Title:New hub integrates Georgetown humanities

Last year, Georgetown College of Arts & Sciences celebrated the opening of a new hub for the Georgetown Humanities Initiative, a university-wide project promoting the humanities through interdisciplinary, collaborative, and public-facing activities for faculty and students. The dedicated space in Old North now serves as a home for lectures, discussions, and other community events.

“With the creation of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative we have been able to demonstrate that we are much more than a cluster of juxtaposed disciplines,” said Nicoletta Pireddu, inaugural director of the Georgetown Humanities Initiative. “Now, Georgetown Humanities can finally be not only an intellectual endeavor but also a physical forum for hosting events, exchanging ideas, and promoting community.”

Under Pireddu’s leadership, the initiative developed partnerships with Georgetown’s Medical Humanities Initiative and Earth Commons as well as with the Teagle Foundation.

“Georgetown has a rich history in the liberal arts and promotes a well-rounded ethical graduate who contributes to society,” says Toni Boucher (Parent’98, ’00, ’04), one of the initiative’s founding donors. “As many institutions of higher learning focus on specialization at the expense of liberal arts, Georgetown sets itself apart by developing a student learning environment that has a worldview and sense of responsibility to contribute more broadly for the greater good of all.”