Sexual Revolution, Counterrevolution, Melancholy: Annemarie Schwarzenbach’s Freunde um Bernhard (1931) How to tell a story from the perspective of the boy-muse? This talk undertakes a reparative reading of the first novel of the then 23-year-old Swiss writer, journalist, traveler, and androgynous icon Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42), in light of trenchant critiques of its alleged compositional deficits. If […]
The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there!
Come and join students and faculty of the German program for the tradition of Stammtisch. Everyone is welcome at our cozy get-together. Ability to speak German is not required. We meet every other Wednesday from 5-7pm at One World Café. See you at the Stammtisch!
The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there!
Speaking Hoarsely: Black Voices and Racialized Listening in Urban New Spain Listening to renderings of Black voices from urban New Spain, Dr. Finley will highlight the racialized politics and audio-racial discourses that framed the region’s archive. This incomplete phonographic record mutes actual African and Afro-descendant voices, privileges Euro-centric listening positions in accounts of viceregal sound, […]
Retconning Revolution and the Solidarity of Form Drawing from her book, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an […]
The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there!
The program in French at Johns Hopkins is pleased to announce that with the generous assistance of the French Embassy in the United States, the Centre Louis Marin will host prizewinning French novelist Maylis de Kerangal from March 3 to March 7, 2025. One year after the collapse of the Frances Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, join […]
Come and join students and faculty of the German program for the tradition of Stammtisch. Everyone is welcome at our cozy get-together. Ability to speak German is not required. We meet every other Wednesday from 5-7pm at One World Café. See you at the Stammtisch!
The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there!
IN DEFENSE OF THE LAND: AGAINST ECO- & ACOUSTIC COLONIALISM IN 21st CENTURY PLURILINGUAL POETRY OF ABIAYALA (lecture) March 12th5:30 PMGilman 479 The environmental humanities have advanced persuasive arguments that explain how extractivism has manufactured our climate predicament, and how Indigenous cosmologies have long been resisting these extractive power dynamics through their interrelational ways of […]
The German conversation hour Kaffeestunde is back for the spring semester! Everyone is welcome to practice their language skills with conversation and language games. We are meeting every Friday from 12-1pm in the Atrium of Gilman Hall. See you there!