Archive: Other Events

  • “Mary Kelly: To Witness the Future”

    The “Mary Kelly: To Witness The Future” exhibit will be open in the de la Cruz Art Gallery from September 23 to December 11, 2022.

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  • Henrique Sodré: Selected Photographs

    “Henrique Sodré: Selected Photographs” depicts more than 40 years of Henrique Sodré’s work photographing his home city of Rio de Janeiro and the neighboring countryside. The exhibition was curated by his son, João Gabriel Rabello Sodré, who is a Georgetown Ph.D. candidate in history. The exhibition is on display through January 31, 2023, in the Leon Robbin Gallery in the Booth Family Center for Special Collections and online, on the Georgetown Library’s website.

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  • GEMA Career Panel and Externship

    On October 19, 2022, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, the Georgetown Entertainment & Media Alliance (GEMA) is hosting their annual career panel about careers in the media and entertainment industry featuring Georgetown alumni.

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  • 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

    Andrew Delbanco, the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University, President of the Teagle Foundation, and 2011 National Humanities Medalist, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities on October 19 at President Lincoln’s Cottage historic site and museum in Washington, D.C., at 6:30 p.m. Tickets to the lecture are free of charge and distributed via Eventbrite.

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  • AASLH 2022 Virtual Conference

    The 2022 American Association for State and Local History Virtual Conference will be held on November 1 – 3, 2022 with the theme Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place.

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  • 2022 National Humanities Conference, Los Angeles

    This year’s National Humanities Conference will take place at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles on November 10-13, 2022. The event will also include virtual programming on November 3-4.

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  • Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies

    In this Kallion Circle, Kallion Advisor and Circles Co-Chair Rhonda Knight will immerse participants in the world of Christine de Pizan through her text, The Book of the City of Ladies, and discuss the roles of agency and community in leadership.

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  • Repairing the Social Fabric of Our Country

    Most Americans have stopped talking to each other and started demonizing those who hold opposing political views. Polarization is stressing the fabric of our society. In this Kallion Circle, Philippa Hughes will lead participants in creating a new framework for human social flourishing that rebuilds our connections and care for one another. They will use artistic practices to reframe the conversations we have with ourselves and one another. This is an invitation to imagine the world we want to live in and create a plan to get there.

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  • Leadership for Peace and Reconciliation Using Binti and Oslo

    What does leadership for peace and reconciliation actually look and feel like? How do we develop such leadership in ourselves and how do we recognize and support it in others? To answer this question, Kallion, Inc. organized a five-session Circle on leadership for peace and reconciliation based on the study of Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti and J.T. Rogers’ Oslo.

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  • Leading with Friendship

    Should your boss be your friend? Or do friendship ties pose an inherent threat to organizational effectiveness and fair dealing? Should our friends agree with us no matter what, or should they speak up when they see us acting against our own best interests, or even against what is right? In this Kallion Circle, participants will explore how we define “leadership” and “friendship,” and how these concepts do and should – and should not – intersect in our personal, professional, and civic lives. based on the study of practical philosophical texts from Aristotle, Cicero, Plutarch, Matteo Ricci and bell hooks.

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