@ Mergenthaler 426 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Sarah Fouts, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, for her talk on Latinx Immigrant Labor. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Central American and Mexican immigrants arrived in New Orleans to help clean up and rebuild. When […]
Join us for the fifth screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Michael Levien will be introducing Do Bigha Zamin, a 1953 film by Bimal Roy about a poor farmer who is forced to seek work in the city in order to […]
@ Graduate student Yihan Lulu Wang will present on “Negotiating Grief Work in a Chinese Role-Playing Science Fiction” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior […]
@ Mergenthaler 266 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Alonso Burgos (Sociology, JHU) • Towards a Contingency-Context Theory of the Political Economy of Census Race-Making: Insights from Colonial and Republican Peru. Keely Kriho (Political Science, JHU) • Mariátegui, the Mexican Revolution, and Marxist Dependency Theory for our LACLxS […]
The Peale Museum Thursday, March 27nd 5-6:30pm The Future of Here exhibition at the Peale Museum is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present: what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore […]
@ The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Free to attend, open to all. Registration required: click here. These workshops are for anyone hoping to launch a podcast or just curious about how to get into podcasting. Whether you’re a student or scholar in the humanities, or just want to make a podcast that reaches other human beings, these workshops are for you! Workshops […]
@ Jeremy D. Brown, Ph.D.Assistant Professor Department of Engineering @ Whiting School of EngineeringJohns Hopkins University Restoring dexterity in telerobotics: An engineer’s journey into neuroscience The human body can perform dexterous manipulation across a variety of environments. However, some environments present challenges due to limitations in function, distance, and scale. In many of these cases, […]
March 31, 2025 @ 6:30 PM You’re invited to the March edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with Bird in Hand and The Ivy Bookstore, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. March’s event features Dr. Martha S. Jones, and her new book THE COLOR OF TROUBLE: AN AMERICAN FAMILY […]
@ For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Yueran Zhang will speak about the topic: Workers of the Socialist World: The Transnational Remaking of Chinese Workers’ Class Consciousness, circa 1980. This talk provides a transnational account of the crystallization of socialist workers’ class consciousness at a pivotal historical moment. Specifically, it reveals how, in China’s […]
@ Mergenthaler 366 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents Inés Valdez (Political Science, Johns Hopkins University) and Segundo Montoya Huamaní (Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Perú) for a conversation on Coloniality of Power meets Dependency Theory: Imperial Developmentalism, Marginality, and Marx’s Commune in Quijano’s Socialization of Power. Attention to the Modernity/Coloniality […]
Nutritive Aesthetics: Knitting Gardens of Hope in Contemporary Latin America A tissue, in Spanish tejido, is defined as a set of cells that form a structural part of a living thing. A tejido is also a material fabric that involves careful and artisanal work. Blankets are woven objects that warm us up in the cold in […]
