FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center’s Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials […]
Thursday, April 4, through Saturday, April 6, 2024. The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace as one of his most timely contributions to political issues such as hospitality, cosmopolitanism, human rights, the inherent value of cultural and religious difference, the critique of colonialism, the essential role of a global public sphere, and […]
Spring on the Mall—what could be better? We invite all to our next gathering of Humanities on the Mall for April 2024, featuring a film screening of “Devoted— A Feminist Intervention into an Ancient Sicilian Cult”! Register here! Join us for a screening of Devoti Tutti , a documentary by JHU prof and director Bernadette […]
Carolina Fautsch, English ‘Strangely Active’: The Role of the Nonhuman in the World of the Romance Rhiannon Clarke, Modern Languages & Literatures Pulling Dead Snails from an Elephant’s Lung: Abjection and the Agency of Assemblages in Lorca’s Poet in New York Fernando López Vega, Anthropology Bioenergy and Green Grabbing in the Orinoco River: Energy Sovereignty, […]
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center’s Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials […]
We are happy to announce that this year's WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor is Professor Grace Lavery of UC Berkeley. Her most recent book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton, 2023) examines the experience and representation of modern gender transition, drawing on examples from George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and many others. She will give three […]
Great Talk Inc and The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute JHU present a free event – Social Media: Its Effect on Free Speech, the News & Social Norms. The Profits and the Trappings. This panel discussion will take place on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 pm and hosted by BWTech at UMBC South, 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD 21227. […]
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center’s Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials […]
Arielle Saiber, Modern Languages & Literatures Waterways to the Divine: The Liquid Language of Altered-States of Consciousness Naveeda Khan, Anthropology Quantities of Households, Qualities of Householding: River Life in Bangladesh Caroline Lillian Schopp, History of Art Avant-Garde and Kitsch in the Great Acceleration Moderated by Bill Egginton, Modern Languages & Literatures, AGHI Organized & Introduced […]
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 […]
The Ethics of Reading May 3rd - 4th, 2024 The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 5th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to be held in person on May 3rd - 4th, 2024 at Stanford University. Conference Topic This year’s conference […]
Welcome back for Blast Courses 2024! About the program: That's right: AGHI is proud to boast a whopping FOURTEEN new courses for Summer 2024, all gathering students from all places and all interests for our 5-week online interactive courses. Blast Courses are all about asking good questions, starting with some basics—including this year, what was […]
