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Dessa discusses poetry, music, and being “Deeply Human”

Artist Dessa speaks at Levering Hall on Nov. 15th.

Poet, musician, podcast host, and arts champion Dessa joined AGHI on Nov. 15th to chat all things humanities with Professor Anna Celenza. Speaking with students, faculty, and community members, Dessa shared thoughts about the nature of craft—the differences between writing poems versus rap lyrics or music—and how mixing genres and fields is at the heart...

Inaugural Cohort: JHU Society of Fellows in the Humanities, 2022-2023 

Beginning in 2022, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University announces a new and distinctive form of intellectual community with its Society of Fellows in the […]

Society Of Fellows In The Humanities Names First Cohort

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The nine fellows will receive funding to pursue hands-on experiences that build on their postgraduate studies From the Hub: At a moment in time when there’s a lot of speculation about […]

Meet our Spring 2023 Graduate Research Fellows!

We are funding five student fellowships in the spring of 2023. These fellows will be free of any departmental teaching requirements during the spring semester in order to devote their […]

Blast Courses in the Humanities Return for Summer 2022

Blast Courses in the Humanities are back for Summer 2022! This year, ten new courses will launch for Blast classes beginning the week of July 11th. These classes are free, […]

A recording of our 2022 Macksey Lecture ft. Judith Butler is available now!

Judith Butler delivers a talk entitled, “Endangered Scholarship, Academic Freedom, and the Life of Critique”

“Humanities and the Search for Truth”

From The SNF Agora Institute’s Youtube / Published 2/11/22 Dean Celenza, author of the new book, The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800, […]

AGHI & GREAT TALK INC

Watch the video replay of “Is the Supreme Court Still the Bastion of U.S. Democracy?” Moderated by William Egginton, Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. This talk featured Joey […]

AGHI Welcomes Associate Director Virginia Jewiss

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Virginia Jewiss has been appointed Associate Director of AGHI and Senior Lecturer in the Humanities. She joins Hopkins from Yale, where she served for many years as Assistant to the […]

Lending a Helping Hand

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From the Hub: Jacob deNobel / Published Feb 8 As families struggle due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hopkins Professor Adam Sheingate delivers meals to Baltimore families in need.