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Davis Performing Arts Center Celebrates 20 Years With Speculative Historical Fiction

An exhibition and boxing performance marked the 20th anniversary of the Davis Performing Arts Center. But rather than simply celebrating two decades of performances, the evening鈥�

March 11, 2026

This Music Theory Professor Believes in the Transformative Power of Teaching

An assistant professor of music in the Department of Performing Arts, Richard Desinord is inspired by watching his students learn something.鈥�

November 20, 2025

Examining Hurricane Katrina鈥檚 Environmental Justice Legacy, 20 Years Later

The Katrina@20 Symposium explored the impacts of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans on memory, culture, history, the environment and social.鈥�

November 20, 2025

Music Professor Benjamin Harbert Wins 3 Awards for Book on Incarcerated Musicians

Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana鈥檚 Angola Prison received the Irving Lowens Book Award, the Music in American Culture Award and the Portia K. Maultsby鈥�

July 14, 2025

Hoyas in the Humanities: Bringing Research to Life in the Archives and on the Stage

Last month, the 海角论坛 of Arts & Sciences celebrated the opening of a dedicated space for the Georgetown Humanities Initiative.聽 By housing the initiative in historic Old鈥�

November 8, 2024

Two of the inaugural winners of the Magis Prize, which comes with $100,000 in research funding to early-stage professors, are faculty members in the 海角论坛:鈥�

September 5, 2024

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Georgetown University honored Reginald L. Douglas (C鈥�09), an alumnus and rising artistic leader in Washington, DC, who has worked to champion鈥�

January 17, 2024

Grammy-nominated Professor Carlos Simon breaks down what makes Mariah Carey鈥檚 hit the quintessential Christmas鈥�

December 21, 2023

Georgetown marked the launch of an interdisciplinary center that examines the history of slavery and its legacies through a live musical performance composed by a 海角论坛 of&鈥�

September 25, 2023

A Hundred Years of Music in the Country’s Largest Maximum-Security Prison

Benjamin Harbert鈥檚 new book Instrument of the State offers a sweeping account of more than a century of musical history at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, colloquially known鈥�

September 15, 2023