Humanities Days 2016 @ Montgomery College

Campus / Date and Time and Room / Important note: If you want to bring your entire class, you must check in advance with the campus coordinator to be sure the room can accommodate your students.
RV / Sunday
October 16, Noon-4 p.m. / 8th Annual World of Montgomery Festival
Event sponsors: The event is organized by Montgomery County, the Fund for Montgomery, KID Museum and Montgomery College, but is not a formal part of Humanities Days.
GT / Wednesday
October 19
Noon / What Will It Take to Make a Woman President?(published 2013)
Author Marianne Schnall
Sponsored by The Athenaeum Symposium

ALL / Thursday
October 20 / National Day of Writing Activity(not confirmed)/ #WhyIWrite
In search of event sponsors for each campus!
RV / Monday October 24
10 -10:50 a.m.
SC#152 / Food Culture in Nicaragua
Fulbright Scholar and MC Part-time Faculty Dan Fenyvesi
GT / Monday
October 24
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Room: TBD / Creative Writing Workshop
Professor Jill Kronstadt
RV / Tuesday
October 25
9-10:15 a.m.
SC#152 / “Literature of the Civil War Soul Sisters”(invited)
Ms. Lavonda Broadnax, Library of Congress
GT / Tuesday
October 25
10:30-11:30 a.m. / Reading Lunchbox @ Germantown Child Care Center
Professor Angie Lawver
(event confirmed/ date and time are tentative)
TPSS / Tuesday
October 25
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Room: TBD / 3rd Annual Student Ethics Essay Contest
TPSS / Tuesday
October 25
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Room: TBD / The Black Experience in Art
Professor Michael Booker
TPSS / Tuesday
October 25
12:30-1:45 p.m.
CM211 / The New Jim Crow and Ending the School to Prison Pipeline
Professor Vincent Intondi
RV / Wednesday
October 26
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena / International Humanities Celebration!
Open House-style event features international food tastings, cello lessons and opportunities to learn about MC student clubs, study abroad opportunities, humanities course offerings, the General Studies HACL major, student literary magazines, humanities-focused internships and more! Contact: Rachael.wilson@montgomerycollege
TPSS / Wednesday
October 26
1:00-2:30 p.m. / The Status of Women in China: Emergence of a Social Movement
Professor Esther Schwartz-McKinzie
RV / Wednesday
October 26
2-3:00 p.m.
#212MT – the Campus Commons / Writing Workshop: Build a story from three words.
Session offered by Potomac Review Interns and members of Inklings, a student club.
Event host:
TPSS / Thursday
October 27
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
CM211 / Power and the Humanities
Presentations by Students in Global Humanities 101 (GHUM101)
GT / Thursday
October 27
12:30-1:45 p.m.
Room: TBA / Food Culture in Nicaragua
Fulbright Scholar and MC Part-time Faculty Dan Fenyvesi
RV / Date and Time to be determined / Poetry Workshop: Listen to the Music: Write a Great Poem in Twenty-Five Minutes!
Professor Marianne Szlyk
RV / Thursday
October 27
6-8:30 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena / COLLEGEWIDE CAPSTONE EVENT AND RECEPTION
Honoring the Humanities: INDIA
Features a dance performance, Indian foods and a dramatic reading of “A Wife’s Letter” by Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, by artist Manjula Kumar RSVP Required
RV / Friday
October 28
1-2 p.m. / Q&A Panel with Second City Touring Company
Fee charged: $5.
Event sponsor: Montgomery College’s Cultural Arts Center
Sign up at:
RV / Friday
October 28
7:30-9 p.m.
Theatre Arts Arena / Greater Washington Area Immigration Film Festival
Film: Under the Same Moon
Fee charged/ RSVP to Eventbrite:
campus host:

Programs Still in Planning Phases: Atl Atl Spear Throwing, Fire Dancing exhibition, “Problem-Solving Across the Disciplines,” with the GT Engineering Club, History and Consequences of the Caste System in India, Student-led open mic sessions, film discussions and more! Contact your campus coordinator with your ideas!