LAGW Seminar: Power

@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Professor Consuelo Amat, SNF Agora Institute, Political Science, JHU, to present: “Power in Autonomy: The Political Strategy of Constructive Resistance,” and Alex Sanchez, Ph.D. Student, History, JHU, to present: “Los tiempos de cuarentena: Disease and Vaccination in Post-emancipation Puerto […]

Christine Lehleiter, “Shape Shifters: Transformation & Natural Form in Goethe’s Narrative Prose”

Gilman 479

at Christine Lehleiter, Associate Professor of German at the University of Toronto, focuses on 18th– and 19th-century German literary and scientific cultures, and her books include Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity. Bucknell University Press, 2014 and Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 2016. Other publications […]

Expertise in enslavement: medical knowledge, necrofinance and (see more)

East Baltimore Campus, Welch Library, Room 303

@ Alexandre White of JHU presents “Expertise in enslavement: medical knowledge, necrofinance and the insurance of Atlantic slavery in Britain from 1750-1807″ (pre-circulated paper) Joint event with East Baltimore Campus Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Schouler Lecture: Adam Tooze (Columbia)

Remsen Hall Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

@ “ReOrient: The Climate Crisis in the New Asian Age” Remsen Hall 1 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Schouler Lecture in DC: Our Polycrisis

Hopkins Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washngton DC, United States

A Discussion on historical perspectives and contemporary politics with Monica Ali (SUNY), Tim Sahay (Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab, JHU), and Adam Tooze (Columbia) @ Doors open 4pm, doors close 8pm Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Conference Center Room 1020 Free registration (required): https://cglink.me/2dh/r1950173 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Jin Jiang (Johns Hopkins University)

Mergenthaler 266

@ China: A Century of Family Revolutions A recent reproductive crisis has brought renewed interest in the century-old “family problem” (家庭问题) and “women’s problem” (妇女问题). Related issues have not only been debated in the discursive field, but also informed cross-border fields such as social policymaking and the law. Intrigued by questions such as why the […]

Rachel Nolan: Reporting History: A Public Humanities Writing Workshop

Gilman 443 @ The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a the workshop, Reporting History: A Public Humanities Writing Workshop Humanists possess a reservoir of scholarly abilities that prime them for contributing to debates well beyond the academy. […]

Bodian Seminar: Krystel Huxlin

@ Krystel Huxlin, Ph.D.James V. Aquavella Professor of OphthalmologyUniversity of Rochester Vision Restoration after Occipital Stroke: Challenging the Limits of Adult Plasticity In humans, occipital strokes invariably damage the primary visual cortex (V1), causing a loss of conscious vision over large regions of the visual field, referred to as cortically induced blindness (CB). This unfortunate […]

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You – Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United States

Bird in Hand Bookstore, 11 E 33rd St @ The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find […]

Rachel Nolan: Until I Find You

The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism are pleased to welcome Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University, for a conversation about her recent book, Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala.