Spring 2024
Past events
2nd Annual Medical Humanities Research Showcase
Congratulations to all our research fellows and graduating seniors for presenting your work at the Medical Humanities Research Showcase on April 25! Learn more about the senior capstone and research…
April 25, 2024
Past events
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 nature of altruism…
April 6, 2024
Past events
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
Fall 2023
Past events
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 (Walsh Building 2nd…
December 4, 2023
Past events
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 faculty will share…
November 28, 2023
Announcements, Past events
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 wants to…
November 16, 2023
Spring 2023
Announcements, Past events
1st Annual Medical Humanities Research Showcase
On May 2nd, 2023, Medical Humanities hosted our first annual research showcase celebrating the scholarship from this year’s senior capstones and research fellowships. Congratulations to our…
May 2, 2023
Past events
Epidemic Millennium Hosted by Dr. Timothy Newfield
In April 2023, Core Faculty Dr. Timothy Newfield hosted a 22-talk, 2-day meeting that brought together scholars from many disciplines, including History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Paleopathology,…
April 21, 2023
Past events, Scholarship
Art, Humor, and Gender in the Second World War Plastic Surgery Ward
Dr. Christine Slobogin (CAS ‘16) is a health humanities scholar who uses art and visual culture as a way to understand ethics, emotion, medicine, and gender. She was an Art History and English…
April 14, 2023
Fall 2022
Announcements, Past events
On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, the National Association of Health Services Executives – Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter held its annual celebration of healthcare executives, recognizing distinguished healthcare leaders for their contributions in their respective communities. Dr. Christopher King was one of the 2022 Distinguished Honorees.
September 26, 2022
Past events
A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
This event, co-sponsored by the Lannan Center and the African Studies Program, featured Tanzanian novelist and Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Aminatta Forna.
September 14, 2022
Media, Past events
María José Pareja Rozo, Graduate Student of the Medical Humanities Initiative in the 2021-2022 academic year, launched How to Have a Conversation, a podcast about how the arts and humanities engage us in conversation. The pilot episode focuses on the In Your Shoes project, co-created by Derek Goldman.
August 31, 2022
Spring 2022
Past events
John McNeill presented his work on the Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution, at the Society – Knowledge – Environment Colloquium (Gesellschaft – Wissen – Umwelt Kolloquium), hosted online by Universität Bielefeld.
June 28, 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 reflections about the experiences of nuclear policymakers and technical practitioners during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 13, 2022
Past events
James Giordano and Maggie Little were part of the faculty teaching the Intensive Bioethics Course (IBC) 44, which took place at Georgetown University on June 9-11, 2022.
June 11, 2022
Fall 2021
Past events
At the DC Health Equity Summit 2021, which was held on December 9, 2021, Dr. Christopher King moderated the discussion between Laura Zeilinger, Dr. Unique Morris-Hughes, Dr. Bren Elliott and Lupi Quinteros-Grady at the Pandemic Response & Insights panel.
December 9, 2021
Past events
On November 22, 2021, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan presented her lecture “Medical Flaneurs: Cosmopolitan Paris and the American Clinical Imagination” in the Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society.
November 22, 2021
Past events
Theodora Danylevich spoke at the “CDSC Professionalization Workshop: Surviving Academia, or, How Good Are Your Boundaries?” panel at the American Studies Association 2021 Annual Meeting, with the theme “Creativity within Revolt”, which was held virtually from 11 to 14 November, 2021.
November 14, 2021
Spring 2021
Media, Past events
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 complications for older Black Washingtonians compared to their white peers.
June 22, 2021
Past events
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 Conference.
June 5, 2021
Past events
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”. The symposium was held in Georgetown University, in association with the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, which celebrated its 30th anniversary, on June 1-5, 2021.
June 5, 2021
Fall 2020
Media, Past events
Emily Mendenhall discusses with host Dr. Carmen Logie the concept of syndemic, based on her global research on diabetes, HIV, violence, depression and trauma.
December 23, 2020
Media, Past events
AHR Interview: Monica H. Green in Conversation with John McNeill on The Four Black Deaths
In this episode John McNeill speaks with Monica H. Green, a historian of medicine and global health, about her article, “The Four Black Deaths,” which appeared in the AHR. In it, Green suggests both a broader and more nuanced understanding of how plague spread in the late medieval world.
December 16, 2020
Past events
Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan.
December 9, 2020
Spring 2020
Past events
The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Americans
In this conversation, hosted by the Black Alumni of Georgetown and the Georgetown University Alumni Association, faculty and alumni experts including Christopher King explored the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities and examined how communities can be rebuilt and better protected.
June 25, 2020
Past events
This virtual panel of Georgetown humanities scholars discussed the role of the humanities in this most distinctive of times. The panelists took French novelist Albert Camus’s 1947 novel The Plague as the point of departure to address how literature, philosophy, history, and the arts can help us understand ourselves in relation to the world, foster empathy and a sense of connection in times of crisis, and help people make everyday ethical decisions.
May 28, 2020
Media, Past events
Emily Mendenhall and Robert Like discuss the syndemic concept with host Mary O’Connor, to explain why certain populations are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, and offer insights into potential solutions.
May 22, 2020
Fall 2019
Past events
Julia Langley and Pamela Saunders presented their work in the “Creating Strength in Age: Harnessing the Power of Arts and Humanities Network” symposium, co-chaired by Pamela Saunders and Gay Hanna, at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2019 Meeting, which was held in Austin, Texas, from November 13 to 17, 2019.
November 17, 2019
Media, Past events
BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub: Aminatta Forna – The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna discusses her novel The Memory of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers at the BBC Radio – 4 Bookclub podcast. The Memory of Love has as its background three decades of unrest and violence in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna’s father’s home country and the one where she mostly grew up.
September 5, 2019
Spring 2019
Past events
On May 21, 2019, John McNeill delivered the 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History, titled “Health and Disease History of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: Two Syndemics”, at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute.
May 21, 2019
Past events
Georgetown Hosted the American Comparative Literature Association 2019 Annual Conference
From March 7 to 10, Georgetown University hosted the 2019 American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting, one of the world’s largest conferences of comparative literature scholars, which Nicoletta Pireddu spent over two years planning.
March 10, 2019
Past events
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger on Beyond Burnout–The Healing Power of Fiction
On February 6 2019, Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger spoke at the University of Virginia’s Medical Center Hour about emerging research on books’ benefits for doctors and trace their own experience with the Literature and Medicine Track at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
February 6, 2019