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Georgetown Opens New Hub for the Humanities on Hilltop Campus

Georgetown celebrated the opening of a dedicated space for the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, a university-wide project that aims to promote and strengthen studies in the…

October 29, 2024

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Yogita Goyal, “Genres of Anticolonialism”

Prof. Goyal argued against influential narratives of failed states and failed genres to rethink the valence of anticolonial visions of revolution amid the pervasive sense of…

December 14, 2023

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Quelle voix pour les universitaires dans les débats sur les sujets de société?” A Conversation with Prof. Jennifer Tamas (Rutgers University)

A specialist of early modern French literature, Prof. Tamas has received remarkable attention in the media for her reexamination of the French canon through the female gaze,…

December 14, 2023

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Campbell Grey, “Locals, Leaders and the Reverberating Consequences of Disaster Intervention. Some Case Studies from the Late Roman World”

This talk by Prof. Campbell Grey (Department of Classical Studies and Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) engaged with recent scholarship in the…

December 14, 2023

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New Work in Global Justice Book Talks

The event was co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative, English Department, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, and the Initiative for U.S.-China…

December 14, 2023

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Navigating the Job Market: Preparing for the Interview with Resources from the MLA

Led by Dr. Mai Hunt (Program Associate in Academic Program Services and Professional Development at the Modern Language Association), the workshop discussed a specific component…

December 14, 2023

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Universities as Pathways to Global Inclusion

Co-organized by Lourdes Ortega and Negar Siyari (Initiative for Multilingual Studies),  Nicoletta Pireddu (Georgetown Humanities Initiative), and Anna DeFina (Department of…

September 29, 2023

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2023 ADE/ADL Summer Seminar “Centering the Humanities”

The topic “Centering the Humanities” fostered discussions about humanities responses to current social and pedagogical challenges; strategies to connect the humanities to the…

June 5, 2023

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Amitav Ghosh at 2023 Voices on the Environment

Amitav Ghosh is the internationally-recognized author of The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Nutmeg’s Curse, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the…

March 31, 2023

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Global Humanities Series “Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities”

On February 22, 2023, “Scholars and Migrants Working Together: Activism Across Borders” involved a conversation with two language and migration scholars who have been working…

March 28, 2023