You're invited to the April 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. April's event features Donald Berger, and his latest collection of poetry, THE ROSE OF MAINE! Winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2023, THE […]
Poster sessions and oral presentations by our research grant recipients.
The Department of History, Program in Museums and Society, and Sheridan Libraries and Museums is pleased to invite you to a convening exploring public history at JHU. We aim to share ongoing work by JHU staff, faculty, students, and alumni of varied disciplines in the realm of public history; discuss resources and challenges; foster collaboration across […]
Poster sessions and oral presentations by our research grant recipients.
@ This study day, organized in conjunction with the Baltimore Museum of Art’s exhibition Watershed: Transforming the Landscape in Early Modern Dutch Art, invites conversation and reflection on the environmental, economic, social, and political consequences of the Dutch Republic’s engagement with the water. It aims to address how artists, their contemporaries, and the objects on […]
This event is tentative. More details will be available soon.
Please join us on Tuesday, May 6th, for a one-day colloquium, Bodies ReMade: Ancient Figures as Modern Matters. This event explores modern remakings of ancient bodily forms in context, querying their material, sociocultural, intellectual, and political implications. The colloquium is associated with the Baltimore ReCast Classics Research Lab and will be held at the Imagine Center at […]
Altered Sight, Altered Minds When: May 9 - 10th, 2025 Time: to be determined Location: To be determined The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 6th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference. More details here. Proposal submission All submissions must be […]
Altered Sight, Altered Minds When: May 9 - 10th, 2025 Time: to be determined Location: To be determined The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 6th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference. More details here. Proposal submission All submissions must be […]
@ Timothy Buschman, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology Princeton University The geometry of cognitive flexibility Humans and animals are remarkably good at multi-tasking: we quickly learn many different tasks and flexibly switch between them. Theoretical work suggests such cognitive flexibility requires representing the current task and then using this task representation to selectively engage […]
@ Gilman 308 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present Camilla Townsend (History, Rutgers University) for a talk on Aztec Imperialism. Camilla Townsend argues that Aztec imperial policies were not so much based on their “cosmovision” as on Realpolitik. She makes this assessment drawing on her research in sixteenth-century writings in […]
2025 BFSA Annual Juneteenth Celebration @ You’re Invited! On behalf of the Black Faculty & Staff Association (BFSA), we warmly invite you to join us for the 2025 Annual Juneteenth Celebration on Friday, June 20, 2025, in Levering Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus. This year’s celebration marks the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth and is themed: “Still We Rise: Truth, History, […]
