Category: Humanities News from Around the University
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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 and…
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 cultural memory…
April 30, 2024
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World-Renowned Author Explores Questions of Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Keynote Lecture
Amitav Ghosh, the world-renowned and award-winning writer, spoke in Gaston Hall as part of the ongoing Voices on the Environment. …
March 3, 2023
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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship
A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave trade. “As historians, we…
December 15, 2021
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New College Faculty for 2020-2021
Georgetown College is pleased to welcome 24 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in 16 College departments and programs. This cohort will help enrich the…
December 15, 2021
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Medical Humanities Minor Launched by University
The Georgetown Medical Humanities Program, a cross-campus collaboration among Georgetown College, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Georgetown University Medical,…
December 15, 2021