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Commencement Address by The Honourable Brenda Hale, the Baroness of Richmond

he Honourable Brenda Hale, the Baroness Hale of Richmond and Justice on the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court, spoke to sea of Law Center graduates about the need for lawyers during commencement. A class of 1,119 — 456 LL.M.s, 661 J.D.s and 2 Doctor of Juridical Science recipients — received their degrees on May 23 and listened as she posed a question to them: Why be lawyers in the first place? (May. 23, 2010) Read more...

Georgetown University fosters dialogue and understanding about some of the most critical issues facing today's global community. Gaston Hall and other campus venues regularly host world leaders, policy makers and distinguished speakers. Faculty scholars are renowned for their expertise and intellectual engagement. This website highlights of some of these important conversations.

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Signature Events
  • Video: 2010 Georgetown College Commencement Commencement Address by Dikembe Mutombo (I'91)
    NBA legend and Georgetown alumnus Dikembe Mutombo (I’91) returned to his alma mater on May 22 with a message about the importance of freedom for an audience of more than 800 graduates of Georgetown College. “Freedom of choice is precious, even if it is only exercised in making the decision to go to class or not, to do homework or to go to a party,” said the alumnus, who completed a bachelor’s degree in French with a certificate in African Studies at Georgetown.
    (May. 22, 2010)
  • Video: 2010 School of Continuing Studies Commencement Commencement Address by Bob Schieffer of CBS
    More than 2,000 gathered in the Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center Ballroom to mark the graduation of 156 members of the School of Continuing Studies’ Class of 2010. Veteran journalist Bob Schieffer had a few words of advice for the new class of graduates. “Never forget the way you felt today when you accomplished what you had set out to do a long time ago,” said Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent and moderator for Face the Nation. “Remember those who encouraged you.”
    (May. 22, 2010)
  • Video: 2010 School of Foreign Service Commencement Commencement Address by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
    Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf spoke candidly about her early life during the Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) commencement ceremony on May 22 and reminded them that complacency is the “worst enemy of progress.” Brought up in a modest home, she married immediately after high school and started a family. At that time, she said no one would have imagined she would go on to become Africa’s first democratically-elected, female state leader.
    (May. 22, 2010)
  • Video: 2010 McDonough School of Business Commencement Commencement Address by BET Network Co-Founder Sheila Johnson
    On May 22, undergraduates from the McDonough School of Business’ Class of 2010 received a charge from BET network co-founder Sheila Johnson to bring a global perspective with them as they begin their careers. Johnson, also CEO of Salamander Hospitality, said that of the 75 wealthiest people to ever live, a disproportionate number were Americans from two eras in history, either having been born between 1821 and 1840 or 1953 and 1956.
    (May. 22, 2010)
  • Video: 2010 Graduate School Commencement Commencement Address by Author Edward P. Jones
    Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward P. Jones told stories of learning about the gifts of art and creativity to move humankind during this year’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences commencement on May 21. “We are born with so few tools to make our little shacks of life, and we are born with even less knowledge about how to use those tools,” said Jones during the ceremony on Healy Lawn. “We write, we sculpt, we sing, we play the banjo in the dark.”
    (May. 21, 2010)
  • Video: 2010 McDonough School of Business MBA Commencement Commencement Address by SEC Chair Mary Schapiro
    Mary Schapiro, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, outlined five strategies for success during the MBA program’s commencement ceremonies on May 21. In market terms, she told graduates: invest for the long term; in life’s ups and downs, don’t give up when things go south because they will look up again; greater risk does not always mean greater reward; remember the fundamentals; and diversify. She also reminded the graduates that in the tradition of their Jesuit education at Georgetown University, success in business transcends what happens in the board room.
    (May. 21, 2010)

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Faculty Experts
  • Video: Tectonic Plates and Natural Disasters Expert commentary by Timothy Beach
    Timothy Beach, professor of geography and geoscience in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, explains how shifting plates beneath the earth's surface have the ability to create both beautiful mountain ranges and devastating natural disasters.
    (Mar. 30, 2010)
  • Video: Cancer Systems Biology and Estrogen Receptors Expert commentary by Robert Clarke
    Dr. Robert Clarke explains how Georgetown’s new Center for Cancer Systems Biology plans to tease apart and map the molecular pathways of estrogen receptors in search of new targets against breast cancer.
    (Mar. 30, 2010)
  • Video: Blood Tests for Brain Disorders Expert commentary by Timothy Myhre
    Assistant Professor Timothy Mhyre discusses research aimed at creating blood tests to detect early-stage inflammatory brain disorders.
    (Mar. 30, 2010)
  • Video: How the Brain Sees Words Expert commentary by Maximilian Riesenhuber
    Associate Professor, Maximilian Riesenhuber discusses how current brain imaging techniques are revealing how the brain learns language and recognizes patterns such as facial expressions.
    (Mar. 30, 2010)
  • Video: Mental Health of Children, Adolescents Expert commentary by Edilma Yearwood
    Associate Professor of Nursing Edilma Yearwood discusses her work to improve mental health services for children and adolescents.
    (Mar. 30, 2010)
  • Video: U.S. Latino Literature Expert commentary by Ricardo Ortiz
    English professor Ricardo Ortiz discusses U.S. Latino literature and literature about immigration.
    (Mar. 30, 2010)

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Recent Audio
  • New Treatments for Brain Injuries: An interview with Alan FadenDr. Alan Faden studies cell death following traumatic brain injury, and he focuses on new treatments.
    (May. 04, 2010)
  • Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze (Part 1)E. Taylor Atkins is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. His publications include Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), winner of the 2003 John Whitney Hall Prize; Jazz Planet (2003); the forthcoming Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-45; and articles in Journal of Asian Studies, American Music, Japanese Studies, positions, and Blackwell's Companion to Japanese History.
    (May. 04, 2010)
  • Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze (Part 2)E. Taylor Atkins is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at Northern Illinois University. His publications include Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (2001), winner of the 2003 John Whitney Hall Prize; Jazz Planet (2003); the forthcoming Primitive Selves: Koreana in the Japanese Colonial Gaze, 1910-45; and articles in Journal of Asian Studies, American Music, Japanese Studies, positions, and Blackwell's Companion to Japanese History.
    (May. 04, 2010)
  • Trends in Scholarly Publishing about China: Thoughts on Books, Blogs, and the JournalsJeffrey Wasserstrom will talk about how the landscape for scholarly writing about China has been shifting. He will draw upon his experiences as a co-founder of the 'China Beat' blog/electronic magazine, the Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies, and the author of different kinds of books, ranging from purely academic to general interest publications, as well as magazine and newspaper article, and reflect on the perils and pleasures of trying to combine academic work with writing that seek to connect with general audiences. One theme will be the way that work by scholarly minded freelance writers (like Peter Hessler) and academics interested in experimenting with different kinds of writing (from Jonathan Spence to Geremie Barme) are blurring the line between genres
    (May. 04, 2010)
  • How the Jews Became Japanese: And Other Stories of Brazilian Nationality and EthnicityWhat are the intellectual paths that scholars walk when they assume that ethnic specificity is a dominant social or cultural phenomenon that overshadows commonality?
    (Apr. 29, 2010)
  • Values-Based Public Health Care Issues: An interview with Laura AnderkoLaura Anderko is a public health nurse with a doctorate who focuses on various values-based issues in health care.
    (Apr. 25, 2010)
  • Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World: Professor Jeffrey Herf, Professor in the Department of History at University of Maryland, will talk about his latest book, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World (Yale University Press 2009).
    (Apr. 22, 2010)
  • Famous Jewish Trials: from Jesus to Demjanjuk: Within the context of the question of how and when law becomes separate from religion, this lecture addresses how the answer to that question in the Judaean world applies to myth and reality in the trial and death of Jesus. We will then consider how long-held assumptions regarding that trial and death have affected Jewish-Christian relations--as seen specifically in legal and quasi-legal situations--for two millennia.
    (Apr. 15, 2010)

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