A Roudtable Discussion of Voidopolis

at A roundtable discussion of Voidopolis with Charlotte Kent (Art History, Montclair State University), Alexey Yurenuv (International Center of Photography, NYC), and Arielle Saiber (Italian Studies, JHU) on April 10th at 6pm in Maryland Hall 110. Google Calendar iCalendar

Social Media: Its Effect on Free Speech, the News & Social Norms. The Profits and the Trappings

BWTech at UMBC South 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD, United States

Great Talk Inc and The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute JHU present a free event – Social Media: Its Effect on Free Speech, the News & Social Norms. The Profits and the Trappings. This panel discussion will take place on Wednesday, April 10 at 7 pm and hosted by BWTech at UMBC South, 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD 21227. […]

Panel discussion: The U.S. Military-Industrial-University Complex and the War on Gaza

The U.S. Military-Industrial-University Complex and the War on Gaza Thursday, April 11, 6 - 7:30pm Mason Hall Auditorium, Homewood Campus How do states, corporations, and universities collaborate in war-making? More specifically, how are the U.S. military, armaments manufacturers, and universities—including Johns Hopkins—involved in the latest Israel-Hamas war in Gaza? Join this panel discussion that examines […]

Hard Histories: Hopkins Alums Take on Hard Histories

via Zoom

@ 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 next webinar, “Hopkins Alums Take on Hard Histories”, will occur on Monday, April 15 from noon-1 pm eastern.  This virtual event is free and open to […]

Bodian Seminar: Terry Stanford

@ Terrence R. Stanford, Ph.D.Professor, Translational NeuroscienceWake Forest University School of Medicine Imposing urgency to generate insights into the neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making and motor choice One of the most ubiquitous choices we make is that of where to look next.  At 3-5 saccadic eye movements every second, the primate oculomotor system provides a […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Inter-Asian Seminar

Gilman 308

@ Faculty members Dr. Yumi Kim (History) and Dr. Clara Han (Anthropology) will present for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. 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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]