Past Events

Health, Medicine, & Civil Unrest

by pendari • January 31, 2021

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Register here. NEW: Preliminary schedule of events: pdf. NEW: Conference Visitor Packet: pdf Please direct any questions or inquiries to hopkinsmedicalhumanities@gmail.com. In lieu of a registration fee, please donate to the East Baltimore Historical Library. Visit http://www.fusiongroup.org/donate and click donate. Click “add special instructions to the seller” and type “East Baltimore […]


One Health Care Community One Book

by Jon Ortiz • January 19, 2021

A year-long celebration of reading One Health Care Community One Book proposes to engage members of Johns Hopkins Medicine in a year-long celebration of reading and discussing one story. “Fidelity,” our inaugural year 2019-2020 “Fidelity,” by Wendell Berry, award-winning author of the National Humanities Medal,  is a beautifully written story about the struggle of a […]


Medicine and Emotion: Empathy and Beyond

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

THIS EVENT IS PODSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19. MORE INFORMATION WILL BE POSTED HERE SOON. West Reading Room, Welch Medical Library, 1900 East Monument Street Free event, open to all Sponsored by the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine The last decade saw the blending of emotion theories and scientific inquiry. Once considered to belong […]


Precision and Uncertainty in a World of Data: Reading Group

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Welch Library Building, Room 303 More details to come.


Race and Health in the Classroom with Alexandre White & Iro Filippaki

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Welch Library Building, Room 303 POSTPONEMENT OF 11/30 SESSION: RACE AND HEALTH IN THE CLASSROOM. The session is rescheduled for January 2019, with the purpose of fostering conversation amongst interdisciplinary tutors of race, health, and gender. More information on session content will be uploaded here. Any suggestions or comments, please email afilipp6@jhmi.edu


Symposium: Medical Humanities in Policy and Practice

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Mergenthaler 111, Homewood Campus in collaboration with the Concentration on Medicine, Science, & Humanities  


Media & Monsters: Two Centuries of Frankensteins

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Parkway Theatre In collaboration with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute For more information, or higher resolution, see the pdf.


The Work of Diagnosis: Medical Concepts in Social Life

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Welch Library Building, Room 303 In collaboration with the Department of Anthropology  


30th Anniversary of “Seize Control of the FDA”

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sommer Hall In collaboration with the Office of Public Health Practice and Training   A webcast on October 11, 2018 from 4-5:30 p.m. Introduction: Joshua M. Sharfstein, MDVice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement Professor of the Practice Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Panel: A Landmark […]


The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Lessons for the Future

by Jon Ortiz • January 12, 2021

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Sheldon Hall In collaboration with Berman Institute of Bioethics