Approaching Authenticity: Locating Living Cultural Memories, Identities, and Traditions in the 21st Century

Approaching Authenticity: Locating Living Cultural Memories, Identities, and Traditions in the 21st Century

Maryland Traditions, Maryland State Arts Council Folklife Program

Maryland Traditions brings together a panel of scholars to discuss what ‘authenticity’ means with respect to our living cultural memories, identities and traditions of today. In this increasingly globalized world, where ideas are shared, taken and/or sold instantaneously and where the boundaries between communities, groups and individuals are more fluid than ever before, this panel will focus on what makes one cultural expression, memory or tradition more authentic than another, and who decides what is authentic and what is not.

This lecture will take place at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. For a map of UMBC's campus, visit http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/

Sponsored by Maryland Traditions with support from the Dresher Center for the Humanities