Humanities in the Village: Nate Brown—On Writing Environmental Fiction (Reading & Discussion)

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Humanities in the Village returns for February 2024 with... "On Writing Environmental Fiction: A Reading & Discussion" with author Nate Brown, in conversation with Jean McGarry. Description: In the era of global climate change, writers are engaging directly with the science and social implications of our quickly changing planet. Join fiction writer Nate Brown (JHU […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Jiwon Kim

Gilman 308

@ Graduate student Jiwon Kim will present for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. Papers and the Zoom link will be distributed one week in advance. If you would like to attend and have not received the papers, please e-mail one of the organizers: Yushuang Zheng (History), Wesley Sampias (History), Minah Kang (Political Science), or Mercy An (Comparative Thought and Literature). Contact: East Asian […]

LAGW Seminar: Power

@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Professor Consuelo Amat, SNF Agora Institute, Political Science, JHU, to present: “Power in Autonomy: The Political Strategy of Constructive Resistance,” and Alex Sanchez, Ph.D. Student, History, JHU, to present: “Los tiempos de cuarentena: Disease and Vaccination in Post-emancipation Puerto […]

Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose”

Gilman 479

at Christine Lehleiter, Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, focuses on 18th– and 19th-century German literary and scientific cultures, and her books include Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. Bucknell University Press, 2014 and Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 2016. Other publications […]

Expertise in enslavement: medical knowledge, necrofinance and (see more)

East Baltimore Campus, Welch Library, Room 303

@ Alexandre White of JHU presents “Expertise in enslavement: medical knowledge, necrofinance and the insurance of Atlantic slavery in Britain from 1750-1807″ (pre-circulated paper) Joint event with East Baltimore Campus Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Schouler Lecture: Adam Tooze (Columbia)

Remsen Hall Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

@ “ReOrient: The Climate Crisis in the New Asian Age” Remsen Hall 1 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Schouler Lecture in DC: Our Polycrisis

Hopkins Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washngton DC, United States

A Discussion on historical perspectives and contemporary politics with Monica Ali (SUNY), Tim Sahay (Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab, JHU), and Adam Tooze (Columbia) @ Doors open 4pm, doors close 8pm Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Conference Center Room 1020 Free registration (required): https://cglink.me/2dh/r1950173 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Jin Jiang (Johns Hopkins University)

Mergenthaler 266

@ China: A Century of Family Revolutions A recent reproductive crisis has brought renewed interest in the century-old “family problem” (家庭问题) and “women’s problem” (妇女问题). Related issues have not only been debated in the discursive field, but also informed cross-border fields such as social policymaking and the law. Intrigued by questions such as why the […]