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Spotlight on Humanities Pedagogy: Dr. Ayten Tartici’s “Hyphenated Americans”
Offered through Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies, and the Department of English, Dr. Ayten Tartici's course “Hyphenated Americans” focuses on contemporary…
July 16, 2021
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The Footnote – A New Blog
Four brilliant Georgetown graduate students created The Footnote, which celebrates the intellectual spectrum of higher education by uniting as many thinkers as possible in one…
July 13, 2021
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Public Writing: Translating Humanities Insights into Writing that Makes a Difference
Because much of students’ work after college or graduate school will be in written forms, this course aims to help students succeed by helping them develop the ability to…
July 13, 2021
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Georgetown Students at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
Two Georgetown students, Saleema Ibrahim and Emma Walsh, were selected from a large applicant pool from various continents to present papers in the Undergraduate Seminar …
July 13, 2021
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Medical Humanities Initiative and Georgetown Humanities Initiative Receive Two Major Grants for Interdisciplinary Research
The Medical Humanities Initiative and the Humanities Initiative received two major grants for interdisciplinary research--a “Humanities Connections Implementation Grant” from…
July 13, 2021
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What Does It Mean to Be American?
On April 28, 2021, the Georgetown Art Galleries and the Georgetown Humanities Initiative co-hosted the interactive conversation “What Does It Mean to Be American?,”…
April 28, 2021
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New Voices on the Environment Series a Success
The Georgetown Humanities Initiative, in partnership with the Georgetown Environment Initiative and the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, launched “Voices on…
April 28, 2021
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Ethiopian-American Award-Winning Novelist Maaza Mengiste, Discussed her Most Recent Novel
In honor of Black History Month, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, in collaboration with the Department of Italian and the Department of African American Studies, hosted…
April 2, 2021
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Humanities Career Round Tables
Thanks to the ongoing collaboration between the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Cawley Career Center for the Humanities Round Tables, students could benefit from two…
March 26, 2021
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In Dialogue with Angela Glover Blackwell: Exploring Narrative in the Context of Community-Based Change
A GGCI Visiting Fellow, Angela Glover Blackwell is an American attorney, civil rights advocate, and author. In 1999, she founded the research and advocacy nonprofit organization…
March 25, 2021