Goucher Hillel received its first Torah scroll last year, a Czech memorial scroll, which was transferred to the college Hillel from Shaare Tikvah Congregation of Waldorf, MD, by the Memorial Scrolls Trust of London’s Westminster Synagogue.  The scroll, written in 1831 in the city of Brno (now Czech Republic), was one of almost 1,600 Torah […]

Goucher College is presenting poet Douglas Kearney in the fourth installment of its annual reading series “Rewriting Race” on Thursday, February 21, at 7:30 p.m. in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House. After his reading Kearney will answer questions and sign copies of his books. The event is free and open to the public. For

Goucher College is proud to host Baltimore’s 2013 African Film Festival, to be held February 22-24. Screenings of seven critically acclaimed short and feature-length films that represent Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, the Republic of Congo, South Africa, and Sudan will be presented with English subtitles in this year’s selections. Post-film receptions and discussions will be held

Students of the Marseille Theatre Conservatory will perform Autour d’Albert Camus, a montage from plays by Albert Camus on Thursday, February 28, and Friday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in the Mildred Dunnock Theatre. Scenes from Le Malentendu, Les Justes, and Caligula will be performed in French, but English language summaries will be provided in

Goucher College’s inaugural Black Heritage Month Black Psychology Lecture will be presented by James M. Jones, professor of psychology and director of the Center for the Study of Diversity at the University of Delaware, on Thursday, February 28, at 7 p.m. in Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum. In his presentation “The TRIOS Factor: A Psychocultural

The presidential inauguration may be over, but at Goucher College the celebration continues with “Inaugural Poems: Baltimore-DC Poets Bear Witness to a New Presidential Era” on Friday, March 1, at 7 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. The event, sponsored by the Word for Word Group of the Kratz Center for Creative Writing

Canadian Brass, hailed as “the world’s most famous brass group,” will be featured at Goucher College’s 53rd Annual Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance on Sunday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium. This event is open to the public, but tickets are required for all attendees. Tickets are free for Goucher students, faculty,

Lindsay Stuart Hill, a 2009 creative writing graduate of Goucher College, returns for a poetry reading and question-and-answer session on Monday, March 4, at 4 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact kratz@goucher.edu. Hill recently released One Life, a chapbook of poems

Virtuoso clarinetist Igor Begelman will be the featured performer at Goucher’s 27th Annual Janet and Avery Fisher Music Residency, which will be held at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 8, in the college’s Merrick Lecture Hall. This event is free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved by logging onto www.goucher.edu/tickets  or

Nicholas D. Kristof—journalist, author, New York Times op-ed columnist, and a winner of two Pulitzer Prizes—will appear at Goucher College as the Spring 2013 Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Visiting Professor. His talk “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” will be held on Monday, March 11, at 8 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium.