Category: Events
Israeli ambassador Michael Oren to speak at Homewood
October 5, 2009
Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, will speak at the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The talk is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Mason Hall Auditorium. The ambassador will be introduced by Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.
Registration opens for DLC’s Nov. 5 Diversity Conference
October 5, 2009
Registration is now open for the Sixth Annual Diversity Conference, sponsored by the Diversity Leadership Council. Leadership: Transforming Diversity Into Inclusion will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, on the Homewood campus and will feature two speakers and two workshops. Deborah Elam, vice president and chief diversity officer at General Electric, will address participants at the morning plenary session, scheduled for 8:30 a.m. in Shriver Hall Auditorium.
Great Scott: Fitzgerald’s Baltimore
September 28, 2009
Even the great ones get writer’s block. F. Scott Fitzgerald described such a circumstance—and how he nudged himself out of it with a bus trip, a leisurely stroll and a trip to his local barbershop—in an article titled “Afternoon of an Author,” published in Esquire in 1936.
Calendar — Sept. 28, 2009
September 28, 2009
COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 29, 4 p.m. “Living a Lifetime Sentence as a Wife to a Palestinian Political Prisoner,” an Anthropology colloquium with visiting scholar Lotte Buch. 400 Macaulay. HW Tues., Sept. 29, 4:15 p.m. “Catalysis, Chirality and Rotation Studied at the Single-Molecule Limit,” a Chemistry colloquium with Charles Sykes, Tufts University. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., […]
Shriver Hall Concert Series announces 2009–2010 season
September 21, 2009
Shriver Hall Concert Series, recognized five times for “Best Classical Music” by Baltimore magazine, opens its 44th subscription season on Sunday, Oct. 18, in Shriver Hall Auditorium on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. The 2009–2010 season presents eight subscription concerts, all at 5:30 p.m. on Sundays, by solo recitalists and chamber ensembles and four free Discovery Series concerts, on Saturdays at 3 p.m., at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Calendar — Sept. 21, 2009
September 21, 2009
COLLOQUIA Tues., Sept. 22, 4 p.m. “‘Naming’ Conversion: Being Muslim in Old Delhi,” an Anthropology colloquium with Deepak Mehta, Delhi School of Economics. Co-sponsored by Women, Gender and Sexuality. 400 Macaulay. HW Thurs., Sept. 24, 3 p.m. “A Record of Historical Fact: Transsexuality, Retrospective Diagnosis and the Ethics of History; or Joking in the Archive […]
Neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson opens 2009 MSE Symposium
September 14, 2009
Pediatric neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson will lead off the university’s annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Homewood’s Shriver Hall Auditorium. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., and a reception in the Clipper Room follows the talk.
Adam Liptak of ‘N.Y. Times’ to discuss the Roberts Court
September 14, 2009
New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak will discuss the court under the leadership of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at Johns Hopkins’ 2009 Constitutional Forum, a discussion of important legal issues held in conjunction with the annual observance of Constitution Day, Sept. 17.
Calendar — September 14, 2009
September 14, 2009
Sodexo leader Chavel to give Carey School lecture George Chavel, president and CEO of Sodexo North America, will speak on “Sustainability and the Business of the Future” at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The breakfast event will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at […]
Events honoring the installation of Ronald J. Daniels as 14th president of The Johns Hopkins University
September 7, 2009
Friday, September 11 through Tuesday, September 29.