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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
January’s event features Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa, co-authors of Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags. This volume examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media from a moment of acute crisis: the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic. But Easa and Stager also locate the foundations […]
February's event features Christopher Cannon, co-editor of The Oxford Chaucer, a new scholarly-yet-accessible set that combines complete coverage of Chaucer's works with reader-friendly access to individual texts. Sharon Achinstein will join as Chris' interlocutor. Audience Q&A after the reading—all are welcome! And while you’re there, pick up some recommended titles from Bird in Hand, and […]
