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A Love of the Arts

From the moment I was born, I fell in love with music by humming myself to sleep. In elementary school, I developed a love for the stage through.…

September 22, 2021

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Humanities as a Means to Learn How to Live in the World

Gene Kim (C’23) Gene is majoring in Theology (with a concentration in Ethics) and minoring in Korean. As a Theology major, I have a particular interest in life and death which,…

September 22, 2021

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Panel Discusses Recent Book, The Teaching Archive

On August 25, we opened the semester with a forum on an important recent book, The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study, by Laura Heffernan and Rachel Sagner. …

August 28, 2021

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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