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. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

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 […]

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 […]

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

Mergenthaler 431

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 […]

2024 Latin American Film Festival – “CARAJITA” (Argentina, Dominican Republic)

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

@ “CARAJITA” Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra / Argentina, Dominican Republic / 2021 / 89 min https://pragda.com/film/carajita Spanish with English subtitles Featuring striking cinematography and outstanding performances, Carajita (which means annoying child) explores the tenuous relationship that exists between race, class, and family. Sarah, the pampered daughter of a corrupt oligarch whose family recently relocated to […]

Talk by Prof. Hélène Merlin-Kajman

@ The Centre Louis Marin and the program in French are pleased to host Prof. Hélène Merlin-Kajman of Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/Institut universitaire de France for a talk in French entitled “Pour un partage transitionnel de la littérature” on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 5:00 p.m. in Gilman Hall 479. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Grant Application Workshop

Gilman Hall 208

@ The EAS Seminar is pleased to announce a special Grant Application Workshop, featuring Professor Lan Li, Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine. This workshop will focus on the intricacies of writing successful grant proposals, as well as offering insights into the process, from identifying funding opportunities to crafting a compelling […]

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

Public Health Consequences of Nuclear War: We Must Prevent What We Cannot Cure!

Ramsen Hall 101 Homewood Campus

@ Health Consequences of Nuclear War: We Must Prevent What We Cannot Cure!Ira Helfand, MD, Co-founder and past president of Physicians for social Responsibility. Immediate past president of international physicians for the prevention of Nuclear War Dr. Helfand will also be speaking at the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health at noon on September 23. […]

A World (Almost) without Money: Demonetization and Everyday Life in Collective-Era Rural China

Mergenthaler Hall 266

Jacob Eyferth Associate Professor Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago During the collective era (1956–80), China’s farmers earned an average annual cash income from collective sources of ¥15, equivalent to US $9 in terms of purchasing power. Total income was higher, since members of collectives received much of their […]