@ Monday Seminar, Shauna Sweeney, University of Toronto (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
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
@ Undergraduate history major’s Sarah Annis, Zeqing Li, and Zhikang (Leo) Xie 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 seminar […]
@ Ashley Kim (Johns Hopkins) “Kant’s Analogia Communis”, with discussant: Conor Bean (Johns Hopkins) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Gotta Read ‘Em All – Decoding Braille in the Pokémon Series. To obtain a trio of legendary monsters in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (2002), players can embark on an elaborate side quest where they must decode two-dimensional representations of Braille. Removed from its original context as a tactile language, this visual “Pokémon Braille” is […]
@ 350 Wyman Park Building This workshop is intended for undergraduate students who have completed (or are in the process of completing) an independent research project. Participants will learn how to translate their research experience into marketable skills on a resume or LinkedIn profile, how to communicate the significance of their research to a non-specialist […]
@ Modern American Seminar, Ben Serby (Adelphi University) and Erik Hmiel (Temple University), 4:00pm, in Gilman 308 Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ 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 […]
@ Debra Thompson Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University This lecture is part of the Center for Africana Studies 2023 – 2024 Speaker Series. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Elliot Mertz, second year JHU, will present “Georg Stahl’s Metaphysics of Matter and Motion: Natural Minima, N-Body Interaction, and Experimental Application from 1684-1720”. Pre-circulated paper Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ 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 […]
@ Join the Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity and members of the Homewood Institutional Review Board to learn the ins and outs of conducting human subjects research as an undergraduate. Planning to conduct interviews, surveys, or questionnaires in your research study? Thinking of observing people in a classroom or lab? Wondering about […]
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 […]
@ 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 […]
@ 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
A graduate workshop with Tupoka Ogette & Stephen Lawson A ‘Straight Outta Happyland’ Event – Lunch will be provided @ Please join us for this unique opportunity to speak with and learn from Germany’s leading anti-racism activist, Tupoka Ogette, and the artist, Stephen Lawson. They will share insights into their work against racism and […]
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 […]
Helen Kinsella (Political Science, University of Minnesota) will present her research on “Raced and Gendered Inequities in Political Science” @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Carter Barnett, second year JHU, will present “Hospitable Medicine: Charity, Ottoman Modernity and the Mission Hospital of Gaza”. Pre-circulated paper. 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
@ “Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974 explores the founding, programs, and everyday activities of the Black Panther Party’s Baltimore chapter, as well as the party’s ideological foundations and state repression it experienced. The exhibit further examines the party’s links to other political organizations in the city within […]
“Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974 explores the founding, programs, and everyday activities of the Black Panther Party’s Baltimore chapter, as well as the party’s ideological foundations and state repression it experienced. The exhibit further examines the party’s links to other political organizations in the city within the broader context of political organizing in the period. The exhibit features rare artifacts, documents, and photographs, as well as copies of the party’s newspaper.
@ 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 […]
@ Monday Seminar, Adam frost, Copenhagen Business School (part of the History Department seminar series) Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ 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 […]
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’ […]
@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Tabitha Laurent, Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre, Francisco Pérez, PhD Students and Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU, to present: Karayib. The second in a two-semester graduate sequence, this course focuses on graduate students and faculty to collaboratively […]
@ 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 […]
SPRING 2024: TRANS CULTURAL PRODUCTION 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 […]
Sally Nuamah (Political Science, NorthWestern University) will present research-in-progress, title TBA @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Richard Adjei, second year of JHU, will present “Beyond Medicine and Healing: Cultural Revival, Politics, and Development of the Psychic and Traditional Healing Association in Northern Ghana”. Pre-circulated paper. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Monday Seminar, Abraham Seda, Lafayette College (part of the History Department seminar series) 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 […]
@ Beyond Birth Rates: South Korea’s Policy Response to Demographic Aging. Examining how demographic shifts shape policy priorities and challenges, Darcie Draught-Véjares from the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will explore the multifaceted implications of population aging, low birth rates, and shrinking workforce on South Korea’s domestic politics and international engagements. […]
@ Calligraphic Language and Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Art Calligraphy entered contemporary Chinese art at the time modernist art reappeared in China in the 1980s, and gradually became an important component in contemporary art. Because the Chinese written language is partially ideographic and partially pictographic, calligraphy-related works can be categorized into a few groups. The […]
@ Gilman Hall 186 The Spring 2024 Latin America in a Globalizing World works-in-progress seminar welcomes Mariangela Ugarelli, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and Literatures, JHU: “La venganza del Ande: Ventura García Calderón, ‘La venganza del cóndor’ y el ecogótico,” and Rhiannon Clarke, PhD Candidate, Spanish and Portuguese Program, Modern Languages and […]
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 […]
@ Labor Unrest in Chinese-Invested Enterprises in Turkey: Local Dynamics and Global Implications. Burak Gürel is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Center for Asian Studies at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. China, once a hub for foreign manufacturing investment, has become a major investor in overseas factories and mines. Disputes […]
Erin Pineda (Political Science, Smith College) will present research-in-progress, title TBA @ Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
@ Graduate student Xueqian Zhang will present on The First Year Paper 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 […]
@ University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies is pleased to co-sponsor the conference Caste, Class & Race: Reflections on the Life and Work of Oliver Cromwell Cox 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 […]
@ 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
@ Graduate student Wesley Sampias will present on Rabid Kyoto 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 […]
@ Christine Voss, CTL Associate and Professor of Audiovisual Media/Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live
The Ethics of Reading May 3rd - 4th, 2024 The Philosophy & Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 5th annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference to be held in person on May 3rd - 4th, 2024 at Stanford University. Conference Topic This year’s conference […]
