Tag: Research
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Humanities Faculty Work in Progress
On March 23, 2023, Prof. Huaping Lu-Adler (Department of Philosophy) presented her current research project “Scholarship and (Anti-)Racism—Lessons from Studying Immanuel…
March 24, 2023
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New Humanities Work in Global Justice Book Talks
As the first of a new series of Zoom book talks on “New Work in Global Justice,” on March 15, 2023, Georgetown Humanities welcomed Madhumita Lahiri (English and…
March 16, 2023
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Life’s Big Questions
Uncertainty is inherent to the human experience, but it’s often at odds with planning for the future, living in the moment and making sense of life. To address the issue of…
March 17, 2022
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“Space Age Spectres:” A Student Thesis on UFO Photography
Madalyn Shaw, a HALC Fellow and member of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative Student Advisory Board, is a senior in the College majoring in Art History with minors in Studio…
December 14, 2021
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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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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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The Footnote – A New Blog
Four brilliant Georgetown graduate students created The Footnote, which celebrates the intellectual spectrum of higher education by uniting as many thinkers as possible in one…
July 13, 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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Georgetown Students at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference
Two Georgetown students, Saleema Ibrahim and Emma Walsh, were selected from a large applicant pool from various continents to present papers in the Undergraduate Seminar …
July 13, 2021