DH Workshop: Daniel Wilson – Living with Machines

Gilman 195

Daniel Wilson, a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, explores the potential applications of computational techniques for the exploration of the history of science and technology. He will be discussing work that he completed as part of "Living with Machines," a groundbreaking research project to reconsider the industrial revolution in the UK through data driven […]

Blast Courses 2024: Registration Opens!

Online

Welcome back for Blast Courses 2024! About the program: That's right: AGHI is proud to boast a whopping FOURTEEN new courses for Summer 2024, all gathering students from all places and all interests for our 5-week online interactive courses. Blast Courses are all about asking good questions, starting with some basics—including this year, what was […]

Bodian Seminar: Stefan Mihalas

@ Stefan Mihalas, Ph.D.InvestigatorAllen Institute for Brain Science Computing with complex components: How heterogeneous, nonstationary and noisy neurons and synapses contribute to the brain’s computational power While artificial neural networks have taken inspiration from biological ones, one salient difference exists at the level of components. Artificial networks are generally built with homogeneous, stationary and deterministic […]

Special Seminar: Daniel Tso

Neural Mechanisms Underlying Adult Ocular Dominance Plasticity: Hebbian or Homeostatic? @ Daniel Tso, PhDAssociate Professor of Neurosurgery,Neuroscience and Physiology,& Ophthalmology and Visual SciencesSUNY Upstate Medical UniversitySyracuse, NY Recent studies in adult humans have shown that short-term deprivation of one eye (STMD, 1-3hrs) dramatically shifts the balance in favor of this eye for over an hour […]

Bearing Witness Exhibition: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore

Eubie Blake Cultural Center 847 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201, Baltimore, MD, United States

Provocative, insightful, unfiltered. For almost 200 years, Black photographers have intentionally documented Black communities. They have used their cameras and creativity to portray Black people “as they see them” and redress the racialized narratives which are common in popular media. In Baltimore, Maryland, Black photographers have played a critical role in representing lives too seldom celebrated and too often forgotten. With their images featured in spaces ranging […]

Humanities in the Village – Joseph Plaster

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Humanities in the Village returns for the 2024-25 year with this first event featuring Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, in conversation with Drew Daniel! In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts […]

Lecture: Gerard González Germain, “Modern Books on Ancient Stones”

Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043, M-Level 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

@ Join us for a talk by Gerard González Germain, assistant professor of Antiquity and Middle Age Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, entitled “Modern Books on Ancient Stones: The Development and Reception of Printed Collections of Inscriptions in the 16th Century”. This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the […]

2024 Latin American Film Festival – “Money Exchange” (Argentina)

Schriver 001 3400 N Charles, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

@ “CAMBIO, CAMBIO” Lautaro García Candela / Argentina / 2022 / 89 min https://pragda.com/film/money-exchange Spanish with English subtitles An extended sequence of newsreel footage about Argentina’s spiraling inflation since 2019 sets the stage for Pablo, who works on Peatonal Florida, Buenos Aires’ economic and tourist epicenter, trying to survive in a precarious and exhausting working […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Mercy An

Giman 208

@ Graduate student Mengqi (Mercy) An will present on “Foraging for the Root of Life: Manchurian Ginseng in Russian Literature” for the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is 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 […]

Humanities on the Hill: Film Screening & Panel (Yitzhak Melamed & David Ofek)

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

Humanities on the Hill: Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher" Film director, David Ofek, Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, JHU, and Virginia Jewiss, Associate Director, AGHI, JHU The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, is a formative, mysterious event […]