St Michaels – The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md., will begin its Winter Speaker Series on Thursday, January 30, and continue on select dates through Thursday, February 25, 2020. All sessions take place in CBMM’s Van Lennep Auditorium, and advance registration is encouraged. This year’s Winter Speaker Series will explore the Chesapeake […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD—Main Street Chestertown and The Bookplate are pleased to offer two literary talks this Saturday as part of the Dickens of a Christmas festival. Michael Dirda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book columnist for the Washington Post, will present “The Classic English Ghost Story” at noon. Dickens scholars Katherine Charles and Michelle Allen-Emerson will present “The […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — Paul Robbins, a world leader in addressing rapid global environmental change, will present “Coffee, Frogs, and Workers: Conservation in the Anthropocene,” on October 30, 2019 at Washington College. Part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholars Program, Robbins is the director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of […]
Continue ReadingCHESTERTOWN, MD — The Arab Spring ushered in a new era in politics in Egypt and Tunisia, emboldening citizens, through social media and other new platforms, who had previously lacked a voice. Professor Said Sadek from American University in Cairo, who has focused his recent work as an Egyptian political and social scholar on the […]
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