Category: News
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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
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The Role of the Humanities in Medical Studies
Much could be said about the daily schedule of a Georgetown medical student: the facts memorized, the exam maneuvers practiced, the notes written. However, in my mind, the day of…
December 18, 2020
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The Objectivity of Writing in the Humanities
Having grown up across three continents, Ali came to the School of Foreign Service to become a career-diplomat. Little he knew that here he would find ways for public service…
December 18, 2020
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Kaitlyn Reynolds (C’21) and Eliza Lafferty (C’20) reflect on Professor Ian Bourland’s “Exiles and Diasporas” Class
One of the most effective projects from “Exiles and Diasporas” was an assignment that encouraged us to trace our own family histories. This project increased buy-in and…
December 18, 2020
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The Social Effects of Medicalizing an Entire Race
Elisa Reverman (PhD Candidate) joins the Medical Humanities Fellowship Program The goal of my project is to look at the social effects of medicalizing an entire race. It’s…
December 18, 2020
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Humanities Matter: Students Discuss What Draws them to the Humanities
The virtual meeting “Humanities Matter” brought together Georgetown students and faculty to discuss what draws undergraduates and graduates to the humanities, what kinds of…
December 18, 2020
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Interdisciplinary Humanities Pedagogy: HALC Faculty Fellows Create New Courses to Meet Demand
"The most helpful aspect of the HALC Faculty Fellows program was, for me, the ways in which it pushed me to rethink assessment in the classroom, and the possibilities for a more…
December 18, 2020
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Welcomes First Postdoctoral Fellow
Ayten Tartici (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University) joined the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the 2020–21 academic year as an American Council of Learned…
December 16, 2020