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California Against the Sea: a conversation with LA Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia

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The seminar on the Literature of the Sea welcomes Rosanna Xia, award-winning environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Xia will lead a conversation about her book California Against the […]

Eric Schott, Re-framing the ecology of Baltimore Harbor

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Eric Schott, Associate Research Professor at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technoloy (IMET) and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science will give a talk in the JHU […]

Cecilia Vicuña: Fawn Being (Baltimore Museum of Art)

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Thursday, September 25 4:30–6:00 pm Baltimore Museum of Art | BMA Auditorium  Experience an unforgettable evening with celebrated artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña as she leads a participatory performance and reads from her […]

“Atlantic Shapeshifters”: A Talk and Workshop with Allison Glassie

Ali Glassie will visit the Literature of the Sea seminar to lecture from a book-in-progress, “Atlantic Shapeshifters: Sea Literature’s Fluid Forms.” Gilman Hall, Room 219. 10:30am–12pm. This is an “open […]

“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker

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Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”  This event […]

Ocean Culture

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Research Professor Harris Feinsod was featured in the spring issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine, discussing his work in blue humanities and the Tidewater Initiative. Read the article.

Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod

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The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly accessible. […]

Celebrating & Honoring the Life & Literature of John Barth

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On April 6, 2025, The Tidewater Initiative was pleased to participate in a memorial for John Barth, groundbreaking and prolific author, revered teacher, and professor emeritus in The Writing Seminars […]

Nadia Nurhussein edits a new edition of The Pedro Gorino

Book cover for The Pedro Gorino, by Harry Foster Dean and Sterling North, edited by Nadia Nurhussein. B&W image of a small sloop under sail.

Nadia Nurhussein has just published a critical edition of Captain Harry Foster Dean’s memoirThe Pedro Gorino, originally co-authored with Sterling North in 1929. Read more about it on the publisher’s […]