About Home and the Human

  “Home and the Human,” a Martha A. Mitten Professorship project, is a collaborative endeavor between faculty, students, and members of the Baltimore-area community. It features coursework, workshops, visiting scholars and artists, film screenings, interviews,...

This Is Home: A Refugee Story

  THIS IS HOME: A REFUGEE STORY THIS IS HOME is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. Displaced from their homes and separated from loved ones, they are given eight months of assistance from...

TU Faculty at the Baltimore Immigration Summit

The Baltimore Immigration Summit is a one-day event which brings together academics, policy makers, service providers, activists, community leaders, and others working with and for New Americans (immigrants & refugees) in our region. Baltimore and its surrounding...

Prof. Mina Karavanta, Refusing to Sink

  Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Prof. Karavanta’s presentation examines contemporary representations and ideas of community and the human, grounded in the scene of the human disaster on the Mediterranean shores.  This scene, she suggests, reveals a new chapter of...