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A Message from the Inaugural Director
It is a pleasure to share with you the latest news about our activities.
From seminars and plenary lectures to student collaborations and faculty interdisciplinary research, Georgetown Humanities continues to explore opportunities to engage with the challenges of an interconnected yet divided world and welcomes proposals for new partnerships and initiatives.
We hope you will continue to follow our updates on upcoming events by subscribing to our newsletter and to our mailing list.
Best wishes for the rest of the summer and a stimulating Fall 2023 semester,
Nicoletta Pireddu, Ph.D.
Inaugural Director, Georgetown Humanities Initiative
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Global Humanities Series "Understanding and Including Forced Migrants and Refugees: Responses from the Humanities”
The ongoing Global Humanities Seminar Series, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement and co-organized by Georgetown Humanities Initiative, the Initiative for Multilingual Studies, and the Department of Italian Studies, was delighted to host inspiring scholars and activists for two stimulating events: “Scholars and Migrants Working Together: Activism Across Borders” and “The Politics of Place and Memory: Exploring Human Rights with Homeira Qaderi and Asif Majid”
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 Amitav Ghosh at 2023 Voices on the Environment
Amitav Ghosh was the plenary speaker of the 2023 Voices on the Environment, a series of events at the intersection of science, the humanities and the arts that link environmental journalism, literary writing, activist performance, and critical approaches to climate change, the environment, and language.
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 Humanities Work in Global Justice Book Talks
As the first of a new series of Zoom book talks on "New Work in Global Justice," on March 15, 2023, Georgetown Humanities welcomed Madhumita Lahiri (English and Comparative Literature, U Michigan) who discussed her book Imperfect Solidarities: Tagore, Gandhi, Du Bois, and the Global Anglophone.
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 2023 ADE/ADL Summer Seminar “Centering the Humanities”
The 2023 Modern Language Association ADE/ADL Summer Seminar was organized and hosted by Georgetown University with the collaboration of Georgetown Humanities and other departments and programs. Numerous Georgetown humanities faculty members and graduate students attended and contributed to plenary sessions, roundtables, workshops and discussion groups.
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GEORGETOWN HUMANITIES RESEARCH
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 Georgetown Humanities Initiative Book Manuscript Workshop Grants
After featuring Prof. Bradley Gorski in our Fall 2022 issue, we are delighted to showcase another recipient of a GHI Book Manuscript Workshop Grant–Prof. Amani Morrison who is working on a book titled Kitchenette Building: Race, Home Space, and Modernity in Great Migration Chicago.
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 Humanities Faculty Work in Progress
On March 23, 2023, Prof. Huaping Lu-Adler (Department of Philosophy) presented her current research project “Scholarship and (Anti-)Racism—Lessons from Studying Immanuel Kant’s Raciology”.
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 David Pickel, “Malarial Landscapes in Roman Italy: A View from Poggio Gramignano (Lugnano in Teverina, Umbria)”
Dr. David Pickel – ACLS 2022-24 Emerging Voices Fellow and Georgetown Humanities Initiative Postdoctoral Scholar – presented his research on the intersections between human health, material culture, and the environment in antiquity.
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GEORGETOWN HUMANITIES FOR STUDENTS
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Non-Academic Professional Opportunities for Humanities Ph.D. Students
Georgetown Humanities organized two events for humanities graduate students focusing on professional options beyond academia. Students explored alternative careers in professional associations and federal agencies in education, and four cultural critics talked about their experiences exporting their skills from academia to editorial spaces in the non-profit and private sectors.
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Undergraduate Student Stipends for Humanities Summer 2023 Research Assistantship
Congratulations to undergraduate students Xin Zheng (C‘24), Khushi Vora (C‘25), and Valeria Canovi (SFS‘25), who were awarded humanities summer research assistantships to work on faculty research projects.
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September 28, 2023, 5 p.m. at Riggs Library
Global Humanities Seminar Series
“Humanities Responses to Force Migration: Universities as Pathways to Global Inclusion”
November 2, 2023, 5 p.m. (location TBD)
A talk by Prof. Yogita Goyal (Professor of English and African American Studies, UCLA)
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The Georgetown Humanities Initiative is a member of
the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
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