News from the Shores of the Chesapeake Bay
CHESTERTOWN, MD—The Pat McGee Band and the High and Wides will be playing at C.E.S.’tival in Wilmer Park on April 25, 2020 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day and the 20th Anniversary of the Center for Environment & Society at Washington College. This outdoor concert will begin at 4:00 pm in Wilmer Park, […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—The treatment of prisoners of war during the American Revolution, and how issues surrounding that treatment helped escalate the conflict’s violence, is the topic of a talk on March 5 at Washington College. Cole Jones, assistant professor of history at Purdue University, will speak on “The Problem of Prisoners of War in the American […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — The ways in which early American settlers dealt with mental illness is the topic of the spring 2020 Guy F. Goodfellow Memorial Lecture at Washington College on Feb. 20. Cornelia Dayton, professor of history at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, will discuss her research. The event in Litrenta Lecture Hall in the […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Washington College’s Communication and Media Studies (CMS) speaker series welcomes Robert Mejia on February 17, 2020 to discuss “Race and Urban Communication Infrastructure.” The event, which is open to the public, begins at 4:30 p.m. in Hynson Lounge of Hodson Hall. An assistant professor of communication at North Dakota State University, Mejia […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Seamus Caulfield, who discovered and excavated what has been described as the oldest agricultural field complex in the world, will speak about his work at Céide Fields at Washington College on December 3, 2019. Caulfield, an archaeology professor emeritus at University College Dublin, will give a talk entitled “From Belderrig to Beijing: […]
Continue ReadingEditor’s Note: We have been advised that Senator DeMint will not receive the Award, he will only be giving a speech. CHESTERTOWN, MD—Washington College’s Institute for Religion, Politics and Culture will bestow its second annual Os Guinness Award for Service to the Public Good to former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, who served in Congress for […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Pulitzer Prize finalist Greg Grandin, whose new book “The End of the Myth: From Frontier to Border Wall in the Mind of America” has been listed for the National Book Award, will give a talk at Washington College examining the expansionist imperative across American history. The free, public event on November 21, […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin will present elements of their collaborative photography/poetry book “Shale Play”—an immersion into the everyday world at the heart of fracking in Appalachian Pennsylvania—on November 21, 2019. Free and open to the public, the event begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Rose O’ […]
Continue ReadingAuthor Monica Ferrell will be at Washington College on Wednesday, November 13, 2019 as part of the fall Literary House Series. The Literary House Press will be debuting its newest limited-edition letterpress broadside featuring Ferrell’s work at this event. The free and public reading will begin at 4:30 p.m. on the Literary House enclosed porch, […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Benjamin Tilghman, assistant professor of art history at Washington College, will present the third and final talk in Washington College’s 2019 lecture series in Talbot County on November 7, 2019 with a discussion about how artworks from the past can inform our own ecological future. The talk at Talbot Country Club, “Greening […]
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