CQ Around Town
2023-2024 Events
Racism and Repair Conference
Over the past three years, research teams funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and composed of leading experts have been excavating how academic departments in the medical sciences, social sciences, and humanities at Johns Hopkins University both created racist forms of knowledge and expertise and were reshaped by anti-racist and desegregation struggles in the 20th century.
This symposium will mark the first public presentation of the findings of these research teams. It will contextualize segregated knowledge production in the history of Baltimore City and propose forms of reparation while also inviting community feedback.
What is Repair Panelist for First Years
Monday, December 4th @ 4:30-6:30 (60-75 minute program, followed by pizza)
Panelists:
- Tom Brown, Head of the Hubble Mission Office
- Julia Roman-Duval, Hubble Project Scientist
- Shani Mott, Faculty in the Center for Africana Studies
- Sheharyar Imran, PhD candidate, Political Science
- Cleo Bluthenthal, Undergraduate Senior, Public Health Studies
What is Repair at the Space Telescope Science Institute?
Details tba.
Collective Photo Essay
We invite you to look for signs of repair wherever you are now and join the conversation. Submit your photos here.
Democracy Day
August 26th. Read the Hub recap here.
2022-2023 Events
Common Question makes its OrcaTV debut
Winter 2022
Senator Barbara Mikulski and “The Unexpected Route”
CQ + First-Year Seminars: The Right to the City and Words in Public
Wednesday, October 26, Mason Hall
Democracy Day: New Student Orientation
Saturday, August 26, 2022
2021-2022 Events
What is progress in mathematics? – CQ x Mathematics Department
Wednesday, April 20, Mudd 26
“What I would do there is nothing. I’d just sit there. And although I felt a bit guilty about how incongruous it seemed. . .it really did feel necessary, like a survival tactic. ” – Jenny Odell, “how to do nothing”
Wednesday, April 13, on the Breezeway
“The CQ team throws out a question so big that even the faculty can’t answer it with all their research and Google at their disposal, so they have to sit down with students and discuss it.” – Zandy Wong, TEDx Talk about the Common Question
“Show The Way You Grow” – Pop-Up Paper Garden
Friday, February 25 from 12-2pm in front of Brody Café
“There’s no best-practice handbook for the pursuit of unlikely dreams.” – DESSA Pop-Up Listening Party
Thursday, November 11 at 5:00PM in front of Gilman Hall.
Senator Mikulski Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion
Saturday, November 2nd at 7:00PM at the Space Science Telescope Institute.
Hostile Terrain Exhibit
CQ Partnership with the Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibit in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/11/15/hostile-terrain-migrant-exhibit/
Common Question National Coming Out Day Celebration
Monday, October 11 from 12:00 – 2:00PM in front of Charles Commons.
“It all Became Space:” Physics and Poetry in Dialogue
Thursday, October 7th from 4:30 – 6:00PM in Mudd Hall.
“What is progress?” – CQCs with First-Year Students and Hopkins Staff
October 3 – 14
“What happens now determines what happens to the rest of the world.” – Black Panther at the Parkway
Thursday, September 30 6:00 – 9:00PM at the SNF Parkway Theatre.
“What is Progress?” Faculty Panel for New Student Orientation
Wednesday, August 25 from 10:00 – 11:00AM
Speakers Include:
Diedre Dawkins – Peabody Dance
Alison Papadakis – Psychological and Brain Sciences
James West – Electrical and Computer Engineering
2020-2021 Events
Dead Stars Salon: A CQ Reading Before the Reading
Thursday, April 1 at 5:15PM prior to Ada Límon reading in the Writing Seminars Reading Series. Register here.
PDF Document: Download invite.
Women in STEM Symposium, Women of Whiting Mentor & Mingle
April 2021
Common Question Conversations led by faculty from the Krieger, Whiting, and Peabody schools
Throughout Fall 2020 & Spring 2021. Upcoming dates: March 18-28.
Science Writing in the Public Sphere: A Discussion with Ross Andersen, Deputy Editor, The Atlantic
Presented by Triple Helix and Common Question
Sunday, February 21 at 6PM EST. Register here.
What is the common good? Hopkins faculty address this year’s Common Question
Presentation by Kelly Barry (Center for Student Success), Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky, (Expository Writing), & Aliza Watters (Expository Writing)
Sunday, January 31 at 7PM EST. Watch here.
Setting the Artist Free: Arts, Humanities, and the Common Good
A conversation between Atesede Makonnen (English) and Andrew Motion (Writing Seminars)
Tuesday, January 19 at 12PM EST. Watch here.
Democracy, Inclusion, and the Path to Empowerment:
a conversation with President Ron Daniels and Dr. Martha S. Jones (History)
Presented by Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemoration & Hopkins at Home
Wednesday, August 26 at 7PM EDT. Watch here.
The Woman’s Hour: an interview with Elaine Weiss
Presented by Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemoration & Hopkins at Home
Wednesday, August 19 at 7PM EDT.
New Student Orientation CQ Conversation Faculty Panels
Including professors Jason Eisner (Computer Science), Rigoberto Hernandez (Chemistry), Linda DeLibero (Film & Media Studies), & Daniel Foster (Peabody)
Thursday, August, 13 at 10AM and 8PM EDT
Curiosity, Conversation, and the Intellectual Life of the University
Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky, Expository Writing
JHU Center for Talented Youth webinar speaker series,
Thursday, August 6 at 12PM EDT. Watch here.
Featured in…
Krieger Arts & Sciences Magazine
“First-Year Students Ask Deep Questions“
Magazine Staff, Fall 2020
