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AGHI / BMA Humanities Internships for Undergrads (Summer 2025)

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute is partnering with the Baltimore Museum of Art to offer exciting new summer internships to Hopkins undergraduates in the Humanities. These positions will allow interns to contribute […]

AGHI Faculty Fellowship Applications Now Open!

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**The deadline to apply has been extended to April 6, 2025 The AGHI Faculty Fellowship aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue, inspire creative collaborations, and forge communal bonds. The core of the […]

FREE intensive reading-knowledge courses in European languages Summer 2025

Each summer, the School of Arts and Sciences offers intensive courses in European languages to incoming and continuing graduate students. These courses are tailored to developing the reading knowledge that […]

New Edition of The Oxford Chaucer Unveiled at Humanities in the Village

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The poet Geoffrey Chaucer has been called the father of English poetry, and was the first poet to write in English whose name we know. He lived from around 1343-1400, […]

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

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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 […]