@ Shannon Robinson’s debut short story collection, The Ill-Fitting Skin, is winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Joyland, Nimrod, failbetter, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from Washington University in St. Louis, and in 2011 she […]
Please join us at the Inheritance Baltimore and the Struggle for Just Futures: Cultural Work as Reparations November 14-16.
@ “8 HISTORIAS SOBRE MI HIPOACUSIA” Charo Mato / Argentina, Uruguay / 2021 / 86 min https://pragda.com/film/8-stories-about-my-hearing-loss Spanish with English subtitles Comments by prof. Marcelo Nogueira, Spanish & Portuguese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Charo Mato’s autobiographical documentary is a poignant exploration of her life journey. Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in […]
@ “8 HISTORIAS SOBRE MI HIPOACUSIA” Charo Mato / Argentina, Uruguay / 2021 / 86 min https://pragda.com/film/8-stories-about-my-hearing-loss Spanish with English subtitles Charo Mato’s autobiographical documentary is a poignant exploration of her life journey. Diagnosed with bilateral sensorineural progressive hearing loss in first grade, she became fully deaf by 23, opting for cochlear implants against her […]
@ Title: When ‘Over There’ Becomes Here: Construction of Asia/Pacific amid Afterlives of Imperial World 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 undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS seminar is free to […]
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Talk description: For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John Swanson Jacobs—brother of Harriet Jacobs—was buried in a pile of newspapers in Australia. Jacobs’s long-lost narrative, The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots, is a startling and revolutionary discovery. A document like this—written by an ex-slave and ex-American, in […]
This roundtable at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting will convene representatives from colleges and universities (including Goucher College, University of Baltimore, Towson University, Bowie State University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University) that offer college-level courses to students in Maryland state prisons.
@ Wyman Park Building, Suite 350 Drop by the URSCA suite (Wyman 350) for guidance on applying for our undergraduate research grants and fellowships! Come ask questions and/or workshop your application materials with URSCA staff and current undergraduate researchers. No need to make an appointment — just show up! We have coffee and snacks! Click […]
@ Lydia Hopper, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Department of Molecular & Comparative PathobiologyJohns Hopkins School of Medicine Title: Copy cats and aping apes: How social learning aids knowledge acquisition and the transmission of behavioral traditions Abstract: From ants to zebras, animals are influenced by the behavior of others. At the simplest level, social support can reduce neophobia, […]
Department of Government and Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University Ethnic Orders: Social Categories and the Politics of Identity in the Malay World @ Ethnicity is central to politics throughout the Malay world, but the meaning and significance of ethnicity—and of social categories like “Malay”—is contested, dynamic, and multifaceted. This talk is an overview […]
