Category: Featured

Honors Senior Thesis Options

Courses, Featured

UHPers!  If you’re heading into your final year at GW, now is a great time to be considering how you plan to complete your Honors Senior Thesis! To help you in this planning process, we hosted two info sessions in preparation for the 2022-2023 academic year: 

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Session 1: During the 2022-2023 academic year, the UHP will be piloting a new option that will allow students to complete their senior thesis by engaging in a self-directed service or entrepreneurial project.  If you are interested in next year’s “non-traditional” thesis option you can learn more by watching the recording below of an earlier info session hosted by Prof. Kung and Dr. Wendy Wagner of the Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service.

Session 2: In the second session, Jasmine, Brianna and Prof. Kung discussed the various options that UHP students have for completing their thesis and talk about choosing a thesis topic, finding an advisor, and navigating all your senior requirements.  You can learn more by watching the recording below of an earlier info session.

Click here for more information on the Honors senior thesis requirement. 

Free Financial Literacy Seminars for Graduating Seniors

Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Uncategorized

The Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) and GW Professor Annamaria Lusardi are offering a free 5 week series for graduating seniors. The seminars will cover a variety of topics from taking advantage of compound interest, the relationship between return and risk in investing, and maximizing FICO scores. These seminars are a great opportunity for graduating seniors getting ready to navigate the important financial decisions of their early careers. The seminars will be fun and informative and no previous experience or knowledge is required!

Each of the first four sessions will be offered twice on Fridays and Saturdays in person starting April 8th and running through April 23. The final seminar will be online on April 29. In addition to information on personal finance, lunch will be provided at the in person sessions.

More registration and more information can be found here. Sign up for food, finance, and fun!

CORCORAN ART HISTORY // SUMMER 2022 COURSE OFFERINGS

Community Life, Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured

Want to take art history classes during the summer?  Corcoran Art History is offering three classes this summer that will count toward an Arts & Humanities requirement!  The three classes are titled:

CAH 4139 / 6232: Dutch Masters: Refinement & Revelry

CAH 4189 / 6234: Francisco Goya: Enlightenment to Napoleonic Era

CAH 4169 / 6269: Queer Art & Visual Culture

If you have any questions, please contact Jasmine Williams (jwilliams25@gwu.edu) or Brianna Crayton (bcrayton@email.gwu.edu).

Download the flyer below here: SU22 Course Advert

 

What is Home? Syrian Refugees and the Search for Belonging

Events, Featured

Pulling upon interviews with more than 475 displaced Syrians around the world, this talk, taking place on Friday, March 25th, from 12-1pm, explores personal stories of losing, seeking, finding, or not finding home, and what they teach us about the meaning of belonging.

This event will be held in-person at The George Washington University Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW, Washington, DC 20052. A Zoom link has been provided above for those who wish to attend the event virtually.

You can sign up here!

Moot Court Team Tryouts

Competitions, Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured, Openings and Opportunities
Are you a GW student interested in law? Politics? Current events? Then we would encourage you to try-out for the GW Undergraduate Moot Court Team!
The Moot Court team is an organization that encourages collaboration and community, all while embracing a competitive nature that harnesses the talent of our team members. At competition, students are given the opportunity to explore some of the most relevant questions in constitutional law while being judged by real professors and lawyers! As a fairly new team, they have undergone some recent restructuring, but they are more ready than ever to tackle the next season of competition.
If you are interested in learning more about Moot Court, you’re invited to join them at the following information sessions:
March 27th from 1pm-3pm at District B117,
March 31st from 2pm-4pm at District B117, 
April 1st from 1pm-3pm at District B206.
Please attend at least one of their informational sessions prior to attending try-outs. Also, please fill out the following form to receive updates about information sessions and tryouts: https://forms.gle/nQMqVxhhRjWvmQuQ9.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to gwmoot@gmail.com.

Honors in-person Research Showcase!

Community Life, Competitions, Events, Extracurricular Opportunity, Featured

Save the date UHPers! On Friday April 22nd at 1PM – 3PM ET, we will be hosting our annual UHP Research Showcase in COR 101A to learn all about the amazing work UHP students have been doing this year. The showcase will consist of an hour of oral presentations followed by a reception and posters session. All students, faculty and staff are welcome! We particularly encourage attendance by any students who are beginning to plan their own theses!

If you have engaged in any research this year – including work associated with a research assistantship or your Honors Senior Thesis – please sign up here to present your work as either an oral presentation or poster (submission deadline: April 8th). There will be a few small gift card prizes awarded for the best presentations, including a “Director’s prize” and an “audience favorite”!

UHP event with Alianza

Community Life, Events, Featured
Hey UHPers, you are invited to the following event which has been organized by students, faculty and staff on the UHP Diversity & Inclusion Committee:
The UHP is partnering with the GW student group Alianza for a special night of culture, discussion, and food. This event will showcase the vibrancy of Afro-Latinx culture and is open to all UHP students, faculty, and staff. Dinner will be catered by a local, POC-owned DC restaurant. The location is to be determined, but the event will likely take place in the USC.

Tuesday, March 29th @ 6:30 – 8:00 PM

Book talk: “Heidegger and His Jewish Reception” with Daniel M. Herskowitz

Events, Featured

Register for the Book talk, Heidegger and His Jewish Reception, Lectured by Daniel M. Herskowitz (Oxford University)

In this book, Daniel Herskowitz examines the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this encounter within wider intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, he outlines the main patterns and the diverse Jewish responses to Heidegger. Herskowitz shows that through a dialectic of attraction and repulsion, Jewish thinkers developed a version of Jewishness that sought to offer the way out of the overall crisis plaguing their world, which was embodied, as they saw it, in Heidegger’s life and thought. Neither turning a blind eye to Heidegger’s anti-Semitism nor using it as an excuse for ignoring his philosophy, they wrestled with his existential analytic and what they took to be its religious, ethical, and political failings. Ironically, Heidegger’s thought proved itself to be fertile ground for re-conceptualizing what it means to be Jewish in the modern world.

March 21, 2022, 3:45 pm-5 pm (on Zoom) You can register for this meeting here:

Dr. Daniel M. Herskowitz is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, working on the research project ‘Jewish Existentialism and the Legacy of Martin Luther’. He was previously a Career Research Fellow in Jewish Studies at Wolfson College and a postdoctoral fellow at the Religion Department at Columbia University, NY. Dr. Herskowitz is the author of over twenty studies on modern philosophy, modern Jewish thought, Jewish-Christian relations, political theology, secularization, and nationalism. His first book, Heidegger and His Jewish Reception (Cambridge University Press, 2021) was awarded the 2021 Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Young Scholars Award for Scholarly Excellence. His essay “Between Exclusion and Intersection: Heidegger’s Philosophy and Jewish Volkism” was the winner of the Leo Baeck Year Book Essay Prize for 2020.

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