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The Art and Humanity of AI

From classrooms to research labs, the College of Arts and Humanities is shaping how we understand artificial intelligence and guiding its responsible future.

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School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Spanish and Portuguese

Bad Bunny as Scholarly Subject?

UMD course explores Puerto Rico’s soundscape of protest and poetics.

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Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Roshan Institute to Establish Persian Digital Library

Supported by $1.8M private gift, project will be first of its kind.

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College of Arts and Humanities

Prospective Student Event: Arts, Humanities & You

Join us October 19 to learn about our academic programs.

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Whatever your interests and aspirations, ARHU is committed to providing the knowledge, skills and opportunities all our students need to write their own stories and chart their own paths.

"In ARHU, you’re learning about how people interact with the world and each other. My goal is to build things that people are going to use. Just technology knowledge can only go so far. You have to understand how people are going to use them to be truly successful."

Ozzie Fallick '14, Software Engineer, Google
Linguistics

"Cross-cultural communication is one of the most important skills that I learned at ARHU, and I use it to engage and inform the community in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean about our events, exchanges and any other information that supports our key policy priorities in the region. ARHU gave me the tools to understand why in diplomacy, it’s as much about what you say as how you say it."

Krystle Norman '08, Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State
Spanish and Portuguese

"I had always loved art, but I never knew you could make a career out of it until I studied abroad in Rome. There, I took a full course load of art courses and learned all about the factors of being an art professional. It was life-changing. Now I feel lucky that I’m doing something that I’m so passionate about."

Laura Sheridan Raiffe '09, Regional Account Manager, Christie's Fine Arts
Art History and Archaeology

"One of the most important things I got out of my ARHU experience is my ability to parse arguments, think critically and see multiple sides of an issue. Being in law school, it’s important to do that—it’s a skill I use every day. Not a class goes by, not a case gets read that this skill doesn’t come into play."

AJ Clayborne '13, Student, Harvard Law School
English

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The research and creative works of our faculty, students and alumni are setting the agenda for transformative dialogue about the value of the arts and the humanities in the world today.

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Happening at ARHU

At the University of Maryland, Professor of Caribbean and Latin American literature Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia teaches Bad Bunny as part of his new Spanish course, “Contemporary Puerto Rican Musicality.” In the class, students explore how music—and its performance, protest and poetry—both reflect and reshape the Puerto Rican experience. The syllabus spans 19th-century thinkers like Salvador Brau, legendary lyricists like Tite Curet Alonso, and genres including bomba, plena, salsa and reggaetón. By placing Bad Bunny in this broader historical and sonic context, Quintero-Herencia invites students to consider how songs act as cultural documents, how performance becomes political, and how the Puerto Rican soundscape continues to evolve. Read the full story at the link in our bio
The University of Maryland’s Roshan Institute for Persian Studies has received a major new gift to establish the Dr. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Persian Digital Library (EOMPDL) to preserve, study and share Persian literary heritage. The gift comes from the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, a private foundation created by Mir-Djalali, a distinguished linguist, educator and philanthropist dedicated to the preservation and global celebration of Persian language, literature and heritage. Funded by a $1.5 million endowment and $310,000 in startup funds, the EOMPDL will be the first open-access Persian digital library to feature texts that have been professionally edited and vetted by scholars. Building on UMD’s internationally recognized leadership in Persian digital humanities, the initiative will provide free, global access to a constantly expanding body of classical and modern Persian texts. The project will also partner with institutions to help safeguard thousands of at-risk manuscripts and rare books from collections in India, Pakistan and beyond. As such, the initiative will serve as a hub for training a new generation of digitally fluent Persian scholars, with access to previously inaccessible Persian manuscripts and printed books. Learn more at the link in our bio. Khusrau Gazing at Shirin, from a copy of the Khamsa of Nizami (Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago collection)
Get career-ready with Access2Alumni (A2A). Now moved to the Fall Semester, A2A connects UMD students with arts and humanities alumni to explore a variety of professional paths. Attend both days and take the next step toward your career. Free food! See link in bio or visit go.umd.edu/a2a

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