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Misinformation Escape Room Event

April 7, 2025 by Haley Galloway

The Media, Literacy and Civic Engagement and Democracy Project (MLCED) Presents: A Misinformation Escape Room!

Ready to test your puzzle solving skills? Join us on April 10th at 4:30pm at Blackistone Room (Anne Arundel Hall) for an interactive experience with a Misinformation Escape Room!

You’ll work in teams of 4-6 people, to dive into a world of clues, riddles and tricky media puzzles designed to uncover hidden truths. You can either build your team or be placed in a team on the day of! 

Pizza will be provided – register to share your pizza preference and/or register your team! RSVP: https://forms.gle/oMPxM99GhkVNJYhQ8

After the game, a debriefing session will occur where we’ll discuss what misinformation is, how it affects us, and where we fit in within the larger conversation around misinformation.

The Media Literacy, Civic Engagement, and Democracy Project presents: A Misinformation Escape Room. Ready to test your puzzle solving skills? Join us for an interactive experience with a Misinformation Escape Room on Thursday, April 10 from 4:30pm to 6:00pm in the Blackistone room. Pizza will be provided!

Gameplay is adapted from Loki’s Loop, a project under the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.

 

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Annual Library Book Sale – October 2nd!

September 19, 2024 by Stephanie Reyes

The Annual library Book Sale will be held on October 2nd from 10am to 4pm!

Location: The path outside Hilda C. Landers Library

Come find your next read! There will be used books on a wide variety of topics

$1 Hardbacks & 50 cent paperbacks

CASH ONLY

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Library Book Sale THIS THURS Oct 5!

October 3, 2023 by Amanda VerMeulen

book sale flyer

The Annual Library Book Sale will be held ONE DAY ONLY Thursday, October 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

On the path outside the Hilda C. Landers Library

Used books on a wide variety of topics

$1 for hardbacks, 50 cents for paperbacks

Cash only

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Shauna Siggelkow on “Understanding the Great Replacement Network on YouTube”

November 4, 2022 by Katherine Ryner

Shauna Siggelow - Understanding the Great Replacement Network lecture

 

Media Literacy, Civic Engagement and Democracy Project

Understanding the Great Replacement

Network on YouTube

November 10, 2022

Cole Cinema at 5 p.m.

Presented by Shauna Siggelkow

Director of Digital Storytelling for Define America

For more information please contact democracy@smcm.edu

Hilda C. Landers Library

and

Center for the Study of Democracy

at

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

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Thanks for a Great Book Sale!

October 18, 2022 by Amanda VerMeulen

The Library’s Annual Book Sale on October 6 was a great event this year! Big thanks to everyone who came out to browse books, make buttons, and enjoy the beautiful weather. Check out some pics from the event!

Browsing the selection.

Browsing the selection

Fiction for sale on a sunny day

Fiction for sale on a sunny day

Students making buttons!

Students making buttons!

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Library Book Sale THIS THURS Oct 6!

October 3, 2022 by Amanda VerMeulen

booksale ad

IT’S BACK!

The Annual Library Book Sale will be held ONE DAY ONLY Thursday, October 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

On the path outside the Hilda C. Landers Library

Used books on a wide variety of topics

$1 for hardbacks, 50 cents for paperbacks

Cash only

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Media Literacy, Civic Engagement and Democracy Project Fall 2022 Events Calendar

September 19, 2022 by Katherine Ryner

 

Media Literacy, Civic Engagement and Democracy Project

MLCED is a multiyear project to inform and engage the southern Maryland community on the important relationship between the media and American democracy.

September 27, 2022
The Devil is in the Details:
When Conspiracies are Good,
Bad and Ugly
Presented by Brandi Collins-Dexter
Associate Director of Research,
Technology and Social Change
Project Shorenstein Center on Media,
Politics and Public Policy (Harvard University)
Glendening Annex at 5 p.m.

October 24, 2022
MEMES Workshop
Presented by SMCM Faculty
Glendening Annex at 11:30 a.m.

November 10, 2022
Anti-immigrant Misinformation
Campaigns
Presented by Shauna Siggelkow
Director of Digital Storytelling
for Define America
Cole Cinema at 5 p.m.

Please contact democracy@smcm.edu for more information.

Hilda C. Landers Library

Center for the Study of Democracy

St. Mary’s College of Maryland,
the National Public Honors College

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Dr. Cathy Buerger of the Dangerous Speech Project Presents Lecture and Workshop

February 25, 2022 by Amanda VerMeulen

Dr. Cathy Buerger

The Media Literacy, Civic Engagement and Democracy Project of the Center for the Study of Democracy and the Hilda C. Landers Library presents Dr. Cathy Buerger of the Dangerous Speech project on March 1.

Dr. Buerger will speak at 12:00 pm in the Blackistone Room on “Dangerous Disinformation:  The Rhetoric of January 6th and Where We Go From Here”.

Dr. Buerger will also conduct a workshop on March 1 at 2:30 pm entitled “Countering Hateful Speech Online:  An Introduction to Counterspeech”.  The workshop will be held in Anne Arundel Hall N110.

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The Long Fuse and the Big Lie: Misinformation and the 2020 Election

October 8, 2021 by Amanda VerMeulen

Join the Library and the Center for the Study of Democracy for a Virtual Lecture on October 14th!

The Long Fuse and the Big Lie: Misinformation and the 2020 Election

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Book Sale!

October 4, 2021 by Amanda VerMeulen

Books will be flying off the shelves at the

ANNUAL LIBRARY BOOK SALE

John Marshall in LOC

 

This Wednesday, October 6

9 am – 5 pm, rain or shine, on the path outside the     Hilda C. Landers Library

$1 hardcovers, 50¢ paperbacks

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