Curious about recent publications in international criticism, literary theory, and philosophy? What about music, politics, and and ways of theorizing Black embodiment? AGHI’s fellows have got you covered! That can […]
At the university ranked #9 in the nation, we're not exactly surprised to see another year of incredible scholars joining AGHI's fellows and students. And yet this year's cohort of Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies PhD students and yearlong advanced graduate researchers are a true testament to the range, depth, and brilliance of what grad students at...
For 2024, we will hosting our Annual Richard A. Macksey lecturer twice: Thursday, March 7th in Baltimore and Friday, March 8th in D.C. To kick off this new double-header, we are elated to announce that Professor Merve Emre (Wesleyan) will join us as this year's speaker.
From the piece: "Rui Zhe Goh, a graduate student in cognitive science and philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and one of the scientists involved in the study, described a koan that he likes: 'Silence is the experience of time passing.' He said he interprets that to mean that silence is 'an auditory experience of pure...
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 […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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...
