Honors Program Events
Honors enriches its students’ extracurricular experience through an extensive program of cultural events, discussions, social occasions, and excursions both within and beyond the Baltimore-Washington area.
2023 - 2024 Events
This is what we have lined up so far — more to come!
AUGUST 2023 |
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Thursday, 31 | Honors Freshmen Orientation |
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SEPTEMBER 2023 |
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Monday, 4 | Labor Day (No Classes) |
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Homer and Pizza
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Thursday, 7 |
Odds Bodkin Performance |
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Friday, 15 |
Everyman Theatre - A Doll's House 8:00 PM 315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 |
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Monday, 18 |
Honors Fall Dinner |
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Friday, 29 | Celebrate the Humanities! Fourth Floor Program Room 3:00 PM |
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OCTOBER 2023 |
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Wednesday, 4 |
How Philosophy Became Exclusively European in 18th and 19th Century Germany Prof. Rolf Elberfeld, Professor at the University of Hildesheim, will explore how
“philosophy” became exclusively “Western philosophy,” that is, how its purview became
restricted to the Western tradition rather than continuing to include Asian and other
non-Western traditions, in 18th and 19th century Germany. The field of philosophy
is only now beginning to pluralize and "decolonize," and Prof. Elberfeld is leading
this movement in Germany and more broadly in Europe. Fourth Floor Program Room |
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Friday, 6 |
Baltimore Center Stage - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill In March 1959, four months before her passing, Billie Holiday gives an unforgettable performance at Emerson’s Bar & Grill in South Philadelphia. However, her songs are just one part of the show. In between renditions of some of her greatest hits, like “Strange Fruit” and “God Bless the Child,” Billie shares the triumphs and heartbreaks of a life and career like no other in this immersive cabaret experience that marks the directorial debut of Pulitzer nominated artist, Nikkole Salter. 8:00 PM 700 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 |
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Tuesday, 10 | Writers at Work Series Faculty Reading Jane Satterfield and Gary Slack Jane Satterfield is the author of five poetry books, including The Badass Brontës (a winner of the Diode Editions Book Prize, published in 2023), Apocalypse Mix (Autumn House Poetry Prize, 2016), Her Familiars, and Assignation at Vanishing Point. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship, the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry from Bellingham Review, the Ledbury Poetry Festival Prize, and more. Her nonfiction book, Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond, features selections that received the Florida Review Editors’ Prize and the Faulkner Society/Pirate’s Alley Essay Award. Gary Slack is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the English Department at Loyola University Maryland. Gary’s research interests include print culture and publishing during the Black Arts Movement. His dissertation, titled Editing Black Aesthetics: Hoyt Fuller, Toni Morrison and the Black Book, examines how editors, in their search of “Black aesthetics,” shaped African American literature of the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently revising his dissertation into a book centered around The Black Book (1974). Fourth Floor Program Room 6:00 PM |
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Friday, 13 |
Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! |
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Friday, 13 |
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company - As You Like It 8:00 PM 7 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 |
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Monday, 23 |
Colonizing the Past: Situating Ancient Race in Place and Time Dr. K. Wilson teaches Classics at Washington University in St. Louis and will investigate
ancient Greek and Roman depictions and ideas of Black Africans and other non-white
cultures. The history of scholarship on non-white populations and colonial practices
produced by the disciplines of History and Classics is crucial to understanding both
modern and older views of ancient Egypt, Nubia, and North African people. |
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Saturday, 28 | First-year students' trip to Metropolitan Museum in New York City Your HN 201 professor will provide the details you will need! |
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NOVEMBER 2023 |
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Friday, 3 |
Joseph Bottum Knott Hall B01 |
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Friday, 3 |
Modern Masters: McGuire Hall |
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Saturday, 4 |
First-year Eloquentia Perfecta trip to Washington, DC Your HN 210 professor will provide the details you will need! |
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Wednesday, 8- Wednesday, 15 |
NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK Thursday, November 9 Check loyola.edu/frenchweek for times and other details. Or you may contact the Department of Modern Languages. |
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Thursday, 9 |
Writer at Work series: T Kira Māhealani Madden is a Chinese, Kānaka Maoli writer and amateur magician. A recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, MacDowell, and Yaddo, she serves as the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art. She is the author of the 2019 New York Times Editors’ Choice memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, which is now being developed as a feature film, and her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Sun, and New York Magazine. Fourth Floor Program Room |
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Friday, 10 |
Everyman Theatre - A Chinese Lady 8:00 PM 315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 |
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Tuesday, 21 | Thanksgiving Break begins after last class | |
Wednesday, 22 - Sunday 26 | Thanksgiving Break | |
DECEMBER 2023 |
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Friday, 1 |
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company - A Christmas Carol 8:00 PM 7 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 |
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Friday, 8 |
BSO Tickets - How the Grinch Stole Christmas (movie with Orchestra) 7:30 PM Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Wednesday, 6 |
Honors Holiday Party A festive occasion to eat, drink, and be merry! |
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Monday, 11 | Last Day of Classes | |
Tuesday, 12 | Study Day | |
Wednesday, 13 - Thursday 21 | Exam Period | |
Friday, 22 - Monday, January 2 | University Closed | |
JANUARY 2024 |
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Wednesday, 3 | University Reopens | |
Monday, 15 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Commemoration (University Closed) | |
Tuesday, 16 |
Classes start |
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Friday, 26 |
BSO Tickets - Back to Future in Concert
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FEBRUARY 2024 |
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Friday, 2 |
BSO Tickets - Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
COPLAND Music for the Theatre A noted Gershwin interpreter at the keyboard, Wayne Marshall celebrates the 100th
anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue “a quick wit and a cool head, the ability to convey (just as Gershwin strove to do)
the jazzman’s freewheeling, rhapsodic manner alongside a concert pianist’s formality.”
(Gramophone) Leading three other American classics from the conductor’s podium, Marshall finds
the common thread among Copland’s spiky tribute to the theater, Bernstein’s dreamy
dance sequence from a Broadway hit, and Ellington’s tribute to the Manhattan neighborhood
where Black culture soared. |
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Friday, 9 |
Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info SessionJoin us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! |
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Friday, 16 |
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company - The Oresteia 8:00 PM 7 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 |
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Friday, 23 |
Second-year students' trip to Glenstone Glenstone is a place in Potomac Maryland that seamlessly integrates art, architecture,
and nature into a serene and contemplative environment. |
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MARCH 2024 |
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Monday, 4 - Sunday, 10 | Spring Break | |
Wednesday, 13 - Thursday, 14 | Student-Faculty Colloquia for the 2024 Humanities Symposium "Celebrating Nature" Aimee Nezhukumatahil's World of Wonders Two days during the official Symposium week are set aside for Loyola student/faculty colloquia. During each scheduled class period, faculty and their classes will meet with faculty and students from other classes. These colloquia have traditionally been led by panels composed of faculty members from different disciplines who lead informal discussion, posing questions to stimulate the participation of students, and to engage the Symposium text across narrow disciplinary boundaries. This year’s text is World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. The colloquia will be in-person. They are open to Loyola faculty, staff, and students. McManus Theater. |
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Thursday, 14 | Humanities Symposium Keynote Address -Aimee Nezhukumatathil McGuire Hall 6:30 PM |
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Friday, 15 |
Baltimore Center Stage - Mexodus 8:00 PM Mosaic Theatre |
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Thursday, March 28 - Monday, April 1 |
Easter Break | |
APRIL 2024 |
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Tuesday, 2 | Classes resume | |
Friday, 5 |
Everyman Theatre - The Book Club Play 8:00 PM 315 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 |
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Thursday, 11 |
Writers at Work Series: Matt Bell is the author most recently of the novel Appleseed (a New York Times Notable Book) and the craft book Refuse to Be Done, a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur's Gate II, and several other titles.A native of Michigan, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. Fourth Floor Program Room |
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Friday, 12 |
BSO Tickets - Igor DAMN Stravinsky (BSO Fusion series) 8:00 PM Meyerhoff Hall |
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Friday, 19 | Baltimore Center Stage - The Hot Wing King By Katori Hall Directed by Christopher Betts Pulitzer Prize Winner Katori Hall’s work returns to our stage with her award-winning play, The Hot Wing King, in which Memphis, Tennessee’s annual Hot Wang Festival is quickly approaching, and Cordell Crutchfield is determined to be crowned king of the wings. With support from The New Wing Order, made up of his partner Dwayne and his friends Isom & Big Charles, victory seems inevitable. However, Cordell soon finds himself preparing for the festival while caring for his teenage nephew who moves in after a family tragedy. Will this new arrangement be a recipe for success or disaster? 7:30 PM 700 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202 |
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Friday, 26 |
BSO Tickets - Simon, Ives, And Rachmaninoff When the 18-year-old pianist Yunchan Lim became the youngest ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, he launched a global phenomenon, with more than nine million views and counting of his Rach 3 performance conducted by Marin Alsop. Now the BSO Music Director Laureate welcomes Lim to present Rachmaninoff’s stunningly gorgeous Piano Concerto No. 2. Alsop continues her role as a leading champion of American music, presenting the hymn-filled Second Symphony of Ives (a work premiered by her mentor, Leonard Bernstein) along with Carlos Simon’s bluesy AMEN! 8:00 PM Meyerhoff Hall |
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Monday, 29 | Last Day of Classes | |
Tuesday, 30 | Study Day | |
MAY 2024 |
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Wednesday, 2 - Thursday 9 |
Exam Period | |
Friday, 17 | Academic Honors and Departmental Awards Ceremony 11:00 AM McManus Theater |
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Friday, 17 | Baccalaureate Mass 1:30 PM Reitz Arena |
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Saturday, 18 |
Commencement, |
Deadlines
Dec. 15: Early Action deadline for the Honors ProgramFeb. 15: Regular Decision deadline for the Honors Program