Archive: Media 2021
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Elisa Reverman Illustrates the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective’s Lifelines Project
Elisa Revernman, Philosophy PhD student and one of our 2020-2021 Fellowships recipients, illustrated the Bombshelltoe Policy x Arts Collective’s Lifelines Project.
Category: Media
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“Emily Mendenhall Unmasks COVID-19 Denialism in her Hometown”, the Walsh School of Foreign Service Presents Mendenhall’s New Book
The Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Emily Mendenhall’s upcoming book, “Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji”. “Unmasked” unpacks the “everyday disagreements” about COVID-19 Mendenhall observed firsthand in her hometown during that first pandemic summer. The book is also an examination of the performance of politics as social and cultural practice.
Category: Media
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“New Uses of Conscience-Based Claims Hinder Progress on Abortion Rights,” Kayla Zamanian and Andrés Constantin Write on OpenGlobalRights
Kayla Zamanian (SFS’23), co-authors piece about how conscientious objection has been increasingly used to hinder abortion rights on OpenGlobalRights.
Category: Media
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“We Need School-Age Vaccine Mandates to End the COVID Pandemic”, Emily Mendenhall’s Opinion in Scientific American
Although vaccination has been proven crucial for protecting children and families, many parents are choosing not to vaccinate school-aged children. Emily Mendenhall argues that, to protect the most vulnerable, and to end this pandemic before a new coronavirus mutation takes over, we need to have a federal vaccine mandate for children in public schools.
Category: Media
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“Academia is More Broken than Ever. To Fix it, We Need More and Stronger Unions”, Maggie Levantovskaya Writes about Unionization Bringing Laura Hartmann-Villalta’s Insights
In her writing about unionization as a solution to academic precarity on Medium, Maggie Levantovskaya brings insights by different scholars who have experienced such precarity, including Laura Hartmann-Villalta.
Category: Media
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“The Limits of Advance Care Planning”, Dr. Michael Pottash’s Perspective on Pallimed
In this piece published on the Pallimed blog, Michael Pottash responds to the case against advance care planning, arguing that a better framework for thinking about these future-oriented conversations is training clinicians to have Serious Illness Conversations with their patients before they end up in the final stage or in intensive care.
Category: Media
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The Hoya Talks with Maggie Little about the “Disability Ethics” Module of Her Biothics Course
The Hoya interviews Maggie Little about the new three-week disability ethics module that she piloted in her Bioethics course.
Category: Media
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Lesson of Jan Karski, Play Co-Written by Derek Goldman, Featured in the 10 Books that Define Georgetown University Press List
“Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski,” written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, was featured in the list of 10 books that define Georgetown University Press.
Category: Media
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Aminatta Forna in Conversation with John Freeman
On November 9th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring author Aminatta Forna and editor John Freeman to discuss her recently launched book, The Window Seat.
Categories: Media, Past events
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The Georgetown Health Magazine Talks with Lakshmi Krishnan about the New Medical Humanities Minor
The Georgetown Health Magazine talks with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan about the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, offered for the first time in the Fall of 2021.
Category: Media