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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 […]

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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 […]

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Digital Humanities Workshop Series

Thursday, September 19, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Register Here! What does digital humanties, or DH, mean to you? This inaugural event of the Digital Humanities Workshop Series will feature a roundtable conversation with Craig Messner, a post-doctoral researcher with the Center for Digital Humanities, Nadejda Webb, assistant director of LifexCode, and Emily McGinn, DH librarian at the Sheridan […]

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Martial Aesthetics: War, Scenarios, and the Securitization of the Novel

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Critical Grove No. 3 Talk Title: "Martial Aesthetics: War, Scenarios, and the Securitization of the Novel" Speaker:  Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark, Director of the Nordic Humanities Center, and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. Author of Empire of Chance: The Napoleonic Wars and […]