Events

Join us on Tuesday, February 9th at 6:00 pm for an In Conversation event with Julia Ridley Smith! She’ll be chatting about her memoir The Sum of Trifles with Emily Cinquemani, who teaches Poetry at the SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities.

In Conversation with Julia Ridley Smith | M. Judson Booksellers (mjudsonbooks.com)

Ever wonder what your antiques say about you? Julia Ridley Smith dives into her journey through her parents' antiques and what they say about her family history. Join us at Hub City Bookshop on Friday, February 10th at 6 PM for a reading and discussion with author Julia Ridley Smith!  

The Sum of Trifles: Family Heirlooms and the Stories They Tell with Author Julia Ridley Smith | Hub City Writers Project

In his new book The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice, bestselling author Steve Fiffer presents an oral history from today's social justice activists—many of them still under thirty years old—that is pitch perfect for these dissonant times. In this panel event, Mr. Fiffer will be joined in conversation by three of the changemakers highlighted in his book: Don Katz, founder and executive
chairman of Audible.com; Michael Strautmanis, executive vice president for civic engagement at the Obama Foundation; and Clarissa Martinez De Castro, vice president for Latino Vote Initiative of UnidosUS. The event
will be moderated by Howard Rossman, founder and board president of the Chicago-based Civic Leadership Foundation.

This event will be recorded and available on the library's YouTube channel.

Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9Mr3TX4-QJWztlfNQMCmhw

A Cultural Tourism Panel Discussion with Dr. Roscoe Barnes III - "Changing the Narrative and Telling a More Complete Story." 

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Date and Time: Monday, February 27, 2023 - 6:30pm
Location: Bird in Hand Coffee & Books, 11 E. 33rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218

The Ivy Bookshop, Bird in Hand, and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University present the latest installment of Humanities in the Village, featuring Elizabeth Boyd and her new book, Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South!

This event will take place indoors, at Bird in Hand Cafe and Bookstore.

Southern Beauty explains a curiosity: why a feminine ideal rooted in the nineteenth century continues to enjoy currency well into the twenty-first. Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd examines how the continuation of certain gender rituals in the American South has served to perpetuate racism, sexism, and classism.

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Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd is an independent scholar who lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.