Bodian Seminar: Krystel Huxlin

@ Krystel Huxlin, Ph.D.James V. Aquavella Professor of OphthalmologyUniversity of Rochester Vision Restoration after Occipital Stroke: Challenging the Limits of Adult Plasticity In humans, occipital strokes invariably damage the primary visual cortex (V1), causing a loss of conscious vision over large regions of the visual field, referred to as cortically induced blindness (CB). This unfortunate […]

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You – Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Bird in Hand Bookstore, 11 E 33rd St @ The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find […]

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala.

East Asian Studies Seminar – Methodology Workshop

Gilman 308

@ Dr. Rachel Waxman, Dr. Nanxi Zeng, and Dr. Inho Choi will present a Career Workshop for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. Papers and the Zoom link will be distributed one week in advance. If you would like to attend and have not received the papers, please e-mail one of the organizers: Yushuang Zheng (History), Wesley Sampias (History), Minah […]

Blackness as a Universal Claim

Mergenthaler Hall 426 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

@ Damani Partridge, University of Michigan(Reception to follow)Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

“Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures” with Susan Stryker (Trans Cultural Production series)

Mudd Hall 26

Speaker: Susan Stryker About this event: Susan Stryker's books include Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle, 2000), Transgender History (Seal Press, revised edition 2017), and the forthcoming When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, edited by McKenzie Wark (Duke University Press, 2024). The last assembles essays from across Stryker's career, including her foundational text […]

LAGW Seminar: Colonial Queerness

@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Rachel Williams, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, to present “Sor Juana’s Assemblages: Writing Subjects in ‘Los empeños de una casa'”, and Alfredo Walls, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures: “Queerness […]

Writing Seminars Presents: Andrew Motion and Ackerman Visiting Writer Declan Ryan

Gilman Hall 50

at Andrew Motion was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009, and is co-founder of The Poetry Archive and Poetry by Heart. His most recent publications are New and Selected Poems 1977-2022, The Penguin Book of Elegy (co-edited with Stephen Regan) and Waders. He is Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins, and lives in Baltimore. Declan Ryan is […]

Portuguese Program Presents Movie Nights

at Portuguese program presents movie nights monthly this spring semester. The following movies will be shown: The Second Mother on Feb. 7th, The Hero on March 6th, and Cats don’t have vertigo on April 10th. Join us on those days in Hodson 110 at 6:30pm. Google Calendar iCalendar

Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society

East Baltimore Campus @ Welch Library 1900 E Monument St, Baltimore, MD, United States

This event will bring together researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and artists to chart how individuals and communities live with and make meaning out of injuries. For more information, and to register for this hybrid conference, visit https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/rethinkinginjuriesconf/ Sponsors (i.e., departments, programs, partners, etc.): BSPH Center for Injury Research & Policy, Center for Medical Humanities & […]

Special Seminar: Kei Igarashi

@ Kei M. Igarashi, Ph.DChancellor’s Fellow & Associate ProfessorDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of MedicineUniversity of California, Irvine Circuit mechanisms of associative memory and its disruption in Alzheimer’s disease Memory has multiple components: “what” memory (item/object), “when” memory (time) and “where” memory (space). Research in the past decades revealed neurons involved in spatial memory, […]