It's another year and another season of Humanities in the Village! Kick off the new series with a discussion between AGHI's own director, Bill Egginton, in conversation with Sean Carroll on "Ultimate Nature of Reality." Celebrating his new book, The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Pantheon, Aug. 2023), Prof. Egginton […]
Join us for our September installment of Humanities in the Village to celebrate the new book by Melanie Marotta (Morgan State University), African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave Narrative (2023). Dr. Marotta will be joined by our moderator, Dr. Samanda Robinson (JHU). Join us at the Ivy Bookshop's patio at 6:30pm for […]
Save the date for our SECOND amazing installment of Humanities on the Mall! For December, we're excited to host award-winning author Danielle Evans (JHU Writing Seminars), in conversation with AGHI Director and Professor Bill Egginton. Register here! About Danielle: Danielle Evans is the author of the story collections The Office of Historical Corrections and Before You Suffocate Your Own […]
We're BACK for our first installment in 2024 of... Humanities on the Mall! On February 4th at 5pm in DC, we will be joined by an amazing panel to discuss "Students, College Campuses, and Difficult Conversations." We'll also chat about a new book, The Student: A Short History (2023). Our speakers will be: Chris Celenza, Dean […]
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 […]
Humanities in the Village returns for February 2024 with... "On Writing Environmental Fiction: A Reading & Discussion" with author Nate Brown, in conversation with Jean McGarry. Description: In the era of global climate change, writers are engaging directly with the science and social implications of our quickly changing planet. Join fiction writer Nate Brown (JHU […]
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 on Special Collections materials […]
"The Physics of Democracy" Join us for our next gathering of Humanities on the Mall with our speaker for MARCH 2024, Prof. Sean Carroll — in conversation with Prof. Hahrie Han! We will begin at 5pm for conversation, Q&A, and an exploration of the idea of "the physics of democracy"—building on both speakers' work considering what we can […]
Speaker: Susan Stryker About this event: Susan Stryker's books include Queer Pulp: Perverse Passions in the Golden Age of the Paperback (Chronicle, 2000), Transgender History (Seal Press, revised edition 2017), and the forthcoming When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader, edited by McKenzie Wark (Duke University Press, 2024). The last assembles essays from across Stryker's career, including her foundational text […]
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute's Annual Richard A. Macksey Lecture (2024) We are delighted to announce Dr. Merve Emre as our next Macksey lecturer! Dr. Emre will join us for TWO dates in 2024—first, at JHU's Homewood campus, on March 7th; and then, inaugurating AGHI's Macksey series in JHU's new space at 555 Pennsylvania Ave […]
Join our conference “Kant and the World Today” at JHU Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, 2024. Talks and panelswill explore the relevance of Kant’s philosophy for our contemporary world, focusing on critical discussions of the implications of his philosophy for issues of political economy, the role of hope and despair in the face of […]
@ 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 […]
