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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 […]

Spinoza film screening and panel discussion poster

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 […]

Great Imperial British Bakeoff: Sugar

Through this event, we come together to ask: How can something that seems as simple, scientific, and natural–a desire for sweetness–be influenced by systems like slavery, colonialism, capitalism?

Writing Seminars Presents: Lauren Russell

Gilman 50

@ Lauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance (Milkweed Editions, 2024); Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2020), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award for “venturesome, interdisciplinary work”; and What’s Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017). Russell has received fellowships from […]

Poster for human becoming event

Human Becoming

Homewood Campus. Shriver Hall, Clipper Room 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

The contemporary humanities have been shaped by an encounter with continental theory and its disavowal of what it called humanism, viewed as a bourgeois liberal discourse in and of the West. Yet, a wide range of anticolonial and Global South thinkers, from Senghor and Fanon to Said and Kapur, evade this gesture and speak of […]

German Club Kaffeestunde

Gilman Atrium

@ Come and join the German Club for coffee, games, and conversation. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Chloe Center Fall Kick-Off Reception

Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we host our Fall 2024 kick-off reception. Meet our kinfolk, including faculty board members and students, and celebrate an auspicious new semester as we prepare to launch our new major, Critical Diaspora Studies.

Virtual Info Session: URSCA Grants

@ In this virtual info session, we will introduce the different undergraduate research grants and fellowships that we award, step you through the application process, give tips on putting together the various application elements, and answer your questions. To attend this virtual info session, please register here. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 […]

Book Presentation – Non-Literary Fiction: Art Of The Americas Under Neoliberalism

@ Gilman 479 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to present Esther Gabara, Romance Languages, Duke University, for a conversation about her book: Non-literary Fiction: Art of the Americas under Neoliberalism University of Chicago Press, 2022 With Non-Literary Fiction, Esther Gabara examines how contemporary art produced across the Americas has reacted […]

Justin Torres: Albert Dowling Visiting Writer

Gilman 50

@ Justin Torres is the author of Blackouts, winner of the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lambda Literary award, and the Southern California Book Award. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist […]