Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume

Gilman 479

at Screening of the film The Hidden Life of Trees (Das geheime Leben der Bäume), based on Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book by the same title. This event is sponsored by the Undergraduate German Program and the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought. Google Calendar iCalendar

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

Prof. SARAH M. QUESADA, Duke University
Friday, October 27, 4pm
Gilman 476

THE AFRICAN HERITAGE OF LATINX AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

Sarah M. Quesada’s book illustrates a “Latin-African” history: an untold story that challenges dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa’s impact in broader Latin American culture. A book that defies the separation of fields according to colonial languages, Quesada shows how themes such as the 19th century Belgian “scramble for the Congo,” the decolonizing war in Angola, and the neoliberal turn in Nigeria are embedded in some of the most noted authors of Latin American decent in the last fifty years. This is also the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature.

Kurdish Women Politicians Write from Prison 

The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University present a discussion of the recently published volume The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics (Pluto).

Graduate Workshop—Questions of Belonging: Agency, Erasure, and Visibility in Germany and the US

All Hopkins graduate students interested in a conversation with Mohamed Amjahid about racism, immigration, LGBTQ communities in Europe, North Africa, and the United States are welcome to join.

As a freelance investigative journalist, Mohamed Amjahid regularly covers topics such as racism and police violence in Germany, the upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa as well as far-right and “anti-woke” politics in the US and their global impact.

East Asia Unscripted Speaker Series – Monica Weller

Mergenthaler 526

@ Japan’s Role in International Cooperation and Development” with Monica Weller of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program. Contact: East Asian Studies Program View Organizer Website Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Notes from the Speaking Wall: Enslaved Literary Performance through Dystopian Fiction

at Lecture by Christopher Londa (Johns Hopkins University). Gilman 108 Reading with their ears,” the aristocratic elite of ancient Rome often enjoyed literature by listening to enslaved lectors perform texts out loud. But how did the lectors themselves think about these performances? On this question, the archive plays broken records. We hear elites complain about […]

Community-Engaged Research in Critical Diaspora Studies (part 2)

Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a panel discussion about the contemporary landscape of diasporic and immigrant-rights organizing at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. This event is part of a soft launch for a new undergraduate program at Hopkins called Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS)

Graduate Workshop: Critical Methods in the Study of Racism, Colonialism, and Political Economy 

This graduate workshop will focus on critical methodologies for conducting doctoral research on a range of topics that center issues of racism, colonialism and empire, and capitalist political economy. The workshop will feature input on student projects and general advice on conducting ethically informed and critically oriented research by anthropologist Kareem Rabie.

Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS) Information Session for 2024 applicants

Online

On Tuesday, November 7th at 3:30 PM, there will be a Zoom information session and presentation about the Ph.D. program in Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies (IHS). This program offers students the opportunity to create an interdisciplinary doctoral program of their own design, within set guidelines. Students work with faculty advisors from two different Ph.D. fields, one of which must be […]

Digital Humanities Transcription Workshop

Please join us for a Digital Humanities Workshop -- Writing the Rose ... Reading Digitally, focused on learning how to use FromThePage, a new software program that JHU has recently acquired (see here: https://fromthepage.com/landing). FromThePage is a fantastic tool for organizing, transcribing, and translating archival and documentary sources all in one place. It is a tool […]