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Humanities on the Mall featuring Danielle Evans on December 3rd.
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Humanities on the Mall—Danielle Evans (award-winning author and professor)

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

Save the date for our SECOND amazing installment of Humanities on the Mall! For December, we're excited to host award-winning author Danielle Evans (JHU Writing Seminars), in conversation with AGHI Director and Professor Bill Egginton. Register here! About Danielle: Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own […]

Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th

via Zoom

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies Presents: Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th Dotan Halevy is a social and environmental historian of the modern Middle East, focusing on the transformation of borderlands and how they shape political spaces and social identities. Dotan completed his Ph.D. […]

Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel

Gilman 108

Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel December 5, 5:30-7:30 Gilman 108   Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages and Literatures Visualizing Human and Ecological Loss in Latin America Christiane Frey, Modern Languages and Literatures Beeing and Time: Toward a Literary Entomology Nicole Labruto, Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities; Anthropology Modified: Colonial Limits and Plant Life […]

Poster for Gaza Film Screening featuring info about the event and a graphic of a dove in the shape of Palestine, colored with the colors of the Palestinian flag, breaking chains.

Gaza Film Screening & Discussion: Palestine’s 75 Years of History & Current Realities

Mudd Hall 26

Curious about the historical complexities of Palestine but unsure where to begin? Join us for an enlightening journey with the screening of "Palestine is Still the Issue"! About the film: Featuring in-depth interviews with notable figures, "Palestine Is Still the Issue" brings together diverse perspectives to paint a comprehensive picture of the situation. You'll get […]

Poster for February's "Humanities on the Mall" gathering featuring Chris Celenza and Michael S. Roth (President of Wesleyan).
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Humanities on the Mall: Students, College Campuses, Difficult Conversations

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

We're BACK for our first installment in 2024 of... Humanities on the Mall! On February 4th at 5pm in DC, we will be joined by an amazing panel to discuss "Students, College Campuses, and Difficult Conversations." We'll also chat about a new book, The Student: A Short History (2023). Our speakers will be: Chris Celenza, Dean […]

Poster for Grace Lavery's series of talks on Jan. 31, Feb. 7, and Feb. 14 in Gilman 208.
Event Series WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

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 […]

Love data week feb 12-16 2024

Love Data Week

Virtual

  Join the Johns Hopkins Libraries for Love Data Week, February 12-16, 2024!   Love Data Week is an international celebration of data, and Johns Hopkins Libraries are hosting Love Data Week events in partnership this year with The Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Sciences (IDIES), Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute, and The Alexander Grass […]

Poster for Humanities in the Village reading and discussion "On Writing Environmental Fiction," with illustration of a moose speaking into a mic.

Humanities in the Village: Nate Brown—On Writing Environmental Fiction (Reading & Discussion)

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

Humanities in the Village returns for February 2024 with... "On Writing Environmental Fiction: A Reading & Discussion" with author Nate Brown, in conversation with Jean McGarry. Description: In the era of global climate change, writers are engaging directly with the science and social implications of our quickly changing planet. Join fiction writer Nate Brown (JHU […]

Trans Cultural Production series poster, with dates and info about events, over background graphic of book spines displaying relevant titles in trans studies.
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

Exploring Trans Archives (Trans Cultural Production series)

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, Maryland

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 […]

Poster with new dates for Sean Carroll and Hahrie Han for Humanities on the Mall.
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Humanities on the Mall: “The Physics of Democracy” with Sean Carroll and Hahrie Han

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

"The Physics of Democracy" Join us for our next gathering of Humanities on the Mall with our speaker for MARCH 2024, Prof. Sean Carroll — in conversation with Prof. Hahrie Han! We will begin at 5pm for conversation, Q&A, and an exploration of the idea of "the physics of democracy"—building on both speakers' work considering what we can […]

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You – Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

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

Bird in Hand Bookstore, 11 E 33rd St @ The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find […]

Poster for "Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures" with image of Susan Stryker speaking into microphone (and poster text with event description as appears on this page).
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

“Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures” with Susan Stryker (Trans Cultural Production series)

Mudd Hall 26

Speaker: Susan Stryker About this event: Susan Stryker's books include Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle, 2000), Transgender History (Seal Press, revised edition 2017), and the forthcoming When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, edited by McKenzie Wark (Duke University Press, 2024). The last assembles essays from across Stryker's career, including her foundational text […]