Feather Satins and Orangutan Felts: A Material History of English Woolens in Qing China @ For the EAS Speaker Series Spring 2025, Rachel Silberstein will introduce her book project, which focuses on the East India Company’s export of British woolens to Qing period China. By considering the EIC’s motives and strategies alongside analysis of Chinese […]
@ Graduate student Julia Wu will present on “Illicit Marriages in Mukden Before 1690” for the Spring 2025 EAS Seminar Series In collaboration with the Gender Seminar. 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 […]
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop Present Humanities on the Hill: Mary Beard in conversation with Chris Celenza February 25, 2025 6-8 PM Hopkins Bloomberg Center Room 158 - Theater 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001 Register here! Mary Beard, Cambridge Professor Emerita, is one of Britain’s best-known Classicists. She […]
Please join the Chloe Center for our first methods workshop of the spring semester, featuring Prof. Renee Hudson, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Latinx and Latin American Studies Program at Chapman University.
Join us for the third screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Veena Das will be introducing Devi (Goddess), a 1960 drama by Satyajit Ray about a zamindar who believes his daughter-in-law to be a goddess incarnate. The Film in […]
@ Gilman 479 The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is pleased to present this lecture by Renee Hudson (Department of English, Chapman University). Drawing from her book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier […]
@ Retconning Revolution and the Solidarity of Form Drawing from her book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for […]
Cass Sunstein of Harvard University and Michael Roth of Wesleyan University explore tensions between freedom of speech and academic freedom in the wake of recent protests.
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Ryan Calder, Assistant Professor, Sociology, JHU. Ditadura, Debt, and Deceit. The Wild World of Brazilian Frequent-Flyer Miles. for our LACLxS Work-in-Progress Seminar, run by graduate students Bruno Franco (MLL) and Matheus Mendoça (Sociology), where students and JHU faculty will present their current projects. […]
February 27 at 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm @The Peale Museum A public conversation with Michael Harrower, Aja Lans, and Anand Pandian of Johns Hopkins University This event is a chance to take in “The Future of Here” exhibition and to think about these ideas together with two archaeologists from Johns Hopkins University, Michael […]
@ The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
What remains possible when so much seems to be coming apart at the seams? What does it mean to live in the shadow of the ruined promises of the past? Consider the many despoiled landscapes of the Chesapeake Bay and our Jones Falls and Patapsco watersheds: junk heaps, rotting piers, spoil basins, and the many […]
