JHU Colloquium Series: Adriana Petryna (University of Pennsylvania)

Mergenthaler Hall 426 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

@ Burnscapes: Navigating Futures Beyond Climate Extremes Reception afterward Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Lecture in Spanish/Portuguese section by Ignasi Gozalo Salellas

Please mark your calendars! On Tuesday, April 16 at 6pm in Gilman 377​, our last lecture of the year in the Spanish section will be delivered by Ignasi Gozalo Salellas, Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He will be talking about his latest book La excepcionalidad permanente. Nuestros estados […]

Film Screening: Silence Is A Falling Body

@ DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR, CO-SPONSORED WITH LACLxS AND CAMSAGUSTINA COMEDI, DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Jocelyn Benoist, “How Fiction Can Be Made True”

Gilman 208

@ Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne “How Fiction Can Be Made True” Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers’ […]

LAGW Seminar: African Diaspora in the Caribbean

@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Jessica Marie Johnson, Associate Professor, History, JHU, to present: Disaster. Tabitha Laurent & Francisco Pérez Marsilla, Alumn & PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU, to present: Karayib. The second in a two-semester graduate sequence, […]

Raúl Zibechi: Constructing Worlds Otherwise

@ Red Emma’s Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome journalist Raúl Zibechi for a conversation about his forthcoming book, Constructing Worlds Otherwise: Societies in Movement and Anticolonial Paths in Latin America (AK Press, 2024). Translated by George Ygarza Quispe. A new collection from one […]

Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Trans Criticism and Trans Culture (TCP series)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute  The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center’s Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials […]

Workshop: “The Implicit Normativity in Language and Norms of Life”

@ This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at […]

Description: The Implicit Normativity in Language and Norms of Life

Commons East Room 304 3301 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD

@ This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at […]

External Speaker: Sally Nuamah (NorthWestern)

Mergenthaler 366 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Sally Nuamah (Political Science, NorthWestern University) will present research-in-progress, title TBA @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Beyond Medicine and Healing: (see more

East Baltimore Campus, Welch Library, Room 303

@ Richard Adjei, second year of JHU, will present “Beyond Medicine and Healing: Cultural Revival, Politics, and Development of the Psychic and Traditional Healing Association in Northern Ghana”. Pre-circulated paper. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live