Portuguese Program Presents Movie Nights

at Portuguese program presents movie nights monthly this spring semester. The following movies will be shown: The Second Mother on Feb. 7th, The Hero on March 6th, and Cats don’t have vertigo on April 10th. Join us on those days in Hodson 110 at 6:30pm. Google Calendar iCalendar

Rethinking Injuries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Harm, Safety, and Society

East Baltimore Campus @ Welch Library 1900 E Monument St, Baltimore, MD, United States

This event will bring together researchers, medical professionals, policymakers, and artists to chart how individuals and communities live with and make meaning out of injuries. For more information, and to register for this hybrid conference, visit https://hopkinsmedicalhumanities.org/rethinkinginjuriesconf/ Sponsors (i.e., departments, programs, partners, etc.): BSPH Center for Injury Research & Policy, Center for Medical Humanities & […]

Special Seminar: Kei Igarashi

@ Kei M. Igarashi, Ph.DChancellor’s Fellow & Associate ProfessorDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of MedicineUniversity of California, Irvine Circuit mechanisms of associative memory and its disruption in Alzheimer’s disease Memory has multiple components: “what” memory (item/object), “when” memory (time) and “where” memory (space). Research in the past decades revealed neurons involved in spatial memory, […]

Biblical Violence and the Virtues of a (Very) Plain Sense

at Confronted by ethically troubling texts and themes in the Hebrew Bible, modern and contemporary Jewish commentators have developed an array of strategies for addressing and “repairing” the plain meaning of such passages. This talk argues that these reparative attempts have their own consequences, drawing out the ethical, political, and philosophical virtues of a renewed […]