This event featured PhD’s who have since gone on to careers outside of the academy: Sarah Werner (Digital Media Strategist, Folger Shakespeare Library), Evan Rhodes (Executive Advisor, Corporate Executive Board), Meredith Hindley (historian and writer for the National Endowment for the Humanities), and Alyssa Harad (author and blogger); Miriam Posner (Digital Humanities Program Coordinator, UCLA) was invited remotely.
Have you found that you have the spark of an idea for creating something digital to enhance your teaching and/or student activity, but aren’t sure what to do next? Are you finding that your mind is taking you in multiple directions as to what the content should be, how it can be presented, how it…
Modes of Cognition: Implications for AI Public lecture by Professor N. Katherine Hayles, 11:30 am, Wednesday October 23, 2024 In-person and Zoom hybrid event. Zoom link: https://mit.zoom.us/j/97309041943 Myers Room, George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052 This event is hybrid: in person and on Zoom. Here is…
There are cases of AI monks and priests. Though religious institutions have not always behaved ethically in the past, they have centuries of experience parsing moral conundrums through the lens of their own belief systems. Prof. Irene Oh from the GW Department of Religion will lead a discussion of the many ways that artificial intelligence is changing the meaning and practice of religion.
On Friday, January 30, the GW Digital Humanities Symposium 2015 (DISRUPTING DH) took place at Jack Morton Auditorium. About eighty people attended the event, which brought together academics, activists, publishers, librarians, archivists, students (graduates and undergraduates), GW alumni, and interested members of the public. As publicized on the event website, the aim of the day was to assemble different…
The George Washington University is pleased to announce its Inaugural GW Digital Humanities Lecture! Dr. Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, will offer talk about large-scale data-mining and literary analysis … and Shakespeare, of course. This exciting event is co-sponsored by GW MEMSI, the Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare program, the Department of English, the Department of History, Gelman…
On February 4, 2017, the GW Digital Humanities Symposium entitled Global Chaucer and Shakespeare in a Digital World was held at the National Churchill Library & Center in Gelman Library. Co-sponsored by the GW Digital Humanities Institute and the Department of English, this international event (including presenters from across the US as well as Argentina, Abu Dhabi, and Brazil)…
