AGHI hosts and co-hosts events in the humanities year-round. See below for our AGHI-sponsored events calendar for “Upcoming” dates.
For all humanities events going on with our affiliate departments and programs, see our JHU Humanities Events cross-listed calendar page.
If you would like AGHI to co-sponsor your event, please use the co-sponsorship request form. If you would like your event to be posted on this calendar, please use our event request form.
Humanities in the Village with Chris Cannon: THE OXFORD CHAUCER
Bird in Hand cafe 11 E 33rd St, Baltimore, MD, United StatesFebruary's event features Christopher Cannon, co-editor of The Oxford Chaucer, a new scholarly-yet-accessible set that combines complete coverage of Chaucer's works with reader-friendly access to individual texts. Sharon Achinstein will […]
Humanities on the Hill: Mary Beard & Chris Celenza
Hopkins Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washngton DC, United StatesThe Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop Present Humanities on the Hill: Mary Beard in conversation with Chris Celenza February 25, 2025 6-8 PM Hopkins Bloomberg Center - […]
Film Screening: Devi (1960)
Mergenthaler 426Join us for the third screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Veena Das will […]
Academic Freedom and the First Amendment
Virtual LivestreamCass Sunstein of Harvard University and Michael Roth of Wesleyan University explore tensions between freedom of speech and academic freedom in the wake of recent protests.
Film Screening: Umrao Jaan (1981)
Mergenthaler 426Join us for the fourth screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Christopher Minkowski will be […]
Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace
Virtual LivestreamOmer Bartov of Brown University, Bret Stephens of the New York Times, and Dr. Rula Hardal delve into the historical roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
What Is A River? Environmental Humanities Through a South Asianist Lens
Homewood Campus, Levering Great Hall 3400 N Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesDo we know what a river is? Is a river necessarily part of nature? Do we know what nature is? Does a focus on nature necessarily occlude politics, or are […]
Film Screening: Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
Mergenthaler 426Join us for the fifth screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Michael Levien will be […]
Humanities in the Village: The Trouble of Color (Martha Jones)
Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street Baltimore, MD 21218, Baltimore, United StatesMarch 31, 2025 @ 6:30 PM Bird in Hand Coffee & Books Martha S. Jones is a cultural-legal historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the meaning of the […]
AGHI New Faculty Lecture: Gisela Heffes
Nutritive Aesthetics: Knitting Gardens of Hope in Contemporary Latin America A tissue, in Spanish tejido, is defined as a set of cells that form a structural part of a living […]
Human Rights in the Crossfire
Virtual LivestreamSamuel Moyn of Yale University, Seyla Benhabib of Columbia Law School and Dr. Hassan Jabareen discuss the condition of human rights within the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Film Screening: Shree 420 (1955)
Mergenthaler 426Join us for the sixth screening of the Film in South Asia series, hosted jointly by the Global South Humanities Initiative and the Department of Anthropology. Professor Aamir Mufti will be […]