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Bearing Witness Exhibition: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore

Eubie Blake Cultural Center 847 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201, Baltimore, MD, United States

Provocative, insightful, unfiltered. For almost 200 years, Black photographers have intentionally documented Black communities. They have used their cameras and creativity to portray Black people “as they see them” and redress the racialized narratives which are common in popular media. In Baltimore, Maryland, Black photographers have played a critical role in representing lives too seldom celebrated and too often forgotten. With their images featured in spaces ranging […]

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Digital Humanities Workshop Series

Thursday, September 19, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Register Here! What does digital humanties, or DH, mean to you? This inaugural event of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series will feature a roundtable conversation with Craig Messner, a post-doctoral researcher with the Center for Digital Humanities, Nadejda Webb, assistant director of LifexCode, and Emily McGinn, DH librarian at the Sheridan […]

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Martial Aesthetics: War, Scenarios, and the Securitization of the Novel

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Critical Grove No. 3 Talk Title: "Martial Aesthetics: War, Scenarios, and the Securitization of the Novel" Speaker:  Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Director of the Nordic Humanities Center, and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. Author of Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and […]

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Humanities on the Hill: Why the Museum Matters with Dan Weiss and Jennifer Kingsley

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

Humanities on the Hill: Why the Museum Matters JHU Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Daniel H. Weiss in conversation with Jennifer Kingsley, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Museums and Society. In partnership with East City Bookshop.  Location: Bloomberg Center - 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC […]

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Humanities in the Village – The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

You’re invited to the September edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with Bird in Hand. This month, the series features Dr. Diego Javier Luis, whose book The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, provides a definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and […]

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AGHI New Faculty Lecture – Gisela Heffes, MLL

Homewood Campus. Shriver Hall, Clipper Room 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Nutritive Aesthetics: Knitting Gardens of Hope in Contemporary Latin America   Gisela Heffes Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture Department of Modern Languages and Literatures A tissue, in Spanish tejido, is defined as a set of cells that form a structural part of a living thing. A tejido is also a material fabric that involves […]

AGHI & Great Talk Inc.: The Phenomenon of Past Lives in Children’s Memories

Mason Hall Auditorium 3101 Wyman Park Dr., Baltimore, MD, United States

AND THE ALEXANDER GRASS HUMANITIES INSTITUTE, Johns Hopkins University Present a Series of Special Events >> REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! << The Phenomenon of Past Lives in Children’s Memories: The Science & the Skepticism. Altered States of Consciousness and Cognitive Psychology Wednesday, October 16, 2024 @ 7PM Eastern Johns Hopkins University, Mason Hall, 3101 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore, MD […]

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Digital Humanities Workshop Series: AnthroScore, Myra Cheng

Thursday, October 24, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Register Here! Myra Cheng, a PhD student in computer science at Stanford University, will give a talk titled "AnthroScore: Measuring Anthropomorphism and Other Implicit Framings in Text" for the Digital Humanities Workshop Series. Cheng's work is grounded in critical theory and humanistic insights, and aims to […]

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Humanities in the Village – October

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

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Humanities on the Hill: Martha S. Jones

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

Humanities on the Hill: Martha S. Jones Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor Professor of History Professor at the SNF Agora Institute Director of Graduate Studies I am a historian, writer, and commentator who focuses on how black Americans have shaped the history of American democracy. This theme runs through my scholarship, commentary and creative projects. My latest book […]

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Digital Humanities Workshop Series – Slavery in Motion, Jessica Newby

Thursday, November 21, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Register Here! Jessica Newby, a PhD candidate in History at Johns Hopkins, will give a talk titled "Slavery in Motion." Newby is a Lab Lead for the Remains: An Archive project within the Diaspora Solidarity Lab's ecosystem. Her research interests are slavery in the 18th and early 19th centuries, enslaved […]

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Humanities in the Village – December

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

We are delighted to announce that Patchen Barss will be joining us for Humanities in the Village on Monday, December 2 at Bird in Hand.     Patchen Barss www.patchenbarss.com