Archive: Humanities Initiative
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A Home for the Humanities on Campus
Professors Nicoletta Pireddu (Inaugural Director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative), and Derek Goldman and Anthony R DelDonna (Department of Performing Arts) have been awarded a $750,000 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a humanities hub on campus.
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Life’s Big Questions
Uncertainty is arguably one of the most universally felt phenomena, and the issues we may be uncertain about appear as boundless as the universe. The Georgetown Humanities Initiative hosted an interdisciplinary panel to explore the origins and conceptualizations of various uncertainties, their effects and the “solutions” they might or might not entail.
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Medical Humanities Minor Launched by University
The Georgetown Medical Humanities Program, a cross-campus collaboration among Georgetown College, the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and the Georgetown University Medical Center, is launching a collaborative undergraduate minor in Medical Humanities, Culture and Society starting in Fall 2021.
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New College Faculty for 2020-2021
Georgetown College is pleased to welcome 24 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in 16 College departments and programs. This cohort will help enrich the student experience through their varied and nuanced areas of study.
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Library Acquires Rare Logbook That Illustrates Life Aboard a Slave Ship
A recent gift to Georgetown University Library, now digitized and made available online, provides poignant and valuable insight into the Atlantic slave trade. “As historians, we need to find new ways to bring archival materials to life,” Prof. Adam Rothman says.
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University Holds Racial Justice Dialogue in Wake of Recent, Past Police Brutality
The pandemic and its disproportionate effect on black people combined with new acts of violence against them have created deep pockets of pain in the university’s black community.
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Art Provides Much-Needed Respite, Connection for Students During Pandemic
Art students at Georgetown have continued to paint, draw, sculpt, make videos and study art history.
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James Baldwin Play Marks New Trend in Classical Theater, Panelists Say
“It’s a huge-scale drama that requires a lot of economic resources,” said panelist Soyica Colbert, Idol Family Professor and professor of African American studies and performing arts at Georgetown College. “The play itself is really anticipating a moment like this where there are theaters that have the resources and the vision to produce it.”
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Facing Heartache on Valentine’s Day? Read a Poem
Elizabeth Velez (G’83) and her friend, alumna Mary Esselman (C’84, G’87), wrote The Hell With Love: Poems to Mend a Broken Heart (Warner Books, 2002) after Esselman suffered a breakup with a man she thought was the love of her life.
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Linguistics Workshop Examines Social Justice, Language Diversity, and Globalization
The research training workshop focused on multilingual practices and social justice and examined the contributions of different approaches to the analysis of multilingualism within contexts that are crucial to guaranteeing equity and access to all members of society, such as in court and health settings.
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