Archive: Past events
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Confessions of a Good Samaritan
We joined Georgetown’s Film and Media Studies Program for a screening of “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” and Q&A with its director Penny Lane. The film explores the…
April 6, 2024
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Epidemics, Broadening, and Redefining Opium & Plague
The Medical Humanities Initiative co-hosted this event with the Global Medieval Studies Program. This event featured papers by Professors Steffen Rimner and Lee.…
March 20, 2024
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An Evening with Sara Nović, A Lannan Literary Festival Event
The Medical Humanities Initiative co-sponsored an event part of the Lannan Literary Festival: The Writer in the World featuring Sara Nović, author of bestselling novel True Biz…
March 20, 2024
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Work and Life in Crisis: The Medical Humanities Responds to COVID-19
Hosted by Medical Humanities Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis, this medical humanities colloquium featured scholarship and discussions from Johns Hopkins University historian of…
March 14, 2024
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Life in the Tar Seeps: A Lecture and Book Signing
Former Georgetown English Professor Gretchen E. Henderson discussed her new book Life in the Tar Seeps, where Great Salt Lake was a watershed for reperceiving overlooked places…
March 12, 2024
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Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Michael Parker and Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis
Professor Michael Parker and Medical Humanities Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis presented and discussed their current work and methodologies in the medical.…
February 20, 2024
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Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity Exhibition
Professor Langley and Professor Sangastiano’s students in their class Insider/Outsider: The Anatomy of Identity hung their work on Thursday evening in the Ellipsis Gallery …
December 4, 2023
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Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Langley and Professor Mendenhall
On November 28th, the first in a series of Conversations in Medical Humanities events was held. The Conversations in Medical Humanities series will be a sequence of events where…
November 28, 2023
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A Reading and Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan, Author of Brotherless Night
On November 16, the Medical Humanities Initiative held an event with V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Brotherless Night, a novel that follows the perspective of a young girl who…
November 16, 2023
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The North of Ireland, Modernism, and the Medicalization of Sex with the Global Irish Studies Initiative
On November 1st, Dr. Lloyd Meadhbh Houston gave a talk on The North of Ireland, Modernism, and the Medicalization of Sex with the Global Irish Studies Initiative. This seminar…
November 1, 2023