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“Vintage T” Archives Trans Oral Histories
Vintage T is a community-based oral history project documenting the perspectives, strategies, and personal histories of trans elders in Baltimore. Directed by Jamie Grace Alexander (pictured here), Rahne Alexander, and Monica Yorkman, in collaboration with Tabb Center director Joseph Plaster, their oral histories touch on subjects including punk music, the Baltimore Trans Alliance, standup comedy, and trans of color activism.
Learn about Vintage T and the Trans Histories Lab
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Society of Fellows Postdoc Marios Falaris Launches Stories of Displacement
Stories of Displacement foregrounds experiences of displacement as occasions to generate critical conversations in Baltimore about community safety, support, and flourishing. The project is coordinated by Dr. Marios Falaris, a socio-cultural anthropologist and a postdoctoral fellow with the Tabb Center.
Learn about Stories of Displacement
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Tabb Center Producing Ballroom VR Film to be screened in Fall 2024
Tabb Center Director Joseph Plaster and filmmaker Jason Gray, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs, are creating a short virtual reality film based on the Tabb Center's 2023 Peabody Ball. The film will be screened for the public in fall 2024.
Learn about the 2023 Peabody Ball
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Register for Edible Book Festival by March 28, 2024
Enter your book-inspired dessert by 12 noon on March 28 to compete for fabulous prizes in our annual edible book bake-off.
Register at this link
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Trans Cultural Production Speaker Series Announced
The Tabb Center’s spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians.
Read more about the series
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The HUB profiles Tabb Center teaching, public humanities
The HUB profiled Tabb Center director Joseph Plaster's public humanities teaching, research, and fellowships. An emerging field, the public humanities is raising awareness about social justice issues and leading to meaningful collaborations between Johns Hopkins University and local communities.
Read the HUB article
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Public Humanities Fellow Launches “Belonging” Installation
"Be(longing): Unveiling the Imprint of Black Women Hidden in Plain Sight" is an installation by Baltimore-based artist and Public Humanities Fellow Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown, inspired by her explorations with archival materials related to Ethel Ennis, Billie Holiday, African American real photo postcards.
Read the BMoreArt story
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Edible Book Festival Registration Open Until March 29, 2023
The Sheridan Libraries Edible Book Festival began in 2014 and is now a highly-anticipated Johns Hopkins tradition. It is one of many such festivals that take place around the world on or around April 1 to celebrate books, art, food, and culture.
Register and learn more at this link
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The Peabody Ballroom Experience Wins The 2023 NCPH Outstanding Public History Award
Joseph Plaster, director of the Tabb Center, has been named 2023's Small Institution Award Winner by the National Council on Public History for the Peabody Ballroom Experience, an arts and humanities collaboration between JHU and Baltimore's ballroom community.
Read more on the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute website
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Spring 2023 Curating Archives Event Series Announced
The Curating Archives event series explores the politics of historical memory and creative approaches to archival collections. Speakers include Jules Gill-Peterson, Chase Joynt, SHAN Wallace, Sandra Eder, and Jeanne Vaccaro.
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The Tabb Center cultivates collaborative partnerships within and beyond the academy, aiming to co-create, preserve, and share new knowledge. The Center is part of Sheridan Libraries Special Collections, which houses a vast collection of rare books, oral histories, historic documents, and other materials.
Established by President Ronald J. Daniels and Johns Hopkins University’s board of trustees, the Tabb Center is named in honor of Winston Tabb for his enduring support of original scholarship.