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Interdisciplinary Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds joins Disability Studies Program and Department of Philosophy

Joel Michael Reynolds—a specialist in the philosophy of disability, bioethics, modern European philosophy, and social epistemology—joined Georgetown University as an…

December 15, 2020

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Humanities Centers as Sites for Dissent: A Panel Discussion at George Mason University

On December 2, Professor Nicoletta Pireddu was invited to speak at the Center for Humanities Research of George Mason University in a panel on “Humanities Centers as Sites of…

December 12, 2020

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Krishnan leads Medical Humanities Initiative

Lakshmi Krishnan—a historian of medicine, medical humanities scholar, and physician—is the founding Faculty Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, a cross…

December 3, 2020

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Humanities In Action Series

Launched in the Fall 2020 semester, “Humanities in Action” is conceived as a series of connected events highlighting the many ways in which Georgetown scholars and students…

December 1, 2020

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Making Communities: Public Science in the Time of COVID-19

Georgetown Humanities, in collaboration with the Medical Humanities Initiative and the Maker Hub at Lauinger Library, co-organized “Making Communities: Public Science in the…

November 5, 2020

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How We Vote and What It Means

With the presidential election on the horizon, in the year in which we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment securing the right to vote…

October 9, 2020

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Student Stories

Professor Cicali Helps Student Discover Fellini’s Impact on American Cinema

Olivia Luongo (C’21) Government Major; Italian and History Minor Most of the humanities classes that I have taken at Georgetown have been through the Italian Department, as I…

September 22, 2020

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Theo-Humanism: Professor Paul Heck Launches New MOOC Course on edX

Looking for a pathway to boost your knowledge of theology and humanism? Combining forces with edX —a platform specifically designed for massive open online courses (MOOC)…

August 17, 2020

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Student Stories

Becoming More Attuned with the Soul

here was nothing like being swallowed up for hours by worlds that weren’t my own and creating my own. …

June 20, 2020

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Humanities Lunch Break Launches

On Wednesday, June 10, the Master’s Program in the Engaged & Public Humanities (MAEPH) hosted the first Humanities Lunch Break in their summer series. In “…

June 10, 2020