Blast Courses are back for Summer 2023 with 9 new classes! It’s almost summertime—and that means another exciting run of Blast Courses in the Humanities! AGHI is proud to return for our fourth year of Blast Courses, a series of interactive and free online courses open to all adults on a range of topics across […]
It's another year and another season of Humanities in the Village! Kick off the new series with a discussion between AGHI's own director, Bill Egginton, in conversation with Sean Carroll on "Ultimate Nature of Reality." Celebrating his new book, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Pantheon, Aug. 2023), Prof. Egginton […]
Join us for our September installment of Humanities in the Village to celebrate the new book by Melanie Marotta (Morgan State University), African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (2023). Dr. Marotta will be joined by our moderator, Dr. Samanda Robinson (JHU). Join us at the Ivy Bookshop's patio at 6:30pm for […]
Please join us for a lecture by Prof. Jane Stevenson, Campion Hall, Oxford on post-Renaissance female Latinists.
at Please join us for an Anthropology Department colloquia event to discuss MLL Professor Sam Spinner’s award-winning book Jewish Primitivism on Oct 10, Tuesday, 4-5.30pm at Mergenthaler 426. Sam Spinner will be joined by Clara Han (JHU), Andrew Brandel (UChicago), Talia Katz (JHU) and Naveeda Khan (JHU). The book is available as an ebook through […]
at JHU Anthropology Department Fall 2023 Colloquium Series – Jewish Primitivism book by Dr. Samuel J. Spinner. In discussion with Clara Han (JHU), Andrew Brandel (University of Chicago), Talia Katz (JHU), & Naveeda Khan (JHU) Google Calendar iCalendar Jewish Primitivism Please contact Jenny Clarke for the Introduction of the book at [email protected]
WGS welcomes attendees to our next talk on "Erotophobia" by Dr. Gila Ashtor (Columbia), happening on Wednesday, October 11 at 5:15PM in Gilman 208.
This is the annual, international meeting of social science and humanities scholars working on Madagascar and the western Indian Ocean. The conference aims to bring together scholars of all levels spread between Madagascar and the surrounding region, America, and Europe; this year's meeting will be hosted by Johns Hopkins and take place at the Welch Medical […]
at Presenter: Julia Chang, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Cornell University, will be joining us to discuss her award-winning book, Blood Novels: Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism (U Toronto P, 2022). In addition to her work on Spanish realism, Julia also works on feminism, disability studies, colonialism, and the Philippines. The poster for the talk […]
To register, please email Daniel McClurkin by October 7.
The Greek Chamber Music Project (GCMP) presents Uproot, a powerful program of Greek songs from Asia Minor. GCMP performs modern arrangements of Greek music from the region, celebrating this vibrant musical heritage and capturing the refugee experience through song. Uproot weaves histories and personal stories throughout, generating a universal dialogue about the impact of forced migration and building a bridge to the experience of modern-day refugees.
at Lecture by Arum Park (University of Arizona). Gilman 108 Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire reimagines Sophocles’ Antigone as a story of a British Muslim family whose religious and ethnic alterity becomes a source of conflict within the family and without. Her adaptation both cleaves to and departs from its Sophoclean model in ways that shed […]
