at Join Modern Languages and Literatures (MLL) to learn more about our undergraduate courses and programs in Gilman Atrium on April 1st from 5 to 7pm. MLL offers Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Hebrew & Yiddish courses. Pizza and beverages provided. Google Calendar iCalendar
@ Frank Mondelli of University of Delaware will present “‘Gotta Read ‘Em All’: Decoding Braile in the Pokémon Series”. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Ben Morgan, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford “How updating Frankfurt School political economy changes the way we think about a critical theory of culture in the 21st-century” The lecture shows the transformed potential of the interdisciplinary project of the Frankfurt School when the framework of economic […]
@ The workshop will take place next Tuesday, April 2nd, 5-6 pm in the Department’s Seminar Room, 177 Gilman Hall. Nicole Berlin, Assistant Curator Assistant Curator of Collections, The Davis Museum at Wellesley College and Lara Yeager Crasselt, Curator and Department Head, European Painting and Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art will be talking […]
@ Marta Cerreti, MLL, Italian section Sophie D’Anieri, Anthropology Lydia Namuganga Skye Neulight, Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental Humanities Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
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 […]
@ Gilman 108 Lecture by Lyra Monteiro (Rutgers) Recent public manifestations of white supremacist violence in the US consistently invoke classical antiquity as the origin of and justification for white supremacy. In this talk, Dr. Monteiro addresses why those who are invested in the discipline of Classics must understand this phenomenon, and proposes how a […]
@ 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 […]
@ 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
@ Kunal Joshi, Johns Hopkins University Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 (Reception to follow) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
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
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 […]
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 […]
@ NEW DATE: The Pedophile’s Complaint: Hoax News in the Neoliberal Decade Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ The 37th Annual James W. Poultney Lecture of the Department of Classics at the Johns Hopkins University will be presented by Giulia Sissa (UCLA) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
The U.S. Military-Industrial-University Complex and the War on Gaza Thursday, April 11, 6 - 7:30pm Mason Hall Auditorium, Homewood Campus How do states, corporations, and universities collaborate in war-making? More specifically, how are the U.S. military, armaments manufacturers, and universities—including Johns Hopkins—involved in the latest Israel-Hamas war in Gaza? Join this panel discussion that examines […]
@ In spring 2024, JHU Hard Histories, directed by Dr. Martha S. Jones, is hosting a series of conversations exploring the histories of Blackness, slavery, and racism in the Maryland area. Our next webinar, “Hopkins Alums Take on Hard Histories”, will occur on Monday, April 15 from noon-1 pm eastern. This virtual event is free and open to […]
@ Terrence R. Stanford, Ph.D.Professor, Translational NeuroscienceWake Forest University School of Medicine Imposing urgency to generate insights into the neural mechanisms of perceptual decision-making and motor choice One of the most ubiquitous choices we make is that of where to look next. At 3-5 saccadic eye movements every second, the primate oculomotor system provides a […]
@ Faculty members Dr. Yumi Kim (History) and Dr. Clara Han (Anthropology) will present 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 […]
@ Burnscapes: Navigating Futures Beyond Climate Extremes Reception afterward Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Please mark your calendars! On Tuesday, April 16 at 6pm in Gilman 377, our last lecture of the year in the Spanish section will be delivered by Ignasi Gozalo Salellas, Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He will be talking about his latest book La excepcionalidad permanente. Nuestros estados […]
@ DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR, CO-SPONSORED WITH LACLxS AND CAMSAGUSTINA COMEDI, DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of the Philosophy of Knowledge and Contemporary Philosophy, University Paris 1 Sorbonne “How Fiction Can Be Made True” Philosophy has always been suspicious of fiction. In the philosophical tradition, fiction has often been equated with a lie, or at least a form of false speech. This is a consequence of philosophers’ […]
@ This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at […]
This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]
at The Problem of Morphological Comparison: Goethe, Wittgenstein, Lévi-Strauss A lecture by Daniel Carranza (Harvard) Google Calendar iCalendar
This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]
@ Keynote speaker: Chloe Ahmann (Cornell U.) 2024 JHU Anthropology Graduate Student Conference Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Undergraduate East Asian Studies major’s Calista Huang, Jill Ji, and Amrita Makunda will present their senior theses. 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 […]
Arielle Saiber, Modern Languages & Literatures Waterways to the Divine: The Liquid Language of Altered-States of Consciousness Naveeda Khan, Anthropology Quantities of Households, Qualities of Householding: River Life in Bangladesh Caroline Lillian Schopp, History of Art Avant-Garde and Kitsch in the Great Acceleration Moderated by Bill Egginton, Modern Languages & Literatures, AGHI Organized & Introduced […]
Please join us for an online panel discussion on Thursday, April 25th, noon to 1pm, about famine, war, and international humanitarian law, details below. Please also help publicize the event by sending this message to others (including posting the attached flier). Advanced Zoom registration required. When war and famine come together, how should international legal bodies and […]
The DMV region is home to refugee and migrant communities from across the globe. It is also home to the centerpieces of the national security state, including CIA headquarters, the Pentagon, numerous military bases, as well as outposts of all the major firms that comprise the military-industrial complex, plus three of the military’s university-affiliated research centers. This symposium of original student research inquires into the connections between these two aspects of regional development, as well as how migrants and their families grapple with continuing forms of slow violence such as racialized displacement.
@ Hodson Hall 210 and Hodson Hall Lobby The Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (URSCA) is pleased to present the annual Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium, featuring the culminating work of our graduating Woodrow Wilson Fellows, as well as our one-year grant awardees. This year, for the first time, we will […]
@ Elizabeth Quinlan, Ph.D.Professor and Chair, Department of NeuroscienceHerman and Rubinstein Chair of NeuroscienceUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison TBD Faculty Host: Hey-Kyoung Lee Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Springtime is here and the school year is winding down, but there's still time for one more gathering of... Humanities in the Village We'll be joined by Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (JHU) to celebrate her recent book, Imagination: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2023)! Come ready to hear more about imagination – what it is, what it […]
@ Christiane Voss, CTL Associate and Professor of Audiovisual Media/Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
Please join the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism for a keynote address by Prof. Iyko Day (Mount Holyoke College) at the inaugural annual Chloe Center symposium, Keywords for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.
