It's another year and another season of Humanities in the Village! Kick off the new series with a discussion between AGHI's own director, Bill Egginton, in conversation with Sean Carroll on "Ultimate Nature of Reality." Celebrating his new book, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Pantheon, Aug. 2023), Prof. Egginton […]
Join us for our September installment of Humanities in the Village to celebrate the new book by Melanie Marotta (Morgan State University), African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (2023). Dr. Marotta will be joined by our moderator, Dr. Samanda Robinson (JHU). Join us at the Ivy Bookshop's patio at 6:30pm for […]
at Lecture by Arum Park (University of Arizona). Gilman 108 Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire reimagines Sophocles’ Antigone as a story of a British Muslim family whose religious and ethnic alterity becomes a source of conflict within the family and without. Her adaptation both cleaves to and departs from its Sophoclean model in ways that shed […]
The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University present a discussion of the recently published volume The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics (Pluto).
@ Japan’s Role in International Cooperation and Development” with Monica Weller of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program. Contact: East Asian Studies Program View Organizer Website Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
at Lecture by Christopher Londa (Johns Hopkins University). Gilman 108 Reading with their ears,” the aristocratic elite of ancient Rome often enjoyed literature by listening to enslaved lectors perform texts out loud. But how did the lectors themselves think about these performances? On this question, the archive plays broken records. We hear elites complain about […]
Please join the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship for a panel discussion about the contemporary landscape of diasporic and immigrant-rights organizing at the new Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC. This event is part of a soft launch for a new undergraduate program at Hopkins called Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS)
Screening of the documentary film Italo Calvino, The Writer in the Trees and Q&A with the director Duccio Chiarini.
Please RSVP at the link in the event description no later than 8am on Wednesday, November 8.
