Thursday, April 4, through Saturday, April 6, 2024. The symposium will offer the opportunity to discuss Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace as one of his most timely contributions to political issues such as hospitality, cosmopolitanism, human rights, the inherent value of cultural and religious difference, the critique of colonialism, the essential role of a global public sphere, and […]
@ Hari Kunzru is the author of seven novels, including Blue Ruin, forthcoming from Knopf on May 14, 2024. He is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and writes the “Easy Chair” column for Harper’s Magazine. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has […]
@ 2024 Graduate Symposium at Department of Comparative Thought and Literature Johns Hopkins University Location: Gilman 208 Friday, April 5 10:00am Panel 1: Fragmentary Poetics Between Philosophy and Literature Amy Chan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Fragmentary Form and Allusion: Tolson’s Skeptic Poetics” Emma Duvall (The University of North Carolina at Chapel […]
Spring on the Mall—what could be better? We invite all to our next gathering of Humanities on the Mall for April 2024, featuring a film screening of “Devoted— A Feminist Intervention into an Ancient Sicilian Cult”! Register here! Join us for a screening of Devoti Tutti , a documentary by JHU prof and director Bernadette […]
@ Monday Seminar, Morgane Labbe, EHESS (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ 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 […]
