@ Drop by the URSCA suite (Wyman 350) for guidance on applying to our grants and fellowships! Come ask questions and/or workshop your application materials with URSCA staff and current undergraduate researchers. No need to make an appointment — just show up! We have coffee and snacks! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 […]
You’re invited to the September edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with Bird in Hand. This month, the series features Dr. Diego Javier Luis, whose book The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, provides a definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and […]
@ SNF Agora Institute Conference Room The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Department of Political Science are pleased to present Guillermo Trejo (Political Science, University of Notre Dame), for his lecture on: SILENCING THE PRESS IN CRIMINAL WARS: WHY THE WAR ON DRUGS TURNED MEXICO INTO THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS […]
@ Hopkins-Nanjing Deputy Director John Urban will share insights about the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, the one-of-a-kind educational collaboration between a Chinese and an American University, the direct admissions process for undergraduates and answer all your questions about what this educational opportunity offers. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ “EMA” Pablo Larraín / Chile / 2019 / 102 min https://pragda.com/film/ema Spanish with English subtitles Adoptive parents Ema (Variety’s 10 Latinxs To Watch 2020’s Mariana Di Girolamo) and Gastón (Gael García Bernal) are artistic free spirits in a contemporary dance troupe whose lives are thrown into chaos when their adopted son Polo is involved […]
@ Red Emma’s Bookstore (3128 Greenmount Ave) The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Center for Gun Solutions are pleased to welcome Ieva Jusionyte (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) for a conversation about her book EXIT WOUNDS: HOW AMERICA’S GUNS FUEL VIOLENCE ACROSS THE BORDER An account […]
This workshop examines the methodological choices we make as academics interested in inequality. From how we define the objects we choose for analysis, to how we frame the populations we are working with, to the ways we think about consent and personal relationships in the field.
@ Value-based cognition: reward, computation, learning and problem-solving Many of our daily decisions are related to value. Choosing between food options, doingmathematic calculations, and learning something new, all of these procedures arelinked to value in different ways. In a series of research, we used neuroimaging (fMRIand MEG) in humans and single-neuron recordings in rhesus macaque […]
@ Come and join the German Club for coffee, games, and conversation. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Come and join the German Club for coffee, games, and conversation. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Reza Shadmehr, Ph.D.Professor, Dept of Biomedical EngineeringJohns Hopkins University A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum: Neurons in the brain are active not just during execution of a behavior, but also before its onset and after its conclusion. The leading theory that explains the meaning of these activities is that of null […]
@ BLC Macksey Seminar Room 2043 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance, are pleased to welcome José Montelongo, the Maury A. Bromsen Curator of Latin American Books at John Carter Brown Library, for a lecture: IN SEARCH OF […]
Date: Wednesday, October 16th Time: 4 pm Location: Jenkins 102 Join us for a talk by Chandan Gowda of the Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru about his new book Another India: Events, Memories, People, with comments by JHU anthropology professor Anand Pandian. About the book. Another India summons cosmological fragments which have a […]
@ Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif is the author of Customs (Graywolf Press, 2022) and Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National Book Award. She holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared […]
AND THE ALEXANDER GRASS HUMANITIES INSTITUTE, Johns Hopkins University Present a Series of Special Events >> REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! << The Phenomenon of Past Lives in Children’s Memories: The Science & the Skepticism. Altered States of Consciousness and Cognitive Psychology Wednesday, October 16, 2024 @ 7PM Eastern Johns Hopkins University, Mason Hall, 3101 Wyman Park Dr, Baltimore, MD […]
@ Wyman 350 To kick off URSCA’s Undergraduate Research Week (October 21-25), this info session will provide an overview of the undergraduate research grants and fellowships offered by the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity, as well as information about the application process and tips for getting started. URSCA’s research awards are available […]
@ Wyman 350 To kick off URSCA’s Undergraduate Research Week (October 21-25), this info session will provide an overview of the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program, including information about the application process and tips for getting started. The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship is available to first-year Krieger undergraduates in all majors and disciplines. Students, faculty, […]
@ Thorsten Kahnt, Ph.D.Chief, Learning and Decision-Making UnitNational Institute on Drug Abuse Orbitofrontal contributions to outcome-guided behavior Research across species has shown that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is critical for decision making. However, it is less clear what exactly the OFC is contributing to this function. I will present work using functional neuroimaging showing that […]
To the Sea, To the Mountain: Cantonese Woodwork in the Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century @ This talk examines the mobility of Cantonese woodwork, a vibrant regional craft in the Pearl River Delta, and its impact on artisanal practices through a case study of woodworkers’ movement to the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth century. […]
@ East Asian Studies is co-sponsoring: JHU Anthro Colloquium Series Unrepayable Debt:Post-imperial Redress, Repair and Reconciliation in East Asia Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Mergenthaler 426 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, the department of Political Science & the Center for Africana Studies, are pleased to welcome Juan Francisco Martínez Peria (History, Universidad Nacional de San Martín) for a conversation about his book Book Presentation – George Padmore. The Black Radical Tradition and the Liberation […]
@ Wyman 350 As part of URSCA’s Undergraduate Research Week (October 21-25), this panel discussion will explore how undergraduates can get involved in scientific research, and how they can craft their own projects within the structure of a lab. Panelists include current Woodrow Wilson Fellows and other URSCA-funded undergraduate researchers, who will offer guidance for […]
@ Wyman 350 s part of URSCA’s Undergraduate Research Week (October 21-25), this panel discussion will explore how undergraduates can get involved in social science research in all its many forms. Panelists include current Woodrow Wilson Fellows and other URSCA-funded undergraduate researchers, as well as URSCA staff, who will offer guidance on getting started and […]
Thursday, October 24, 2024 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Register Here! Myra Cheng, a PhD student in computer science at Stanford University, will give a talk titled "AnthroScore: Measuring Anthropomorphism and Other Implicit Framings in Text" for the Digital Humanities Workshop Series. Cheng's work is grounded in critical theory and humanistic insights, and aims to […]
@ “EL CASO PADILLA” Pavel Giroud / Cuba, Spain / 2022 / 78 min https://pragda.com/film/the-padilla-affair Spanish with English subtitles In the spring of 1971 in Havana, poet Heberto Padilla is released from prison and attends a Cuban writers’ guild meeting. During the gathering, he delivers what he describes as a “heartfelt self-criticism,” admitting to being […]
@ Un quart de tour: écritures contemporaines aux confins des genres Writing at the Limit from France, 2000-2024 Regional scholars of contemporary French poetry, novel, genre fiction, and intermedial writing discuss the last 25 years of literary production from France. Working papers, each based on a notion or concept, will be presented in French and […]
@ As we close out URSCA’s Undergraduate Research Week (October 21-25), drop by the URSCA suite (Wyman 350) to get all your remaining questions answered! URSCA staff and current URSCA-funded researchers will be on hand to provide guidance of all kinds on applying to our grants and fellowships. No need to make an appointment — […]
@ Drop by the URSCA suite (Wyman 350) for guidance on applying to our grants and fellowships! Come ask questions and/or workshop your application materials with URSCA staff and current undergraduate researchers. No need to make an appointment — just show up! We have coffee and snacks! Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 […]
@ Graduate student Sojung Kim will present on “A Seed in an Empty Plain: Women’s Voices and Norms of Kinship” for the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is 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 […]
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute presents Israel, Palestine, and the wars in the Middle East: An open campus discussion The October 7 attack and its aftermath threaten to spread to ever-wider regional wars. Slogans and accusations fly on social media and at demonstrations. This discussion offers an opportunity for Hopkins community members of all […]
You're invited to the October edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. This month, the series features Dr. Peter Pomerantsev, author of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. Investigative […]
Hirooka Asako, Uruno Coal Mine’s Transformation, and Finding Businesswomen in Meiji Japan. Amidst changes redefining and subjugating womanhood in the Meiji period (1868-1912), industrialist Hirooka Asako (1849-1919) rescued her marital family’s failing coal mine in Uruno. This story highlights her determination, knowledge but also her collaboration with male relatives and associates, and direct management, illuminating […]
Student recipients of Summer Research Awards from the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism will briefly present on their research findings and discuss their research processes.
Please join the Chloe Center for a special workshop led by editors at two popular publications that frequently publish work by academics, n+1 and Inquest. This workshop will cover some of the basics as well as the nuances of making the transition from scholarly writing to reaching a public audience.
@ Peter Carey is one of three writers in history to have won the Booker Prize twice, first for Oscar and Lucinda and then for True History of the Kelly Gang. His Parrot and Olivier in America was shortlisted for the both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award. Born in Australia, Peter […]
@ Macaulay 101 The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies & the Program in International Studies, are pleased to present Matías Vernengo, Full Professor at Bucknell University, for his talk LA ARGENTINA DE JAVIER MILEI: 10 MONTHS LATER Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, […]
@ Gilman 479 Ich seh, Ich seh (2014) (released under the English title Goodnight Mommy) depicts the uncanny relationship between twin boys and their mother, recovering from plastic surgery. The situation escalates as the boys begin to doubt their mother’s identity. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ The EAS Seminar is pleased to announce an Article Publication Workshop, featuring Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong, Professor in the History Department. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to the often challenging process of getting an article published in academic journals. It will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of the publication journey—from drafting a […]
@ Come and join the German Club for coffee, games, and conversation. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Wyman 350 The Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity (URSCA) invites FLI students to pop into our office for a meet-and-greet with our staff and undergraduate research fellows! Join us for lunch and a customizable popcorn bar, and get answers to all your questions about undergraduate research. Register on Hopkins Groups by […]
