Archive: Humanities Initiative

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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…

February 14, 2020

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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…

October 30, 2019

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American Studies Celebrates 50th Anniversary

The American Studies Program (AMST) is deeply invested in educating a cohort of students so that they will go into the world thinking critically about power, identity, and…

October 25, 2019

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First DC Musicians Census Led by Celenza to be Released at Summit

Music history and industry scholar Anna Celenza, who researches the significance and impact of music on culture, and the DC Mayor’s Office plan to release the results of a…

October 23, 2019

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College French Professor Awarded L’Ordre des Francophones d’Amérique Award

Professor Miléna Santoro of the Department of French and Francophone Studies, received the L'Ordre des Francophones d'Amérique…

October 18, 2019

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Soyica Colbert Appointed Vice Dean

Soyica Colbert (C’01) has been appointed Vice Dean. Her appointment will start in January.…

October 11, 2019

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College Faculty Honored with President’s Awards for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers

These awards commend faculty who were nominated by their students and faculty peers for outstanding service to our community and to the Academy as exemplary scholar-teachers,…

October 7, 2019

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Pireddu to lead Georgetown Humanities Initiative

Nicoletta Pireddu, a professor in the Department of Italian and an expert in Comparative Literature, will be the inaugural director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative…

October 1, 2019

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Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined opens at Georgetown University Art Galleries

Design Transfigured/Waste Reimagined is the first exhibition to recognize a fresh approach to addressing the current state of our depleted and polluted environment; an extreme…

September 20, 2019

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Multitalented Senior Who Studies the Holocaust Hopes to Pursue International Law

Paul Rochford (C’20) has traveled to Eastern Europe to help identify previously unknown mass graves during the Holocaust under a Georgetown professor’s guidance, Rev. Patrick…

September 5, 2019