AGHI has partnered with The Ivy Bookshop and Bird in Hand Coffee & Books since 2018 to bring fresh scholarly and creative works from Baltimore’s thriving universities and colleges into conversation with a broader public. Please join us as each month to hear authors and artists discuss their work in an informal setting.
Want to present?
Have a new book, project, or big idea ready for a public audience and wider discussion? We are scheduling future Humanities in the Village and Humanities on the Hill gatherings. If you are a faculty member or graduate student at any Baltimore or DC college or university and would like to pitch us an event for a public audience, please fill out our form, and note which location you would like to be considered for.
Archive—Past Events:
2025
- January 27 – Jennifer Stager (History, JHU) and Leila Easa (CCSF): Public Feminism in Times of Crisis in conversation with Dora Malech (Writing Seminars, JHU)
- February 24 – Christopher Cannon (co-editor of The Oxford Chaucer in conversation with Sharon Achinstein (English, JHU)
2024
- January 29 – David Steiner (author of A Nation at Thought: Restoring Wisdom in America’s Schools) in conversation with Fred Lazarus (president emeritus of MICA)
- February 26 – Nate Brown (UWP), reading new short fiction and in conversation with Jean McGarry (Writing Seminars, emerita)
- April 29 – Jennifer Gosetti Ferencei (author of Imagination: A Very Short Introduction) in conversation with Jane Bennett
- August 26 – Joseph Plaster, (author of Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin) with Drew Daniel (English, JHU)
- September 30 – Diego Javier Luis (author of First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History with Johaina Katinka Crisostomo
- October 28 – Peter Pomerantsev (author of How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler with Dave Troy
- December 2 – Patchen Barss (author of THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN) in conversation with William Egginton (AGHI Director, JHU)
2023
- January — Laura Mason, book event for The Last Revolutionaries (in conversation with Sarah Pearsall)
- February — Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd, book event for Southern Beauty (in conversation with Samanda Robinson)
- March — Greg Smithsimon, book event for Liberty Road (in conversation with Lawrence Jackson)
- August—Bill Egginton, book event for The Rigor of Angels (in conversation with Sean Carroll)
- September—Melanie Marotta, book event for African American Adolescent Female Heroes (in conversation with Samanda Robinson)
- October—Irena Stein (author of Arepa, founder of Alma Cocina) in conversation with D. Watkins
- November—Zekeh Gbotokuma (author of Obamanomics and Francisconomics) in conversation with Linda Loubert (colleagues from Morgan State University)
2022
- January 31 – Harold Morales: “Betting On Hope: Baltimore’s Black Butterfly and the Work Of 2020”
- February 28 – John Murungi, Towson U: Decolonization of the Postcolonial African Body
- March 28 – Jean McGarry, JHU: Book Release – Blue Boy (In-person / Bird in Hand)
- April 25 – Tim Murray, Cornell University: Book talk – Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art (In-person at the Ivy Bookshop)
- May 23 – Will Linder and Dr. Ralph Hruban – A Scientific Revolution
- August 29 – Virginia Jewiss – A New Life For Dante’s Vita Nuova (In-person at the Ivy Bookshop)
- September 26 – Sean Carroll – The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion (In-person at the Ivy Bookshop)
- November 7 – Alexander Heffner – Journalist & Civic Educator (virtual)
2021
- January 25 – Jeanne-Marie Jackson author of the African Novel of Ideas (In Conversation With William Egginton & Ato Quayson)
- February 22 – Salvadore Pappalardo: Modernism In Trieste: Literary Europe And The Alternatives To National Identification
- March 29 – Writing And Translating Love With Julien Tribotté, JHU, French
- April 26 – Audrey Fastuca, Italian, JHU – Letting Southern Italy Speak for Itself
- August 30 – Lingxin Zhang – Drugs, amulets, and birth charts: Women’s health in ancient Egypt
- September 27 – Jennifer Stager & Leila Easa – “A Feminist Practice of Monumentalizing: Scaling Loss, Listing Names”
- October 25 – Donald Berger – Where Poems Come From: A Poetry Reading and Discussion of Influence and Processes of Composition