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Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society

East Baltimore Campus @ Welch Library 1900 E Monument St, Baltimore, MD, United States

This event will bring together researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and artists to chart how individuals and communities live with and make meaning out of injuries. For more information, and to register for this hybrid conference, visit https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/rethinkinginjuriesconf/ Sponsors (i.e., departments, programs, partners, etc.): BSPH Center for Injury Research & Policy, Center for Medical Humanities & […]

Special Seminar: Kei Igarashi

@ Kei M. Igarashi, Ph.DChancellor’s Fellow & Associate ProfessorDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of MedicineUniversity of California, Irvine Circuit mechanisms of associative memory and its disruption in Alzheimer’s disease Memory has multiple components: “what” memory (item/object), “when” memory (time) and “where” memory (space). Research in the past decades revealed neurons involved in spatial memory, […]

Biblical Violence and the Virtues of a (Very) Plain Sense

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 […]

Bodian Seminar: Mark Churchland

@ 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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]