LACLxS WIP Seminar: Theorizing Racial Capitalism & the Capitalist World-System from Latin America

@ 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 […]

An Art and Anthropology Studio: Fashioning a Future of Here, Collectively

The Peale Community Museum 225 Holiday St., Baltimore, MD

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 […]

German Kaffeestunde

Gilman Atrium

@ 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

How to Make a Humanities Podcast – Workshop Series

Levering Hall Conference Room A

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 […]

Bodian Seminar: Jeremy D. Brown, Ph.D.

@ 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, […]

Humanities in the Village: The Trouble of Color (Martha Jones)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street Baltimore, MD 21218, Baltimore, United States

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 […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Yueran Zhang

Mergenthaler 266

@ 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 […]

Coloniality of Power meets Dependency Theory

@ 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 […]

AGHI New Faculty Lecture: Gisela Heffes

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 […]

Interpretive Conflicts over Mariátegui’s Marxism

@ Macaulay 101 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies presents Segundo Montoya Huamaní (Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Perú) for a book presentation: Interpretive Conflicts over Mariátegui’s Marxism  (Lima: Heraldos Editores, 2018). Conflictos de Interpretación engages with classic interpretations of José Carlos Mariátegui’s Marxism by thinkers like José Aricó, Aníbal Quijano, Enrique […]

Human Rights in the Crossfire

Virtual Livestream

Samuel Moyn of Yale University, Seyla Benhabib of Columbia Law School and Dr. Hassan Jabareen discuss the condition of human rights within the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

German Table @ One World Café

@ Come and join students and faculty of the German program for the tradition of Stammtisch. Everyone is welcome at our cozy get-together. Ability to speak German is not required. We meet every other Wednesday from 5-7pm at One World Café. See you at the Stammtisch! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook […]