Life, the universe, and everything? Must be the start of AGHI’s Humanities in the Village series for 2023–2024! Kicking things off for August 2023, AGHI Director Bill Egginton celebrated the […]
Humanities in the Village kicks off with a (big) bang!
News Archive
AGHI wins Nexus Award to convene Humanities on the Hill at 555 Penn
AGHI joins the 40 Nexus Awards winners for 2023, receiving support to launch a new series—Humanities on the Hill—in the coming year. New events at JHU's renovated 555 Pennsylvania Avenue building will be announced in the coming months.
AGHI sees new student opportunities for 2023–24
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.
Four new postdocs join KSAS Society of Fellows for 2023–2024
We are excited to welcome four new members of the Society of Fellows for 2023–24! Meet our new cohort, spanning works in BCPS, JHU's Stern Center, JHU's Archeological Museum, and the Dept. of Political Science.
Blast Courses are back with 9 new classes for 2023!
It's almost summertime—and that means another exciting run of Blast Courses in the Humanities! Courses descriptions are now available on our Blast Courses program page. Registration will begin on June 1st and continue throughout the month (or until courses are full). Classes begin the week of July 10th.
Daughters of the Movement and Speaking Up for a Future Together
Reflecting back on AGHI’s AY 2022–2023 calendar of events, we recall the meeting of the Daughters of the Movement who met on JHU’s Homewood campus earlier this year to discuss […]
“Right to the city” and Baltimore’s History of Suburban Struggle
Celebrating the arrival of spring to Baltimore, AGHI and the Ivy Bookshop welcomed two scholars on Baltimore history Monday evening: Professor Gregory Smithsimon (CUNY Brooklyn) and JHU's own Prof. Lawrence Jackson. This month's Humanities in the Village conversation began by tracing the personal and social geography which opens Smithsimon's new book, Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class...
Harnessing the Powers of Human Thought and Computation
The Center for Digital Humanities helps advance research by exploring what humans do that computers can’t, and vice versa, and discovering connection points between the two.
Female Artists, in Any Language: Panel Discusses Womanhood, Genre, and Translation
A lively crowd gathered at Bird in Hand Café on Thurs., March 2nd to hear a discussion on “Translating Women’s Voices” featuring translator Ann Goldstein. Opening with a conversation about […]
Peabody Ballroom Experience wins Outstanding Public History Project Award for 2023!
Congratulations are in order for the Peabody Ballroom Experience, newly crowned winner of the National Council of Public History's honored Small Institution Award (2023). AGHI board member Joseph Plaster has collaborated with the Legends and Icons behind the Peabody Ballroom Experience since before its opening ball in 2019, including in collecting and protecting the oral...