In spring 2024, JHU Hard Histories, directed by Dr. Martha S. Jones, is hosting a series of conversations exploring the histories of Blackness, slavery, and racism in the Maryland area. 

Our first webinar of the semester, “Hard Histories Methods: Rethinking Our Archives”, will occur on Wednesday, February 21 from noon-1 pm eastern.  This virtual event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Click on this link for full event information, as well as to register. 

The event description is as follows:

Join Hard Histories at Hopkins for a virtual discussion about the methods of uncovering new institutional histories at Hopkins and beyond. This conversation will feature Liz Beckman and Dr. Heather L. Cooper. Beckman is the Processing and Research Archivist with the Sheridan Library’s Special Collections and University Archives, and Hopkins Retrospective. Cooper is the Project Archivist for the Reexamining Hopkins History Initiative, working out of the Chesney Medical Archives. Both are working innovatively to reprocess and rewrite the descriptions that help researchers know about and access JHU’s archival collections, making it possible for the public to learn more about the links between Johns Hopkins University and Medicine and histories of race, slavery, gender, and sexuality. This webinar will shed light on the intellectual labor that makes “hard histories” work possible. Beckman and Cooper will be in discussion with Hard Histories at Hopkins Project Director Dr. Martha S. Jones.

 Click on this link for full event information, as well as to register.