Past Events [Archive]

Spring 2022

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John McNeill Presented his Work at the Universität Bielefeld’s Society – Knowledge – Environment Colloquium

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

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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

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James Giordano and Maggie Little, Amongst the Faculty Teaching Intensive Bioethics Course this Summer

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

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Dr. Christopher King Moderated the Pandemic Response & Insights Panel at the DC Health Equity Summit 2021

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

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Longfellow House Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society Featured Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan’s Work

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

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Theodora Danylevich Spoke at Panel on Disability and Queerness in Academia at the American Studies Association 2021 Annual Meeting

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

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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 complications for older Black Washingtonians compared to their white peers.

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 Conference.

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”. 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

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Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma Podcast: Dr. Emily Mendenhall, Stigma, Syndemics and Diabetes

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

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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

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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan

Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan.

December 9, 2020

Spring 2020

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Americans event featuring Dr. Christopher King, Kaya Henderson, L. Toni Lewis, Charlene Tarver, and Soyica Diggs Colbert.

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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

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Humanities in the Time of COVID-19: What Literature, Ethics, and the Arts Can Teach Us in a Quarantine Environment

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

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The Health Disparities Podcast: Both Pandemic and Syndemic – How Clusters of Preexisting Comorbid Conditions Have Driven Up Fatalities, featuring Emily Mendenhall and Robert Like

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

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Julia Langley and Pamela Saunders Presented their Work in Symposium Co-Chaired by Saunders, at the Gerontological Society of America 2019 Meeting

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

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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

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“Health and Disease History of the Caribbean, 1491-1850: Two Syndemics”, John McNeill’s 2019 Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History

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

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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

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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