Archive: Spring 2022
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“In Your Shoes: Reckoning with Our Past/Imagining Our Future“ Closes the 2022 Lannan Symposium “Beyond Identity: Reimagining the American Narrative”
This performance, which was the closing event of the 2022 Lannan Symposium, “Beyond Identity: Reimagining the American Narrative,” displayed The Lab’s award-winning In Your Shoes methodology, created and developed around the world by Derek Goldman, in which participants have deep, open conversations around a topic and then perform one another’s perspectives.
Category: Past events
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Launch of Emily Mendenhall’s New Book Unmasked
On March 19, 2022, Emily Mendenhall and Rebecca Katz met at the Politics and Prose independent bookstore to discuss her recently launched book, Unmasked.
Category: Past events
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Laura Hartmann-Villalta Co-Chaired a Roundtable and Presented Her Work at the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention
Laura Hartmann-Villalta co-chaired the New Directions in Feminist Pedagogy Roundtable and presented her paper “Pairing Up: Obstacles for Peer Mentoring and How to Overcome Them” at the the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention, which took place between March 10 and 13, 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Category: Past events
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NutrireCoLab Episode 6: Emily Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Carruth about her New Book Love and Liberation
Emily Mendenhall interviews medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth about her decades of work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Carruth describes how she traveled around the country working on medical and humanitarian aid. She delves into the complexities through which love and liberation get revealed in the everyday work of local humanitarian laborers.
Categories: Media, Past events
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LinkedIn Live: MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing with Dr. Daniel Marchalik
On Tuesday, March 1 at 12:00 p.m., the MedStar Health Center for Wellbeing hosted its first LinkedIn Live.
Category: Past events
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NutrireCoLab Episode 7: Interview with Professor Emily Mendenhall about her New Book Unmasked
Lauren Carruth interviews Emily Mendenhall about how people in her hometown in northwest Iowa responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes why people unmasked and how social relations within the community played out over the course of the pandemic. Many people were very cautious, while some people ignored public health recommendations for personal gain.
Categories: Media, 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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Stockdale Radio: James Giordano on the Ethics of Brain Science
The third episode of Stockdale Radio three-part series on brain science and technology in relation to military applications.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Stockdale Radio: James Giordano on Weaponizing the Brain
The second episode of Stockdale Radio three-part series on brain science and technology in relation to military applications.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Emily Mendenhall Talked at the Public Health Conversation on Mental Health and Trauma: Context and Consequences, at the Boston University School of Public Health
Emily Mendenhall was a speaker at the Boston University School of Public Health’s public health conversation on “Mental Health and Trauma: Context and Consequences”, presenting her work on the session centered on “Placing trauma in a social determinants of health framework”.
Category: Past events