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 […]
Join our conference “Kant and the World Today” at JHU Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, 2024. Talks and panelswill explore the relevance of Kant’s philosophy for our contemporary world, focusing on critical discussions of the implications of his philosophy for issues of political economy, the role of hope and despair in the face of […]
@ 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 […]
@ Munira Khayyat, NYU Abu Dhabi Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Reception to follow Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
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 […]
at “New Stars Were Rising in the Sky”: Benjamin’s Concept of Cosmic Experience and Philosophy of Technology A lecture by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Bochum), Max Kade Visiting Professor of German, JHU Google Calendar iCalendar
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.
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 […]
@ 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 […]
@ 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 […]
@ Maria José de Abreu Columbia University Reception to follow Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Please join us for a lecture, “Another Side of Italian Humanistic Literature: The 1493 Manuscript Nova de miraculis disputatio of Petrus Haedus at JHU”, by Prof. Matteo Venier (University of Udine). This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance and the Italian Section […]
