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  • The 2019 American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting will be held at Georgetown
    Georgetown Hosts 2019 ACLA Conference
    February 25, 2019
    From March 7 to 10, Georgetown University will host the 2019 American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting, one of the world’s largest conferences of comparative literature scholars.
  • Black-and-white photo of Dr. Marin Luther King Jr. sitting at a rally in Berlin with German politicians
    German Classes Study MLK's Visit to a Divided Berlin
    February 21, 2019
    The Georgetown College Department of German is participating in Georgetown’s MLK Initiative with a department-wide celebration of an often-overlooked trip Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took to Berlin on September 13, 1964.
  • Professor Maria Donoghue Velleca in Healy Hall
    Donoghue Velleca Accepts Deanship at Lehigh University
    February 21, 2019
    Professor Maria Donoghue Velleca, a fixture in the Department of Biology and the Georgetown College Dean’s Office for more than a decade, has been named the Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University.
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