarded Fellowship

Teresa Foster ’09, gender and women’s studies and history, ’11 M.A. historical studies, and a LLC Ph.D. candidate, is the winner of the 2013-2014 Wing Graduate Fellowship in Colonial Chesapeake History from the Maryland Historical Society.

The purpose of the Wing Fellowship is to assist a graduate student in undertaking a significant project in Chesapeake colonial history.

Shawn Bediako, Psychology, To Speak at Symposium

Shawn Bediako, associate professor of psychology, will speak at the 4th Annual Roland B. Scott Memorial Symposium.  The topic of the symposium is “Pain in Sickle Cell Disease: Pain: Myths, Facts, and Stigma.”

The symposium will take place on May 7 at the Howard University Hospital.  For more information, see the flyer below.

Bediako Talk

Department of Education and CADVC Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

UMBC’s Department of Education joins the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) to celebrate their year long K-12 Educational Outreach Collaboration with an art exhibition by students from their partnership schools.

After experiencing the CADVC gallery and/or virtual exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, the students were invited to create visual artwork, poetry, or prose for display at UMBC as well. Their work is a creative interpretation of the interaction between visual culture and social justice.

The exhibition is featured at the UMBC Commons Mezzanine Gallery beginning with an artist’s reception Thursday, April 11, 6 – 8 pm. It will be on display to the public through May 23, 2013.  The Commons is open Monday – Thursday 7:30am – 12pm, Friday 7:30am – 1am, Saturday 8am – 1am, and Sunday 10am – 11pm.

The installation features original artwork by three Baltimore City schools (Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts High School, Baltimore City College High School, and Digital Harbor High School), Mt. Hebron High School in Howard County, and Hugh M. Cummings High School in North Carolina. Baltimore City College High School, Digital Harbor High School, and Mt. Hebron High School are Professional Development School partners with UMBC’s Department of Education.

The Galleries at the Commons, UMBC are free and open to the public. For parking directions or maps, visit about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide.

Project supporters include USM Redesign of Teacher Education Grant Program, UMBC’s commonvision, and Maryland State Arts Council.

More information is available on the For All the World to See exhibition at foralltheworldtosee.org.

Constantine Vaporis, Asian Studies, Invited to Summer Institute

vaporisConstantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, has been invited to attend “India’s Past and the Making of the Present,” a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for college and university faculty sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association.

This four-week institute, which will take place in Delhi, Agra, and Varanasi  this July, is designed to be an intense, interdisciplinary engagement with Indian history and culture, providing participants with a rich interplay of resources, seminars, and site visits.  It will introduce participants to the most current scholarly perspectives on India, broadening and deepening their knowledge and understanding of Indian history and culture. The institute will also provide a solid foundation of scholarship for faculty interested in designing and teaching courses dealing with South Asia.

Vivian Ekey ’11 Chosen as Rangel Fellow

ekeyVivian Ekey ’11, political science and modern languages and linguistics, was recently chosen to be a Rangel Fellow.

The Rangel Graduate Fellowship is a program that aims to attract and prepare outstanding young people for careers in the Foreign Service in which they can help formulate, represent and implement U.S. foreign policy. Each year, the Rangel Program selects 20 outstanding Rangel Fellows in a highly competitive nationwide process and helps support them through two years of graduate study, internships and professional development activities, and entry into the Foreign Service.

Ekey will be earning an M.A in Latin American Studies and International Economics at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna school.

Piotr Gwiazda in The Nation

An excerpt from Piotr Gwiazda’s translation of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of prose poems, Kopenhaga, scheduled for publication by Zephyr Press, is scheduled to appear in the April 1, 2013 issue of The Nation.

Read a translated selection from Kopenhaga at the PEN America Center’s website: http://www.pen.org/poetry/kopenhaga.

http://www.thenation.com/authors/grzegorz-wroblewski

“Plutopia” by Kate Brown, History, Reviewed in Nature

“Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” by Kate Brown, associates professor of history, was recently reviewed by Nature.

“A multitude of…harrowing accounts fills the pages of Plutopia, a ‘hidden history’ of two communities — one American, one Soviet — that fuelled the nuclear arms race. Unusually, historian Kate Brown inter­viewed dozens of frontline workers for her meticulously researched account of how these two remote towns became indelibly linked by plutonium, and by catastrophic radioactive contamination,” the reviewer writes.

“Plutopia has important messages for those managing today’s nuclear facilities, arguing for caution and transparency,” the magazine concludes.

The full review can be read here.

Amy Froide, History, Elected President of the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies

Amy Froide, associate professor of history, has been elected President of the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS).

The MACBS is the Mid-Atlantic regional affiliate of the North American Conference on British Studies, which is a scholarly society dedicated to all aspects of the study of British civilization. The NACBS sponsors a scholarly journal, the Journal of British Studies, online publications, an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate essay contests.  The MACBS annual conference will be held at Lehman College of the City University of New York on March 23-24, 2013.

Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni Receive MSAC Individual Artist Awards

Several faculty members and alumni were awarded Individual Artist Awards by the Maryland State Arts Council this month.

The Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards are monetary prizes given to a select group of artists each year. This year the Maryland Art Council welcomed applications from artists working in fiction, painting, media/digital/electronic arts, solo theatrical performance and works on paper. Recipients in the media/digital/electronic arts category include:

  • Kelley Bell ’06, MFA IMDA, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
  • Carrie Fucile, Adjunct faculty, Visual Arts
  • Agnes Moon ’99, MFA IMDA
  • Phil Davis ’07, MFA IMDA
  • Christine Ferrera ’10, MFA IMDA

Recipients in the works on paper category include:

  • Lisa Moren, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
  • Leslie Shellow, Adjunct faculty, Visual Arts
  • Gary Kachadourian ’12, MFA IMDA

The Maryland State Arts Council will host an event honoring the awardees in May.

Congratulations to all!

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