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2024-25 Georgetown Humanities Initiative Grant Recipients
Congratulations to the AY 2024-25 grant awardees, who received support for collaborative activities, individual research, and book manuscript workshops and were featured at the…
October 25, 2024
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Prof. Ana Lucia Araujo, Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery
On October 22, the Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies hosted Prof. Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard U.) presenting her new book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of…
October 23, 2024
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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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- Student Stories
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