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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 […]

Event Series Returns of the Right: A Pre-Election Conversation in Global South Humanities

Returns of the Right: A Pre-Election Conversation in Global South Humanities (Homewood)

Scott-Bates Commons (Salon B) 10 E. 33rd Street, Baltimore, Maryland

Join us for a conversation between LEAH FELDMAN (University of Chicago), DONALD E. PEASE (Dartmouth College), PAUL BOVÉ (University of Pittsburgh) and AAMIR MUFTI (JHU English), leading humanities scholars who have thought deeply about the multifaceted “returns” of the political Right in different regions of the world. At the threshold of perhaps the most consequential […]

Event Series Returns of the Right: A Pre-Election Conversation in Global South Humanities

Returns of the Right: A Pre-Election Conversation in Global South Humanities (555 Penn)

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

Join us for a conversation between LEAH FELDMAN (University of Chicago), DONALD E. PEASE (Dartmouth College), PAUL BOVÉ (University of Pittsburgh) and AAMIR MUFTI (JHU English), leading humanities scholars who have thought deeply about the multifaceted “returns” of the political Right in different regions of the world. At the threshold of perhaps the most consequential […]

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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Israel, Palestine, and the wars in the Middle East: An open campus discussion

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute presents   Israel, Palestine, and the wars in the Middle East: An open campus discussion The October 7 attack and its aftermath threaten to spread to ever-wider regional wars. Slogans and accusations fly on social media and at demonstrations. This discussion offers an opportunity for Hopkins community members of all […]

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

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street Baltimore, MD 21218, Baltimore, United States

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 […]

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“Three Moments in the History of Antisemitism” Giacomo Loi & Aamir Mufti (respondent)

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"Three Moments in the History of Antisemitism" This talk explores three pivotal moments in the history of antisemitism, tracing its evolution from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. In antiquity, we will examine the roots of anti-Judaic sentiments in the Greco-Roman world, zooming in on the famous Alexandria riot in the first […]

Fearless Speech: Radical Truth-Telling in the Auto/biography of John Swanson Jacobs

Talk description: For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in […]

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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: Hosted by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop A conversation with Martha S. Jones and Nadia E. Brown Event Location: JHU Bloomberg Center – 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Time: 6 PM – 8 PM Register here!   Martha S. Jones […]

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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 […]