Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“Soul-Searching and Suspense Carry a Riveting ‘Lesson of Jan Karski’ at Shakespeare Theatre”, The Washington Post Reviews Play Co-Written and Directed by Derek Goldman
The Washington Post reviewed “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman and directed by Goldman. It refers to the play as “an invitation to soul-searching.”
Category: Media
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“Syndemics and the History of Disease: Towards a New Engagement”
Timothy Newfield looks at histories of disease and our understanding of current syndemics to think of epidemics through a syndemic lens.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Healing Power of the ‘Food is Medicine’ Movement” The Washington Post Talks with Dr. Christopher King about the Work of Food & Friends
On its coverage of the work Food & Friends is doing to tackle the issue of illness and food insecurity, The Washington Post speaks to Dr. Christopher King about the importance of collaboration and partnership for helping economically disadvantaged patients recover and thrive.
Category: Media
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The Hoya Podcast: Community Corner: Upcoming Play Remembers Life, Legacy of Jan Karski, featuring Derek Goldman
The Hoya talks with Derek Goldman about Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski and the life of World War II hero, Holocaust witness, and Georgetown University professor Jan Karski. Goldman shares the story of Remember This’s origin and evolution, and his considerations when writing and directing this visceral play.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Dr. Christopher King Leads the Development of Implicit Bias Education Module for DC Department of Health
Dr. Christopher King is amongst the experts of the Department of Health Systems Administration at the School of Nursing & Health Studies that contributed to the creation of a new educational module on implicit bias, offered by the District of Columbia Department of Health.
Category: Media
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Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s Paintings on Display in the Permanent Collection Gallery of the Robert A. Facchina Italian American Museum of Washington DC (IAMDC)
On September 25, 2021, The Robert A. Facchina Italian American Museum of Washington DC (IAMDC) hosted a reception for IAMDC artists. Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano’s paintings are on display in the permanent collection gallery of the museum and this collection celebrates the contributions of Italian and Italian-American artists throughout DC from the birth of our nation’s capital into the present.
Category: Media
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“Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the Pursuit of a Good Life, and Good Health, in Soweto, South Africa”
Emily Mendenhall and her research team investigate how people residing in Soweto, located in South Africa’s Gauteng province, define, experience, and express what it means to live a flourishing life, both on its own and in relation to health.
Category: Scholarship
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“Now We Can All Hear You…”, Dr. Hunter Groninger Writes about Palliative Care Tele-Education for the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis on PallCHASE
Dr. Hunter Groninger describes his experience of pivoting from traditional in-person teaching to the virtual world, in the context of his teaching of primary palliative care skills to local clinicians providing humanitarian medical aid to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Category: Media
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An Evening with Acclaimed Writer Sofi Oksanen
Virtual reading and conversation with one of the most awarded literary authors in Scandinavia, Finnish-Estonian novelist and playwright , Sofi Oksanen. Moderated by Lannan Center Director, Aminatta Forna.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #78: Covid in Iowa with Emily Mendenhall
Emily Mendenhall joins Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai to discuss Covid in her hometown in northwest Iowa.
Categories: Media, Past events