Gregor Moder, “Hegel’s Antigone between Historicity and Subjectivity”

Gilman 208

@ Gregor Moder, Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubjana “Hegel’s Antigone between Historicity and Subjectivity” Hegel treated the myth of Antigone not as material for a particular work of art, but as a direct expression of the Greek world, as the shape of the world spirit in the Greek antiquity. If it were possible to […]

Hard Histories Methods: Rethinking Our Archives

at In spring 2024, JHU Hard Histories, directed by Dr. Martha S. Jones, is hosting a series of conversations exploring the histories of Blackness, slavery, and racism in the Maryland area.  Our first webinar of the semester, “Hard Histories Methods: Rethinking Our Archives”, will occur on Wednesday, February 21 from noon-1 pm eastern.  This virtual event is free […]

Mary Caton Lingold: African Musicians in the Atlantic World – Legacies of Sound and Slavery

@ Bloomberg 278 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Mary Caton Lingold, Professor of English and director of the PhD Program in Media, Art, and TextMedia, Art, and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a conversation about her recent book, African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of […]

Angie Bautista Chavez: Externalization and the Consolidation of Migration Control

@ Mergenthaler Hall 366 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Political Science are pleased to welcome Angie Bautista-Chavez, Assistant Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, for the lecture: Externalization and the Consolidation of Migration Control Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Bodian Seminar: Tobias Teichert

@ Tobias Teichert, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Psychiatry and BioengineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh A mesoscopic electrophysiology platform for the monkey to measure brain function and connectivity in the ketamine model of schizophrenia Key aspects of brain function can only be understood by recording from the entire brain in parallel, rather than parts of it in sequence. While […]

Humanities in the Village: Nate Brown—On Writing Environmental Fiction (Reading & Discussion)

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

Humanities in the Village returns for February 2024 with... "On Writing Environmental Fiction: A Reading & Discussion" with author Nate Brown, in conversation with Jean McGarry. Description: In the era of global climate change, writers are engaging directly with the science and social implications of our quickly changing planet. Join fiction writer Nate Brown (JHU […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Jiwon Kim

Gilman 308

@ Graduate student Jiwon Kim will present 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 Kang (Political Science), or Mercy An (Comparative Thought and Literature). Contact: East Asian […]

LAGW Seminar: Power

@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Professor Consuelo Amat, SNF Agora Institute, Political Science, JHU, to present: “Power in Autonomy: The Political Strategy of Constructive Resistance,” and Alex Sanchez, Ph.D. Student, History, JHU, to present: “Los tiempos de cuarentena: Disease and Vaccination in Post-emancipation Puerto […]

Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose”

Gilman 479

at Christine Lehleiter, Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, focuses on 18th– and 19th-century German literary and scientific cultures, and her books include Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. Bucknell University Press, 2014 and Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 2016. Other publications […]