@ Gilman 108 Lecture by Lyra Monteiro (Rutgers) Recent public manifestations of white supremacist violence in the US consistently invoke classical antiquity as the origin of and justification for white supremacy. In this talk, Dr. Monteiro addresses why those who are invested in the discipline of Classics must understand this phenomenon, and proposes how a […]
Thursday, April 4, through Saturday, April 6, 2024. The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace as one of his most timely contributions to political issues such as hospitality, cosmopolitanism, human rights, the inherent value of cultural and religious difference, the critique of colonialism, the essential role of a global public sphere, and […]
@ 2024 Graduate Symposium at Department of Comparative Thought and Literature Johns Hopkins University Location: Gilman 208 Friday, April 5 10:00am Panel 1: Fragmentary Poetics Between Philosophy and Literature Amy Chan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Fragmentary Form and Allusion: Tolson’s Skeptic Poetics” Emma Duvall (The University of North Carolina at Chapel […]
@ Jan Engelmann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley The sense of fairness in chimpanzees and children It is often argued that the sense of fairness consists in an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Standard accounts claim that chimpanzees react negatively to allocations in which they receive less than others, while children, from […]
@ Find the Midwife Project Launch 12pm event in Clipper Room (2nd floor) of Shriver Hall. Followed by 3pm event in School of Nursing, East Baltimore Campus, Room 431. Reception to follow. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Kunal Joshi, Johns Hopkins University Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 (Reception to follow) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Carolina Fautsch, English ‘Strangely Active’: The Role of the Nonhuman in the World of the Romance Rhiannon Clarke, Modern Languages & Literatures Pulling Dead Snails from an Elephant’s Lung: Abjection and the Agency of Assemblages in Lorca’s Poet in New York Fernando López Vega, Anthropology Bioenergy and Green Grabbing in the Orinoco River: Energy Sovereignty, […]
at Join Environmental Humanities Research Initiative for a Graduate Panel on April 9, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Gilman 108. The panel will be followed by a reception. Google Calendar iCalendar
at The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures presents Dr. Sunny Yudkoff, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Yudkoff will be presenting “Against Joy: Yankev Glatshteyn and the threat of Yiddish FREYD” on April 10, 4-5:30pm, in Gilman […]
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 […]
@ NEW DATE: The Pedophile’s Complaint: Hoax News in the Neoliberal Decade Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Julieta Casas, PhD Candidate, Political Science, JHU, to present: Convergence or Divergence? Toward a New Frame of American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective, and Óscar Aponte, PhD Candidate, Latin America History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, to present: From Dispossession to […]
