Tag: Research
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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
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Georgetown Humanities Initiative Welcomes First Postdoctoral Fellow
Ayten Tartici (Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University) joined the Georgetown Humanities Initiative for the 2020–21 academic year as an American Council of Learned…
December 16, 2020
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Interdisciplinary Scholar Joel Michael Reynolds joins Disability Studies Program and Department of Philosophy
Joel Michael Reynolds—a specialist in the philosophy of disability, bioethics, modern European philosophy, and social epistemology—joined Georgetown University as an…
December 15, 2020
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Humanities Centers as Sites for Dissent: A Panel Discussion at George Mason University
On December 2, Professor Nicoletta Pireddu was invited to speak at the Center for Humanities Research of George Mason University in a panel on “Humanities Centers as Sites of…
December 12, 2020
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Krishnan leads Medical Humanities Initiative
Lakshmi Krishnan—a historian of medicine, medical humanities scholar, and physician—is the founding Faculty Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative, a cross…
December 3, 2020
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Humanities In Action Series
Launched in the Fall 2020 semester, “Humanities in Action” is conceived as a series of connected events highlighting the many ways in which Georgetown scholars and students…
December 1, 2020
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Making Communities: Public Science in the Time of COVID-19
Georgetown Humanities, in collaboration with the Medical Humanities Initiative and the Maker Hub at Lauinger Library, co-organized “Making Communities: Public Science in the…
November 5, 2020
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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
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Highlights from the Global Irish Studies Initiative
A highlight of the 2019-20 academic year was the “Bridging the Atlantic” symposium, which provided an opportunity to reflect on the implications of Brexit for EU-US relations…
June 8, 2020
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The Future of the Book: Panel Discusses What Lies Ahead for the Written Word
On October 31, 2019 Georgetown University Press and Georgetown University Library, in collaboration with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, organized a panel discussion on …
November 7, 2019