College of Arts and Humanities

The Pryvat Spyrit of America, from Dissent to Interpretation

Anne Arundel Hall Lower Lounge

Friday, September 26, 2014 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Prof. Harpham’s talk seeks to understand the singular place of privilege that America has accorded to the humanities.

Geoffrey Harpham Meet and Greet

2115 Tawes Hall

Friday, September 26, 2014 - 10:00 AM to 11:30 PM

Prof. Harpham will ENGL faculty and students on Friday, Sept. 26, at 10-11:30AM in Tawes 2115.

British Performances on Stage & Screen: Secrets & Lies (1996)

1100 Tawes Hall

Monday, September 22, 2014 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

A young woman searches for her mother, who gave her up for adoption at birth, fearful of even laying eyes on her. But as they are about to abruptly discover, the daughter is black; the mother white. And now the future, as well as the past, needs sorting out.

CMLT Colloquium: Migration and Trauma

Tawes 3134

Friday, September 19, 2014 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Student initiated and facilitated with faculty consultation, the second meeting of the annual Comparative Literature colloquium, "Trauma and Global Literature" (CMLT 788B) will meet this Friday, from 1-3 in 3134 Tawes.

Robert Kurzban: Strategic morality

Bioscience Research Building 1103

Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM

Robert Kurzban will present evidence for the view that people adopt moral positions based on calculations of their self-interest.

Quinn Harr: Epistemic Modals, and Semantic Content

1115 Skinner Hall

Monday, September 15, 2014 - 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM

Come hear Quinn Harr discuss epistemic models, counterfactual data, and embedding data.

RE-THINKING COLLEGE PARK

9/15/14

by Lexie Schapitl, The Diamondback

Students and staff members discussed improving Route 1 at the arts and humanities college’s Center for Synergy Thinkathon on Friday afternoon.

Organizers hosted the Thinkathon at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as part of the 2014 NextNOW Fest in hopes of learning what students want to experience while attending this university.

“We’ve invited them to come and weigh in on arts and culture and how they feel arts and culture could transform Route 1,” said Monique Everette, director of marketing and communications at the arts and humanities college.

About 20 students, in majors from music and studio art to computer science and engineering, attended the Thinkathon to voice their opinions, recommending an enhanced downtown area and increased green space in the city.

“They didn’t say, ‘We want a traditional college town,’ but that’s what they described,” said Sheri Parks, associate dean for research, interdisciplinary scholarship and programming at the college’s Center for Synergy. “They want to be able to do things on Route 1 besides drink and eat pizza.”

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