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Arts+Culture

A child looks out the door window from the room he is staying in at the Brownsville, Texas port of entry

Detention camps, in their own words

Published Sept 17, 2019

Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship hosts teach-in discussion of historic and modern day concentration camps

Illustration of aesthetically pleasing rooms

Beauty and the Brain

Published Fall 2019

The Johns Hopkins International Arts + Mind Lab is working to advance the emerging field of neuroaesthetics, our biological response to art, dance, music, and architecture / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Cinema

Film's warrior queen

Published Fall 2019

After an illness threatened to sideline her film project, alum Devika Bhise took control of the independent biopic and brought the Indian revolutionary Lakshmibai to life / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Behind the scenes

Published Fall 2019

Students from Johns Hopkins and Goucher are curating an exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art focusing on African art / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Nonfiction

Review: Narges Bajoghi's 'Iran Reframed'

Published Fall 2019

This vital work of media scholarship explores how the Iranian regime communicates with the public—and the stories that emerge from propaganda / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Nonfiction

Book review: Katrin Pahl's 'Sex Changes with Kleist'

Published Fall 2019

Heinrich von Kleist was ahead of his time in his considerations of gender and theater / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Photo of tubes containing pink liquid in a dark room

Exhibition

PhD student Kiara Eldred has found herself at the center of an unlikely intersection: she's been growing complex retinal organoids from stem cells for an experimental art installation in Hong Kong / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Photography

Photographing America's back row

Published Fall 2019

In his book 'Dignity,' photographer Chris Arnade reckons with the decades of racism and economic forces that shaped the U.S. and its communities / Johns Hopkins Magazine