Archive: Humanities Initiative
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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 American culture. Participants in this program have fueled its growth since its founding 50 years ago
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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 census of DC musicians at this year’s Music Policy Forum Summit
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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 Award
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Soyica Colbert Appointed Vice Dean
Soyica Colbert (C’01) has been appointed Vice Dean. Her appointment will start in January 2020.
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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, embodying Georgetown’s mission as a student-centered research University.
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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 starting January 2020.
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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 and inventive kind of upcycling.
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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 DeBois, the inaugural holder of the Braman Endowed Professorship of the Practice of the Forensic Study of the Holocaust. Rochford works part time at the Campus Ministry office, enjoys playing two woodwind instruments, directs music for Georgetown plays and is a triatholaner.
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English Department to Pilot “Flightless” Conference Format
“Ecology and Religion in the Nineteenth Century” is an experiment in the kind of carbon-neutral gatherings that will be necessary, organizers say, to take seriously the fact that climate change challenges humans to reimagine — sometimes radically — how we live today.
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New Book Examines Relationship Between R&B Culture, Black Aspirations
A new book by Robert Patterson (C’02), chair of the Department of African American Studies, examines how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial and economic desires within African American communities.
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