Honors Program Events

Homer and Pizza
6:00 - 8:00 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.

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

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 our pilot program Digital Humanities Summer Fellows. 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

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

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, and stipends for otherwise unpaid Internships. 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

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