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Fall 2025 Katrina@20 Symposium – Recoveries, Resistances, and Remembrances: An Environmental Justice and Public Humanities Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of Flooding of New Orleans

August 2025 marks the 20 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans, Louisiana. A steering committee of Georgetown faculty will host a national…

August 7, 2025

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2025 Voices on the Environment: “Writing Climate Symposium”

Hosted by the Lannan Center, the Earth Commons, Climate Rights International, and Georgetown Humanities Initiative from March 25 to 27, the symposium explored the intersection of…

August 4, 2025

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“Storytelling and Spectacle in an Age of Populism”

On March 19, 2025, Professor Guy Spielmann (Department of French and Francophone Studies), organized and moderated the panel “Storytelling and Spectacle in an Age of”,…

August 4, 2025

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“What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI?” Series

On March 26, 2025, the Medical Humanities Initiative contributed to the series with the panel “Signs, Systems, Stories: Diagnosis & Being Human in the Age of AI,” organized…

August 4, 2025

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GHI Collaborative Projects

Gardens of Hope: Food, Justice, and Urban Agriculture in Post-Katrina New Orleans On March 13, 2025, the “Katrina@20. Recoveries, Resistances, and Revolutions”,…

August 4, 2025

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American Studies Research Showcase

On February 4th, Georgetown Humanities, in collaboration with the American Studies Program, hosted the American Studies Senior Research showcase. Seniors in the program gathered…

August 4, 2025

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2025 GRAPHSY – Graduate Portuguese and Spanish Symposium “Emotions, feelings, and affects”

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative was one of the sponsors of the 17th Graduate Portuguese and Hispanic Symposium, which took place on February 14,.…

August 4, 2025

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Prof. Catherine Liu, “The Political Gets Personal”

On February 20, 2025, the student-run Lecture Fund partnered with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the talk “The Political Gets Personal: Professorial Managerial Class…

August 4, 2025

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Professor Anne O’Neil-Henry’s Book Manuscript Workshop:

On June 2, 2025, Professor Anne O’Neil-Henry (Department of French and Francophone Studies), one of the 2024-25 GHI grant recipients, convened a workshop on her book in.…

August 4, 2025

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“What Makes Us Human in the Age of AI?” Series

On October 30, Prof. Will Fleisher (Department of Philosophy; Center for Digital Ethics) in his talk "Why Should We Care About Understanding AI?" explored ethical questions…

November 9, 2024