Archive: Media and Scholarship
257 Articles
- Scholarship
“The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region”
Timothy Newfield and his research team use palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, historical records and climate model simulations to assess the potential broader impact of the 852…
June 29, 2022
- Media
Carpe Diem, Saba Nia’s Debut Novel, Will Be Out in July
Carpe Diem, the debut novel of Saba Nia (COL’23), Psychology Major and Creative Writing and Biology Minor, and one of our 2020-2021 Research Fellowships recipients, will be…
June 14, 2022
- Media
Racism as Distraction: Aminatta Forna Writes about Toni Morrison
In this text she wrote for the Luminato Festival Toronto on Toni Morrison, Aminatta Forna reflects about Toni Morrison's powerful words, that frame racism's function as…
June 13, 2022
- Media
- Past events
Press the Button: Lifelines, Featuring Elisa Reverman
In this episode of the Press the Button podcast, Lovely Umayam and Elisa Revernman talk about the Bombshelltoe Collective‘s Lifelines Project, a collection of personal…
June 13, 2022
- Media
“How to Address Sexuality and Intimacy with People Living with a Serious Illness”, Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne Kelemen Write for the Center to Advance Palliative Care
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne Kelemen address an area that is often overlooked in a routine palliative care assessment: the impact of serious illness on intimacy and…
June 13, 2022
- Media
Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Online Classes Build Communities Across the Globe
Early on in the pandemic, Julia Langley, director of the Georgetown Lombardi Arts & Humanities Program, decided to experiment with moving some of the AHP classes online via Zoom…
May 26, 2022
- Media
- Past events
Emily Mendenhall Presents Her Book Unmasked in the New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcast
Emily Mendenhall tells host Austin Clyde the story of her most recent book, Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji from the New Books in Science, Technology, and…
May 23, 2022
- 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