Bauder Lecture Series
The 2024 Bauder Lecture, featuring Elizabeth Acevedo
Howard Community College, Monteabaro Recital Hall in the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center (HVPA)
September 19, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. & 6 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
12:30 p.m. (Hybrid Lecture)
Howard Community College’s Monteabaro Recital Hall and streamed via Vimeo
Elizabeth Acevedo, distinguished bestselling author of "Clap When You Land,” will deliver the keynote at the 4th Annual Bauder Lecture. Following her keynote, Acevedo will be joined by celeste doaks, editor, journalist, and author of “Cornrows and Cornfields,” for an in-depth conversation. 
In "Clap When You Land," Camino Rios lives in the Dominican Republic and yearns to go to Columbia University in New York City, where her father works most of the year. Yahaira Rios, who lives in New York City, hasn’t spoken to her dad since the previous summer, when she found out he has another wife in the Dominican Republic. Their lives collide when this man, their dad, dies in an airplane crash with hundreds of other passengers heading to the island.
The hybrid event will include sign-language interpretation for patrons joining us in person and live captioning for patrons streaming via Vimeo.
6:00 p.m. (In-Person Lecture)
Howard Community College’s Monteabaro Recital Hall
This in-person event will feature the keynote by Elizabeth Acevedo, followed by a book signing. Acevedo will be joined by celeste doaks, who will introduce Ms. Acevedo and facilitate the Q&A. This event will offer sign-language interpretation.
HCC Employees can register for PD credit using course number #12907 in PowerSchool.
Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times-bestselling author of "The Poet X", which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of numerous other titles including "Family Lore"; "With the Fire on High", which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal; and "Clap When You Land", a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. In 2022, The Poetry Foundation selected Elizabeth Acevedo as the Young People’s Poet Laureate. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her husband.
celeste doaks is the author of "Cornrows and Cornfields", and editor of the poetry anthology "Not Without Our Laughter". Her chapbook, "American Herstory", was Backbone Press’s first-place winner in 2018. "Herstory" contains poems—which have been featured at the Whitney Museum of American art, Brooklyn Museum, and most recently the Smithsonian American Art Museum— about the artwork former First Lady Michelle Obama chose for the White House. Doaks is a Carolina African American Writers’ Collective (CAAWC) member and has received fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Atlantic Center of the Arts, Community of Writers Squaw Valley, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Doaks is a three-time Pushcart award nominee and a creative writing professor for over a decade. Her poems, reviews, and cultural essays have appeared in multiple US and UK on-line and print publications including "Ms. Magazine", "The Rumpus", "The Millions", "Huffington Post", "Chicago Quarterly Review", "Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora", "The Hopkins Review, Bmore Art Magazine", "Asheville Poetry Review" and many others.
The Bauder Lecture by Howard Community College is made possible by a generous grant from Dr. Lillian Bauder, a community leader and Columbia resident. Howard Community College will present an annual endowed author lecture known as The Bauder Lecture, and the chosen book will be celebrated with two student awards. Known as the Don Bauder Awards, any Howard Community College student who has read the featured book is eligible to respond and reflect on the book in an essay or other creative format. The awards honor the memory of Don Bauder, late husband of Dr. Lillian Bauder and a champion of civil rights and social justice causes.
“Clap When You Land” was selected by the Howard County Book Connection committee as its choice for the 2024–2025 academic year. The Howard County Book Connection is a partnership of Howard Community College and the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society (HoCoPoLitSo). Visit the Howard County Book Connection web page for additional information.
In partnership with the Howard County Library System.
