Neural Mechanisms Underlying Adult Ocular Dominance Plasticity: Hebbian or Homeostatic? @ Daniel Tso, PhDAssociate Professor of Neurosurgery,Neuroscience and Physiology,& Ophthalmology and Visual SciencesSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NY Recent studies in adult humans have shown that short-term deprivation of one eye (STMD, 1-3hrs) dramatically shifts the balance in favor of this eye for over an hour […]
Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we prepare to launch the newest undergraduate major in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences: Critical Diaspora Studies.
Humanities in the Village returns for the 2024-25 year with this first event featuring Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, in conversation with Drew Daniel! In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts […]
The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to host Professor Paul Apostolidis (Government, London School of Economics), who will lead a workshop with undergraduate and graduate students on methods and approaches to studying labor and migration.
@ Join us for a talk by Gerard González Germain, assistant professor of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, entitled “Modern Books on Ancient Stones: The Development and Reception of Printed Collections of Inscriptions in the 16th Century”. This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the […]
@ “CAMBIO, CAMBIO” Lautaro García Candela / Argentina / 2022 / 89 min https://pragda.com/film/money-exchange Spanish with English subtitles An extended sequence of newsreel footage about Argentina’s spiraling inflation since 2019 sets the stage for Pablo, who works on Peatonal Florida, Buenos Aires’ economic and tourist epicenter, trying to survive in a precarious and exhausting working […]
@ Graduate student Mengqi (Mercy) An will present on “Foraging for the Root of Life: Manchurian Ginseng in Russian Literature” for the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and […]
Humanities on the Hill: Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher" Film director, David Ofek, Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, JHU, and Virginia Jewiss, Associate Director, AGHI, JHU The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, is a formative, mysterious event […]
Through this event, we come together to ask: How can something that seems as simple, scientific, and natural–a desire for sweetness–be influenced by systems like slavery, colonialism, capitalism?
@ Lauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance (Milkweed Editions, 2024); Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award for “venturesome, interdisciplinary work”; and What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). Russell has received fellowships from […]
The contemporary humanities have been shaped by an encounter with continental theory and its disavowal of what it called humanism, viewed as a bourgeois liberal discourse in and of the West. Yet, a wide range of anticolonial and Global South thinkers, from Senghor and Fanon to Said and Kapur, evade this gesture and speak of […]
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