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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 on the Hill: Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher" Film director, David Ofek, Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, JHU, and Virginia Jewiss, Associate Director, AGHI, JHU The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, is a formative, mysterious event […]
The contemporary humanities have been shaped by an encounter with continental theory and its disavowal of what it called humanism, viewed as a bourgeois liberal discourse in and of the West. Yet, a wide range of anticolonial and Global South thinkers, from Senghor and Fanon to Said and Kapur, evade this gesture and speak of […]
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 […]
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 […]
