BmoreArt’s Picks: November 18-24
This Week: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins lecture at UMBC, BSO’s Symphony in the City at Hopkins, With Us For Us in conversation with Nia K. Evans at UMBC, BLIFTD ART STVDIOS one year anniversary celebration, MAP Under $2500 benefit + auction, BMA Ball + After Party, AVAM’s 30th Birthday Bash, Fall of Freedom talks at Connect+Collect, and Daoure Diongue + J.M. Giordano film/performance at 2640 Space — PLUS Neighborhood Design Center seeks proposals for Placemaking & Placekeeping Conference and more featured opportunities!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: Dark Times: The Uses and Abuses of History in an Authoritarian Era
Tuesday, November 18 :: 4-5:30pm
@ UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library
Until recently, the history profession has expressed skepticism about using history to understand contemporary events. Fear of political bias, anachronism and simply bad historical comparisons were behind such skepticism. Moreover, there were concerns that doing the history of the present would cause students to lose interest in the distant historical past–a worry inseparable from the drop in number of students majoring in history. On these grounds so called “presentism” was considered anathema to the discipline. However, Brexit, Covid 19, and the current political turn toward authoritarianism, have led to an explosion of historical works attempting to make sense of the booming buzzing confusion of the present moment. At the same time, many historians have excelled at using historical comparisons to illuminate the current order of things. This lecture explains the origins of the recent turn to the present in the professional study of history, while looking at its promises and perils for the field.
BSO Presents Symphony in the City at Johns Hopkins
Wednesday, November 19 :: 7:30pm
@ Johns Hopkins Turner Auditorium
Assistant Conductor Jiannan Cheng makes her debut leading the BSO in a free community concert featuring works by Coleridge-Taylor, Debussy, Grieg, Price, and Vaughan Williams. Presented in collaboration with Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Pedagogy Study Hall: With Us For Us in conversation with Nia K. Evans of the Boston Ujima Project
Thursday, November 20 :: 6-8pm
@ UMBC
With Us For Us is a coalition of community advocates, students, and labor unions formed to build community power in Baltimore through community wealth building. The coalition was formed to address Baltimore City’s inequitable economic development practices and create a reparative economy, and their present focus is on encouraging Baltimore City’s wealthiest tax exempt hospitals and universities to pay their fair share. The Boston Ujima Project is a democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts, and investment ecosystem, with the mission of returning wealth to working-class communities of color.
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