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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured as One of the Workshop Speakers at the 2021 Lisa J. Raines Grand Challenge Fellowship
The 2021 Lisa J. Raines Grand Challenge Fellowship funded undergraduate students to conduct independent summer research projects engaging with the grand challenge of “Health…
August 13, 2021
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COVIDCalls Podcast, Episode #320: Medical Humanities, Literature, COVID-19 w/Guest Host Jacob-Steere Williams featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje
A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in…
August 12, 2021
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #72: Climate Change and the Globalization of Disease in the Early Middle Ages with Tim Newfield
Timothy Newfield talks to Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai about the connected histories of climate change and diseases that become pandemics, focusing on the early medieval and…
July 29, 2021
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Ethical Research Podcast Episode 9: Dr. Maggie Little on Research During Pregnancy
Maggie Little talks with Dr. Ran Goldman about the exclusion of pregnant women from medical.…
July 21, 2021
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Radio New Zealand’s Saturday Morning Podcast: Aminatta Forna: Observations from the Window Seat
Aminatta Forna talks with Radio New Zeland’s podcast “Saturday Morning”'s host, Kim Hill, about her most recent book, The Window Seat: Notes From A Life In.…
July 10, 2021
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Dr. Christopher King Speaks to WAMU 88.5 about the Health Gap between Black and White Seniors in D.C.
Dr. Christopher King speaks to WAMU 88.5 about the racial health gap between Washington D.C.'s 50+ black and white residents. The health gap results in greater health…
June 22, 2021
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Toni-Lee Sangastiano Presented her Work at the Popular Culture Association’s 2021 Conference
On June 3, 2021, Toni-Lee Sangastiano presented her talk titled "Coney Island as a Perpetual Heterotopia", at the 2021 Popular Culture Association’s Annual.…
June 5, 2021
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Maggie Little and James Giordano Spoke at Kennedy Institute of Ethics 50th Anniversary Symposium on Bioethics
Maggie Little and James Giordano spoke at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics 50th Anniversary Symposium on Bioethics, with the theme of “A New Era of Bioethics At Georgetown”.…
June 5, 2021
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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…
May 19, 2021
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Aminatta Forna Talked about The Window Seat with Rabih Alameddine
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, the Politics and Prose independent bookstore held a live event with Aminatta Forna and Rabih Alameddine around Forna’s recently launched book, The…
May 18, 2021