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Shaping the Curve: Maryam Mirzakhani’s Influence on the Field of Mathematics
In partnership with the Center for Talented Youth, you are invited to join a conversation with CTY's Senior Program Manager for math, Anjula Batra, film Director, George Paul Csicsery, and Johns Hopkins 2020 President's Frontier Award winner, Emily Riehl. They will discuss the importance of Mirza...
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Setting the Artist Free: Arts, Humanities, and the Common Good
What do the arts and humanities have to do with the common good? How might a poem, a portrait, or a performance shape our idea of what the common good looks like--or disrupt it? Please join Hopkins at Home and Common Question for a conversation with Atesede Makonnen and Andrew Motion, as they bri...
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Radio: Theater of the Mind
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Are you frightened by the thought of unseen invaders in your living room? Do you suspect foreign agents or even your own family members of trying to poison you? Is the government lying to you? If you said yes to any of these questions then you may be ready to return to the theater of yesteryear: ...
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President's Frontier Award Lecture 2023
2023 President's Frontier Award Lecture in celebration of this year's recipient, Dr. Melissa Walls. The presentation will include remarks from Ray Jayawardhana, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, introductions from Ellen MacKenzie, Dean, Bloomberg School of Public Health and ...
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Picturing a Movement: Women’s Suffrage through the Lens of Maps and Ephemera
Join Heidi Herr, the Outreach Librarian for Special Collections at Johns Hopkins University, as she interviews several students about their experiences researching the Women’s Suffrage Movement and shares examples of their work. Ivy Xun, a member of JHU ’23 has been co-curating a special exhibit...
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On the Road with JHU - Terroir: A Sense of Place for Food and Drinks
Derived from the French word terre, meaning “earth”, terroir refers to the environmental factors that affect crops in specific reasons. During this event, you’ll uncover the terroir of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States through three lenses while exploring some wine from the region...
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Love at the Library
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May your heart be your guide as Sheridan Libraries staff showcase their favorite love-themed collections and teach you how to recreate historic letter-writing techniques. In this three- part mini-course, you will sample some vintage love songs from the Lester Levy Collection of Popular American S...
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Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story
Join Peabody Conservatory faculty Ernest Liotti, Peab ‘80, for an introduction to Leonard Bernstein’s most celebrated contributions to Broadway – from the enduring elegance of On the Town to the rhapsodic charm of Candide – with a special focus on the timeless classic, West Side Story. Revel in...
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Italian Style in Context
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“Italian style” has become a synonym of exquisite taste, class, and elegance thanks to its quality and craftsmanship. This mini-course will explore some of the major factors that contributed to the rise of the Made in Italy as an iconic design all around the world. In each meeting will analyze tr...
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Investigating the Temple of the Egyptian Goddess Mut at South Karnak
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Join Betsy Bryan, the Alexander Badawy Chair in Egyptian Art and Archaeology for Excavation is Just the Beginning: Twenty Years Investigating the Temple of the Egyptian Goddess Mut at South Karnak as she guides you through the discovery of Temple and the artifacts therein. You'll join Dr. Bryan a...
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Indigenous Storytelling
The traditions, strengths, and resilience of communities have carried Indigenous peoples for generations. Drs. O’Keefe and Haroz will discuss the development and dissemination of “Our Smallest Warriors, Our Strongest Medicine: Overcoming COVID-19,” a children’s book aimed at providing indigenous ...
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How a Poem Begins
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This Hopkins at Home course will be an immersion in the craft of writing poetry. Participants will experiment with a variety of poetic styles and techniques. As a class, we will explore several classic and contemporary poems every week, discussing each poet’s use of devices like assonance, refrai...
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Disregarding Evidence
Scientists tell us that people who deny climate change, Covid-19, or other inconvenient facts are irrational because they are violating a fundamental scientific principle called the "Requirement of Total Evidence." In determining how reasonable it is to believe something, as well as act on it, yo...
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Democracy, Inclusion, and the Path to Empowerment
This event will be a conversation between President Ron Daniels, JD and Martha S. Jones, PhD, professor of history. Dr. Jones’ forthcoming book, Vanguard, is a history of African American women’s pursuit of political power — and how it transformed America. Her book will serve as a launching poi...
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Chaucer: Five Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer is sometimes called the 'father of English literature' not only because he wrote so well but because he has been, and remains, a poet who had a unique power to capture in language the foibles and strengths, the folly and wisdom, and the rich variety of perspectives that make us h...
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Being Other: American Indian, Native, and Indigenous People
As we wrap up another year in a global pandemic, we are learning that COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Native, Indigenous, American Indian, and Alaskan Native populations and that these health disparities are not new. Coupled with the continued loss of native lands and recent discoveries ...
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Being Other: A Community Discussion Series
2020 brought us more than a pandemic. During this unprecedented time, our country has been asked to confront the glaring inequities that have existed for years between the races. As the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder nears, we ask ourselves if the marches and protests, in our country and ar...
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Androids, Cyborgs, and The Human of Our Dreams
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In this mini-course at the intersection of world literature, the history of robotics, and cognitive science, we will explore the changing face of the humanoid robot and its societal consequences through selections of fictional narratives (the short story, novel, and theatrical play) from the eigh...
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2021 Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture
Each year, the Billie Holiday Project invites a distinguished arts practitioner and intellectual to address topical, historical or philosophical issues connecting the work of the arts to the renewal and revitalization of civic life in West Baltimore.The Donald Bentley Memorial Lecture is the Bill...
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"Being Other": A Community Discussion Series
2020 brought us more than a pandemic. During this unprecedented time, the rights of the LGBTQIA community continue to claim the spotlight. Even as the Supreme Court ruled to protect gay, lesbian, and transgender employees from discrimination based on sex, across the US more than 100 bills at the ...
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"Being Other": A Community Discussion Series, APIDA
2020 brought us more than a pandemic. During this unprecedented time, violence against members of the APIDA community has spiked and continued discrimination against APIDA individuals is now squarely the focus of public attention. Join us for a panel discussion with members of the Hopkins APIDA c...
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(Not) Reading the Signs: Writing and Script in Modern Asian and Islamic Art
Many artists in the last 50 years have explored the complexity of writing and scripts in their works, from floating letters, scribbles that look like writing, coded inscriptions, pseudo-characters, and imitations of Mayan and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Rebecca M. Brown, Professor in the History of A...