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Humanities in the Village at Bird in Hand: Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa: PUBLIC FEMINISM IN TIMES OF CRISIS (with Dora Malech)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

You're invited to the first 2025 event of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. January's event features Jennifer Stager and Leila Easa, co-authors of Public Feminism in Times of...

Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik: I KNOW ABOUT A THOUSAND THINGS (with Emma Snyder)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

Bird in Hand is honored to welcome beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye, and Baltimore's own Marion Winik in an event for their co-edited volume I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas. This volume is both a work of high intellect and a...

Ruth Franklin: THE MANY LIVES OF ANNE FRANK

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

Acclaimed biographer Ruth Franklin visits Bird in Hand to discuss her fresh vantage point on the life of Anne Frank in this much-anticipated event! Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, The Many Lives of Anne Frank chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II...

Stephen J. Campbell: LEONARDO DA VINCI: AN UNTRACEABLE LIFE (with Elizabeth Cropper)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

To what extent does a historical figure become a myth over time? In this original and provocative book, Stephen Campbell examines the strangeness of Leonardo da Vinci’s words and works, and considers how our image of the Renaissance’s most famous artist is a modern myth. It is a...

Bird in Hand presents… with JHU Medicine, Science, and the Humanities: Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science, featuring Julia Cummiskey

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book. For the first event in February, we are delighted to welcome Julia Cummiskey to share her book Virus Research...