News & Announcements Archive

Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel

Environmental Humanities Research Initiative Autumn Panel

December 5 at 5:30 pm until 7:30 pm “Visualizing Human and Ecological Loss in Latin America” (Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages and Literatures); “Beeing and Time: Toward a Literary Entomology” (Christiane Frey, Modern Languages and Literatures); […]

Call for 2024 MLN French issue contributions

The 2024 French issue of MLN invites original contributions, in English or in French, to a special issue entitled “Passage to the Nineteenth Century” edited by Daniel Desormeaux in collaboration […]

Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume

Film Screening: The Hidden Life of Trees / Das geheime Leben der Bäume

October 26 | Screening of the film The Hidden Life of Trees (Das geheime Leben der Bäume), based on Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book by the same title. A follow-up film/book […]

Reflexiones Cervantinas: William Egginton y la teatralidad de la ficción en la era de la posverdad

Reflexiones Cervantinas: William Egginton y la teatralidad de la ficción en la era de la posverdad

Prof William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities and director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, weighs theatricality, fictionality, literary criticism, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis and ethics, […]

Severn Teakle Wallis Award

Severn Teakle Wallis Award

This award is for outstanding essays in Spanish. The award comprises: Eligibility Application Process To apply for the award, please submit the following documents by April 1st (spring graduation), and November 1st (fall graduation), […]

Beyond the Theologico-Political: Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning

Beyond the Theologico-Political: Hannah Arendt and the Principle of Beginning

Presenter: Facundo Vega, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez   Description: What can and should be the promise of politics today? How does politics begin anew? In his talk, political philosopher Facundo Vega examines the strengths and limitations of Hannah […]

Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten

Ökopoetiken: Literarische Umwelten

A digital transatlantic workshop | JHU and RTWH Aachen | 22.–23. September 2023

Weitzman lecture: Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature

Weitzman lecture: Body Shaming: Obscenity, Materiality, and the Ontology of German Realist Literature

Erica Weitzman (PhD, Comparative Literature, NYU, 2012) is Associate Professor of German at Northwestern University. She is the author of Irony’s Antics: Walser, Kafka, Roth, and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern […]

JHU hosts Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference

Registration is open for the 48th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies (NCSF) conference, which will be held in Baltimore from November 9-11, 2023. The theme of the conference is Passages / […]

Samuel Zawacki Translator-in-residence at the Fondazione Ugo da Como, Summer 2023

Samuel Zawacki Translator-in-residence at the Fondazione Ugo da Como, Summer 2023

We’re excited to announce our fourth-year graduate student, Samuel Zawacki, has won the 2023 “Essays” Competition and will be a Translator-in-residence at the Fondazione Ugo da Como this summer! Sponsored […]