In spring 2024, JHU Hard Histories, directed by Dr. Martha S. Jones, is hosting a series of conversations exploring the histories of Blackness, slavery, and racism in the Maryland area. Our first webinar of the semester, “Hard Histories Methods: Rethinking Our Archives”, will occur on Wednesday, February 21 from noon-1 pm eastern. This virtual event is free and […]
Monday Seminar, Michael Jin, University of Illinois Chicago (part of the History Department seminar series)
Political and Moral Thought Seminar, Lucy Allais, JHU, 4:45pm, in Gilman Hall, Room 308
Modern American Seminar, Jayson Porter, University of Maryland, 4:00pm, in Gilman 308
Monday Seminar, Rebecca Stoil Shimoni, Clemson University (part of the History Department seminar series)
Modern American Seminar, Malcolm Cammeron (University of Virginia) and Dan Joselyn (New York University), 4:00pm, in Gilman 308
Monday Seminar, Danna Agmon, Virginia Tech (part of the History Department seminar series)
Political and Moral Thought Seminar, Christopher Yeomans, Purdue University, 4:45pm, in Gilman Hall, Room 308
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 […]
Monday Seminar, Derek Penslar, Harvard University (part of the History Department seminar series)
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, […]
Monday Seminar, Shauna Sweeney, University of Toronto (part of the History Department seminar series)