Category: Events
Media executive is next Leaders + Legends speaker
December 6, 2010
Sir David Bell, executive director of The Economist and former chairman of the Financial Times, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders + Legends lecture series on Thursday, Dec. 9. The event takes place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. The topic of […]
Archaeological Museum opens with daylong symposium
December 6, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum opened to the public in its new location in Homewood’s Gilman Hall on Sunday with a daylong symposium featuring faculty and student speakers, and guided tours of the museum and Gilman, and ending with a cocktail reception. The installation highlights nearly 700 archaeological objects from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, the […]
Leon Fleisher discusses new book, called ‘My Nine Lives’
December 6, 2010
On Tues., Dec. 7, Leon Fleisher, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in Piano at the Peabody Conservatory since 1959, and his co-author, Anne Midgette, classical music critic of The Washington Post, will talk about and sign copies of My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music. The event will begin at 5:30 […]
Calendar — December 6, 2010
December 6, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Dec. 7, 4:15 p.m. “Role of Surfaces and Interfaces in Photovoltaics,” a Chemistry colloquium with Robert Opila, University of Delaware. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Dec. 8, 3:30 p.m. “Bringing Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole and Its Environs Into Focus With Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics,” an STSci colloquium with Andrea Ghez, UCLA. Bahcall […]
Calendar — November 29, 2010
November 29, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Nov. 30, 4:15 p.m. “Bioorganic Chemistry of Titanium in Medicine and Environment,” a Chemistry colloquium with Ann Valentine, Yale University. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Dec. 1, 3:30 p.m. “What Can We Learn About the Origin of Life From Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell?” an STSci colloquium with Jack Szostak, Harvard University. Bahcall […]
Season begins with tragic love story (what else?)
November 15, 2010
Peabody Opera Theatre will present a new, fully staged production of Jules Massenet’s Manon, named for the fictional young woman whose tragic love story inspired no fewer than three operas (the others by Auber and Puccini), as the first part of its French Season of Opera. Sung in French with English supertitles, Manon will be […]
‘Media 3.0’ is focus of talk by ‘Times’ reporter David Carr
November 15, 2010
David Carr of The New York Times will give a talk at Homewood this week titled “Putting a New Frame on Content: Media 3.0 in an Age of iPads, Mashed-Up Hybrids and an Audience that Generates Content.” Carr is an award-winning media and culture reporter. Before joining The New York Times, he was a contributing […]
Calendar — November 15, 2010
November 15, 2010
COLLOQUIA Mon., Nov. 15, 4:30 p.m. “The Race of Nimble Fingers: Changing Patterns of Child Labor in South Africa’s Wine Industry,” an Anthropology colloquium with Susan Levine, University of Cape Town. 113 Greenhouse. HW Tues., Nov. 16, 4:15 p.m. “Pathways to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells: What We Can Learn by Watching Electrons Move in […]
Claremont Trio opens Music at Evergreen concert series
November 15, 2010
Johns Hopkins University’s Evergreen Museum & Library will open its 2010–2011 Music at Evergreen concert series on Saturday, Nov. 20, with a performance by the renowned Claremont Trio at 3 p.m. in the intimate setting of the museum’s Bakst Theatre. Featured on the program will be Frank Martin’s Piano Trio on Irish Folk Tunes, Shostakovich’s […]
Calendar — November 8, 2010
November 8, 2010
COLLOQUIA Tues., Nov. 9, 4:15 p.m. “The Chemistry and Biology of Subglutinols A and B,” a Chemistry colloquium with Jiyong Hong, Duke University. 233 Remsen. HW Wed., Nov. 10, 3:30 p.m. “Dust Formation and Evolution in Core-Collapse Supernovae: Clues to Understanding the Dust Content of Early Galaxies,” an STSci colloquium with Geoff Clayton, Louisiana State […]