News Archive

THR publication of recent “Bacchae Before” and “Vitruvian” performances

Cover of "The Hopkins Review" edited by Jennifer Stager.

Check out a mini-series on performance for The Hopkins Review that includes edited transcripts with the performers of three performances hosted at Hopkins and supported by AGHI: extreme lyric I (2020), VITRUVIAN (2023), and Bacchae Before (2023).

Recent Publications (Summer 2023)

Recent publications banner with view of Gilman Hall from Levering patio.

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 […]

AGHI welcomes cohort of 2023–24 grad student fellows and IHS scholars

Gilman quad in evening autumn light by John D'Alembert.

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...

Macksey Lecture announces Merve Emre as 2024 speaker

Updated poster for Emre talks on March 7 and March 8, with updated link and QR code.

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.

Current IHS student Goh cited in NYT article: “Silence Is a ‘Sound’ You Hear”

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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...

Humanities in the Village kicks off with a (big) bang!

Bill Egginton and Sean Carroll sit and chat at the front of a crowd on the Ivy's patio.

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 wins Nexus Award to convene Humanities on the Hill at 555 Penn

555 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. Photo by Will Kirk.

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.

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!

Mosaic poster for "Blast Courses in the Humanities," including small tiles for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, 18th-cen. Indian painting, dinosaur films, Caesar's assassins in art, maps of different kinds, an ancient Japanese poet, three German philosophers, a vista of a cape, and a fragment of ancient papyrus.

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

COURTESY OF JIAYI LI: Daughters of the Movement speakers onstage in front of archive images of themselves and their Civil Rights forebearers at protests.

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 […]