Archive: Nicoletta Pireddu
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Nicoletta Pireddu Talks with Jhumpa Lahiri about her Most Recent Work
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri discussed with Nicoletta Pireddu her most recent work, Translating Myself and Others, at the Sixth & I cultural center.
Category: Past events
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Life’s Big Questions
In this event, held online on February 22, 2022 and hosted by the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, an interdisciplinary panel of world-renowned experts addressed the issue of uncertainty in human existence.
Category: Past events
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Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism
This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, Didier Coste, and Christina Kkona, presents 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives.
Category: Scholarship
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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Nicoletta Pireddu
Georgetown President John J. DeGioia engaged in conversation with Nicoletta Pireddu. They discussed the value of the humanities, the interdisciplinary, cross-campus collaborations of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, and the global outreach of comparative literature studies.
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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Nicoletta Pireddu Spoke at the “Humanities Centers as Sites of Dissent” Virtual Panel
On December 2, 2020, Nicoletta Pireddu was invited to speak the “Humanities Centers as Sites of Dissent” virtual panel, hosted by the Center for Humanities Research of George Mason University.
Category: Past events
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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.
Category: Past events
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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.
Category: Past events
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The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
This book, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu, who edited and co-translated it, is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele.
Category: Scholarship