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

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: Bikrum Gill (VTU)

Mergenthaler 366 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

@ Dr Bikrum Gill from Virginia Tech University will present a paper entitled “Liberation against Genocide: The Palestsinian Challenge to the U.S.-Led Imperialist World Order” Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Enacting Temporality

Gilman 132 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

@ Keynote speaker: Chloe Ahmann (Cornell U.) 2024 JHU Anthropology Graduate Student Conference Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Monday Seminar, Abraham Seda, Lafayette College

Gilman Hall, Room 308

@ Monday Seminar, Abraham Seda, Lafayette College (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

East Asian Studies Seminar – EAS Senior Theses

Gilman 308

@ Undergraduate East Asian Studies major’s Calista Huang, Jill Ji, and Amrita Makunda will present their senior theses. The EAS Seminar is primarily an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS […]

EAS Speaker Series: Darcie Draught-Véjares (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Mergenthaler 266

@ Beyond Birth Rates: South Korea’s Policy Response to Demographic Aging. Examining how demographic shifts shape policy priorities and challenges, Darcie Draught-Véjares from the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will explore the multifaceted implications of population aging, low birth rates, and shrinking workforce on South Korea’s domestic politics and international engagements. […]

Caplan-Rosen Lecture Spring 2024: Prof. Kuiyi Shen 

Mason Hall Auditorium @ 3400 N Charles St Baltimore, MD, United States

@ Calligraphic Language and Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Art Calligraphy entered contemporary Chinese art at the time modernist art reappeared in China in the 1980s, and gradually became an important component in contemporary art. Because the Chinese written language is partially ideographic and partially pictographic, calligraphy-related works can be categorized into a few groups. The […]