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, […]

External Speaker: David Myer Temin (Michigan)

Mergenthaler 366 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

David Myer Temin (Political Science, University of Michigan) will present research-in-progress, entitled “Wages for Earthwork: An Anticolonial Framework for Climate Justice” @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Shopping for Pox Cures in Early Modern London

Homewood Campus, Levering Great Hall 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

@ Olivia Weisser of University of Massachusetts, Boston will present “Shopping for Pox Cures in Early Modern London”. Public lecture at Levering Great Hall (Homewood Campus). Reception to follow Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Future of Ancient Race

@ Thursday March 7 in Remsen Hall 1 at 3pm. Friday March 8 in Gilman Hall 50 at 2:30pm. Two interactive conversations that will brainstorm ancient race/ethnicity/identity, how to teach it, and what further questions or perspectives you think we should keep in mind as we collaboratively build an open-access online resource (OER) in part […]

Biblical Violence and the Virtues of a (Very) Plain Sense

at Confronted by ethically troubling texts and themes in the Hebrew Bible, modern and contemporary Jewish commentators have developed an array of strategies for addressing and “repairing” the plain meaning of such passages. This talk argues that these reparative attempts have their own consequences, drawing out the ethical, political, and philosophical virtues of a renewed […]