“Imagination—A Very Short Intro” (Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei in convo with Jane Bennett)

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Springtime is here and the school year is winding down, but there's still time for one more gathering of... Humanities in the Village We'll be joined by Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (JHU) to celebrate her recent book, Imagination: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2023)! Come ready to hear more about imagination – what it is, what it […]

Humanities in the Village – Joseph Plaster

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

Humanities in the Village returns for the 2024-25 year with this first event featuring Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, in conversation with Drew Daniel! In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts […]

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 […]

Humanities in the Village: Peter Pomerantsev (with Dave Troy)

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You're invited to the October edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. This month, the series features Dr. Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. Investigative […]

Humanities in the Village, Patchen Barss: THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN (with William Egginton)

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

You're invited to the December edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Bird in Hand, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. Who gets to be a genius? Who pays a price for it? And where does creative inspiration come from in the first place? This month, the series […]