Georgetown University’s Global Irish Studies Initiative and Department of History present: Mapping the Irish World: From Washington-Ireland to London-Ireland Dr. Darragh Gannon In-person at 5:30pm on Monday, May 1st, in the Mortara Center (3600 N Street NW, 36th St NW, Washington, DC 20007) on Georgetown’s Main Campus. This event is free and open to the public. Registration […]
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 […]
The Global Irish Studies Initiative, the American Studies Program, the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities, and the Department of Art and Art History are welcoming Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty and Professor Lauren Arrington to Georgetown campus to discuss architecture and public sculpture in the DC region. Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty’s talk will discuss how the postwar redevelopment […]