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Thursday, February 22, 2024
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1732 - US President George Washington is born
1923 - Transcontinental airmail service begins
1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1980
- The US hockey team beats the favored Soviet Union in one of the biggest upsets in Olympic history, referred to as “Miracle on Ice”
2017 - Jay-Z becomes the first rapper to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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Junior Amita Ganesh Combines Storytelling, Music, and Government to Elevate Underrepresented Voices |
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Photo Credit: Amita Ganesh
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| This newsletter edition we spotlight Amita Ganesh, a Junior double majoring in American Studies and Political Communication. For the past year, Ganesh has worked in different capacities in both the legislative and executive branches of government.
Amita has worked in two congressional offices: Representative Sharice Davids (KS-03), the first Native American and LGBTQ+ woman of color in Congress, and freshman Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA-37). She helped create digital media to promote Capitol Hill recognition of the 50th year of hip-hop, which combined her passion and love for music and storytelling.
As a digital storyteller, Amita has used her American Studies classes to craft stronger narratives and tell the stories of those who often go underrepresented in government and media. She found a love for storytelling through Professor Anker’s Politics and Film class, which underscored how media can hold deeper meaning and represent something larger. Amita works in video as a medium and actively connects themes present within her American Studies’ education.
Amita also participates in GW’s student-run radio station, WRGW. Throughout her time, she has hosted several radio shows and currently acts as Operations Co-Director for the station. Additionally, she is an active member of Kesem, where she does PR, videography, and more.
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| 2024 Mergen-Palmer Distinguished Lecture
"Just When You Think It's Over:
On Normporn and Neverending Bereavement"
Professor Karen Tongson
Chair of Gender & Sexuality Studies,
& Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies,
English and American Studies and Ethnicity,
University of Southern California
When: Monday, April 8, 2024; 4:00-5:30 PM
Where: 2201 G Street NW, Washington, DC
Duques Hall, Room 251
In this lecture, Professor Karen Tongson discusses her new book Normporn
, a meditation on letting go of grief that began on an intimate scale of (self) examination and expanded to a broader political and cultural inquiry into the television that soothes queer viewers—sometimes against our better aesthetic and political judgment. In the wake of the book’s release, however, new traumas both personal and global emerged, posing a challenge to the author’s cruel optimism about the “end” of cycles of loss and bereavement. The presentation is an honest assessment of the world bound by the book, and what shattered its resolutions.
Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us is available via NYU Press.
Register Here!
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| GW Philosophy 2024 Thacher Endowed Lecture
"Why Natural Social Contracts are Not Fair"
Professor Cailin O'Connor
When: Friday, February 23, 2024; 4:00 PM
Where: Duques Hall, Room 359
Many theorists have employed game theory to model the emergence of stable social norms, or natural “social contracts”. One branch of this literature uses bargaining games to show why many societies have norms and rules for fairness. In cultural evolutionary models, fair bargaining emerges endogenously because it is an efficient way to divide resources. But these models miss an important element of real human societies – divisions into groups or social categories. Once such groups are added to cultural evolutionary models, fairness is no longer the expected outcome. Instead “discriminatory norms” often emerge where one group systematically gets more when dividing resources. I show why the addition of categories to bargaining models leads to unfairness, and discuss the role of power and minority status in this process. I also address how categories might emerge to support inequity, and the possibility of modeling social change. Altogether this work emphasizes that if one wishes to understand the naturalistic emergence of social contracts, one must account for the presence of categorical divisions, and unfairness, as well as for norms of fairness.
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| | The GW University Seminar on A.I. and the Humanities
"The Future of Foreign Languages: Interpretation, Translation, and Language Learning in the Age of A.I."
When: Thursday, February 29, 2024; 10:30-12:00 PM
Where: Phillips Hall, Room 328-329
Are we entering the age of the universal translator, once a technology known only to Star Trek fans? Join us for a lively discussion of the many ways that A.I. is changing the way we think about languages.
Jonathan Downie
, professional interpreter, author of Interpreters vs. Machines: Can Interpreters Survive in an AI-dominated World?
J.M. Paiz, GWU English for Academic Purposes Program faculty member with expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and AI in English language learning.
Register Here.
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| 2024 WGSS Yulee Symposium
"Hungry Translations: Yearning for Justice"
Prof. Richa Nagar
Richa Nagar is Professor of the College in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her multi-lingual and multi-genre work blends scholarship, creative writing, theatre, and activism to build alliances with people’s struggles and to engage questions of ethics, responsibility, and justice.
When: Wednesday, March 27, 2024; 5:00-8:00 PM
Where: 1957 E Street, Room 113
Register Here.
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| Call for Submissions: Interested in Washington, D.C.’s history? Want experience blogging for a museum? Write for Evolution D.C., a blog hosted by the Albert H. Small Center for National Capital Area Studies. Click here to learn more // Deadline: rolling submissions
Call for Papers:
The 2023-24 Mellon Sawyer Seminar at Georgetown University invites submissions for a half-day graduate student symposium—Plac(e)ing Black Futures. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Feb. 23, 2024
Call for Applications:
The South Dakota Historic Preservation Office has a paid internship opportunity open for summer 2024. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Feb. 28, 2024
Call for Applications: The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress invites applications for several competitive awards and funded internships in 2024. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Mar. 1, 2024
Call for Applications: SHEAR (Society for Historians of the Early American Republic) will offer at least two research fellowships to scholars examining African diasporic, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and/or Pacific Island history from 1776 to 1861. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Mar. 1, 2024
Call for Applications: The Department of Justice's Historians Office is currently seeking applications for the Summer 2024 internship program. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Mar. 1, 2024.
Call for Applications: The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) announces a new short-term (6-week) fellowship for the 2024 selection season. Sponsored by the Algonquin Club Foundation, the fellowship carries a stipend of $5,000. Click here
to learn more // Deadline: Mar. 1, 2024.
Call for Applications: The Early Career Scholars Committee & Mentorship Program (ECSCMP) of the Massachusetts Historical Society seeks new members for their 2024 cohort. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Mar. 15, 2024
Call for Papers:
The National Women's Studies Association has opened their call for paper submissions for their 2024 Annual Conference. Click here to learn more // Deadline: Apr. 1, 2024
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