Archive: Media and Scholarship
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Words: Sideshow, Freak Show, Circus
In this short silent film, Toni-Lee Sangastiano presents media headlines that employ the words “freak show, sideshow, and circus” as negative metaphors in politics and business, based on selected data from daily Google Alerts for those keywords, between 2016 and 2021.
Category: Media
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“What is Supplication?” Greek Myth Comix by Jenks Explains Victoria Pedrick’s Research Using Stick-Man Comics
L E Jenkinson-Brown, Classical Civilisation and Literature teacher, writer, and stick-figure artist, drew this comic piece to illustrate Victoria Pedrick’s research paper: “Supplication in the Iliad and the Odyssey” on her site Greek Myth Comix.
Category: Media
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Ethical Research Podcast Episode 9: Dr. Maggie Little on Research During Pregnancy
Maggie Little talks with Dr. Ran Goldman about the exclusion of pregnant women from medical research.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“The Great Gatsby and the Challenge of Unreliable Narrators”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Matthew W. McCarthy tackle the enduring literary debate on the reliability of Nick Carraway, the narrator of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, to answer the question of how do clinicians balance the importance of believing what patients say with the need to be discerning critics?
Category: Scholarship
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Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morning Podcast: Aminatta Forna: Observations from the Window Seat
Aminatta Forna talks with Radio New Zeland’s podcast “Saturday Morning”’s host, Kim Hill, about her most recent book, The Window Seat: Notes From A Life In Motion.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Dr. Christopher King Speaks to WAMU 88.5 about the Health Gap between Black and White Seniors in D.C.
Dr. Christopher King speaks to WAMU 88.5 about the racial health gap between Washington D.C.’s 50+ black and white residents. The health gap results in greater health complications for older Black Washingtonians compared to their white peers.
Categories: Media, Past events
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The Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies Covers Health Disparities Report Co-Authored by Dr. Christopher King, in Collaboration with AARP DC
The Georgetown University Medical Center highlights the research co-authored by Dr. Christopher King on how structural racism yields stark differences in health outcomes.
Category: Media
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“A Review of Health and Socioeconomic Disparities among Black Older Adults in the District of Columbia”
This report, co-written by Dr. Christopher King for the AARP District of Columbia, studies the health disparities among Black older adults living in DC.
Category: Scholarship
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“Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac”, Aminatta Forna on a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness
In her essay published on Literary Hub, Aminatta Forna writes about her experience of insomnia, while she explores the insights of doctors, scientists, philosophers and writes who have analyzed sleeplessness in different ways.
Category: Media
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Sylvia Önder and Heidi Hamilton Received Faculty Awards at the Georgetown College’s 2021 Tropaia and Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Awards Ceremonies
On May 22, 2021, Sylvia Önder was awarded the Edward B. Bunn, S.J. Award for Faculty Excellence at the Georgetown College’s Tropaia 2021 Ceremony, and Heidi Hamilton received the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Distinguished Service Award at the 2021 Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Awards Ceremony.
Category: Media