September 8, 2015

Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739

The Sept. 14 edition of the University of Baltimore class, “Divided Baltimore: How Did We Get Here? Where Do We Go?,” to be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Town Hall in UB’s H. Mebane Turner Learning Commons, 1415 Maryland Ave., will feature three guest lecturers focused on the topic of segregation and the various forms it takes across Baltimore communities. The class is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, and only students formally enrolled in the course are guaranteed a seat.

Guest lecturers and their topics include:

Seema Iyer, associate director of UB’s Jacob France Institute, director of its Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance and research assistant professor in the University’s Merrick School of Business, speaking on “Mapping Justice and Equity in Baltmore”;

Lawrence Lanahan, freelance journalist and producer of WYPR’s “The Lines Between Us” series, on “The Lines Between Us”;

Siobhan Hagan, audiovisual archivist in the University’s Langsdale Library, on relevant materials in the library’s Special Collections.

Following about an hour of discussion from these lecturers, a question and answer session will be offered. After that, the course will break out into its normal undergraduate and graduate sections for further discussion.