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California Against the Sea: a conversation with LA Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]