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)

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 […]

One Mother, Many Mother Tongues: The Politics of Multiculturalism and Ancient Buddhist Art, Dr Naman P. Ahuja, JNU

Gilman Hall 130D

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: […]

Joanna Trzeciak Huss: Zuzanna Ginczanka in Translation

Gilman 479

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 […]

Graduate Workshop: Archival Methods in the Social Sciences

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. 

Shelley Haley’s visiting lecture “’Fair Maiden, Fair Maiden’: Skin Color Terminology in Roman Literature and Latin Inscriptions”

Gilman 108

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 […]

Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th

via Zoom

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies Presents: Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th Dotan Halevy is a social and environmental historian of the modern Middle East, focusing on the transformation of borderlands and how they shape political spaces and social identities. Dotan completed his Ph.D. […]