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The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC promotes interdisciplinary research and scholarship.

10/28/2026

In Spring 2021, William Youmans (George Washington University)was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Dresher Center for the Humanities through our Inclusion Imperative Program. For the semester, Will conducted research for a documentary about an unsolved 1985 assassination.

Just released, "Who Killed Alex Odeh?" reopens the mystery of the unsolved assassination of Palestinian American Alex Odeh, a teacher and community leader in Santa Ana, CA, in 1985.

The SNF Parkway and Baltimore Artists Against Apartheid are hosting a Baltimore community screening on Saturday, November 21 at 7pm.

https://snfparkway.org/?eventive_modal=event&eventive_id=6acfa6c64ee7c5952acbc471

10/22/2026

On Monday, October 26 at noon, Jason Loviglio, professor of media and communication studies and a Fall 2026 Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellow, will share his work as a part of CURRENTS.

In his presetation, Loviglio will share how AI vocal technologies represent the latest, and strangest, chapter in the long history of gendered technology and technological gender.

Smart speaker as Cassandra: Feminized voices and technologies of domestic containment

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/currents/upcoming/event/158554/

10/21/2026

Our next Humanities Forum is coming up in two weeks. Nishant Upadhyay from the University of Colorado, Boulder will discuss their recent book, Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity.

Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada.

Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 5pm

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/events/event/154895/

10/20/2026

Our next CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now session is taking place tomorrow at noon. Join us in-person or online as Brian Van Wyck, assistant professor of history and a Fall 2026 Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellow, as he presents a talk that examines the life story of a Kurdish Alevi teacher from Turkey who emigrated to West Germany and whose advocacy work shaped German policy toward Islam in the 1970s and 1980s.

Transnational Racialization: A Case Study from Turkish-German Migration History

Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at noon in PAHB 216 or online via WebEx

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/currents/upcoming/event/158993/

10/15/2026

From being told not to speak Spanish in high school to confronting the current anti-immigrant environment, associate professor Thania Muñoz D. pivots to celebrate the creativity of Latin American and immigrant authors who rise to tell their story.

You can read more at UMBC News. 🔗 in our bio.

Drawing on years of research, Thania Muñoz D.'s new book, Across Canons: Language, Latin American Immigrant Literature, and the Making of Latinx...

10/09/2026

The Dresher Center for the Humanities is happy to share our 2025-2026 Annual Report. We had a very productive year and extend our thanks to everyone who made it possible.

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/news/post/163747/

10/08/2026

Join the Critical Disability Studies Minor for a mini-zine workshop with Jen White-Johnson

Zines (ZEEN) are non-commerical, small-circulation magazines which their creators produce, publish and distribute themselves. Mini zines that explore and express our own stories of justice and how they intersect with design, community building, joy, belonging, and access. How will our zine creations amplify overshadowed disabled narratives, holding space for conversations on Feminism, Disability Design Futures, LGBTQ+, Anti-Racism, Disability Justice,equity, belonging, access, and collective liberation for all.

October 21 from 12-1pm

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/events/event/158552/

10/07/2026

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is currently being staged through November 8 at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. This coming Sunday at 1:15pm, UMBC's very own Orianne Smith will give a pre-show talk where she will explore Mary Shelley’s life, relationships, and the extraordinary circumstances that inspired Frankenstein.

Following the talk, join us for a Q&A and dive deeper into the story behind one of literature’s most enduring creations.

Tickets can be purchased on their website.

https://www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com/shows-tickets/frankenstein/

10/06/2026

Join the Dresher Center for our first "Humanities at Play" event where we Decolonize your Board Games.

On October 14, we will play the semi-cooperative board game, Wolves, where players work together to ensure our collective survival through the winter. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to participate.

This is a companion event to this afternoon's Humanities Forum with Jodi Byrd.

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/events/event/158734/

10/05/2026

In October and November, Dr. Keegan Finberg's senior/graduate seminar, "Work and Contemporary Literature," invites the broader UMBC community to join three discussions on new books about work. Authors will be joining via Zoom.

This Tuesday, the class will discuss Amy De'Ath's recent book, "Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Captalist Abstraction." In this study, De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions – by what happens "behind our backs." Challenging the symptomatic interpretive methods of Western Marxism, De'Ath argues that value-critical accounts of Marx's work enable a feminist reading method that understands how value dissimulates itself from the social forms it generates, obscuring their historical content.

Join the Department of English on Tuesday, October 6 at 5:30pm in the Dresher Center Conference Room.

https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/partner-events/event/158566/

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