How the World Made the West

Bird in Hand 11 E 33rd St., Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Book talk with the author, Josephine Quinn. Josephine Quinn is Professor of Ancient History at Oxford University, and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, Oxford. She has degrees from Oxford and UC Berkeley, has taught in America, Italy and the UK, and co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica. She is […]

Great Imperial British Bakeoff: Sugar

Through this event, we come together to ask: How can something that seems as simple, scientific, and natural–a desire for sweetness–be influenced by systems like slavery, colonialism, capitalism?

Chloe Center Fall Kick-Off Reception

Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we host our Fall 2024 kick-off reception. Meet our kinfolk, including faculty board members and students, and celebrate an auspicious new semester as we prepare to launch our new major, Critical Diaspora Studies.

Graduate Methods Workshop: Histories and Geographies of Racial Capitalism

Please join us for a graduate methods workshop on historical and geographical approaches to studying racial capitalism, led by Prof. Peter Hudson, Associate Professor of Geography. The conversation will be wide-ranging, and students are encouraged to bring questions pertaining to their own related research topics.

Undergraduate Research in Critical Diaspora Studies

Student recipients of Summer Research Awards from the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism will briefly present on their research findings and discuss their research processes.

Power, by Yance Ford (documentary screening & panel discussion)

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, & Colonialism is pleased to sponsor a free screening of the documentary film Power by Yance Ford (2024) at Red Emma's. After the screening, Yance Ford and Chloe Center director Stuart Schrader, who was a consulting producer on the film, will hold a Q+A, moderated by Steph Saxton.

Passage, by Christopher Chen (play & panel discussion with actors and director Annalisa Dias)

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, & Colonialism is co-sponsoring a "talkback" panel discussion about Passage with the actors and director Annalisa Dias. Christopher Chen’s Passage asks about the possibility of friendship in a world distorted by power and dominance. When one country has colonized another, when one group has taken for granted its social and economic superiority, can anyone, the colonizer or the colonized, find a path toward better human relations?

Higher Education in Prison in Maryland: Past Accomplishments and Future Goals

This roundtable at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting will convene representatives from colleges and universities (including Goucher College, University of Baltimore, Towson University, Bowie State University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University) that offer college-level courses to students in Maryland state prisons.