Tag: Faculty
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Humanities “Faculty Work in Progress” Series Launches
Through this initiative, Georgetown Humanities has created an intellectual space in which humanities faculty can share their current research activities and engage in a dialogue…
November 23, 2021
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A Reflection on the Course “Race, Representation, and Renaissance”
Meet Professor Amani Morrison The Humanities: Arts, Literature, and Culture (HALC) Core requirement introduces students to the methods of the cultural humanities and arts.…
November 9, 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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Public Writing: Translating Humanities Insights into Writing that Makes a Difference
Because much of students’ work after college or graduate school will be in written forms, this course aims to help students succeed by helping them develop the ability to…
July 13, 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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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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Kaitlyn Reynolds (C’21) and Eliza Lafferty (C’20) reflect on Professor Ian Bourland’s “Exiles and Diasporas” Class
One of the most effective projects from “Exiles and Diasporas” was an assignment that encouraged us to trace our own family histories. This project increased buy-in and…
December 18, 2020
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Interdisciplinary Humanities Pedagogy: HALC Faculty Fellows Create New Courses to Meet Demand
"The most helpful aspect of the HALC Faculty Fellows program was, for me, the ways in which it pushed me to rethink assessment in the classroom, and the possibilities for a more…
December 18, 2020