Georgetown India Initiative

September 30, 2019

New Kings of the World Event

In her book New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop (2019), Fatima Bhutto explores the rise of non-Western global media. At this event Bhutto discussed the values and stories conveyed in Bollywood films, dizi (Turkish soap…

November 30, 2017

Reading the Indian Ocean Event

On November 30, 2017, the Georgetown University Department of English convened a group of leading scholars from around the world for a seminar on how studying the Indian Ocean and the Indian Ocean region enables understanding of the vital issues of…

Indian Ocean Research Rethinks Borders, Leverages Cross-Campus Expertise Feature

Led by GU-Q faculty Rogaia Abusharaf, Amira Sonbol, Phoebe Musandu, and Uday Chandra, the group hosts an annual symposium, convenes a monthly reading group of faculty and students, offers classes, and works on special projects that fill the gaps in…

Department of English Georgetown Unit

The Department of English is an academic department in the College offering graduate and undergraduate programs through courses in canonical and non-canonical literature and film in English.

Georgetown University College of Arts & Sciences Georgetown Unit

Founded in 1789, the College is one of the four undergraduate schools of Georgetown University, offering undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, including fine arts, humanities, languages, hard sciences, and social sciences. Many of…

Global and Comparative Literature Program Georgetown Unit

The Global and Comparative Literature Program is an area of study and undergraduate major offered by the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics in the College of Arts & Sciences. It offers the opportunity to acquire expertise in and to analyze two or…

Main Campus Georgetown Unit

The Main Campus is the administrative center of Georgetown University and home to six of its schools: the College of Arts & Sciences, the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, the McDonough School of Business, the McCourt School of Public…

Future Encounters with "Ulysses" Video

James Joyce’s Ulysses (1920) is a book filled with descriptions of the feeling of encounters. “Brief encounters” form the subject of a titillating joke early on, and the entire day of June 16, 1904 is, for Leopold Bloom, a painful lead-up to an…

Olive Schreiner’s “The Story of an African Farm” and the Question of Progress Video

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…