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Participation in the Georgetown Global Dialogues
Georgetown Humanities Student Fellow Aayush Murarka (SFS ’26) share their thoughts on their participation in the Georgetown Global Dialogues.
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Ancient Echoes, Modern Reverberations
In this interview, Georgetown Humanities Student Fellow Julian Zeitlinger interviews Professor Claire Catenaccio from the Department of Classics about Classical Reception Studies, a sub-field of Classics which examines modern works of art and other cultural phenomena influenced by Greek and Roman antiquity.
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National Award from the American Comparative Literature Association
Dominic Pham (C’23) received the Presidential Undergraduate Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) for his honors thesis exploring cosmopolitanism in Singaporean and Vietnamese literature.
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative 2022-23 HALC Fellows
The HALC Students Fellows Program is part of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative. Our collective goal is to understand and to enhance the potential of the Humanities: Arts, Literature, and Culture (HALC) Core requirement as an introduction and gateway to the Cultural Humanities at Georgetown.
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Humanities Provide a Sense of Place
Julia Rahimzadeh (C’22) English Major and Religion, Ethics, and World Affairs (REWA) Minor I’ve never known a life without the humanities at its heart— as the daughter of an English…
June 9, 2020
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From a Love of Opera to a Love of Language
Harry Rose (C’20) Double major, Italian and Comparative LiteratureRecipient, Dante Award; Cesarina Horing Award When I applied to Georgetown, I wrote my personal statement about my passion for…
June 9, 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 beyond just the traditional professional pathway of joining the foreign service. Public writing became his outlet for giving back to his community.
December 18, 2020