Meet SAIS Hopkins-Nanjing Center Deputy American Co-Director John Urban 

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The SAIS Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) Deputy American Co-Director, John Urban, will share insights about the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, the one-of-a-kind educational collaboration between a Chinese and American university, the direct admissions process for undergraduates and answer all your questions about what this educational opportunity offers. This event is co-sponsored by the Program in International Studies.

2024 Latin American Film Festival – Ema (Chile)

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Entrance is free. All films are captioned. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program, the Center for Advanced Media Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.

Aronson Speaker Series Faculty Fridays with Associate Professor Julian Lim

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Department of History Associate Professor Julian Lim will will kickoff the Fall 2024 Aronson Center Speaker Series with a discussion about the “irregular encounters” at the U.S.-Mexico border throughout history and recent years. Learn more about Professor Lim’s research on diverse migrations at the U.S.-Mexico border at the turn of the 20th century, including her […]

To the Sea, To the Mountain: Cantonese Woodwork in the Indian Ocean During the Nineteenth Century

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Kyoungjin Bae Assistant Professor of Chinese History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This talk examines the mobility of Cantonese woodwork, a vibrant regional craft in the Pearl River Delta, and its impact on artisanal practices through a case study of woodworkers’ movement to the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth century. Co-sponsored by EAS, the […]

Arrighi Center Seminar: Dependency Crisis in Brazil and Argentina

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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)

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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 […]