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 […]

Exploring Trans Archives (Trans Cultural Production series)

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, Maryland

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center’s Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials […]

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 […]

Writing Seminars Presents: Callie Siskel & Taylor Koekkoek

Gilman Hall 50

at Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds (W. W. Norton) and Arctic Revival, winner of the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poems appear in the Atlantic,Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and Paris Review. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. […]

External Speaker: Alex Anievas (UConn)

Mergenthaler 366 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Alex Anievas (Political Science, UConn) will provide a talk entitled “The Difference Multiplicity Makes: The American Civil War as Passive Revolution” @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Expertise in enslavement: medical knowledge, necrofinance and (see more)

East Baltimore Campus, Welch Library, Room 303

@ Alexandre White of JHU presents “Expertise in enslavement: medical knowledge, necrofinance and the insurance of Atlantic slavery in Britain from 1750-1807″ (pre-circulated paper) Joint event with East Baltimore Campus Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Schouler Lecture: Adam Tooze (Columbia)

Remsen Hall Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

@ “ReOrient: The Climate Crisis in the New Asian Age” Remsen Hall 1 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live