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Humanities on the Hill: Anand Pandian & Hahrie Han

November 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Flyer for a public humanities event titled “Humanities on the Hill,” presented by The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop at Johns Hopkins University. The left side features event details in bold red and black text. Speakers listed are Anand Pandian, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, and Hahrie Han, Director, SNF Agora Institute and Professor of Political Science. Event date and time: Monday, November 17, 6:00 PM, at Hopkins Bloomberg Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, in rooms 426/428/430. Photos of the two speakers appear in the center. The right side of the flyer shows the cover of the book “Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down” by Anand Pandian, featuring an abstract illustration of a winding road with location markers. There is also a QR code for event registration. The flyer uses bold red and black font on a white background.

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop Present

Humanities on the Hill: Anand Pandian & Hahrie Han.

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AGHI’s Humanities on the Hill welcomes Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Anand Pandian and SNF Agora Institute Director Hahrie Han for a conversation about Pandian’s recent book, Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down (Stanford University Press).

In 2016, anthropologist Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump’s harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States and the appeal of his politics of anger and fear. In the years that followed, Pandian crisscrossed the country—from Fargo, North Dakota to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New York—seeking out fellow Americans with markedly different social and political commitments, trying to understand the forces that have hardened our suspicions of others. The result is Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down, a groundbreaking and ultimately hopeful exploration of the ruptures in our social fabric, and courageous efforts to rebuild a collective life beyond them.

Copies of Something Between Us and a curated selection of related titles will be available for purchase at the event.

Read a recent interview with Anand Pandian, where he discusses his new book, Something Between Us, and explores how physical and digital barriers contribute to political division in the U.S. and what institutions can do to help rebuild collective life.

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Date:
November 17
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6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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