The Maryland Humanities Summer Institute 2026: Dissent!
The Maryland Humanities Summer Institute 2026: Dissent!
You are invited to attend the 4th annual Maryland Humanities Summer Institute hosted by the Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership through the Humanities.
Details:
Friday, June 26, 2026
9:30am-4:30pm
Tawes Hall
University of Maryland, College Park
ASL Interpretation + Breakfast and Lunch + Giveaways
Haunted by the ruptures of the world around us, the theme for this year’s Summer Institute is “Dissent!” Drawing on local and global histories and contemporary political movements, this institute will contend with questions such as, how do we empower people to speak in opposition? How do we understand dissent as both patriotic and insurgent, as lessons in respectful debate in civil society and unmanaged resistance?
Keynote Speaker, Dr. Nancy Mirabal, University of Maryland, College Park
Dr. Nancy Raquel Mirabal is on the Advisory Board for the Center for Global Migration Studies and an Affiliate faculty with the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies departments. A trained oral historian, Mirabal is currently conducting research and writing on the politics of dissonant visibilities, uneasy archives, and Latina/o spatial temporalities. She currently serves on the board for Teaching for Change in Washington DC.
Session Details:
- "Organizing Voter Suppression", Amber Bennett Foote, High School Educator
- "Resisting the Erasure of Federal Data", Lindsay Carpenter, University of Maryland, College Park
- "Black Marylander's Activism in the Civil War", Dr. William Horne, University of Maryland, College Park
- "BLM in Schools and the History of Black Schools in DC", Vanessa Williams, DC History Center
- "Reparative Archiving", Evie Giaconia and Manuel Mendez, University of Maryland, College Park
- "Lessons on Youth Activism", Amber Myren, High School Educator