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, […]
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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
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
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.
The Enduring Value Of An English Degree
From the Hub: Despite a struggling labor market and emerging technologies that emphasize the importance of STEM fields, an English degree is as useful as ever, says JHU Professor Mark […]
The family that reads together
From The Hub: Through their new YouTube series ‘Storytime with Dr. Connolly,’ instructors Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott hope to bring a celebration of Africana history to the next generation […]
Humanities as Essential Services
In times of crisis, when we face complex challenges like global pandemics, we need a collaborative response that transcends disciplinary boundaries and offers novel approaches to vexing problems. In the current moment, biologists, engineers and others in fields with established pipelines for translational research have sprung into action, working together to create life-saving diagnostics and...
Congrats to all who participated and to the 2019 3MT competition winners!
Winners: First Place: Eduardo Martinez-Montes, School of Medicine, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology The Lazy Librarian Second Place: Katie Overbey, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Environmental Health and Engineering Application of Novel […]