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 […]
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)
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.
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 […]
Screening of the documentary film Italo Calvino, The Writer in the Trees and Q&A with the director Duccio Chiarini.
Please RSVP at the link in the event description no later than 8am on Wednesday, November 8.
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 […]
The Initiative in Global South Humanities presents: One Mother, Many Mother Tongues: The Politics of Multiculturalism and Ancient Buddhist Art When: Thursday, November 9th Time: 5:00 PM Where: JHU, Homewood – Gilman Hall 130D (English seminar room) *Reception to follow in the Tudor and Stuart room – Gilman Hall 388 Register in advance: https://jh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_06DMVC8tHmQI67I Abstract: […]
The JHU Translation Circle presents: Joanna Trzeciak Huss: Zuzanna Ginczanka in Translation Thursday, November 9th at 6 pm in Gilman 479 This event welcomes Joanna Trzeciak Huss, a professor of Russian and Polish Translation and Translation Studies at Kent State University. She will share with us a selection of her translated poems of Zuzanna Ginczanka , along […]
Please join this graduate workshop sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a conversation on how to adopt archival research methods in the social sciences. The discussion will focus on research on political economy, colonialism, and state power. Speakers will offer practical guidance as well theoretical and methodological insights.
Danique Jeurissen, Ph.D.Adjunct Associate Research ScientistZuckerman Mind Brain Behavior InstituteDepartment of NeuroscienceColumbia University The Neural Basis of Cognitive Flexibility in Primates A major challenge in neuroscience is to understand how neurons in one area can specifically communicate information to a subset of neurons in another area. I answer two questions: How is sensory information communicated […]
Please join the Department of Classics lecture “’Fair Maiden, Fair Maiden’: Skin Color Terminology in Roman Literature and Latin Inscriptions” on Tuesday, Nov 28, 4:40-6 pm, in Gilman 108 as part of our research seminar series on race in antiquity (poster here; reception to follow). There will be limited space to join us for dinner […]
