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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

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“The Archival Impulse: From the Deep with Ayana V. Jackson”

On October 28, thanks to Professors J.R. Osborne (Communication, Culture, and Technology Program), Kwame Edwin Otu (African Anthropology, SFS), and Lahra Smith, Georgetown hosted…

October 29, 2024

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From Paris to the Hilltop, Jennifer Natalya Fink Examines the Fashion Industry Through a Green (Washed) Lens

This summer, Professor Jennifer Natalya Fink and artist Julie Laffin collaborated on a performance piece titled “Going (Paris) Green,” which examined greenwashing, toxicity…

September 26, 2024

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The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship Book Launch 

On September 20, the Georgetown Master of Arts in Engaged and Public Humanities and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative hosted a series of panels to celebrate the book launch of…

September 21, 2024

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2024 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Conference, “Romantic Insurrections/Counter-Insurrections

From August 15 to 18, Georgetown University hosted the 2024 North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) conference, “Romantic Insurrections/Counter,…

August 16, 2024

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Through Line: Novelist Jinwoo Chong (C’17) Celebrates a Banner Year

Jinwoo Chong (C’17) is setting the literary world ablaze. His debut novel, Flux, has been hailed as a “brain-bending pleasure,” “an imaginative exploration of how…

April 30, 2024