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Trans Cultural Production series poster, with dates and info about events, over background graphic of book spines displaying relevant titles in trans studies.
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

Exploring Trans Archives (Trans Cultural Production series)

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, Maryland

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 […]

Poster with new dates for Sean Carroll and Hahrie Han for Humanities on the Mall.
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Humanities on the Mall: “The Physics of Democracy” with Sean Carroll and Hahrie Han

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

"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 […]

Poster for "Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures" with image of Susan Stryker speaking into microphone (and poster text with event description as appears on this page).
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

“Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures” with Susan Stryker (Trans Cultural Production series)

Mudd Hall 26

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 […]

Poster Emre talks on March 7 and March 8, with QR code.
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Macksey Lecture 2024: Merve Emre at JHU and 555 Penn

Glass Pavilion, JHU Homewood Campus 3400 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States

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 […]

Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium

@ The Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, now in its fifth year, brings together undergraduate students across the country to present their humanities and interdisciplinary research to a national audience. The 2024 Macksey Symposium will feature a welcome reception at the Baltimore Museum of Art, a keynote address by Dr. Sami Schalk, and presentations by […]

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 […]

Trans Cultural Production series poster, with dates and info about events, over background graphic of book spines displaying relevant titles in trans studies.
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

LittlePuss Press and Trans Audiences (Trans Cultural Production series)

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 […]

Poster for Humanities on the Mall, April 2024: featuring professor and director Bernadette Wegenstein, screening her film "Devoti Tutti" on Saint Agatha.
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Humanities on the Mall: Bernadette Wegenstein—Film Screening & Discussion with the Director

555 Pennsylvania Ave NW 555 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

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 […]

Trans Cultural Production series poster, with dates and info about events, over background graphic of book spines displaying relevant titles in trans studies.
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Trans Cultural Production series)

Red Emma's 3128 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, MD, United States

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 […]

Poster for Grace Lavery's series of talks on Jan. 31, Feb. 7, and Feb. 14 in Gilman 208.
Event Series WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

WGS Visiting Distinguished Professor series: Grace Lavery, “Lectures on Demonology for Transsexuals”

Gilman 208 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MARYLAND

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 […]

Trans Cultural Production series poster, with dates and info about events, over background graphic of book spines displaying relevant titles in trans studies.
Event Series Trans Cultural Production (Speaker/Event Series 2024)

Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Trans Criticism and Trans Culture (TCP series)

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 […]