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Gilman Hall
Humanities
Hopkins announces inaugural Humanities Research Symposium
Published Oct 25, 2019
The symposium, to be held in April and named in honor of humanities scholar Richard Macksey, will welcome up to 400 undergrads from around the country to JHU for an exploration of humanities research
Illustration of a library on a computer
JHU Press releases 100 open access books
Published Oct 23, 2019
In celebration of National Open Access Week, JHU Press releases 100 hard-to-find, out-of-print scholarly titles
Ballroom performer in book costume struts on the catwalk
Arts+Culture
Ballroom glitz
Published Oct 14, 2019 Video
Performers battled, catwalked, and vogued at the George Peabody Library, a grand venue for an event that honored the nearly century-old tradition of the ballroom community
Richard White tuba player
Film
R.A.W. emotion
Published Oct 1, 2019
'R.A.W. Tuba' documents the journey of tubist and Peabody graduate Richard Antoine White from Baltimore's streets to the symphony
A singer performs at the inaugural Billie Holiday Jazz Festival
ARTS
Project combines art, history, scholarly research, and community outreach
Published Sept 20, 2019
Lawrence Jackson's Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts aims to document the history of African American life in Baltimore and foster intellectual ties between the university and the community
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
Students examine African artifacts
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
Illustration of aesthetically pleasing rooms
Beauty and the Brain
Published Fall 2019 Video
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
Devika Bhise as Lakshmibai
Cinema
Film's warrior queen
Published Fall 2019 Video
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
Photo of tubes containing pink liquid in a dark room
Exhibition
This artwork is alive
Published Fall 2019
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