Archive: Media and Scholarship
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The Georgetown Lombardi’s Arts & Humanities Program Received National Endowment for the Arts Grant
In February, 2021, the Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program, directed by Julia Langley, was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study the effect of music on ICU patients’ neurologic and physiologic responses.
Category: Media
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“An Innovative Georgetown Lab Looks to Theater to Quell Political Fires”, The Washington Post Talks About the “In Your Shoes” Project, Co-Created by Derek Goldman
The Washington Post highlights Derek Goldman’s methodology of “performing one another”, as well as many other initiatives by the Laboratory for Global Performance, including “Here I Am,” a digital performance piece that premiered in April 2021; and and “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman and directed by Goldman.
Category: Media
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“A Spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus Frames in a Rural Midwestern Town in the United States”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate how society in rural America reacted to the coronavirus outbreaks of 2020. Without government COVID-19 mandates, conflicting moral beliefs divided American communities. Social fragmentation, based on conflicting values, led to an incomplete pandemic response in the absence of government mandates, opening the floodgates to coronavirus.
Category: Scholarship
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“Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty”, The Georgetown University Medical Center Covers the Work of the Medical Humanities Initiative
The Georgetown University Medical Center wrote about the novel learning opportunities that the Georgetown University Medical Humanities Initiative provides for undergraduate and medical students, by extending classical humanities studies into the realm of illness and disease.
Category: Media
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“Transformative Experiences and A Young Doctor’s Notebook”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Andrew Lipsky look at LA Paul’s Transformative Experience to understand the implications and rationale behind the decision of becoming a physician.
Category: Scholarship
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“Pregnant Women & Vaccines Against Emerging Epidemic Threats: Ethics Guidance for Preparedness, Research, and Response”
Maggie Little and other researchers take a look at the way in which pregnant women and their offspring have been historically excluded from research agendas and investment strategies for vaccines against epidemic threats. They offer 22 concrete recommendations to ensure that the needs of pregnant women and their offspring are fairly addressed.
Category: Scholarship
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“’Thinking Too Much’: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa”
In this systematic review, Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors take a look at the idiom “thinking too much”. This idiom is employed in cultural settings worldwide to express feelings of emotional and cognitive disquiet with psychological, physical, and social consequences on people’s well-being and daily functioning. The researchers analyze how, where, and among whom this idiom is used within varied Sub-Saharan African contexts.
Category: Scholarship
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AHR Interview: Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai in Conversation with John McNeill on the Plague Concept
Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai join this conversation with John McNeill. They discuss their article “The Justinianic Plague and Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept,” which appeared in the AHR.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma Podcast: Dr. Emily Mendenhall, Stigma, Syndemics and Diabetes
Emily Mendenhall discusses with host Dr. Carmen Logie the concept of syndemic, based on her global research on diabetes, HIV, violence, depression and trauma.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“The Role of the Humanities in Medical Studies,” Christopher Swisher Writes about the impact of the Medical Humanities in his Educational Experience
Christopher Swisher (M’22) writes about the impact of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative in his medical studies.
Category: Media