WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

We are happy to announce that this year's WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor is Professor Grace Lavery of UC Berkeley. Her most recent book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton, 2023) examines the experience and representation of modern gender transition, drawing on examples from George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and many others. She will give three […]

Bodian Seminar: Jaewon Ko

@ Jaewon Ko, Ph.D.Professor, Department of Brain SciencesDaegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST)Daegu, South Korea Modulation of neural circuit organization by synaptic suppressors Synapses are fundamental information units of the brain that function by establishing and regulating innumerable overlapping and interdigitating neural circuits between neurons. Synaptic cell-adhesion molecules (CAMs) are central synapse organizers […]

JHU Anthro Colloquium Series: Nat Adams, Johns Hopkins University

Mergenthaler 426 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland, United States

“Vacant to Verdant? Urban Greening and Community Progress in West Baltimore” @ Reception to followZoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Faculty Research: Bentley Allan (JHU)

Mergenthaler 366 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Bentley Allan (JHU) will talk about The Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

East Asian Studies Seminar – Faculty Presentation

Gilman 308

@ Faculty members Dr. Yumi Kim (History), Dr. Clara Han (Anthropology), and Dr. Satoru Hashimoto (Comparative Thought and Literature) will present on How to Turn Diss into Book 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 […]

Bernadine Marie Hernández: Border Bodies

@ Macaulay Hall, 101 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Marxisms Seminar are pleased to welcome Professor Bernadine Marie Hernandez (English, University of New Mexico) for a conversation about her recent book, Border Bodies. Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands In this study of sex, gender, […]

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Madeline Hsu (University of Maryland)

Gilman 308

@ Immobilization and Decolonization in Singapore, 1945-1953 Perhaps the greatest challenge in preparing Singapore for independence was defining and assigning citizenship to its highly heterogeneous populations, a challenge magnified by the entrepot’s majority of ethnic Chinese residents and its uncertain political relationship to Malaya. Affixing citizenship rights would determine balances of power in these future, […]

Hard Histories Methods: Rethinking Our Archives

at In spring 2024, JHU Hard Histories, directed by Dr. Martha S. Jones, is hosting a series of conversations exploring the histories of Blackness, slavery, and racism in the Maryland area.  Our first webinar of the semester, “Hard Histories Methods: Rethinking Our Archives”, will occur on Wednesday, February 21 from noon-1 pm eastern.  This virtual event is free […]

Mary Caton Lingold: African Musicians in the Atlantic World – Legacies of Sound and Slavery

@ Bloomberg 278 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Mary Caton Lingold, Professor of English and director of the PhD Program in Media, Art, and TextMedia, Art, and Text at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a conversation about her recent book, African Musicians in the Atlantic World: Legacies of […]

Angie Bautista Chavez: Externalization and the Consolidation of Migration Control

@ Mergenthaler Hall 366 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Political Science are pleased to welcome Angie Bautista-Chavez, Assistant Professor of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, for the lecture: Externalization and the Consolidation of Migration Control Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Bodian Seminar: Tobias Teichert

@ Tobias Teichert, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Psychiatry and BioengineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh A mesoscopic electrophysiology platform for the monkey to measure brain function and connectivity in the ketamine model of schizophrenia Key aspects of brain function can only be understood by recording from the entire brain in parallel, rather than parts of it in sequence. While […]