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Cultural Bartering in a Neocolonial Age

Almost fifty years after the de facto occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco in the 1975 Green March, the Polisario Front has managed to survive despite all odds. Described by many as a proxy conflict between the West and Russia, the fight for the narrow strip of land boxed in between Morocco, Algeria, and Mauritania […]

Roundtable with Joshua Weiner, Aris Fioretos, Leslie Morris, Brad Harmon, in celebration of Joshua’s new translation of Sachs’ Flucht und Verwandlung

Roundtable with Joshua Weiner, Aris Fioretos, Leslie Morris, Brad Harmon, in celebration of Joshua's new translation of Sachs' Flucht und Verwandlung EventBrite registration: https://bit.ly/3r5n7Nk Joshua Weiner is a poet, translator and Professor of English & Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. He is the author of The World’s Room (2001), From the Book of Giants (2006), and The Figure of a […]

Afro-Atlantic Histories

Brazilian historian and anthropologist Lilia Schwarcz discusses how art has registered and responded to the violence of slavery, the fights for emancipation, and the complex histories of the African Diaspora. Through paintings, sculptures, photographs, and multimedia work by artists from the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe, Schwarcz examines both the persistence of colonial images and the […]

Director Nadav Lapid on “Synonymes”

Panel discussion on the movie Synonymes with writer/director Nadav Lapid. Panel members: Katarzyna Jerzak, Jora Vaso, and Mirit Bessire Watch the movie via Kanopy to the JHU community: https://jhu.kanopy.com/video/synonyms Panel discussion via Zoom: https://zoomus/j/94095218356 More information: [email protected] or [email protected] Sponsored by the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies

The World Below: Plebeian Culture and the Lettered City in Colonial Manila

Gilman Hall 50

This talk features Miguel Martínez of the University of Chicago. This talk will provide an overview of urban and popular culture in early colonial Manila, including street poetry, theater, carnival, dance, and civic ritual. Guests can join in person or on Zoom. The city's popular multitude was often imagined as a "piélago viviente", a living […]

Alexandre Dumas: Ecrire noir/ou blanc

Friday, April 22, 2022 9:00AM-9:30AM --BREAKFAST9:30-9:45 AM - OPENING REMARKS Daniel Desormeaux (Johns Hopkins University), Julie Anselmini (Université de Caen, France,10:00 -11:00-- INAUGURAL LECTURE Claude Schopp (Président de la Société des Amis d' Alexandre Dumas) "Alexandre Dumas et ses domestiques de couleur11:00AM-1:00 PM --PANELI11:00 -11:30: Nathalie Solomon (Université de Perpignan) "L'étranger dans les récits de […]

Engaging with the Global Hispanophone

Roundtable: José F. Siale Djangany, writer from Equatorial Guinea, in conversation with students enrolled in the graduate seminar “Engaging with the Global Hispanophone." This is a virtual seminar on Zoom. Organized by Benita Sampedro Vizcaya ([email protected]), Visiting Professor of Spanish, in collaboration with the students enrolled in the “Engaging with the Global Hispanophone” graduate seminar, and with the […]

Spanish Lecture Series

José Siale Djangany was the recipient of the 2021 Premio Internacional de Literaturas Africanas Justo Bolekia Boleká, for his book Misántropos de ébano y otros relatos (2021). He is an attorney and writer of Bubi and Ndowé ancestry, born in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea). After studying law in Paris, he returned to his home country to […]