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Chris Lebron
Q+A
Talking with Chris Lebron
Published Winter 2017
Philosophy professor talks teaching philosophy via a social movement, radical art, and James Baldwin's idea of love / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Hollis Robbins
Q+A
Talking with Hollis Robbins
Published Winter 2017
In Hollis Robbins' view, 19th-century women were writing about the central issues of their time and ours: liberty, democracy, equality, and citizenship / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Alice McDermott
Literature
Alice McDermott's notable novel
Published Nov 30, 2017
Author's eighth novel, 'The Ninth Hour,' among New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017
Frederick Douglass
History project
Mapping Frederick Douglass
Published Nov 27, 2017
Students in Johns Hopkins graduate seminar research, visit regional sites of significance in young slave's life
An image is projected on a screen showing a hilltop vineyard with a blue net cascading in the wind. In the lower left corner of the image, there is the silhouette of a man with thick glasses
ART
Teju Cole, on seeing
Published Nov 8, 2017
Author, 'New York Times Magazine' photography critic discusses vision, art in President's Reading Series talk
Al Gore stands in a small wooden building and speaks to two people
Al Gore: Students can play 'huge part' in today's climate movement
Published Oct 27, 2017 Video
Students watch follow-up to 'An Inconvenient Truth,' participate in live Q&A with former vice president
Tracy Smith stands at a podium and speaks
Turnbull Lecture
On the power and mystique of metaphor
Published Oct 25, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith, the U.S. Poet laureate, visits Johns Hopkins
This page spread shows, in heavily illuminated and painted script, images of Christ on the cross, plants, animals, and Mary
Exhibits
Curators' picks from 'Bibliomania'
Published Oct 19, 2017
Peabody exhibit shares 'rare and curious' items collected over the course of the library's 150 years
Christopher Cannon
Interdisciplinary scholars
Medieval scholar named BDP
Published Oct 18, 2017 Video
He receives appointments in Krieger School's departments of English, Classics
A man stares seriously out from this portrait; he clasps his hands with interlaced fingers and bends his left hand backwards; his skin is in a gray tone; he wears a white tee shirt and a color hat topped with flowers
Visual art
Amy Sherald to speak at JHU
Published Oct 16, 2017
Baltimore artist known for striking portraits of African-Americans was recently commissioned to paint official portrait of Michelle Obama