Keynote Address: “504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party” – Dr. Sami Schalk

Hodson 110

Macksey Symposium Keynote Address: "504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party" Event Date: Friday, March 22, 2024 Event Start Time: 5:00 PM Event End Time: 6:30 PM Event Location: Hodson Hall 110 Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the keynote address […]

Keynote Address: “504 and Beyond: Disability Politics and the Black Panther Party”

Hodson Hall 110

@ Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver the keynote address for the fifth annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, held on the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus from March 21-23, 2024. Drawing from her latest book, Black Disability Politics, Schalk will detail the […]

East Asian Studies Speaker Series: Michele Ford (University of Sydney, Australia)

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@ Union Responses to Gender-based Violence in Cambodia’s Construction Sector. Gender-based violence and harassment at work (workplace GBVH) is a global, complex and intractable issue that impacts millions of workers’ lives. In Cambodia, unions – both local and international – have also attempted to influence policy, promote law reform and strengthen law enforcement, and raise […]

Monday Seminar, Derek Penslar, Harvard University

Gilman Hall, Room 308

@ Monday Seminar, Derek Penslar, Harvard University (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

Bodian Seminar: Erin Hecht

@ Erin Hecht, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary BiologyHarvard University Brain-behavior evolution in domesticated canids How do animals evolve new behavioral adaptations? Domestication offers a unique window into this question because it can involve strong selection pressure on a focused set of behaviors. In one set of studies, we are comparing brains of foxes […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Mercy An

Gilman 308

@ Graduate student Mercy An will present on Native-Soil Literature for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is primarily an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS seminar is […]

Book Launch: Inés Valdez (JHU) with Fred Lee (UConn)

Macaulay 101 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

@ Book launch and discussion of Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (CUP, 2023)  Discussant: Fred Lee (University of Connecticut)  Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Yoonkyung Lee (University of Toronto)

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@ Extreme Protests – Changing Protest Repertoires in Labor Movements in Neoliberal Korea. Yoonkyung Lee, Department of Sociology & Center for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto, will discuss the question of changing protest methods of labor contention in neoliberal Korea, and asks what explains the emergence of extreme repertoires in labor movements in […]

Lecture by Prof. Matteo Venier, “Nova de miraculis disuptatio”

Brody Learning Commons, Macksey Seminar Room 2043, M-Level 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

@ Please join us for a lecture, “Another Side of Italian Humanistic Literature: The 1493 Manuscript Nova de miraculis disputatio of Petrus Haedus at JHU”, by Prof. Matteo Venier (University of Udine). This event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance and the Italian Section […]

Christopher Childers: a Reading and Conversation with Karen ni Mheallaigh

Mudd 26 @ Johns Hopkins University 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

@ Christopher Childers is a poet and translator living in Baltimore, MD. He has published poems, essays and translations in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Literary Matters, and Smartish Pace, among others. He is the recipient of several awards, including an NEA Translators’ Fellowship and the Erskine J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, and […]