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Humanities Days 2020 at MC

October 26–30
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Welcome to Our 8th Annual Event

See a list and more information for all all our virtual events.

For additional help with registration, please contact troy.shaw@montgomerycollege.edu.


Humanities Days Opening Reception

Tuesday, October 20, 4–5 p.m.

Celebrate the humanities. Connect with the Humanities Days committee to learn more about participating in this year’s unique week-long virtual event.

Facilitators: Humanities Days Committee Members
Contact: Sara.Ducey@montgomerycollege.edu

Humanities Days is sponsored by the Global Humanities and the Paul Peck Humanities Institutes at Montgomery College.

Special HD 2020 Project

By participating in this year's events, you will be contributing to our first-ever Humanities Days' Time Capsule comprised of our HD@MC presentations, conversations, and interactive workshops that will be recorded. There are opportunities to submit your poetry, prose and digital objects as well. This is one more way that MC can provide leadership, looking back and looking toward the future. Follow and record history in our time capsule at #MCHD2020 and #HumanitiesDays.

Presentations Dialogues Workshops Panels

This year’s programming focuses on: Healing Nature, Healing Ourselves; Personal Freedoms and the Collective Good; Capitalism and Economic Justice; Art, Music and Poetry as Transformative Activism; Role of Historical Artifacts in a Changing Society; Our Stories of Isolation and Resilience; Dissecting Data in the Age of Political Polarization; History Revisited; and Change Beyond Our Borders.

For additional help with registration, please contact troy.shaw@montgomerycollege.edu.

Tuesday, October 20 click for schedule and registration

Humanities Days Opening Day Events

Monday, October 26 click for schedule and registration

  1. “Why I Vote” Hands-On Quilt Workshop
  2. Civil Rights and Social Justice in the 21st Century: From Symbols and Slogans to Tangible and Sustainable Progress
  3. Navigate the News! Understand Why and How to Think Critically About the News
  4. Time Capsule Workshop Part I: Collecting Thoughts

Tuesday, October 27 click for schedule and registration

  1. Video: Votes for Women! ​ Student produced (video and discussion to follow)​
  2. Seeding Change from the Ground Up: ​ Reimagining Food, Agri(culture) and ​ Human Sustainability with Eco City Farms
  3. Looted Art from Napoleon to the Nazis: ​ Will it Ever be Returned?​
  4. Radical Vulnerability: Talking Openly about Racism
  5. Creativity, Analysis, and Community: Student Essays on Literature from the Sligo Journal
  6. Monuments and Public Memory: ​ A Conversation between Art Historian ​ Dr. Sarah Beetham and Artist Ada Pinkston
  7. Speak Truth to Power Open Mic for Domestic Violence Awareness ​ (Open Mic: Spoken Word on Sexual Assault Awareness)​
  8. Movie and Discussion: “No Mas Bebes ​ (No More Babies)” Documentary

Wednesday, October 28 click for schedule and registration

  1. Fists of Fabric: ​ Quilts as Tools of Social Justice
  2. History Revisited: Discovering the Last Speakers of Lesser Antillean French Creole in the Anglophone and Hispanophone Americas
  3. Digital Stories: Activism and Coping with the Pandemic

Thursday, October 29 click for schedule and registration

  1. Virtual Party to the Polls
  2. Stories of Immigration: Germany and the United States: Reviving Common Intercultural Histories and Identities
  3. 8th Annual MC Ethics Essay Contest
  4. Artists Speak to the Middle Passage​
  5. In Honor of Those Who Survived COVID — Generative Poetry Workshop​
  6. Found in Translation: Discovering the Challenges and Joys of Translating Poetry

Friday, October 30 click for schedule and registration

  1. Virtual Party to the Polls​
  2. Vinnie Ream — Ambition fuels a young artist through obstacles to opportunities
  3. The Road to Unfreedom​ A book discussion with Professor Sowards​
  4. Bringing the Cool of Meditation to the ​ Heat of the Moment​
  5. Time Capsule Workshop Part II:​ Collecting Digital Objects​
  6. Presidential Politics and Public Health – Lessons from the Past and Present
  7. Civil Rights and Social Justice in the 21st Century: From Symbols and Slogans to Tangible and Sustainable Progress

 

The humanities help us understand ourselves and others through language, history, and culture. They have the capacity to foster social justice and equality and they reveal how people throughout me have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of the world.  Amidst the challenges of a worldwide pandemic, worldwide protests and economic dislocations, we offer our eighth Annual Humanities Days at Montgomery College (HD@MC), Together/Apart: Creating Spaces for Understanding and Reimaging Society.

 

MC Disclosure

Here are the facts about this week’s Humanities Days virtual presentations, dialogues, workshops, and panels and privacy as it relates to Zoom and your participation:

  • Please note that this event will be recorded (with the exception of two workshops titled Speak Truth to Power Open Mic for Domestic Violence Awareness and Stories of Immigration: Germany and the United States: Reviving Common Intercultural Histories and Identities). By participating in this event, you automatically consent to such recording. If you do not consent to being recorded, you may join, but do not connect your microphone or enter text into the attendee chat. Please discuss any concerns with the host.
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