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Mosaic poster for "Blast Courses in the Humanities," including small tiles for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, 18th-cen. Indian painting, dinosaur films, Caesar's assassins in art, maps of different kinds, an ancient Japanese poet, three German philosophers, a vista of a cape, and a fragment of ancient papyrus.

Blast Courses (July 10–Aug. 11, 2023) | Register from June 1

Blast Courses are back for Summer 2023 with 9 new classes! It’s almost summertime—and that means another exciting run of Blast Courses in the Humanities!  AGHI is proud to return for our fourth year of Blast Courses, a series of interactive and free online courses open to all adults on a range of topics across […]

Humanities in the Village poster for "The Rigor of Angels" book release, featuring Professor and author Bill Egginton in conversation with Prof. Sean Carroll.

Humanities in the Village (Aug.): “The Rigor of Angels” with Bill Egginton (and Sean Carroll)

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 […]

Flyer for Humanities in the Village featuring Melanie Marotta with Samanda Robinson, in conversation at the Ivy on September 25.

Humanities in the Village (Sept.): “African American Adolescent Female Heroes” by Melanie Marotta

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 […]

Politics from the Region of the Feminine

Mason Hall Alumni Board Room

THE ALEXANDER GRASS HUMANITIES INSTITUTE PRESENTS Politics from the Region of the Feminine   Featuring: MIKI CHASE, UW-MADISON CLARA HAN, JHU CHOWRA MAKAREMI, EHESS NAYANIKA MOOKHERJEE, DURHAM LOTTE SEGAL, EDINBURGH SHAHLA TALEBI, ASU with discussants JENNIFER CULBERT, JHU VEENA DAS, JHU Pre-circulated papers are available upon request from Clara Han  

Madagascar Workshop flyer for October 12–14, 2023.

Madagascar Workshop— keynote with novelist Michele Rakotoson

This is the annual, international meeting of social science and humanities scholars working on Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean. The conference aims to bring together scholars of all levels spread between Madagascar and the surrounding region, America, and Europe; this year's meeting will be hosted by Johns Hopkins and take place at the Welch Medical […]

Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS) Information Session for 2024 applicants

Online

On Tuesday, November 7th at 3:30 PM, there will be a Zoom information session and presentation about the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS). This program offers students the opportunity to create an interdisciplinary doctoral program of their own design, within set guidelines. Students work with faculty advisors from two different Ph.D. fields, one of which must be […]