Arrighi Center Seminar: Dependency Crisis in Brazil and Argentina

Mergenthaler 526

Group discussion about: Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency Crisis in Brazil and Argentina. A Critique of Market and State Utopias (2024, University of Pittsburgh Press). This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.

Israel, Palestine, and the Wars in the Middle East: An Open Campus Discussion

Carnegie Science Building, Rose Auditorium 3520 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland

The October 7 attack and its aftermath threaten to spread to ever-wider regional wars. Slogans and accusations fly on social media and at demonstrations. This discussion offers an opportunity for Hopkins community members of all viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs to hear from a variety of experts, express their own views, listen to others' views, and […]

Hirooka Asako, Uruno Coal Mine’s Transformation, and Finding Businesswomen in Meiji Japan

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Garrett Washington, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst Amidst changes redefining and subjugating womanhood in the Meiji period (1868-1912), industrialist Hirooka Asako (1849-1919) rescued her marital family’s failing coal mine in Uruno. This story highlights her determination, knowledge but also her collaboration with male relatives and associates, and direct management, illuminating the underexamined […]

La Argentina de Javier Milei: 10 Months Later – Matias Vernengo (Bucknell University)

Macauley 101

Matias Vernengo, Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, will discuss the last 10 months of Javier Milei's presidency in Argentina. Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina last November, and was inaugurated later in December, facing an economic crisis that has been ongoing for too long, and that he claims was caused by the Peronist […]

Cooking Recipes and the Ways of Transmitting Knowledge

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Suyoung Son, Associate Professor in Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University How can the written recipes convey the embodied practice of cooking? While cooking traditionally relies on direct transformation and oral explication, what circumstances lead to the translation of this mute skill into written form? This talk examines two 17-century cooking recipes from Chosŏn Korea (1392–1897), […]

SAIS Summer Academy Information Session

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Come learn more about the SAIS Summer Academies, immersive four-week programs taking place in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC. Join us for an information session, where we will give a brief presentation on the programs and answer any questions you may have.  Lunch will be provided.

Arrighi Center Seminar: Black Scare / Red Scare

Mergenthaler 526

Group discussion about: Charisse Burden-Stelly (Wayne), Black Scare / Red Scare (2023, University of Chicago Press). E-book access forthcoming. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.

Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy

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Crystal Baik, Associate Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside In this talk, Professor Crystal Mun-hye Baik offers a glimpse into her second book project, Before the Fire Dogs Steal the Sun: An Elegy. An intimate cultural history of war, illness, and estrangement framed through her family history, Before the Fire Dogs Steal […]