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Baltimore Stories: Narratives and Life of an American City: Kick-off Event

Westminster Hall, 519 W Fayette St. Baltimore, MD 21201
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM

The University of Maryland Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy, Maryland Humanities Council and their major partners will kick off Baltimore Stories, a project funded by a NEH Humanities in the Public Square grant on March 23rd. The project is designed to help examine the roles of narrative in the life and identity of the city and will produce an educational website to help educators and the public in other cities investigate the roles of narrative and race. This major event will bring together a large and diverse audience of citizens from across the city to discuss narrative, race and power.

Confirmed morning speakers include David Simon, author, journalist and creator of HBO television series The Wire, and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, historian and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The afternoon session will be a response to the morning's ideas, led by Dr. Christopher Bonner, historian at the University of Maryland, and a panel of local humanists, public intellectuals, activists and the audience.

RSVP for this event here.

The Baltimore Stories project has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.

To learn more: go.umd.edu/BmoreStories