A conversation with Dunya Mikhail

March 3, 2021, 7 PM on Zoom https://bit.ly/3r0Rx0o Passcode: 75250820 Free and Open to the Public! Email jballeng@towson.edu for more information on accessing this event. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Dunya Mikhail worked as a translator and journalist for the Baghdad...

A conversation with Clemantine Wamariya

April 7, 2021, 7 PM on Zoom Free and Open to the Public! Email jballeng@towson.edu for more information on accessing this event. Joyful Clemantine Wamariya is a connector, an internationally renowned speaker, and a New York Times Bestselling Author. Her memoir The...

A conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea

Wednesday, March 4, 2020: 6:00 pm Liberal Arts Building, Room 4310 Towson University Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction and member of the...

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...