January’s event features Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa, co-authors of Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags. This volume examines the public practice of feminism in the age of social media from a moment of acute crisis: the Trump years and the Covid-19 pandemic. But Easa and Stager also locate the foundations […]
Join us for the first screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Naveeda Khan will be introducing Titas Ekti Nadir Naam (A River Called Titas), a 1973 epic by Ritwik Ghatak about a kidnapping in a small fishing village. The […]
Our speakers examine the rise of antisemitism and Islamophobia, particularly in light of current events. What are the responsibilities of educators, policymakers, and activists in combating hate while fostering mutual respect?
On January 30 from 12-1:30 pm EST, Dr. Milan Terlunen, Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and the Tabb Center, will lead a workshop entitled "The Writers We Keep Quoting: Repurposing Plagiarism Detection to Historicize the Humanities Disciplines." This work adapts plagiarism detection methods to investigate the history of humanities disciplines. By […]
@ 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
12 pm – 1 pm Brody Learning Commons Macksey Seminar Room 2043, M-Level, JHU Homewood Campus Reading & Book Talk: Sasha-Mae Eccleston on Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States since 9/11 (Yale UP, Dec. 2024), in conversation with Nandini Pandey Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University; and the Department […]
The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature announces an upcoming lecture by: Maria Sonevytsky Associate Professor of Anthropology and Music, Bard College Friday, January 31 4:15 pm Gilman 208 Download the flyer Since February 2022, many scholars of Russia and Ukraine have asked how far culturalist explanations can get us in comprehending Russia’s […]
6 pm – 7 pm Bird in Hand Café & Bookstore This event is co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Bird in Hand & The Ivy Bookshop; and the Department of the History of Art, the Writing Seminars, The Hopkins Review, the Department of Classics, and the SNF Agora Institute at JHU. This volume is […]
11:30 am – 1:30 pm, Gilman Hall 132, JHU Homewood Campus Presenters include Dora Malech (editor in chief, The Hopkins Review) Jennifer Stager & Leila Easa (guest editors of Locating a Collective Lyric “I”: A Special Folio for The Hopkins Review; open access in 2025); Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Naomi Shihab Nye & Marion Winik; and Pia Hargrove, Bethany Dixon, Michele Carlson (Related Tactics), Steven Leyva & Jennifer Keohane, Ella Gonzalez, and Alessandra Amin. Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns […]
@ East Asian Studies and International Studies host a lunch time lecture with Professors Hung Ho-Fung (SAIS-KSAS) and John Yasuda (KSAS Political Science) on the what a second Trump administration could potentially mean for US-Asia relations. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
The Program in Latin America, Caribbean and Latinx Studies is excited to present Verónica Ríos Saavedra, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Gendered Extractivism in Filmic Representations of the Amazon” Alfredo Walls, Modern Languages and LIterature, Spanish & Portuguese, JHU. “Memory and Desire: Metamorphosis of Queer Bodies in Two Poems by Luis Felipe […]
Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism as we host a panel discussion bringing together speakers who are working on the ground with migrants and refugees in Baltimore and Arizona.
