Faculty Research: Vesla Weaver (JHU)
Mergenthaler 366 Johns Hopkins University, BaltimoreVesla Weaver (JHU) will talk about the American Prison Writing Archive research project @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Vesla Weaver (JHU) will talk about the American Prison Writing Archive research project @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Inka Suspension Bridges: Engineering A Pre-Industrial Construction @ In collaboration with the Embassy of Peru, Washington, DC Abstract Inka culture relied on an extensive network of roads and bridges to connect the various regions in the high Andes. Though the road system has been studied in some detail, scholars have largely neglected the role of […]
Please join us on Thursday, March 14th when the Foreign Affairs Symposium—in partnership with OLÉ, the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, and the Maryland Space Grant Consortium—will host Ellen Ochoa from 7-8 PM in Shriver Hall.
@ The Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, now in its fifth year, brings together undergraduate students across the country to present their humanities and interdisciplinary research to a national audience. The 2024 Macksey Symposium will feature a welcome reception at the Baltimore Museum of Art, a keynote address by Dr. Sami Schalk, and presentations by […]
Macksey Symposium Keynote Address: "504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party" Event Date: Friday, March 22, 2024 Event Start Time: 5:00 PM Event End Time: 6:30 PM Event Location: Hodson Hall 110 Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the keynote address […]
@ Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the keynote address for the fifth annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, held on the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus from March 21-23, 2024. Drawing from her latest book, Black Disability Politics, Schalk will detail the […]
@ Union Responses to Gender-based Violence in Cambodia’s Construction Sector. Gender-based violence and harassment at work (workplace GBVH) is a global, complex and intractable issue that impacts millions of workers’ lives. In Cambodia, unions – both local and international – have also attempted to influence policy, promote law reform and strengthen law enforcement, and raise […]
@ Monday Seminar, Derek Penslar, Harvard University (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Erin Hecht, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary BiologyHarvard University Brain-behavior evolution in domesticated canids How do animals evolve new behavioral adaptations? Domestication offers a unique window into this question because it can involve strong selection pressure on a focused set of behaviors. In one set of studies, we are comparing brains of foxes […]
@ Graduate student Mercy An will present on Native-Soil Literature for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is primarily 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 undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS seminar is […]
@ Book launch and discussion of Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (CUP, 2023) Discussant: Fred Lee (University of Connecticut) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Extreme Protests – Changing Protest Repertoires in Labor Movements in Neoliberal Korea. Yoonkyung Lee, Department of Sociology & Center for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto, will discuss the question of changing protest methods of labor contention in neoliberal Korea, and asks what explains the emergence of extreme repertoires in labor movements in […]