Archive: Media and Scholarship
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CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Aminatta Forna in Conversation with Eula Biss
Aminatta Forna in conversation with Eula Biss, discussing her new book, The Window Seat: Notes From a Life in Motion, published by Grove Press. This event was originally broadcasted via Zoom and hosted by Josiah Luis Alderete.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Hame”, Orion Magazine Publishes Excerpt of Aminatta Forna’s The Window Seat
Orion Magazine published an excerpt of “Hame”, one of the essays that make up Aminatta Forna’s most recent book, The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion.
Category: Media
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“The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships and Preparing for the Next Pandemic,” Kayla Zamanian Writes about Natasha Bilimoria’s Contributions to the Conversations in Global Health Class
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23) writes about the role of public-private partnerships and the importance of health system strengthening as a way of preparing for future pandemics, based on “The Future of Global Public Health: A Conversation with Natasha Bilimoria”.
Category: Media
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“Neurodata and Defence: Part II – Beyond NINA -The Need for Integrative Digital Biosecurity”, Defence IQ Piece Co-Authored by Dr. James Giordano
James Giordano, Joseph DeFranco, and Diane DiEuliis propose an integrative approach to digital biosecurity to address present and future challenges of the convergence of neurobiology and computational capabilities.
Category: Media
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“Neurodata & Defence: Part I – Realities and Risks”, Defence IQ Piece Co-Authored by Dr. James Giordano
In this piece published on Defence IQ, James Giordano, Joseph DeFranco, and Diane DiEuliis address the challenges arising from the development of newer techniques and technologies –inclusive of neurodata– in relation to national security and defense initiatives.
Category: Media
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“Flourishing: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and other researchers draw on case studies from three world regions, to propose concrete steps clinicians and health institutions can take in order to better serve migrant patients.
Category: Scholarship
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“Introduction: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and Seth M. Holmes introduce the BMJ Global Health journal’s issue on “Migration and Health in Social Context”, focused on the social, political and economic structural factors that impede or facilitate health among the most vulnerable migrants seeking care from clinical settings globally.
Category: Scholarship
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“Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change”
The team of researchers that includes Timothy Newfield and Jakob Burnham proposes an interdisciplinary framework for uncovering climate–society interactions that emphasizes the mechanics by which climate change has influenced human history, and the uncertainties of discerning that influence across spatiotemporal scales.
Category: Scholarship
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Georgetown College Writes About the Medical Humanities Initiative’s New Minor
Georgetown College shared the announcement of the launch of the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, which, in Nicoletta Pireddu’s words, “demonstrates that the rigor of scientific data and the spark of imagination can work together with exciting results”.
Category: Media
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“On Symbols and Scripts: The Politics of the American COVID-19 Response”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors argue that, to unravel the American COVID-19 crisis —and to craft effective responses—, a more sophisticated understanding of the political culture of public health crises is needed. According to the researchers, the social processes of meaning-making help explain the evolution of increasingly partisan public health discourse regarding topics like masking and institutional trust. They consider how and why certain issues gain political valence, and what opportunities certain acts of politicization provide in shifting public discourse.
Category: Scholarship