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Professor Verena Kick’s Book Manuscript Workshop: Photobook Politics – Materiality and Ideology in Germany 1918-1945

On October 19, Professor Verena Kick (Department of German), one of this year’s GHI grant recipients, convened a workshop on her book in progress Photobook Politics –…

October 19, 2024

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Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “Changing the Story: Narrative Ethics Meets Disability Bioethics”

On October 7, 2024, the Georgetown Disability Studies Program hosted the talk "Changing the Story: Narrative Ethics Meets Disability Bioethics" by Dr. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, …

October 8, 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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Participation in the Georgetown Global Dialogues

After two years at Georgetown, I have realized that there are two seemingly similar, but inherently contradictory, dynamics at the intersection of prestige, academia, and:…

August 6, 2024

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Ancient Echoes, Modern Reverberations: An Interview with Professor Claire Catenaccio on the Continuing Resonance of the Classics

In this interview, Georgetown Humanities Student Fellow Julian Zeitlinger interviews Professor Claire Catenaccio from the Department of Classics about Classical Reception, …

July 3, 2024

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Yogita Goyal, “Genres of Anticolonialism”

Prof. Goyal argued against influential narratives of failed states and failed genres to rethink the valence of anticolonial visions of revolution amid the pervasive sense of…

December 14, 2023

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Quelle voix pour les universitaires dans les débats sur les sujets de société?” A Conversation with Prof. Jennifer Tamas (Rutgers University)

A specialist of early modern French literature, Prof. Tamas has received remarkable attention in the media for her reexamination of the French canon through the female gaze,…

December 14, 2023

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Campbell Grey, “Locals, Leaders and the Reverberating Consequences of Disaster Intervention. Some Case Studies from the Late Roman World”

This talk by Prof. Campbell Grey (Department of Classical Studies and Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) engaged with recent scholarship in the…

December 14, 2023

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New Work in Global Justice Book Talks

The event was co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative, English Department, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, and the Initiative for U.S.-China…

December 14, 2023