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Humanities Round Tables: “From Poetry to the Private Sector – Humanities Alumni in Data Careers”
What has the study of literature and the arts to do with the business of numbers? How can a degree in the humanities prepare you for careers in data analysis? On October 28, as…
October 30, 2021
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Webinar Explores the Value of Humanities Backgrounds in Careers
One common way that humanities programs make the case for their importance is by pointing to the work they do to equip students with key skills, such as critical thinking,…
October 26, 2021
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The Good Life at the End of Life
On September 20, Prof. Paul Heck (Theology Department) organized and moderated a discussion on medical and spiritual views on the meaning of the good life during the last stages…
September 25, 2021
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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