Hard Histories: Slavery and the Rise of Catholic Universities

via Zoom

Join Hard Histories at Hopkins for a virtual discussion about the centrality of slavery to the rise of Catholic universities. In recent years, Georgetown University and Loyola University Maryland have been grappling with their institutions’ connections to enslavement. Jesuit priests sold 272 enslaved people to two Louisiana planters in 1838. The Maryland Province of the […]

Stulman Lecture with Ann Laura Stoler, The New School

Hodson 210

Stulman Lecture with Ann Laura Stoler, The New School, 4:30pm, in Hodson Hall, Room 210 "Democracy's Contract with Inequality: Embedded in It's Fold" This talk, or rather long lasting reflection, begins in the turbulent throes of colonial studies in the early 1990s when the analytic field of metropole and colony flourished, unevenly I would argue, […]

“Revolution in Our Lifetime”Exhibit Opening and Panel Discussion

225 Holliday Street, Baltimore, MD 21202

“Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974 explores the founding, programs, and everyday activities of the Black Panther Party’s Baltimore chapter, as well as the party’s ideological foundations and state repression it experienced. The exhibit further examines the party’s links to other political organizations in the city within the […]