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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
Jed Gaylin holds a baton mid-conducting
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra
Timeless music, time-honored venue
Published Oct 12, 2017
With renovations ongoing at Shriver Hall, HSO's search for new performance space leads to old favorite
Sabrina Bouarour
Film
Baltimore's unrest, through a Parisian's lens
Published Sept 29, 2017
One-time Johns Hopkins visiting scholar Sabrina Bouarour puts final touches on documentary exploring the imagery of Baltimore's 2015 protests
Salman Rushdie, dressed in a gray suit and striped shirt, holds open a hard cover copy of his book, The Golden House, and speaks into a podium microphone
President's Reading Series
Salman Rushdie's turn to realism
Published Sept 27, 2017
Acclaimed British-Indian author talks writing, politics at Johns Hopkins
A man gives a talk while a motion picture is projected on a screen behind him
Materials science
Arts, to the extreme
Published Sept 21, 2017
HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts program brings faculty, students together to translate research on extreme events in new and creative ways
Grid of headshots of MSE lineup
MSE Symposium
50th anniversary lineup revealed
Published Sept 20, 2017
John Kasich, Joy Ann Reid, Hasan Minhaj, leaders of the Women's March will visit JHU for student-run speaker series
Authors include: (top row, from left) Salman Rushdie, Mary Jo Salter, Andrew Motion; (center row, from left) Tracy K. Smith, Teju Cole, Alice McDermott; (bottom row, from left) Katharine Noel, and Yiyun Li
President's Reading Series
8 notable authors to visit Homewood
Published Sept 12, 2017
Program begins Sept. 26 with reading from novelist Salman Rushdie