The 2025 ATLAS Conference will take place on February 27-28, 2025, at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. Registration for the ATLAS Conference will open shortly for both in-person and virtual attendees. Please check back soon to register for this free conference.

Here's a list of ATLAS events and other campus happenings that may be of interest to the ATLAS community. If you have an event you'd like to have listed, please let us know about it!

Black English and the Myth of ‘Standard’ English

Friday, January 24th • 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM

2130 HJ Patterson Hall, University of Maryland

In “Black English and the Myth of ‘Standard’ English” (related to McWhorter’s talk "Why Most Humans Talk in Two or More Ways"), Eusebia Mont (HESP) will lead this discussion on the complexities of code-switching, inspired by John McWhorter's New York Times columns. We will explore how language shapes identity, social dynamics, and cultural authenticity while challenging the myth of "standard" English.

Learn more and register here.

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Ntozake Shange’s highly influential 1976 choreopoem for colored girls… might well be the most performed and important piece of theater created expressly by and for Black women in the history of the United States. The work has been adapted for both film and television and can boast a Tony-nominated Broadway revival as recently as 2022. UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies faculty members Ama Law and Fatima Quander direct a loving rendition of Shange’s masterpiece that proves its timelessness.
 

Performances February 21-28 at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center


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