Category: Events
Three days of films at Homewood
April 12, 2010
Classic movies, indie films, animation, documentaries and obscure short films are all on the marquee for Johns Hopkins Film Fest 2010, which takes place April 16 to 18 on the Homewood campus. Sponsored by the student-run Johns Hopkins Film Society, the festival is a nonprofit event that seeks to promote works by budding independent and […]
Museums and Society Program hosts community symposium
April 12, 2010
Befitting its name, the Program in Museums and Society in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is hosting a community symposium this week with a group of Baltimore-based curators, artists and collectors to discuss the challenges and opportunities museums face in making their collections more accessible, engaging and relevant to local audiences. “Collections and […]
Calendar — April 12, 2010
April 12, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., April 13, 4 p.m. “Something Other Than Its Own Mass: Corporeality, Animality, Materiality,” an Anthropology colloquium with Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues., April 13, 4:15 p.m. “Redox-Active Ligand-Mediated Organometallic Catalysis at Manganese and Cobalt: New Routes to sp3-Hybridized C-C Bonds,” a Chemistry colloquium with Jake Soper, Georgia […]
Calling all alums: Alumni Weekend/Reunion is for you
April 5, 2010
The Office of Alumni Relations wants the 2010 version of the annual reunion/homecoming weekend to be one giant Johns Hopkins party. The guest list just got a lot bigger. The April weekend had traditionally been for reunion classes and all Homewood alumni. Taking a cue from President Ronald J. Daniels’ emphasis on “one Johns Hopkins,” […]
National Book Award winner Mark Doty to give poetry reading
April 5, 2010
The Joshua Ringel Memorial Reading celebrates its 13th season on Sunday, April 11, when poet Mark Doty reads from his work at 5 p.m. in the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Meyerhoff Auditorium. The event is sponsored by Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth. “Ferocious, luminous and important” is how renowned poet Mary Oliver has described […]
A celebration of Art Workshops faculty
April 5, 2010
The Homewood Art Workshops, the university’s undergraduate visual arts program, will host its triennial Faculty Exhibition from Today, April 5, to Sunday, May 2, in the F. Ross Jones Building of the Mattin Center. The Johns Hopkins community is invited to an opening reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday, April 9. The exhibition […]
Next artist in residence: An orchestra
March 29, 2010
The Center for Africana Studies is continuing its artist in residence series with a free performance by the American Studio Orchestra at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 3, in the Meyerhoff Auditorium at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In the first concert of its spring 2010 residency, the orchestra will perform “Pangea,” described as “a […]
Calendar — March 29, 2010
March 29, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., March 30, 4 p.m. “Drawing Together: Materials, Gestures, Lines,” an Anthropology colloquium with Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen. 400 Macaulay. HW Wed., March 31, 4:15 p.m. “The History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Emergence of the Everyday,” an ELH colloquium with William Galperin, Rutgers University. Sponsored by English. 201C Dell House. […]
Tournées Festival of Contemporary French Cinema debuts at Homewood
March 22, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, marks the beginning of the first Tournées Festival of Contemporary French Cinema at Johns Hopkins. The festival, to be held over two weeks on the Homewood campus, will be launched with a screening of The Class (Entre les murs), Laurent Cantet’s cinéma vérité–style story about a junior high school in a tough […]
Calendar — March 22, 2010
March 22, 2010
COLLOQUIA Thurs., March 25, 3 p.m. “‘Butcher-like and Hatefull’: Domestic Medicine and Resistance to Surgery in Early-Modern England,” a History of Science and Technology colloquium with Seth Lejacq, SoM. Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch Medical Library. EB Thurs., March 25, 3 p.m. “Kepler and Habitability of Exoplanets,” a Physics and Astronomy colloquium with Dimitar Sasselov, […]