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PODCAST: Upcoming Play Remembers Life, Legacy of Jan Karski

PODCAST: Upcoming Play Remembers Life, Legacy of Jan Karski

By Grace Buono September 29, 2021

https://soundcloud.com/multimedia-editor/jankarskiproduction-92821-209-pm When Derek Goldman, co-director of the The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University and professor...

GU272 Descendant Takes the Stage To Share Family History

GU272 Descendant Takes the Stage To Share Family History

By Grace Buono April 22, 2021

In 2017, at the age of 63, Mélisande Short-Colomb began unpacking her belongings into the Copley Hall suite that would become her home for the next two years. Looking out of her dorm room window, she...

DUFF: All the World’s a Stage

By Olivia Duff February 19, 2016

As I stood lost on a street corner with a suitcase and two of my best friends, a couple briskly passed by us, wearing matching face masks. I took a deep breath of the muggy Shanghai air, thick with smog....

Wolf, Goldman Receive University Recognition

By Patricja Okuniewska October 6, 2015

Chemistry professor Christian Wolf and theater professor and Artistic Director of the Davis Performing Arts Center Derek Goldman will receive the President’s Awards for Distinguished Scholar-Teachers...

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The portal, on N Street, allows Georgetown students and D.C. residents to connect with people in Herat, Afghanistan.

7,500 Miles in 15 Minutes

By Alicia Che April 10, 2015

As students rushed to and from their classes in the Edmund A. Walsh Memorial building this week, they passed by a nondescript gold shipping container on N Street — unaware that, inside, unprecedented...

Before ‘Amrika Chalo,’ Panel Discusses Satire

By Giovanna Azevedo January 27, 2015

In light of the recent shooting at the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics hosted “Politics, Comedy and the Dangers of Satire” on Friday,...

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David Strathairn plays Professor Jan Karski in this poignant reading of Karskis tales from the Second World War.

Staged Reading Illuminates Professor’s Story

By Grace Wydeven December 12, 2014

As the lights dim in Gonda Theater, an elderly actor playing the role of Jan Karski slowly emerges and takes his trademark place on a black bench at the center of the stage. This image of Professor...

Theater and Politics Meet

By Kshithij Shrinath March 28, 2014

With Monday’s announcement of its Myriad Voices, a cross-cultural festival spanning more than two years, the Laboratory of Global Performance and Politics continues its goal of bringing together performance...

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