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 […]
at Screening of the film The Hidden Life of Trees (Das geheime Leben der Bäume), based on Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book by the same title. This event is sponsored by the Undergraduate German Program and the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought. Google Calendar iCalendar
Prof. SARAH M. QUESADA, Duke University
Friday, October 27, 4pm
Gilman 476
THE AFRICAN HERITAGE OF LATINX AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Sarah M. Quesada’s book illustrates a “Latin-African” history: an untold story that challenges dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa’s impact in broader Latin American culture. A book that defies the separation of fields according to colonial languages, Quesada shows how themes such as the 19th century Belgian “scramble for the Congo,” the decolonizing war in Angola, and the neoliberal turn in Nigeria are embedded in some of the most noted authors of Latin American decent in the last fifty years. This is also the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature.
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University present a discussion of the recently published volume The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics (Pluto).
All Hopkins graduate students interested in a conversation with Mohamed Amjahid about racism, immigration, LGBTQ communities in Europe, North Africa, and the United States are welcome to join.
As a freelance investigative journalist, Mohamed Amjahid regularly covers topics such as racism and police violence in Germany, the upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa as well as far-right and “anti-woke” politics in the US and their global impact.
@ 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
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 […]
