Tag: Research

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Yogita Goyal, “Genres of Anticolonialism”

Prof. Goyal argued against influential narratives of failed states and failed genres to rethink the valence of anticolonial visions of revolution amid the pervasive sense of…

December 14, 2023

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Quelle voix pour les universitaires dans les débats sur les sujets de société?” A Conversation with Prof. Jennifer Tamas (Rutgers University)

A specialist of early modern French literature, Prof. Tamas has received remarkable attention in the media for her reexamination of the French canon through the female gaze,…

December 14, 2023

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Campbell Grey, “Locals, Leaders and the Reverberating Consequences of Disaster Intervention. Some Case Studies from the Late Roman World”

This talk by Prof. Campbell Grey (Department of Classical Studies and Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) engaged with recent scholarship in the…

December 14, 2023

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New Work in Global Justice Book Talks

The event was co-sponsored by Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative, English Department, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, and the Initiative for U.S.-China…

December 14, 2023

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Humanities Digital Research Projects

Thanks to the Digital Research and Innovation pilot program jointly launched by Georgetown University Library and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, two…

December 14, 2023

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Universities as Pathways to Global Inclusion

Co-organized by Lourdes Ortega and Negar Siyari (Initiative for Multilingual Studies),  Nicoletta Pireddu (Georgetown Humanities Initiative), and Anna DeFina (Department of…

September 29, 2023

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Humanities Faculty Work in Progress

In her talk “De-Cooptation of Russian Culture, Today or in the Past,”  Professor Olga Meerson (Department of Slavic Languages) addressed internal opposition as the main…

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