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2023 ADE/ADL Summer Seminar “Centering the Humanities”
The topic “Centering the Humanities” fostered discussions about humanities responses to current social and pedagogical challenges; strategies to connect the humanities to the…
June 5, 2023
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David Pickel: A Renaissance Man for Roman Italy
David Pickel joined the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the 2022-2023 academic year as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices postdoctoral fellow. …
April 26, 2023
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Amitav Ghosh at 2023 Voices on the Environment
Amitav Ghosh is the internationally-recognized author of The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Nutmeg’s Curse, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the…
March 31, 2023
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Global Humanities Series “Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities”
On February 22, 2023, “Scholars and Migrants Working Together: Activism Across Borders” involved a conversation with two language and migration scholars who have been working…
March 28, 2023
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Humanities Faculty Work in Progress
On March 23, 2023, Prof. Huaping Lu-Adler (Department of Philosophy) presented her current research project “Scholarship and (Anti-)Racism—Lessons from Studying Immanuel…
March 24, 2023
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New Humanities Work in Global Justice Book Talks
As the first of a new series of Zoom book talks on “New Work in Global Justice,” on March 15, 2023, Georgetown Humanities welcomed Madhumita Lahiri (English and…
March 16, 2023
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Non-Academic Professional Opportunities for Humanities Ph.D. Students
A panel on February 1st, 2023, explored alternative careers in professional associations and federal agencies in education. Victoria Sams (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature,. …
March 2, 2023
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Book Manuscript Workshop Grants
After featuring Professor Bradley Gorski in our Fall 2022 issue, we are now delighted to showcase another recipient of a GHI Book Manuscript Workshop Grant–Professor Amani…
January 20, 2023
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Global Humanities Seminar Series “Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities”
Thanks to a grant from the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Initiative for Multilingual Studies organized the year…
December 16, 2022
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Professor Julia Watts Belser launches “Disability and Climate Change: A Public Archive Project”
We are thrilled to announce the completion of the first project sponsored by a Georgetown Humanities Initiative Booster Grant, sponsoring interdisciplinary humanistic research…
December 16, 2022