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 States

February'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 States

The 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 - […]

Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace

Virtual Livestream

Omer 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.

Humanities in the Village: The Trouble of Color (Martha Jones)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street Baltimore, MD 21218, Baltimore, United States

March 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 Livestream

Samuel 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.