It's another year and another season of Humanities in the Village! Kick off the new series with a discussion between AGHI's own director, Bill Egginton, in conversation with Sean Carroll on "Ultimate Nature of Reality." Celebrating his new book, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Pantheon, Aug. 2023), Prof. Egginton […]
Join us for our September installment of Humanities in the Village to celebrate the new book by Melanie Marotta (Morgan State University), African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (2023). Dr. Marotta will be joined by our moderator, Dr. Samanda Robinson (JHU). Join us at the Ivy Bookshop's patio at 6:30pm for […]
Screening of the documentary film Italo Calvino, The Writer in the Trees and Q&A with the director Duccio Chiarini.
Please join us for a Digital Humanities Workshop -- Writing the Rose ... Reading Digitally, focused on learning how to use FromThePage, a new software program that JHU has recently acquired (see here: https://fromthepage.com/landing). FromThePage is a fantastic tool for organizing, transcribing, and translating archival and documentary sources all in one place. It is a tool […]
The Initiative in Global South Humanities presents: One Mother, Many Mother Tongues: The Politics of Multiculturalism and Ancient Buddhist Art When: Thursday, November 9th Time: 5:00 PM Where: JHU, Homewood – Gilman Hall 130D (English seminar room) *Reception to follow in the Tudor and Stuart room – Gilman Hall 388 Register in advance: https://jh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_06DMVC8tHmQI67I Abstract: […]
The JHU Translation Circle presents: Joanna Trzeciak Huss: Zuzanna Ginczanka in Translation Thursday, November 9th at 6 pm in Gilman 479 This event welcomes Joanna Trzeciak Huss, a professor of Russian and Polish Translation and Translation Studies at Kent State University. She will share with us a selection of her translated poems of Zuzanna Ginczanka , along […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
