Archive: Media and Scholarship

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Media

“Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story”, Aminatta Forna’s Remarks on Abdulrazak Gurnah from the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival Opening Night

In her remarks for the opening night of the 2022 PEN America: World Voices Festival, Aminatta Forna recognizes what makes the work of Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah powerful…

May 17, 2022

Scholarship

“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”

This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical…

May 17, 2022

Scholarship

Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean

This book, co-authored by John McNeill, Philip J. Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz, delves into the environment and ecology of the Caribbean, exploring issues…

May 13, 2022

Media

Dr. Christopher King Talks about How He Will Lead the New School of Health

The new Georgetown University School of Health writes about how Dr. King's trajectory and the vision he will bring in his role as its inaugural.…

May 12, 2022

Media

Dr. Christopher King will be the Inaugural Dean for the New School of Health

Georgetown President John J. DeGioia announced the appointment of Dr. Christopher King as dean of the new School of Health, which will be formally launched on July 1,.…

May 12, 2022

Media

“We Could Hack Our Brains to Become Better, More Moral People”, Dr. James Giordano Discusses Neuromorality in Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics talks with Dr. James Giordano about attempting to achieve moral enhancement through neuromodularity, and the effects of such modulations in the real.…

May 12, 2022

Media

Aaron Gronstal Creates Comic Illustrations to Translate Emily Mendenhall’s Unmasked into Visual Form

Aaron Gronstal, an astrobiologist and visual artist from Okoboji, uses comic illustrations to translate Emily Mendenhall's Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji…

May 3, 2022

Scholarship

“Vaccination Disagreement Between Parents”

Dr. James Giordano addresses the ethical dilemma faced by physicians when, for the decision of vaccinating children, find parents with opposite.…

May 1, 2022

Scholarship

“All Ethics Is Global: New Neuroethics in a Multipolar and Multicultural World”

Dr. James Giordano and Dr. John R. Shook explore the issues that the globalization process poses on.…

April 27, 2022

Scholarship

“Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era: Introduction”

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Kari Nixon introduce the Journal of Victorian Culture's Rountable on "Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era", which asks how the…

April 26, 2022