The Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore presents Kathrin Thiele
and Birgit Kaiser for a two-day workshop titled “The Human.”

On Tuesday, November 7, 2017 a workshop features Profs. Kathrin Thiele and Birgit M. Kaiser bringing together three short pieces

• Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (2017) – Introduction
• Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (2017) – Terra
• “What What is Species Memory? Or, Humanism, Memory and the Afterlives of ‘1492’” (Parallax 23:4 (2017): 403-415, DOI: 10.1080/13534645.2017.1374510)

as well as excerpts from Sylvia Wynter’s “The Ceremony Found” (2015)

This workshop also has graduate students Samanda Robinson (English) and Tvrtko Vrdoljak (Political Science) as panel respondents. Panels meet at 5pm in Gilman 388.

This event is sponsored by the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality.