Announcement: GW Libraries has been awarded a $50K collaborative Mellon grant (important players here are CCAS Dean Ben Vinson, GW Librarian Geneva Henry, and XD@GW (Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration at GW) Director Diane H. Cline:
Announcement: Eco DH cluster “the changing profession, Assembling the Ecological Digital Humanities” published in PMLA (Jeffrey Cohen co-edited the cluster and Jonathan Hsy is a contributor, “Language Ecologies: Ethics, Community, and Digital Affect”).
Mark your calendars! “COMPOSING DISABILITY: Crip Ecologies” is coming: this week, Thursday, April 7th to Friday, April 8th, here at GW!
This interdisciplinary symposium conclude with a Digital Humanities (DH) roundtable entitled “Digital Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics” on Friday, April 8th, from 5:15-6:30 P.M in Jack Morton Auditorium.
“Digital Amphibians” will feature Alexis Lothian (UMD), Women’s Studies scholar focusing on fandom studies, speculative fiction, social justice, and digital media; David Perry (Dominican University), a disability journalist, activist, and author; Rachel Vorona Cote (freelance writer); and Alice Wong (UCSF), Founder and Project Coordinator of the Disability Visibility Project (participating virtually).
There will also be a poetry reading and reception after the symposium!
The entire event is FREE and open to the public, but registration is required.
Find the full conference schedule and more information on the event website.
Jack Morton Auditorium (the venue for the DH roundtable) is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpretation is being arranged for the entire conference (including all keynotes, roundtables, and breakout sessions).
This two-day event is co-sponsored by the GW Digital Humanities Institute, Disability Support Services, the Department of English, the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, and the University Writing Program.
Note this full archive of #CompDis16 live tweets and this Alice Wong’s curation of live-tweets from the “Digital Amphibians” roundtable.
Friday, February 12
12:30 – 3 p.m.
RSVP at go.gwu.edu/GWdoesDH
Twitter hashtag: #GWDH16
Everyone is invited to a showcase of Digital Humanities (DH) projects underway across the University and the greater DC area. This year’s program will include brief clusters of presentations followed by discussion and a reception. Find out about innovative endeavors happening in Classics, The Elliot School, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Philosophy, Statistics, Health Sciences, DC Africana Archives Project, and more! Presented by the GW Digital Humanities Institute and GW Libraries, with welcome by Geneva Henry (University Librarian) and opening remarks by Associate Professor of History Diane H. Cline, Director of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration and the XD@GW Faculty Cooperative.
This event is FREE and open to the public, but we do ask that you RSVP at the event website!
Call for Proposals:
2nd Annual GW Digital Humanities Showcase
February 20, 2015
12:30pm
Gelman Library, Room 702
Hosted by GW Digital Humanities Institute & GW Libraries
Are you launching a Digital Humanities (DH) project and figuring out the next steps? Do you want to meet other people in GW who are interested in how the arts and humanities interact with digital media?
We invite members of the GW community to join a DH Showcase at Gelman Library. Each person (or team) will present a DH project or endeavor (in any stage of its production). This event will provide a venue to introduce your project to other people and receive feedback or advice while also making connections with people across GW community who might share similar interests. We hope that new conversations will open up about methods, tools, challenges, questions, and possibilities arising across projects.
Our definition of DH is broad and can entail anything from a database or tool to a blog or creative work, and we welcome presentations integrating online media or digital cultures into teaching in (or beyond) the space of the classroom.
If you are interested in taking part in this event, please contact Prof. Jonathan Hsy (Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Institute) at jhsy at gwu dot edu with your name, email, affiliation/title, and title of project(s) by January 10, 2016.
You can also find more information about the first DH Showcase at GW, check out this blog posting with previous schedule and abstracts.
It’s Open Access Week at GW (and nationwide)! Here’s a message to GW faculty about some events underway this week from Dolsy Smith, Humanities Librarian & Interim Coordinator of Research Services at Gelman Library.
On October 21 and 27 the GW Libraries will host two Open Access Salons: coffee hours for faculty to learn more about Open Access at GW and about GW’s new institutional repository, GW ScholarSpace, which we have recently launched in support of the open access resolution and in an effort to take the lead on campus in making GW scholarship accessible to a public audience. Drop by to chat with a member of the GW Libraries Scholarly Communications Committee and, if you have time, stick around for a brief presentation.
As you may know, the faculty senate approved a new open access resolution for the university in February, and the GW Libraries have been working ever since to put the structures in place for faculty participation. The events during OA Week are designed to offer you an opportunity to learn more about how to protect your rights, preserve your work, and increase the impact of your scholarship.
Learn more about Open Access Week events by visiting our website, go.gwu.edu/oaweek.
If you cannot make it in October, don’t worry! Open Access Week will be the kick-off for a campaign to share information about Open Access publishing with faculty and students across campus. If you have ideas for events, or would like me to come speak to you or your department, please let me know.
More questions about Open Access at GW? Visit our FAQs or let me know. I look forward to being in touch!
Direct links:
Screenshot: banner image of TransformDH.org, September 6, 2015
On October 2nd and 3rd, 2015, the University of Maryland will host an exciting dual event: the Transformative Digital Humanities Conference and THATCamp TransformDH, a collaborative, impromptu “unconference”, where all participants will join in creative play together in sessions proposed on the spot.
Speakers include keynote presenter Lisa Nakamura, author of Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet, as well as prominent DH scholars from across the disciplines.
The registration deadline for the conference is September 15th, so make sure to register soon!
For more information on registration, scheduling, and other conference details, please visit TransformDH.org.
