Event Series JHU Early Closure

JHU Early Closure

Early Closure Schedule: Faculty and staff of the Krieger School may leave at noon on the following dates to get an early start on holiday breaks. As usual, if there are priority projects that need to get done, supervisors have the discretion to allow staff to use this time on another more convenient day. 2023 […]

Event Series JHU Early Closure

JHU Early Closure

Early Closure Schedule: Faculty and staff of the Krieger School may leave at noon on the following dates to get an early start on holiday breaks. As usual, if there are priority projects that need to get done, supervisors have the discretion to allow staff to use this time on another more convenient day. 2023 […]

Event Series JHU Early Closure

JHU Early Closure

Early Closure Schedule: Faculty and staff of the Krieger School may leave at noon on the following dates to get an early start on holiday breaks. As usual, if there are priority projects that need to get done, supervisors have the discretion to allow staff to use this time on another more convenient day. 2023 […]

Josephine Quinn Talk and Q&A

The Classics Department welcomes Josephine Crawley Quinn, Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics at Worcester College, University of Oxford, as she reads from her paradigm-shifting book How the World Made the West: a 4,000-Year History followed by Q&A about cultural interactions, history, or even how to reach wider publics through our scholarly work. […]

Lecture by Rhiannon Graybill, “Landscape, Garden, Monster”

Gilman Hall, Room 17 3400 North Charles Street, Gilman Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Rethinking the Female Body in the Hebrew Bible The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies presents Dr. Rhiannon Graybill of the University of Richmond The Hebrew Bible is filled with peculiar, striking metaphorical representations of THE female body. A woman is (like) a land or landscape. At the same time, the land […]

Classics Lecture: Pierre Destrée

Professor Pierre Destrée (University of Louvain) gives a talk titled "On the Value of Comedy. Aristotle and the Second Book of the Poetics" in Gilman 108. Abstract: "This paper attempts to reconstruct the main points of the lost Poetics II on comedy. I will argue that there is no reason to think that, contrary to the […]

AIA Kershaw Lecture: Shane Thompson

The Baltimore Society of The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) welcomes Shane Thompson (North Carolina Wesleyan University) for a talk titled "Egyptian Conceptions and Manifestations of Borders and Cultural Hegemony in the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant." The talk will take place in Gilman Hall 50.

Boshell Lecture Series: In the Ancient Artist’s Presence: Sanchita Balachandran

Sanchita Balachandran, Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum Conservation Institute, will give a talk at the Walters Art Museum on Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 6–7:30pm. Registration for event here. About the Speaker Sanchita Balachandran is Director of the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute, the center for technical research and conservation for all Smithsonian museums and collections. […]