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YOUNG ADULT
Raised in internment
Published Fall 2018
Young adult novel focuses on how global events irrevocably change young people already spinning in the tornadoes of adolescence / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Poetry
Literary excision
Published Fall 2018
In her seventh collection of poems, alum Elizabeth Spires uses words with sparing potency / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Dora Malech
Q+A
Talking with Dora Malech
Published Fall 2018
Poet Dora Malech on experimenting with form and language, working with young writers, and how language shapes what we know and how we feel / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Guilherme Andreas
Music
Wherever the woodwind takes him
Published Fall 2018 Video
Since Peabody alum Guilherme Andreas began playing flute when he was 12, he's been practicing, competing, and succeeding ever since / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Q+A
Speaking with Elizabeth Spires
Published Sept 4, 2018
In advance of her talk at the Ivy Bookshop this week, Spires discusses her newest poetry collection
A handwritten travel permit
History
Race and rights
Published Aug 30, 2018 Video
In her new book, 'Birthright Citizens,' historian Martha Jones explores slavery and freedom in antebellum Baltimore
Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Common read
An activist's history
Published Aug 29, 2018
First-year students read, discuss Jo Ann Gibson Robinson's memoir 'The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It'
Rene Girard
Q+A
The mysterious nature of desire
Published Aug 8, 2018
Biographer Cynthia Haven examines the life of René Girard, who helped shape the humanities at Hopkins and around the world
Thomas Dolby
CONCERT
Thomas Dolby and the frontier of music
Published Aug 3, 2018 Video
As his summer tour winds down, Thomas Dolby talks performing, composing, and his 35-year career as a musical pioneer
A student speaks at a workshop
Humanities Lab
Published July 26, 2018
Summer program deepens humanities research for CCBC, HBCU students