Archive: Performing Arts
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Georgetown’s Center on Slavery Launches With Carlos Simon Musical Tribute Honoring the Enslaved
Georgetown marked the launch of an interdisciplinary center that examines the history of slavery and its legacies through a live musical performance composed by a College of Arts & Sciences professor
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A Hundred Years of Music in the Country’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison
Benjamin Harbert’s new book Instrument of the State offers a sweeping account of more than a century of musical history at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, colloquially known as Angola
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Outstanding Faculty and Staff Recognized at Spring Convocation
The College of Arts & Sciences celebrated its esteemed faculty and staff at its spring convocation
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4 Georgetown Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Four Georgetown faculty members, including three from the College of Arts & Sciences, have been elected to the 2023 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Soyica Colbert Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Soyica Colbert, former interim dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in theatre arts and performance studies
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Film About Legendary Georgetown Professor and Holocaust Witness Jan Karski Premieres on PBS
Remember This, a feature-film starring Academy Award-nominee David Strathairn that explores the life and legacy of Jan Karski will premiere on PBS on March 13
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Benjamin Harbert Establishes Multimedia Journal for Ethnomusicology
Co-founded by Benjamin Harbert, the Journal of Audiovisual Ethnomusicology is a peer-reviewed streaming journal, which combines the rich medium of film with the rigor of academic inquiry
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Internationally Renowned Violinist Performs Concert on the Hilltop
David Kim is concertmaster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, a former child prodigy and one of the world’s greatest living violinists
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Did the Suffragist Movement Rely on Racism? New Play Explores Hidden History
“Bitter Flower,” an original play from award-winning novelist and playwright Jennifer Natalya Fink, opens November 16.
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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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