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Cultivating creativity, critical thinking & global Leadership: ARHU at the University of Maryland is where learning, art, culture and social justice intersect.
Join the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies on Wed, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m. for the launch of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Unseen—a feminist take on why our ties to tech often feel “creepy.”
go.umd.edu/technocreep
Promotional graphic for an event titled “Being Human in the Age of A.I.” Moderated by ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan. Text reads: “Thursday, October 9, 2025. Round Table Discussion: 3:30–4:30 PM. Taliaferro Hall Library (Room 1126).” Bottom right corner features the ARHU Pop Up Discussion logo with a red, white, yellow, and black arrow design. Background is dark blue fading to black with glowing white and cyan text.
Join ARHU Dean Stephanie Shonekan and panelists this Thursday, Oct. 9, 3:30–4:30 p.m., to explore how the College of Arts and Humanities examines AI through humanistic and social science perspectives—examining its impact and creatively using its tools. arhu.umd.edu/events/arhu-...
06.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The HPV vaccine prevents cancer—but uptake remains far below national goals.
Professor of Communication Xiaoli Nan has earned a $2.8M NIH grant to lead an interdisciplinary team developing an AI-powered chatbot to support parents in making informed choices.
Read more: arhu.umd.edu/news/umd-res...
Have you voted yet for your favorite #JaneAusten heroine? @umdhistory.bsky.social Prof Julie Taddeo takes part in @uk.theconversation.com #FightClub! @umd-arhu.bsky.social
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In honor of Jacob Lawrence's birthday, we're throwing it waayyy back to 2011 when The David C. Driskell Center hosted a survey exhibition of his prints from 1963-2000. Check out the installation shots of the exhibition, or explore pieces in the permanent collection go.umd.edu/21wx.
08.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In honor of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, Dr. Julie Taddeo and other Regency era scholars were featured in The Conversation UK's "Jane Austen Fight Club." Continue reading to learn who Dr. Taddeo chose as her ultimate Jane Austen heroine! theconversation.com/who-was-jane...
21.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
What makes smart tech creepy?
Professor Neda Atanasoski, chair of @wgss-umd.bsky.social, recently joined KPFA's "Against the Grain" to unpack surveillance, ethics and the politics of "technocreep."
Support students at Hollywood Elementary with the ARHU Staff Council's annual School Supply Drive! We're collecting backpacks, pencils, notebooks, and more. Drop-off locations on campus. Find out how you can help: go.umd.edu/arhuschooldr... #UMD #ARHU #CommunityService #SchoolSupplyDrive
07.08.2025 17:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Ten years ago, a new musical changed Broadway forever. We're revisiting this article about UMD history professor Richard Bell, an expert in the American Revolution, who shares what "Hamilton" gets right—and wrong—about our founding fathers. brnw.ch/21wUIss #Hamilten
06.08.2025 16:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you want to hear a podcast featuring me talking about Tolkien and the far right, have I got something for you.
21.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
SPAN448M: Contemporary Puerto Rican Musicality: From Plena to Bad Bunny explores lyrics, performance, and the impact of genres like bomba, plena, salsa, reggaetón and more.
📚 Prof. Quintero-Herencia
🗓️ Fall 2025
📍 UMD Spanish & Portuguese
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Drawing from black avant-garde poetic traditions and led by Marissa Parham, the “Remixed Poetry towards Computational Literacies”workshop put remix skills and digital literacy at the forefront.
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In a session on Embodied Teaching as Radical Practice. Tamisha Ponder, owner of Sankofa Yoga and Wellness, shared this Thomas Merton quote. Ponder studies the physiological responses of those doing organizing and activism to the stress of the work. She considers educators as activists.
18.07.2025 16:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We are not authoritarian figures in the classroom. Students are not passive. Authority is shared.” - Tony Louis on “Cultivating Joy: Centering Ecstasy and Pleasure in the Classroom.”
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“The journey is also to the teacher and beyond. It’s always a path to the heart.” -bell hooks
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Dr. Tamisha J. Ponder led the group in a grounding and centering exercise and shared that bell hooks was inspired by Thich Nat Han. hooks said: “He met rage with loving kindness.”
18.07.2025 14:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The institute, called “Teaching To Transgress,” is convened in the spirit of bell hooks, who said that the classroom remains the most radical space in the academy.
18.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“To be a leader you have to be grounded in a study of the humanities” - Dr. Quincy Mills at the Third Annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute organized by the Frederick Douglass Center For Leadership Through The Humanities. Happening now!
18.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Leadership updates from Dean Stephanie Shonekan:
🎓 Christina Hanhardt - Chair, American Studies
🎶 Jared Rawlings – Director, School of Music
🎨 Justin Strom – Art, Chair
more updates & thanks to outgoing leaders!
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Looking for your next summer read? 📚 Terp alums from @umdenglish.bsky.social and American studies are making waves—from Hamptons fiction to feminist TV critique to YA thrillers. Check out new books by Brooke Foster, Vincent Stephens, Meg Eden, & Allison Stine! #UMD #TerpAuthors
11.07.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to the ARHU awardees whose #artificialintelligence research projects were among those funded through a new #UMD seed grant program. Their projects span developing sea ice monitoring techniques, to improving speech therapy for neurodiverse people and more go.umd.edu/aim-grants-25
28.05.2025 16:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Piotr Kosicki, associate professor of history, speaks to WJLA about the historical impact of the new Pope Leo XIV. Watch the interview.
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Congratulations to Professor of History Robyn Muncy, Professor of Violin James Stern and Professor of Conducting and Ensembles Michael Votta, Jr.—three ARHU professors named 2025 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers! Learn more: go.umd.edu/1z17
30.04.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy to celebrate the great research underway in ARHU at the annual Maryland Research Excellence Celebration. Glad to join with ARHU colleagues and Dean Stephanie Shonekan. Be sure to check out the great research from ARHU at arhu.umd.edu/research
02.04.2025 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Miller Center for Historical Studies presents "Making Sense of Mass Atrocities: The Meanings of Genocide in Historical And Contemporary Contexts," featuring Omer Bartov in conversation with UMD's Shibley Telhami and moderated by Peter Wien: Monday, 4/7/25 5-6:30 pm in Taliaferro Hall, Room 2110
01.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are honored that @aaas.org elected linguistics Professor Jeffrey Lidz to this year’s #AAASFellow class, one of the most distinct honors within the scientific community! Learn more: go.umd.edu/1xu5
27.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
George Pelecanos's advice to new and aspiring writers: read voraciously and live a full life! Read more takeaways from the UMD alum, an acclaimed crime novelist and co-producer of “The Wire” and other HBO series, who visited UMD yesterday!
today.umd.edu/renowned-cri... @umdenglish.bsky.social
UMD's Language & Cognition Lab is hiring a full-time Project Manager (year commitment, possible extension) to support a NSF project studying how language experience across socioeconomic status impacts children’s language processing + a NIH project on Developmental Language Disorder.
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Calling all #Bridgerton & historical #Romance fans! Join me for the next "Love on the Brain" talk on Wed., 1-2 pm (EST)
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