Humanities in the Village (Aug.): “The Rigor of Angels” with Bill Egginton (and Sean Carroll)

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 […]

Humanities in the Village (Sept.): “African American Adolescent Female Heroes” by Melanie Marotta

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 […]

Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th

via Zoom

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies Presents: Gaza Out of the Strip: Past, Present, and Possible Futures after October 7th Dotan Halevy is a social and environmental historian of the modern Middle East, focusing on the transformation of borderlands and how they shape political spaces and social identities. Dotan completed his Ph.D. […]