Monday Seminar, Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech

Gilman Hall, Room 308

@ Monday Seminar, Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Bodian Seminar: Mark Churchland

@ Mark Churchland, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Dept. of NeuroscienceColumbia University in the City of New York From spikes to factors: understanding large-scale neural computations It is widely accepted that human cognition is the product of spiking neurons. Yet even for basic cognitive functions, such as the ability to make decisions or prepare and execute a voluntary […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Heejae Park

Gilman 308

@ Graduate student Heejae Park will present on Economic Sanctions, Reciprocity, and Retaliation for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is primarily 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 theses presentations. The […]

LAGW Seminar: Contemporary Queerness

@ Mason Hall Alumni Board Room 102 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Javier Pérez Osorio, PhD Candidate, Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge: “Locuras del sur: La Loca as a Latin American Model of Queerness,” and Bruno Franco, PhD Student, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and […]

Cymene Howe & Dominic Boyer (Rice University)

@ A WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL ETHNOGRAPHYLUNCH PROVIDED (RSVP to [email protected])MERGENTHALER 439TIME: 11:30AM – 1:00PM AN ECOLOGICAL COLLECTIVE DESIGN DISCUSSION(MODERATED BY FERNANDO LOPEZ VEGA & ANAND PANDIAN)MERGENTHALER 526TIME: 2:00PM – 3:00PM ZOOM: shorturl.at/ahILP Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Hard Histories: Slavery and the Rise of Catholic Universities

via Zoom

@ Join Hard Histories at Hopkins for a virtual discussion about the centrality of slavery to the rise of Catholic universities. In recent years, Georgetown University and Loyola University Maryland have been grappling with their institutions’ connections to enslavement. Jesuit priests sold 272 enslaved people to two Louisiana planters in 1838. The Maryland Province of […]

Drugs and the Defense of Black Wellbeing

The Academy at Homewood, Eisenhower Library 1st Floor

Keith Wailoo, Princeton University @ Lecture 1: Wednesday, March 13, 2024 @ 2:30 PM Liberation Doses: Drugs in the History of Black Wellbeing from Slavery to Freedom (19th century) Lecture 2: Thursday, March 14, 2024 @ 2:30 PM Junkie Wellbeing: Living at Edge of Creative Liberation and Demise (20th century) Lecture 3: Friday, March 15, 2024 @ […]

Maia Gil’Adí: Thinking from the Hole – Latinidad on the Edge

@ Gilman Hall 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures are pleased to welcome Maia Gil’Adí, Assistant Professor of Latinx and Multiethnic Literature at Boston University, for the lecture: Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge Drawing on her current book project, Maia Gil’Adí examines […]

Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge

at Please join us for Maia Gil’Adí’s job talk on Wednesday, March 13th, in Gilman 479 at 5pm. “Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge”  Drawing on her current book project, Maia Gil’Adí examines representations of violence—from the sweeping scale of global imperialism to the close intimacy of domestic violence—in Latinx literature. Putting portrayals of destruction […]