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# Speaker / Event Series

**Source**: https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/initiatives/speaker-event-series/
**Parent**: https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/

## Spring 2025: What Makes Podcasting Accessible?

*Free and open to the public*

Organized by Milan Terlunen (*How To Read; In Sacred Spaces*)

Are you an active podcaster or an enthusiastic listener? Are you curious about how podcasts can be a tool for improving access in teaching, research and other activities inside and outside the university?

If so, join us for a series of conversations about accessibility – in all the many senses that word can have – featuring podcasters from across Johns Hopkins and from other universities.

### Roundtables

For those attending in person, lunch will be provided starting at 12pm. The online program will begin at 12:30pm.

Please select the date(s) you wish to attend to register in advance for in-person or remote attendance.

### [Session 1](https://jhu.libcal.com/event/14088049)

**Thursday, February 27, 12-1:30pm**

**Location:** Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons**\**

#### Featured Speakers:

- Aaron Henkin (*Out of the Blocks; Playing God*)
- Shruti Jain, Le Li, Mamen Rodriguez Galindo, Lisa Yun (*SUNY Binghampton; Immigrants Wake America*)

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### [Session 2](https://jhu.libcal.com/event/14088064)

**Monday, March 10, 12-1:30pm**

**Location:** Carpenter Room B, Pinkard building, East Baltimore campus

#### Featured Speakers:

- Tamar Rodney (*On the Pulse*)
- Lindsay Smith Rogers (*Public Health on Call*)

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### [Session 3](https://jhu.libcal.com/event/14088118)

**Wednesday, March 26, 12-1:30pm**

**Location:** Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons**\**

#### Featured Speakers:

- Rahne Alexander (*The Hopkins Press Podcast*)
- Dylan Selterman (*A Bit More Complicated*)

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### [Session 4](https://jhu.libcal.com/event/14088124)

**Friday, April 11, 12-1:30pm**

**Location:** Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons

#### Featured Speakers:

- Robin McGinness (*Max Q*)
- Sarah Stern (*Indigenae Podcast*)
- Ulrich Baer (*NYU; Think About It; The Proust Questionnaire*)
- John Plotz (*Brandeis University; Recall This Book*)
- Matt Seybold (*Elmira College; The American Vandal*)

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## Spring 2024: TRANS CULTURAL PRODUCTION

### Free and open to the public

*Organized by Jo Giardini in collaboration with Siân Evans and Joseph Plaster*

*Co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute*

The Tabb Center’s spring 2024 speaker series highlights cultural production by trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists, writers, historians, poets, and musicians. Drawing on Special Collections materials and supporting collections development, it explores the aesthetic possibilities of artworks and literature, and their relationship to questions of community formation, selfhood, becoming, and the dialectic of history and futurity. Conversations with visiting artists and scholars will include discussions of institutional development, curation, and access, and will aim to engage wide audiences.

### Exploring Trans Archives

**Speakers**: Jo Giardini, Joseph Plaster, Siân Evans\
**Date and time**: February 27, 2:30-4:00pm\
**Location**: Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons M-Level\
3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Three Sheridan Libraries curators will discuss hand-selected objects from Special Collections, including trans oral histories, artist books, and zines. Brief talks will be followed by an opportunity to spend hands-on time with collections related to trans cultural production.

### At the Crossroads of Turk and Taylor: Trans Histories, Abolitionist Futures

**Speaker**: Susan Stryker\
**Date and time**: March 5, 5:00pm\
**Location**: Mudd Hall 26, 3400 N Charles St, Johns Hopkins University

Historian Susan Stryker links past, present and future in this exploration of the deep roots and transformative potentials of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

### LittlePuss Press and Trans Audiences

**Speakers**: Cat Fitzpatrick, Casey Plett\
**Date and time**: April 2, 7:00pm\
**Location**: Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21218

Authors and editors Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett will discuss their work with LittlePuss Press, a feminist press dedicated to trans authors and trans community. Conversation will focus on how LittlePuss’s editorial focus related to the history of trans publishing and writing, and efforts to nurture and document trans culture.

### We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

**Speakers**: Andrea Abi-Karam, Kay Gabriel\
**Date and time**: April 9, 7:00pm\
**Location**: Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Ave, Baltimore, MD 21218

​​Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel will discuss the work of assembling their anthology of radical trans poetics, and the relationship between the trans poetry they gather and material histories of trans activism, organizing, and emancipation. They will discuss their anthology’s relationship to other efforts to document trans perspectives–like oral history projects–and each read from their own recent volumes of poetry.

### Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects: Trans Criticism and Trans Culture

**Speakers**: Chris E. Vargas\
**Date and time**: April 18, 5:15pm\
**Location**: JHU Homewood Campus (3400 N. Charles St.)\
Krieger Hall 205

Vargas will discuss the new anthology Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, and its relation to his conceptual art project, the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art. Questions of how trans cultural production is best preserved, historicized, and documented will be explored, as will problems of institutionalization and access.

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## CURATING ARCHIVES Event Series

### Fall 2023

What does it mean to consider archival practice – a commitment to historical documentation and preservation – as an element of political radicalism? How might artists follow the peculiarities of the archive to activate new histories, coalitions, and forms of cultural memory? The Tabb Center’s fall series—an array of film screenings, panels, and talks—investigates the politics of historical memory and creative mobilizations of the archive.

Free and open to the public.

### Panel discussion: When Histories Collide

#### with Jackie Milad, Fred Wilson, and Nekisha Durrett, moderated by Lisa Corrin, followed by a public reception (@ BMA)

**Thurs, Sept 14, 6:30pm**

Organized in collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art, please join the Tabb Center for an evening of connection and conversation with artists Jackie Milad, Fred Wilson, and Nekisha Durrett prompted by Histories Collide, an exhibition that features new work by Durrett and Milad created in dialogue with Fred Wilson’s sculpture Artemis/Bast (1992). The conversation will be moderated by Lisa Graziose Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz Director of The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University.

[More information and free registration](https://artbma.org/event/panel-discussion-when-histories-collide/)

Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium\
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218

### Be(longing): Unveiling the Imprint of Black Women Hidden in Plain Sight

#### Art Installation by Nicoletta Darita de la Brown

**Tues, Nov 14 – Fri, Dec 1, 2023**

An installation that celebrates and honors Black women hidden in plain sight, based on Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow Darita de la Brown’s research in the Ethel Ennis, Billie Holiday, and Real PostCards collections at JHU Special Collections. Read more about the Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellowships at [the Libraries blog](https://blogs.library.jhu.edu/2022/11/announcing-the-tabb-center-public-humanities-fellows/).

The installation is free and open to the public from 10am-5pm on the following dates. The artist will periodically be activating the installation through performance:

- Tue 11/14-Fri 11/17
- Mon 11/20-Wed 11/22
- Sun 11/26-Fri 12/1

The George Peabody Library\
17 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202

### Nicoletta Darita de la Brown: Activating the Archive

**Tues, Nov 14, 12:00pm**

Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellow Darita de la Brown gives a public talk about her research in the Ethel Ennis, Billie Holiday, and Real PostCards collections at JHU Special Collections and her installation at the George Peabody Library. Read more about the Tabb Center Public Humanities Fellowships at the Libraries blog.

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons M-Level\
3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Tabb Center Director Joseph Plaster and panelists Jules Gill-Peterson and Chase Joynt at the Baltimore Art Museum, Feb 23 2023

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## CURATING ARCHIVES Event Series Spring 2023

Our spring series—an array of film screenings, panels, talks, and performances—investigated the politics of historical memory and the mobilization of archival collections.

### **Feb 23 6:30pm** **Screening of *Framing Agnes* (2022) followed by discussion with historian Jules Gill-Peterson and filmmaker Chase Joynt**

After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of trans actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.

View the [Framing Agnes trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q7qLz7o9jw&ab_channel=LevelGround).

Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium\
10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218

### **Mar 9 6:30pm** **Screening of *Into the Light: A Trip Through Baltimore Ballroom* (2021) and *FIRE!!* (2022) followed by panel with filmmakers and Baltimore ballroom leaders**

[*Into The Light*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4SScQUAoBM&ab_channel=StoryHut) (directed by Jason Gray and Kathryn Martin) follows ballroom performers as they prepare to compete at the inaugural Peabody ball in 2019. *FIRE!!*(produced by Ballroom Throwbacks) showcases performers at the 2022 Peabody ball. Both films highlight the work of the [Peabody Ballroom Experience](https://peabodyballroom.library.jhu.edu/), a collaborative effort to interpret Sheridan Libraries archives through runway and performance.

The George Peabody Library\
17 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202

### **Mar 28 noon** **SHAN Wallace, “I am called to mirror back”**

SHAN Wallace spoke about her growing archival practice as an [artist-in-residence at the Enoch Pratt Free Library](https://www.prattlibrary.org/artists-in-residence). Wallace is a nomadic award-winning visual artist, photographer, and educator from East Baltimore, MD. Much of Wallace’s work is focused on “the archive”–its development, the challenges of the modern archive, the “archive as artwork” and methods for ethically accumulating primary source documents. Learn more about Wallace via [her website](http://shanwallace.work/).

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons M-Level\
3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

Panel discussion with ballroom leaders after a screening of Into the Light: A Trip Through Baltimore Ballroom (2021) and FIRE!! (2022)

### **Apr 3 4:30pm** **Sandra Eder, “On the margins of the record: making sense of gender in the clinic”**

Sandra Eder spoke about her recent book, [*How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea*](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo156724705.html) (UChicago Press, 2022), and questions of method and sources for working in clinical and medical archives. *How the Clinic Made Gender* is a pivotal account of the relationship between American medical practice and popular conceptions of identity in the mid-20th century, and places particular focus on Johns Hopkins’ researchers attempts to standardize and enforce gender norms in work with intersex and trans individuals.

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons M-Level\
3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

### **Apr 19 noon** **Jeanne Vaccaro, “I wanted the world to see us: on what a photograph does”**

What tactile historical openings might a curatorial method of archiving yield? Thinking across trans visual culture and oral history, Jeanne Vaccaro presented work from her social and public practice. Vaccaro is a scholar and curator of contemporary art and public practice whose research and teaching endeavor to recalibrate art history’s norms and canons. Her book in process, *Handmade: feelings and textures of transgender*, considers the felt labor of making identity.

Macksey Seminar Room, Brody Learning Commons M-Level\
3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21218

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## The Engaged Humanities Speaker Series: Fall 2019

A strong “public turn” within universities has been rekindling interest in community-based learning, cross-disciplinary alliances, and participatory approaches to research-creation. Academic institutions increasingly approach their neighbors as partners in research and not simply objects of study. The “Engaged Humanities” speaker series highlighted this shift in academic research from knowing *about* to knowing *with*, focusing on initiatives through which communities and universities work collaboratively to frame research questions, project design, and interpretation, with the goal of generating social change. More information about the series [here](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/engaged-humanities-speaker-series-fall-2019-registration-65124485088).

Dr. Lawrence Brown, Morgan State University, delivers “Engaging Communities as an Embedded Researcher"

Poster for the 2019 Engaged Humanities Speaker Series

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## Past Lectures

Andrea Jenkins and Dr. Myrl Beam, “Building Power Through Documenting Trans Oral Histories,” December 3, 2022, Bird in Hand Café.

Dr. Jeffrey Brooks, “Resilience and Russian Culture: The Censors Just Couldn’t Win,” April 20, 2022.

Dr. Lawrence Brown, Morgan State University, School of Community Health and Policy, “Engaging Communities as an Embedded Researcher,” Sept 17, 2019.

Dr. Brett Stoudt, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Researching at the Community-University Borderlands: Using Public Science to Study Policing in the South Bronx,” Oct 11, 2019.

Dr. Stéphane Martelly, “What Does Sharing Authority Mean? Reinventing Memories and Traces Through Oral History,” Oct 23, 2019.

Dr. Nicole King, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, on the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture, “Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition,” Nov 20, 2019.

Rebecca Brown, “The Intimate Archive: Aerograms and Almirahs,” Tuesday, April 23, 2019, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Nadia Nurhussein, Samanda Robinson, and Jarvis Young, “The Movements of Black Print Culture in the United States, 1773-1940,” Tuesday, February 12, 2019, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Martha Jones, “Birthright Citizenship and the Politics of Early Black Baltimore” Thursday, February 7 2019, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Jo Briggs, “Downfall of the Exhibition: Ephemera and Opposition at the Crystal Palace,” March 7, 2018, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Dorothy Kim, “Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, and Social Justice,” February 22, 2018, Brody Learning Commons 4040

Deborah Willis, “Locating the Self-Portrait in Postcard and Photobooth Imagery,” February 7, 2018, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Shane Butler, “Dante’s Mask: Queer Surfaces in the Books of John Addington Symonds,” March 7, 2017, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Adam Smyth (Balliol College, Oxford), Title: “‘Tatters Allegorical’: Reading and Not Reading Printed Waste in Early Modern Books” Tuesday, September 19, 2015, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Elizabeth Archibald, “Ask the Past: Learning from the George Peabody Library,” Wednesday, October 7, 2015, Homewood Campus, Brody Learning Commons Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Nicholas Smith, “An Actor’s Library: David Garrick, Book Collecting and Literary Friendships,” Monday, October 26, 2015, Macksey Room, Brody Learning Commons M-level

Nathan Connolly, “More than Pictures: Incorporating Visual Sources into Historical Narratives,” February 19, 2013, BLC 5015/5017

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## Sidebar

### Featured Initiatives

- [Trans Histories Lab](https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/initiatives/trans-histories-lab/)
- [Stories of Displacement](https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/initiatives/stories-of-displacement/)
- [Edible Book Festival](https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/edible-book-festival/)
- [Speaker / Event Series](https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/initiatives/speaker-event-series/)
- [Student Learning](https://tabbcenter.library.jhu.edu/initiatives/student-learning/)

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