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Georgetown Humanities at the 2026 Georgetown Global Dialogues in Barcelona
Our global future feels increasingly precarious, threatened by climate disruption, pandemics, runaway AI, and nuclear conflict. This danger is amplified by traditional power…
August 31, 2026
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Between Differences, Across Divides: A Translation Seminar Series 2026
Featuring renowned speakers working across different linguistic and cultural traditions, the Spring workshops and panels created sustained opportunities for dialogue across…
August 31, 2026
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The Critic at Large: A Conversation with New York Times Writer Parul Sehgal
On March 19, 2026, author and Berkeley Center senior fellow Paul Elie invited Parul Sehgal to speak about her own work, her sense of the state of nonfiction writing circa 2026,…
August 31, 2026
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DC/DOX, June 11-14, 2026
The Georgetown Humanities Initiative was a co-sponsor of the DC/DOX 4th edition (June 11-14, 2026), which featured 113 films from 32 countries alongside the Reality Check Forum.…
August 31, 2026
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Book Presentation: Bradley A. Gorski, “The Rise and Fall of the Book Market in Post-Soviet Russia”
The recipient of a Georgetown Humanities Initiative Book Manuscript Workshop grant, Prof. Gorski explores Russian literature’s eager embrace of capitalism in the post…
December 16, 2025
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Georgetown Humanities Welcomes Professor Mary Roberts as its first Royden B. Davis Visiting Professor
A professor of art history and 19th-century studies at the University of Sydney, Professor Roberts specializes in modern Ottoman Art and European Orientalism. On these…
December 16, 2025
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GHI Individual Research Grant
On March 16, 1926 physicist and inventor Robert H. Goddard successfully launched the first liquid- fueled rocket. This day would be remembered as the origin of the modern rocket…
December 16, 2025
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Book Manuscript Workshop Grant
Thanks to a Manuscript Workshop Grant from the GHI, as well as support from the English Department, on November 14, 2025 Prof. Seth Perlow (English Department) held a six-hour…
December 16, 2025
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2025 Voices on the Environment: “Writing Climate Symposium”
Hosted by the Lannan Center, the Earth Commons, Climate Rights International, and Georgetown Humanities Initiative from March 25 to 27, the symposium explored the intersection of…
August 4, 2025
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“Storytelling and Spectacle in an Age of Populism”
On March 19, 2025, Professor Guy Spielmann (Department of French and Francophone Studies), organized and moderated the panel “Storytelling and Spectacle in an Age of Populism”,-…
August 4, 2025