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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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Professor Maya Boutaghou, White Tongue, Brown Skin. The Colonized Woman and Language

On February 10, 2025, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative hosted Professor Maya Boutaghou (Department of French, University of Virginia) on the occasion of the publication of…

August 4, 2025

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New York Times Columnist Carlo Lozada in Conversation with Paul Elie

On March 13, 2025, the Journalism Program and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative welcomed Carlo Lozada, columnist for the New York Times, in conversation with Paul Elie, Senior…

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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Dr. Stefano Serafini joins the Georgetown Humanities Initiative as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellow

The Georgetown Humanities Initiative welcomed Dr. Stefano Serafini, the recipient of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Fellowship, the flagship postdoctoral research…

August 4, 2025

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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