Archive: Medical Humanities Initiative
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Small Silences, Confused Chronicities: The Politics of Terminal Illness in Anne Boyer, Audre Lorde and Hervé Guibert
Ayten Tartici (American Council of Learned Societies “Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow”, Georgetown Humanities Initiative) presented her most recent research at the crossroads of comparative literature, medical humanities, and racial justice. The respondent was Prof. Lakshmi Krishnan, Director of the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative.
Category: Past events
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Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization & Prison Abolition with Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe
Discussion with Dr. Liat Ben-Moshe, of her recently published book, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition.
Category: Past events
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Georgetown College Writes About the Medical Humanities Initiative’s New Minor
Georgetown College shared the announcement of the launch of the interdisciplinary minor in Medical Humanities, Culture, and Society, which, in Nicoletta Pireddu’s words, “demonstrates that the rigor of scientific data and the spark of imagination can work together with exciting results”.
Category: Media
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“Medical Humanities Initiative Creates Novel Learning Opportunities with Interdisciplinary Students and Faculty”, The Georgetown University Medical Center Covers the Work of the Medical Humanities Initiative
The Georgetown University Medical Center wrote about the novel learning opportunities that the Georgetown University Medical Humanities Initiative provides for undergraduate and medical students, by extending classical humanities studies into the realm of illness and disease.
Category: Media
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“The Role of the Humanities in Medical Studies,” Christopher Swisher Writes about the impact of the Medical Humanities in his Educational Experience
Christopher Swisher (M’22) writes about the impact of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative in his medical studies.
Category: Media
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“The Social Effects of Medicalizing an Entire Race,” Elisa Reverman Writes on the Georgetown Humanities Initiative
Elisa Revernman, Philosophy PhD student and one of our 2020-2021 Fellowship recipients, writes about her research project for the Georgetown Humanities Initiative.
Category: Media
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The Great Work Begins: Revisiting Angels in America During a Pandemic
This special program of performance and discussion combined scenes performed by leading professional actors from Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning two-part epic play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes with insights from experts from the medical, political, and artistic communities on the legacy and continued resonance of the play’s portrayal of the AIDS Epidemic in the context of the current moment.
Category: Past events
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Readings and Talks featuring Valeria Luiselli
Evening with award-winning novelist and essayist, Valeria Luiselli. This event was moderated by Lannan Center Director and author Aminatta Forna and was cosponsored by the Georgetown Medical Humanities Initiative.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Making Communities: Public Science in the Time of COVID-19. A Conversation featuring Margaret Talbot (New Yorker) and Don Undeen (Georgetown’s Maker Hub)
What happens when supply line production of essential goods and equipment is disrupted? Can public science offer solutions? Citizen scientists and community labs are developing everything from affordable insulin to low-cost, open-source medical supplies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, maker communities such as Georgetown’s Maker Hub began producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for local healthcare facilities.
Category: Past events
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Ella Castanier Writes about the Policies to Combat Future Pandemics that GU Professors Recommend for The Hoya
Ella Castanier (COL’24) presents the recommendations for pandemic preparedness provided by Georgetown professors at the Center for Global Health Science and Security Alexandra Phelan and Rebecca Katz in “Governance Preparedness: Initial Lessons from COVID-19”.
Category: Media