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 […]

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 […]

Distinguished Lecture in the Art of the Ancient Americas

Mason Hall Auditorium 3101 Wyman Park Dr., Baltimore, MD, United States

Inka Suspension Bridges: Engineering A Pre-Industrial Construction @ In collaboration with the Embassy of Peru, Washington, DC Abstract Inka culture relied on an extensive network of roads and bridges to connect the various regions in the high Andes. Though the road system has been studied in some detail, scholars have largely neglected the role of […]

Foreign Affairs Symposium: Reaching for the Stars: Ellen Ochoa

Please join us on Thursday, March 14th when the Foreign Affairs Symposium—in partnership with OLÉ, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, and the Maryland Space Grant Consortium—will host Ellen Ochoa from 7-8 PM in Shriver Hall.

Keynote Address: “504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party” – Dr. Sami Schalk

Hodson 110

Macksey Symposium Keynote Address: "504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party" Event Date: Friday, March 22, 2024 Event Start Time: 5:00 PM Event End Time: 6:30 PM Event Location: Hodson Hall 110 Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the keynote address […]

Keynote Address: “504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party”

Hodson Hall 110

@ Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the keynote address for the fifth annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, held on the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus from March 21-23, 2024. Drawing from her latest book, Black Disability Politics, Schalk will detail the […]

East Asian Studies Speaker Series: Michele Ford (University of Sydney, Australia)

Mergenthaler 526

@ Union Responses to Gender-based Violence in Cambodia’s Construction Sector. Gender-based violence and harassment at work (workplace GBVH) is a global, complex and intractable issue that impacts millions of workers’ lives. In Cambodia, unions – both local and international – have also attempted to influence policy, promote law reform and strengthen law enforcement, and raise […]

Bodian Seminar: Erin Hecht

@ Erin Hecht, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary BiologyHarvard University Brain-behavior evolution in domesticated canids How do animals evolve new behavioral adaptations? Domestication offers a unique window into this question because it can involve strong selection pressure on a focused set of behaviors. In one set of studies, we are comparing brains of foxes […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Mercy An

Gilman 308

@ Graduate student Mercy An will present on Native-Soil Literature 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 EAS seminar is […]