Join internationally acclaimed trumpeter and the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of the Jazz Department at the Peabody Institute, Sean Jones, as he takes you on a journey through jazz – then and now. Using his personal collection of vinyl, Sean will share his favorite recordings representative o...

Join internationally acclaimed trumpeter and the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of the Jazz Department at the Peabody Institute, Sean Jones, as he takes you on a journey through jazz – then and now. Using his personal collection of vinyl, Sean will share his favorite recordings representative o...

In this Hopkins at Home virtual event, Dr. Homayra Ziad, Director of the Program in Islamic Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Alison Kysia, multimedia artist and grassroots educator, share stories of their collaboration on 99 Clay Vessels: The Muslim Women Storytelling Project. This multime...

Join Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, as he introduces you to "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks." Dr. Brooks emphasizes three insights readers might take away from the book, related to the cultural ramifications o...

In Session 4, the first of two sessions on "Exercising Power," Eliot Cohen, Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, continues to explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s works display power. This session includes three sections entitled, "Inspiration" (9.5 minutes), "Manipulation" (8...

In Session 3, the second of two sessions on "Acquiring Power," Eliot Cohen, Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, continues to explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s works display power. This session includes three sections entitled, "Coup" (10 minutes), "Demagoguery" (10 minutes...

In Session 5, the second of two sessions on "Exercising Power," Eliot Cohen, Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, continues to explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s works display power. This session includes three sections entitled, "The stagecraft of power" (8.5 minutes), "Uni...

Join Eliot Cohen, PhD, on an exploration of the ways in which Shakespeare’s works display power. Session one, "Shakespeare on Politics," is broken intro three sections entitled: "Why Shakespeare" (8.5 minutes), "What Shakespeare knew about politics" (8 minutes), and "Technique: the soliloquy" (9....

In Session 6, "Losing Power," Eliot Cohen, Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, continues to explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s works display power. This session includes three sections entitled, "Arrogance and overreach" (8.5 minutes), "Fecklessness" (8.5 minutes), and "Bre...

In Session 2, the first of two sessions on "Acquiring Power," Eliot Cohen, Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies, continues to explore the ways in which Shakespeare’s works display power. This session includes three sections entitled, "Inheritance without wisdom" (10.5 minutes), "T...

Presented by the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries

Join Professor Jeffrey Brooks, an expert in the political and cultural history of modern Russia, as he delivers the 2022 Hammerman Memorial Lecture, “Resilience and Russian Culture: The Cens...

Join Inheritance Baltimore Curatorial Fellow for Africana Collections Raynetta Wiggins-Jackson, PhD and Africana Archivist Tonika Berkley for a virtual introduction to the exhibition Ethel's Place: Celebrating Ethel Ennis, Baltimore's First Lady of Jazz on view in the George Peabody Library Exhib...

Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – considers the novels, EMMA and PERSUASION, in a comparison built around the contrast between Emma Woodhouse, the “imaginist” and child of privilege, and Anne Elliot, the late bloomer who dwells in melanchol...

Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – explores how novels such as EMMA and PERSUASION can do more than nourish an attraction towards romance. In exploring such volatile entities as beauty, wit, secret loves, or fatal attractions, they invite an ...

Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – delves into PERSUASION, through which Austen provides a line-up of characters who are forced by circumstances or illness to watch and experience life from the sidelines. Visit www.jhu.edu/hopkinsathome to se...

Evelyne Ender – Senior Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature – explores how the 2020 film adaptation of EMMA raises to a new pitch the blend of feelings, well-meaning intentions, gossip, and secrecy that propels Emma towards a fatal realization, namely, that there are l...

Baltimore City’s residents have long struggled with issues of inequity, poverty, and violence. In 2020, on top of a crippling pandemic, Baltimore saw 335 individuals die by homicide. In the face of a virtual school year necessitated by quarantine, opportunities for young people to connect with ea...

Baltimore City’s residents have long struggled with issues of inequity, poverty, and violence. In 2020, on top of a crippling pandemic, Baltimore saw 335 individuals die by homicide. In the face of a virtual school year necessitated by quarantine, opportunities for young people to connect with ea...

Baltimore City’s residents have long struggled with issues of inequity, poverty, and violence. In 2020, on top of a crippling pandemic, Baltimore saw 335 individuals die by homicide. In the face of a virtual school year necessitated by quarantine, opportunities for young people to connect with ea...