@ Jan Engelmann, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Dept. of PsychologyUniversity of California, Berkeley The sense of fairness in chimpanzees and children It is often argued that the sense of fairness consists in an aversion to unequal resource distributions. Standard accounts claim that chimpanzees react negatively to allocations in which they receive less than others, while children, from […]
@ Find the Midwife Project Launch 12pm event in Clipper Room (2nd floor) of Shriver Hall. Followed by 3pm event in School of Nursing, East Baltimore Campus, Room 431. Reception to follow. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Disability Rights, Activism and Changing Governance in South Korea and Japan. Through comparisons of anti-discrimination and accessibility reforms in South Korea and Japan, this talk analyzes the rise of legalistic governance. More formal rules and participation in policymaking and enforcement, including through the courts, mark a change. Celeste Arrington, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of […]
@ Kunal Joshi, Johns Hopkins University Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 (Reception to follow) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Carolina Fautsch, English ‘Strangely Active’: The Role of the Nonhuman in the World of the Romance Rhiannon Clarke, Modern Languages & Literatures Pulling Dead Snails from an Elephant’s Lung: Abjection and the Agency of Assemblages in Lorca’s Poet in New York Fernando López Vega, Anthropology Bioenergy and Green Grabbing in the Orinoco River: Energy Sovereignty, […]
at Join Environmental Humanities Research Initiative for a Graduate Panel on April 9, 2024 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in Gilman 108. The panel will be followed by a reception. Google Calendar iCalendar
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute The Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center’s Spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials […]
at The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures presents Dr. Sunny Yudkoff, Associate Professor of German and Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Yudkoff will be presenting “Against Joy: Yankev Glatshteyn and the threat of Yiddish FREYD” on April 10, 4-5:30pm, in Gilman […]
We are happy to announce that this year's WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor is Professor Grace Lavery of UC Berkeley. Her most recent book Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques (Princeton, 2023) examines the experience and representation of modern gender transition, drawing on examples from George Eliot, Sigmund Freud, and many others. She will give three […]
@ NEW DATE: The Pedophile’s Complaint: Hoax News in the Neoliberal Decade Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Julieta Casas, PhD Candidate, Political Science, JHU, to present: Convergence or Divergence? Toward a New Frame of American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective, and Óscar Aponte, PhD Candidate, Latin America History, The Graduate Center, CUNY, to present: From Dispossession to […]
@ Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections: Worth (University of Iowa Press, 2002), Revolver(University of Iowa Press, 2008), A Woman of Property(Penguin, 2016), and Information Desk: An Epic (Penguin, 2023), which was named a best book of the year by The Washington Postand The New Yorker, and was an Editor’s Choice at The New York Times. A professor at the […]
