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 […]

Lecture by Prof. Matteo Venier, “Nova de miraculis disuptatio”

Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043, M-Level 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

@ 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 […]

How to behave: Queer Performances and Public Feelings in the Early Work of Scott Burton

Gilman 208

@ Please join us in welcoming David Getsy, historian and curator of art and performance at University of Virginia. Dr. Getsy will be discussing the early work of Scott Burton in a talk, “How to behave: Queer Performances and Public Feelings in the Early Work of Scott Burton.” The talk will take place on Wednesday, […]

Sounds Matters in Brazilian Concrete Poetry

at Popcretos, 1964-1966: Sound Matters in Brazilian Concrete Poetry Marcelo Nogueira (The Johns Hopkins University) March 27, 5:00 pm Gilman Hall 479 The lecture investigates the dynamic relationship between sound and visual elements in Brazilian concrete poetry, drawing on sonic and literary theory. Emerging in the mid-1950s, concrete poetry marks a pivotal moment in the […]

The Iliad translated by Emily Wilson

@ Maryland 110 Presentation followed by Q&A. Sponsored by Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Department of Classics, Stern Center, First-Year Seminars. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Jon Auring Grimm, “The Musicality of Nature and Cosmic Ornamentation”

Gilman 208

@ Jon Auring Grimm, PhD Candidate, Aarhus University “The Musicality of Nature and Cosmic Ornamentation: Poetic knowledge and ecological imagination in Inger Christensen“ The entire web of relationships among all existing phenomena that constitutes our world must lead to an increasingly refined understanding that our cultural forms, all human-made expressions, including the diverse forms of […]

Language Night

at Join Modern Languages and Literatures (MLL) to learn more about our undergraduate courses and programs in Gilman Atrium on April 1st from 5 to 7pm. MLL offers Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Hebrew & Yiddish courses. Pizza and beverages provided. Google Calendar iCalendar

Ben Morgan talk

Gilman 208

@ Ben Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford “How updating Frankfurt School political economy changes the way we think about a critical theory of culture in the 21st-century” The lecture shows the transformed potential of the interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School when the framework of economic […]

Graduate Student Workshop: Museum Careers

Gilman 177 @ 3400 N Charles St Baltimore, MD, United States

@ The workshop will take place next Tuesday, April 2nd, 5-6 pm in the Department’s Seminar Room, 177 Gilman Hall. Nicole Berlin, Assistant Curator Assistant Curator of Collections, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College and Lara Yeager Crasselt, Curator and Department Head, European Painting and Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art will be talking […]