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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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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

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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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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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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

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Highlights from the Global Irish Studies Initiative

A highlight of the 2019-20 academic year was the “Bridging the Atlantic” symposium, which provided an opportunity to reflect on the implications of Brexit for EU-US relations…

June 8, 2020

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Shakespeare and Eden: Botanical Ornament and the Book of Nature in Cymbeline, a Lecture by Dr. Bonnie Lander Johnson

On May 5, 2020, the Future of the Humanities Project, in collaboration with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Las Casas Institute (Blackfriars Hall, University of…

May 12, 2020