News Archive

Call for Proposals! Philosophy and Literature Conference JHU/Stanford 2025

The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 6th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to be held […]

AGHI Graduate Research Fellow, Yanneck Wiegers presents at CAMWS-SS

Yanneck standing at the podium wearing button down shirt and black eye glasses

Department of Classics Yanneck Wiegers presented his research at the annual meeting of CAMWS Southern Section, which was hosted this year at the University of Texas at San Antonio. On […]

Reading & Conversation with Peter Pomerantsev and Dave Troy

Peter and Dave engaged in conversation

By Milan Terlunen / Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow Political misinformation may feel newly urgent right now, but it has a long history. While digital and social media are now major […]

Aamir Mufti Launches the Global South Humanities Initiative

Aamir Mufti

The Global South Humanities Initiative in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is conceived of as a clearing house of ideas for faculty and students in the humanistic disciplines […]

Tom Lippincott wins 2024 Digital Education and Learning Technology Acceleration (DELTA) Award 

Thomas Lippincott

His proposal, “Collaborative Data Science Learning Environment for Learners Outside of Core-Computation Disciplines,” will develop and evaluate a computational learning environment that makes computational and data science skills accessible for […]

Kwame Anthony Appiah awarded the prestigious Library of Congress Kluge Prize

Appiah photo

AGHI is pleased to congratulate Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been awarded the 2024 John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity: Link to article Professor Appiah […]

AGHI congrats our outgoing fellows and graduating affiliates!

JHU's Gilman Hall gleaming in brightest summer sunshine against a blue sky and surrounded by lush green trees (June 2024).

As the academic year turns over on July 1st, AGHI is heartened to share some news about our outgoing fellows and graduate affiliates. Here from a few of them about what's next—and join us in wishing all of them a joyful, fulfilling, and peaceful year ahead.

Blast Courses returning for 2024

Banner for "Blast Courses in the Humanities" stating "new classes begin July 8, registration ends June 30, open to all!" Below text are 14 tiles with images of various historical, cultural, and imaginative artifacts.

Our interactive, online summer program returns this July to blast off on more than 10 new courses! Registration is now open, so see our Blast Courses in the Humanities page for more info—and join our email newsletter to get updates! Then get ready to Blast off for Week 1 beginning July 8th!

Plaster (director, Tabb Center) wins Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for 2024

Some of the winners at the 36th annual Publishing Triangle Awards. (From L.) J.M. Redmann, Leslie Sainz, Helen Elaine Lee, Emily Drabinski, Joseph Plaster, Kris Kleindienst, Barbara Jane Brickman, Emily Zhou. Photo by Andres Otero. Source: PW/Triangle press photo.

Congratulations are in order for Tabb Center director and AGHI board member Joseph Plaster, who won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for 2024 this week. The award, among the honors bestowed by The Publishing Triangle, went to Plaster's recent book, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke...

“Devoti Tutti” screening completes Humanities on the Mall for AY23–24

Sunset blankets the U.S. Capitol building, seen from the terrace level of the Hopkins DC building (and reflected in a neon border in glass).

April 7 saw the screening of "Devoti Tutti," the final event in AGHI's Humanities on the Mall series in DC for this academic year. Updates about the fall to come. And make sure you join us at Bird in Hand on April 29 for our last Humanities in the Village! More info in our calendar.