In this lecture, Robert S. Miola will argue that Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1623) reflects local and specific contemporary stereotypes about the barbarous Scots and the civilizing English just as it interrogates racial prejudices and the myths of national identity. If positive cultural encounters acknowledge others in their otherness to build mutual communication and trust, as Pope Francis would […]
On March 18, the Georgetown community and public are invited to join two events exploring New Orleans’ music and traditions: Screening of City of a Million Dreams (3:30-5:15pm, EDT). City of a Million Dreams traces the history of New Orleans’ famed burial tradition, the jazz funeral. It follows two New Orleanians, writer Deb Cotton and […]
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/DSEventNov7 Join disabled artist and activist Naomi Ortiz in conversation with Professor Julia Watts Belser, Georgetown undergraduate research assistants, and our international collaborators to celebrate the launch of our new digital archive that chronicles the wisdom and expertise of disabled activists, artists, and first responders working for climate justice. Check out the Archive at […]
Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), a South African novelist, anti-war campaigner, and women’s rights activist, came early to the study of the thing we call progress. As a teenager, she was given a copy of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles (1862), and it came to dominate her thoughts in early years, influencing not only her freethinking regarding religion, but also […]
Join Georgetown faculty member Shelbi Nawhilet Meissner and the Office of Sustainability as they explore themes of Indigenous philosophy in developing the university’s sustainability plan, charting the course for future relationships between Georgetown, the environment, and the community. Register here. This event is being organized as a part of Voices on the Environment, a collaboration […]