How local can you go? Revisiting archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman lands in the 19th century

Gilman 177 @ 3400 N Charles St Baltimore, MD, United States

Please join us in welcoming Edhem Eldem, Visiting Professor, Columbia University. Dr. Eldem will be speaking on "How local can you go? Revisiting archaeology and heritage in the Ottoman lands in the 19th century." This program is co-sponsored by the Program in Islamic Studies and the Department of Classics.

On Arrangement, or The Making of Relationships in Nahua Religion

Gilman 177 @ 3400 N Charles St Baltimore, MD, United States

Please join us on November 19 at 6 pm EST in welcoming Anthony Joshua Meyer, Austin-Stokes Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins. Dr. Meyer will be speaking on "On Arrangement, or The Making of Relationships in Nahua Religion." Image: The Array of Napateuctli. Nahua maker(s), drafts for the Historia general, […]

Humanities in the Village: Public Feminism in Times of Crisis

Bird in Hand Cafe 11 E. 33rd St, Baltimore

Please join us at the first 2025 event of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University. This event will feature Jennifer Stager, Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Art, and Leila Easa, Professor in the English department […]

Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States since 9/11 

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD, Maryland +1 more

Please join us for a reading & book talk by Sasha-Mae Eccleston on Epic Events: Classics and the Politics of Time in the United States since 9/11 (Yale UP, Dec. 2024), in conversation with Nandini Pandey. This event is hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Department of Classics and organized by History of Art professor Jennifer Stager and Dora Malech, JHU.

Reading and Conversation: Naomi Shihab Nye & Marion Winik 

Bird in Hand Cafe 11 E. 33rd St, Baltimore

Reading and Conversation: Naomi Shihab Nye & Marion Winik on I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas (Texas A&M UP, Oct. 2024), in conversation w/Emma Snyder Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University; co-sponsoredby Bird in Hand & The Ivy Bookshop; and the Department of the History of Art, the […]

Seminar and Conversation on Collaboration, Creative Citizenship, and the Collective Lyric “I”

Gilman 132 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, United States

Presenters include Dora Malech (editor in chief, The Hopkins Review) Jennifer Stager &Leila Easa (guest editors of Locating a Collective Lyric “I”: A Special Folio for The Hopkins Review; open access in 2025); Sasha-Mae Eccleston, Naomi Shihab Nye & Marion Winik; and Pia Hargrove, Bethany Dixon, Michele Carlson (Related Tactics), Steven Leyva & Jennifer Keohane, Ella Gonzalez, and Allesandra Amin. Sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University; co-sponsored by Bird in Hand & The Ivy Bookshop; and […]

Museum Careers Workshop

Gilman 50 @ 3400 N Charles St Baltimore, MD, United States

The Johns Hopkins History of Art Department and The Archaeological Institute of America Baltimore Society welcome graduate and undergraduate students for a unique opportunity to engage with distinguished museum professionals, hear about their work and professional development, and ask questions about museum-oriented careers.  Featuring Guest Speakers: Daniel H. Weiss; Homewood Professor of the Humanities at […]

The Feminized Robot as Palimpsest: On Jawari’s Forgotten Mediation

Gilman 177 @ 3400 N Charles St Baltimore, MD, United States

We are pleased to welcome Lamia Balafrej, Associate Professor of Arts of the Islamic World at UCLA, who will deliver a talk titled "The Feminized Robot as Palimpsest: On Jawari's Forgotten Mediation." Image: Automated enslaved woman (jāriya), folio from a copy of al-Jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal of Ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī, probably Āmid, 1206. Istanbul: Topkapı Palace Library (Ms. Ahmet III 3472, fol. 113v).

Shelving the Empire: Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage

Claire Wintle, University of Brighton, Centre for Design History will speak on "Anxiety, Control, and Performative Change in Postwar Museum Storage." Joe Mabel, Sculptures in "visible storage," Maryhill Museum of Art, Maryhill, Washington, U.S., Creative Commons License Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 Image description: White marble and plaster busts sit on clean white shelves under a fluorescent […]

Distinguished Lecture: Artifacts and Ancestors

Gilman 132 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, United States

Professor Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin, from the Museum of Northern Arizona and Northern Arizona University, will deliver the 2025 Distinguished Lecture in the Art of the Ancient Americas. Her talk is titled, "Artifacts and Ancestors: exploring archaeological collections with Hopi and Pueblo artists". Abstract: What happens when artists and archaeologists meet up on ancient sites or […]