Humanities on the Hill: Martha S. Jones

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Humanities on the Hill: Hosted by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and East City Bookshop A conversation with Martha S. Jones and Nadia E. Brown Event Location: JHU Bloomberg Center – 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001 Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Time: 6 PM – 8 PM Register here!   Martha S. Jones […]

Returns of the Right: A Pre-Election Conversation in Global South Humanities (555 Penn)

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Join us for a conversation between LEAH FELDMAN (University of Chicago), DONALD E. PEASE (Dartmouth College), PAUL BOVÉ (University of Pittsburgh) and AAMIR MUFTI (JHU English), leading humanities scholars who have thought deeply about the multifaceted “returns” of the political Right in different regions of the world. At the threshold of perhaps the most consequential […]

Humanities on the Hill: Why the Museum Matters with Dan Weiss and Jennifer Kingsley

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Humanities on the Hill: Why the Museum Matters JHU Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Daniel H. Weiss in conversation with Jennifer Kingsley, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Museums and Society. In partnership with East City Bookshop.  Location: Bloomberg Center - 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC […]

Humanities on the Hill: Film Screening & Panel (Yitzhak Melamed & David Ofek)

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Humanities on the Hill: Film Screening & Panel Discussion: "Spinoza: 6 Reasons for the Excommunication of the Philosopher" Film director, David Ofek, Yitzhak Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy, JHU, and Virginia Jewiss, Associate Director, AGHI, JHU The excommunication of Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch Jewish philosopher who revolutionized modern thought, is a formative, mysterious event […]