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 […]
Undergraduate Course on Middle East
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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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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...