In its first meeting of the semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) reflected on the Fall 2016 semester and outlined some of its plans for this semester in the Charles Commons Barber Conference Room on Tuesday.
Twenty-six faculty from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health wrote a letter to President Trump urging him not to sign an executive order severely restricting the United States refugee program. Hours after the letter’s publication, Trump officially signed the executive order, which bans travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries and indefinitely bans Syrian refugees.
In December 2016, junior Christian Cholish and senior Nadya Kronis relaunched Argot, an undergraduate anthropological research journal which examines the role of anthropology in relation to the humanities, and other sciences across various mediums. Cholish and Kronis, who are both anthropology majors, serve as co-editors of the journal.
A protest against President Trump’s recent executive orders was held on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Edward A. Garmatz United States Courthouse. A couple hundred protesters gathered in front of the Thurgood Marshall statue and then marched along Hopkins Place and W. Lombard St. towards the Inner Harbor.
Baltimore native Barbara Mikulski joined the U.S. Senate for the Democratic Party in 1976 and went on to become the longest-serving woman in Congressional history. She is also the longest-serving Maryland Senator.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) announced today that Nadya Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, will be the first speaker of its spring series, "Undercurrent." Tolokonnikova, a radical feminist and anti-fascist activist, will speak in Shriver Hall at 7 p.m. on Feb. 1.
The University placed Trent Bertrand, an adjunct professor in the Economics department, on paid leave Monday, Dec. 5, following complaints that he had created a “hostile environment” in the classroom. Bertrand, whose contract is renewed annually, has taught International Trade for the past six years.
As students finish finals, the Office of the Registrar begins to sift through thousands of course evaluation surveys.
Since the spring of 2015, Flash Seminars have provided a platform for students and professors to explore intellectual themes outside the pressure of the classroom.
Over the past few months contract workers employed at the University have been caught in a battle for higher wages, greater job stability and equal housing benefits.
In Miami thousands of Cuban-Americans in the neighborhood of Little Havana took to the streets on Saturday, Nov. 26 and commemorated the death of a man that many view as a tyrant and others a liberator.
The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a resolution to support a proposal to make Hopkins a sanctuary campus at its weekly meeting in Charles Commons on Tuesday, Dec. 6. The resolution, presented by Senior Class Senator Jonathan Brown, passed with 21 votes in favor, four votes in opposition and one abstention.
New York University professor Sonya Posmentier previewed her most recent work in a reading titled “Black reconstruction and the Anthropocene” on Friday, Dec. 2. Posmentier stressed how important it is to challenge the American historical narrative, which she claims has been primarily determined by white men.
As the concluding event in the Department of Anthropology’s Fall 2016 Colloquium, Professor and Chair of the English Department Christopher Nealon gave a talk titled “Antihumanism and Anticapitalism,” on Tuesday, Dec. 6 in Mergenthaler Hall. In his lecture, Nealon explored the academic history of antihumanism and its application in fields ranging from politics to environmentalism.
The annual World AIDS Day dinner took place on Thursday in the Gilman Atrium. The event, which was presented by Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the Office of LGBTQ Life, aimed to disseminate more information about AIDS and its treatments while stressing the importance of destigmatizing the illness.
Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and journalist Dina Gilio-Whitaker spoke about their new book, “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse last Friday.
In the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election, many Americans have started to question the stability of the U.S. Constitution during the upcoming Trump presidency.
Another demonstration against the potential closure of the Humanities Center (HC) took place last Thursday outside Brody Learning Commons.
The Hopkins chapter of Global China Connection hosted a regional conference focusing on the rise of China, the domestic and international challenges that the Chinese communist leadership faces and the changing geopolitics of the East Asian region. The six-hour event featured experts in international studies, geopolitics and international affairs as well as student research presentations. The conference took place on Saturday in Hodson Hall.
