Honors Program Events

Homer and Pizza
6:00 - 8:00 PM

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Screening of the Coen Brothers film.

Refreshments provided.

Ridley Auditorium
Loyola Notre Dame Library
Lower Level
6:00 PM

Honors Fall Dinner

McGuire East
6:00 PM

Candlelight Concert : Coldplay & Imagine Dragons

Experience the magic of a live, multi-sensory concert with the music of Cold Play and Imagine Dragons. 60 minute performance.

The Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium
10 Art Museum Dr
Baltimore, MD 21218
8:45 PM (doors open at 8:00 PM)

Celebrate the Humanities!

Nachbahr Award and Presentation by 2025 recipient Dr. Ramón Espejo-Saavedra, professor from Modern Languages & Literatures.
Dr. Aaron Palmore, professor from the Classics department, will receive the 2025 Teaching Faculty Excellence Award.

Also showcasing student learning  and research in the humanities at Loyola. This year's event will feature short oral presentations by recipients of Center For The Humanities Student Summer Fellowships:

Yassy Ayala
Caitlin Cottril
Fisk Fisk
Liam Holden
Cameron Langlois
Moulai Njie
Elora Paul-Martin
Stephanie Piscal
Melissa Raymond
Eva Retford

CFH Summer Internship Stipend recipients will discuss their work: 

Ari Acevedo
Evelyn Donovan
Alex Preusser

In addition, student Digital Humanities Summer Institute fellows will make a joint oral presentation about a new CFH initiative which funded their participation in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Montreal this past summer.

And you'll have a chance to learn more about a new program, the Humanities Student Conference Grant, which reimburses students up to $1,500 to attend conferences or other similar academic meetings related to the humanities. 

Fourth Floor Program Room
Student Center
3:00 PM  - 5:00 PM

Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session

Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH! 
 
We will discuss Student-led Seminars, Summer Research Fellowships, stipends for Summer Study programs, stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships, Digital  Humanities Summer Fellows and the CFH's newest program, the Humanities Student Conference Grant. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.

Center for Intercultural Engagement (CIE)
Student Center East 317
4:15 PM

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

PERSUASION
BY JANE AUSTEN

In this captivating adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion by Sarah Rose Kearns, audiences are transported to a world of social intrigue, family drama, and enduring love. Anne Elliot's touching journey of resilience and second chances unfolds against the elegant and beloved backdrop of Regency-era England, laced with Austen's signature wit.

8:00 PM
7 South Calvert Street
Baltimore MD 21202

Everyman Theatre

'ART'

by Yasmina Reza
translated by Christopher Hampton
directed by Noah Himmelstein

A razor-sharp, provocative comedy set in modern-day Paris, Yasmina Reza’s Art follows three long-time friends whose relationship becomes strained after one of them purchases an exorbitantly expensive and questionable painting. As the friends engage in hilarious and uproarious debate over the subjective nature of art, loyalty, and taste, this notorious painting threatens to upend all they know about each other. Produced in more than 45 countries and translated into over 30 languages, this Tony Award-winning modern classic has been delighting audiences worldwide for nearly three decades. 

7:30 PM
315 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

First-year Eloquentia Perfecta trip to Washington, DC

Your HN 210 professor will provide the details you will need!

NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK

NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK - French Out Loud: the Power of the Spoken Word

To celebrate National French Week in 2025, events will include a film showing of A Voix Haute: La Force de la Parole (Out Loud: The Power of Words), a French club event highlighting the diversity of accents and slang expressions around the Francophone world, a French virtual language exchange with Talk Abroad, and a performance by internationally acclaimed griot Pape Demba Samb that includes a dynamic ensemble of storytelling, dance, and song sharing West African oral traditions in an exciting, artistic, and relatable way.

Check loyola.edu/frenchweek for times and other details. Or you may contact the Department of Modern Languages.

Honors Holiday Party

A festive occasion to eat, drink, and be merry!

Hug Lounge & Humanities Cafe
5:00 - 6:30 PM

Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
BY CHARLES DICKENS

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

Dickens' hauntingly beautiful tale is set amidst a 19th-century Baltimore, where a miser undergoes a profound change, letting go of his old ways to embrace the generosity of the holiday season. This classic tale sweeps you away with treasured characters and radiant themes of compassion, love, and kindness. 

8:00 PM
7 South Calvert Street
Baltimore MD 21202

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Commemoration (University Closed)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

BRAHMS & HAYDN WITH HEYWARD

Haydn - "Military" Symphony (No. 100)
Brahms - Violin Concerto

Passion and Prose intertwine with Music Director Jonathon Heyward's fresh take on two symphonic masters. Haydn's clarity, elegance, and wit epitomize Classical brilliance. Brahms's Violin Concerto, performed by Simone Lamsma, channels unrestrained passion through soaring virtuosity and poignant melodies - the essence of Romantic sensibility.

8:00 PM
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral Street
Baltimore MD 21201

Center for the Humanities Student Grants Info Session 

Join us to learn what grants are available for Loyola students from the CFH!
 
We will discuss Student-led Seminars, Summer Research Fellowships, stipends for Summer Study programs,  stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships  and the CFH's newest program, the Humanities Student Conference Grant. After the presentation by CFH Student grant coordinator, Dr. Brett Butler and past student recipients, there will be time for pizza and conversation.

Writing Department Lounge
Maryland Hall 038
4:15 PM

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

BSO FUSION

REIMAGINED: VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASONS & EARTH, WIND & FIRE

Led by Jacomo Bairos, the Nu Deco Experience fuses past and present, reimagining Earth, Wind & Fire and Vivaldi's Four Seasons with jazz, hip-hop, and pop. It's classical fusion, with the full power of the BSO!

8:00 PM
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral Street
Baltimore MD 21201

MARCH 2026

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

RAVEL'S BOLÉRO, DEBUSSY & SAINT-SAËNS

Camille Pépin - "The Celestial Waters"
Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 5, "Egyptian"
Debussy - Ibéria
Ravel - Boléro

Four French composers draw inspiration from distant lands for a magical musical voyage with audience-favorite conductor Jun Märkl.  Pianist Stewart Goodyear's fingers dance across the keyboard with sparkling brilliance in Saint-Saëns' "Egyptian" Piano Concerto, and Ravel's hypnotic Boléro makes its famous crescendo.

8:00 PM
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral Street
Baltimore MD 21201

Sophomore Class's Glenstone Museum trip

This museum, located just outside Washington, D.C. in Potomac Maryland, is a space where to slow down, be in nature, and engage directly with art. Glenstone provides a space for ongoing reflection and contemplation. The museum assembles post-World War II artworks of the highest quality tracing great historical shifts in the way we experience and understand art of the 20th and 21st centuries. These works are presented in a series of refined indoor and outdoor spaces designed to facilitate meaningful encounters for visitors.

Your HN 204 professors will provide the details you need!

Easter Break
University Closed

Everyman Theatre

VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE

by Christopher Durang
directed by Vincent M. Lancisi

Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonya have spent their mundane lives caring for the family homestead in rural Pennsylvania, until their glamorous, world-travelin movie-star sister Masha sweeps in with a sexy young boyfriend Spike. This Tony Award-winning comedy by the great American playwright and master satirist, Christopher Durang, and inspired by the works of Anton Chekhov, is a hilarious and poignant exploration of family tensions and longing for relevance in a changing world.

7:30 PM
315 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Honors Class of 2026 Wine Tasting

An annual event that the Honors Program sponsors for the graduating seniors. It is a lovely evening with some super wines and plenty of carefully selected finger foods to accompany the wines. Learn and ask questions about food, wines, wine making, wine tasting, the wine industry, and  other wine related topics. Audience participation is part of the fun!

Fourth Floor Program Room
6:00 - 8:00 pm

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

SHEKU KANNEH-MASON & HEYWARD

Jonathan Leshnoff - Starburst
Ernest Bloch - Schelomo
Tchaikovsky - Symphony  No. 5

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the young cellist who rose to stardom as the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award, joins Music Director Jonathon Heyward in Ernest Bloch's tuneful homage to Jewish music. Tchaikovsky's powerful Symphony No. 5 resounds with sweeping melodies and the heartfelt drama of Russian Romanticism.

8:00 PM
Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral Street
Baltimore MD 21201

Thursday, 1 - Thursday 7

Commencement,
Location tbd
11:00 AM