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 […]

WGS Summer Fellows Presentations

@ Marta Cerreti, MLL, Italian section Sophie D’Anieri, Anthropology Lydia Namuganga Skye Neulight, Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Humanities Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Liberation Archaeology: Excavating the Classical Layers of 21st Century America

@ Gilman 108 Lecture by Lyra Monteiro (Rutgers) Recent public manifestations of white supremacist violence in the US consistently invoke classical antiquity as the origin of and justification for white supremacy. In this talk, Dr. Monteiro addresses why those who are invested in the discipline of Classics must understand this phenomenon, and proposes how a […]

“Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace”

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Thursday, April 4, through Saturday, April 6, 2024. The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace as one of his most timely contributions to political issues such as hospitality, cosmopolitanism, human rights, the inherent value of cultural and religious difference, the critique of colonialism, the essential role of a global public sphere, and […]

Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments

CTL Seminar Room, Gilman 208

@ 2024 Graduate Symposium at Department of Comparative Thought and Literature Johns Hopkins University Location: Gilman 208 Friday, April 5 10:00am Panel 1: Fragmentary Poetics Between Philosophy and Literature Amy Chan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Fragmentary Form and Allusion: Tolson’s Skeptic Poetics” Emma Duvall (The University of North Carolina at Chapel […]

Bodian Seminar: Jan Engelmann

@ Jan Engelmann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley The sense of fairness in chimpanzees and children It is often argued that the sense of fairness consists in an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Standard accounts claim that chimpanzees react negatively to allocations in which they receive less than others, while children, from […]