Join us for the second screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Mohsin Rao will be introducing Jodhaa Akbar, a 2008 musical historical romantic drama by Ashutosh Gowariker about the fraught romance between a sixteenth-century Mughal emperor and a Hindu […]
@ Sexual Revolution, Counterrevolution, Melancholy: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Freunde um Bernhard (1931) How to tell a story from the perspective of the boy-muse? This talk undertakes a reparative reading of the first novel of the then 23-year-old Swiss writer, journalist, traveler, and androgynous icon Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42), in light of trenchant critiques of its alleged compositional deficits. […]
The Future of Here is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What artifacts might people of that future time […]
@ The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Comparative History Matters: Health Insurance, Medicine, and Ideology in China and Taiwan @ For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Wayne Soon, Associate Professor, Program of the History of Medicine in the Department of Surgery; Program of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, will present on comparative histories of health insurance. […]
@ Come and join students and faculty of the German program for the tradition of Stammtisch. Everyone is welcome at our cozy get-together. Ability to speak German is not required. We meet every other Wednesday from 5-7pm at One World Café. See you at the Stammtisch! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook […]
@ Graduate student Jingting Liang will present on “A Comparative Study on US and Chinese Food-delivery Platforms: Platform Architecture and Union Interventions” for the Spring 2025 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 […]
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Hans Frex, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Black Pacific: Revolutionary Suicide and Maternal Struggle in the Afro-Colombian Diaspora in Antofagasta” Ignacio Veraguas, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “The desengaño of the Torrid Zone: Southern Habitability and […]
@ The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Speaking Hoarsely: Black Voices and Racialized Listening in Urban New Spain Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. This incomplete phonographic record mutes actual African and Afro-descendant voices, privileges Euro-centric listening positions in accounts of viceregal […]
@ Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is glad to present this lecture by Sarah Finley (Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Christopher Newport University): Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. […]
@ William R. Stauffer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Neurobiology Center for Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh Title: From Control to Composition: Prefrontal Neuron Activity DuringCombinatorial Reasoning and Goal Formation Abstract: The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is central to cognitive control, organizingbehavior to achieve internal goals. Yet a fundamental question remains: how do we definethose goals? In other […]
