News Archive

Reading & Conversation with Jennifer Stager, Leila Easa and Dora Malech

Leila, Dora and Jennifer in conversation. Jennifer is holding the microphone

At times of crisis, what can feminists do in the public sphere? What, in particular, has poetry and visual art offered to those wanting to put feminist values into action? […]

AGHI student opportunities for 2025–26

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Students of all levels! Make sure you're checking AGHI's Student Opportunities page for the newest offerings in grants, fellowships, and work opportunities for the new academic year. This year, AGHI itself is looking for a graduate work assistant.

Undergraduate Course on Middle East

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The new one-credit class, “Conversations on the Crisis in the Middle East,” introduces students to vexing issues. The class is taught by political science Professor Steven David, and requires students […]

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

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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

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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

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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!

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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.