Archive: Spring 2024

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2nd Annual Medical Humanities Research Showcase

Congratulations to all our research fellows and graduating seniors for presenting your work at the Medical Humanities Research Showcase on April 25! Learn more about the senior…

April 25, 2024

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Confessions of a Good Samaritan

We joined Georgetown’s Film and Media Studies Program for a screening of “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” and Q&A with its director Penny Lane. The film explores the…

April 6, 2024

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Epidemics, Broadening, and Redefining Opium & Plague

The Medical Humanities Initiative co-hosted this event with the Global Medieval Studies Program. This event featured papers by Professors Steffen Rimner and Lee.…

March 20, 2024

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An Evening with Sara Nović, A Lannan Literary Festival Event

The Medical Humanities Initiative co-sponsored an event part of the Lannan Literary Festival: The Writer in the World featuring Sara Nović, author of bestselling novel True Biz…

March 20, 2024

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Work and Life in Crisis: The Medical Humanities Responds to COVID-19

Hosted by Medical Humanities Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis, this medical humanities colloquium featured scholarship and discussions from Johns Hopkins University historian of…

March 14, 2024

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Life in the Tar Seeps: A Lecture and Book Signing

Former Georgetown English Professor Gretchen E. Henderson discussed her new book Life in the Tar Seeps, where Great Salt Lake was a watershed for reperceiving overlooked places…

March 12, 2024

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Conversation in Medical Humanities with Professor Michael Parker and Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis

Professor Michael Parker and Medical Humanities Visiting Scholar Cora Salkovskis presented and discussed their current work and methodologies in the medical.…

February 20, 2024