Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The New Books Network interview about the book is…
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…
Registration is now open for our Day(s) of Digital Learning. The workshops will be held on several days throughout the two-week period spanning February 21–March 4, 2022. The Day(s) of Digital Learning will feature a varied menu of sessions involving hands-on, participatory work with digital tools and resources. The events will be open to all RSA members without charge. More…
Date and time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Program: Data Privacy Day 2022 Duration: 1 hour Description: Privacy Q&A session Your mobile devices are likely filled with apps running in the background or using default permissions you never realized you approved. These apps are gathering your personal information…
Date and time: Thursday, January 20, 2022 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Program: Data Privacy Day 2022 Duration: 1 hour Description: Unfortunately, data breaches have become a reality in our connected world of online services. All of us are at risk of having our personal information stolen. However, even if our personal…
As we become more comfortable using technology in class, issues of digital accessibility can crop up. We will discuss what digital accessibility means and the universal design for learning (UDL) framework. This workshop will provide a general overview of digital accessibility issues for faculty, staff, and graduate students. We will discuss GW’s policies and share…
Join us for a workshop on “Communicating with Digital Media: Crafting a Message for Video” on October 26, 2021 Are you interested in creating video for your teaching or research? Do you find yourself wondering, where or how to begin? In this workshop you will tackle that step in-between identifying and producing an…
December 16-17, 2021 (9 am – 4 pm each day) Join us for this two day workshop hosted by GW Libraries. It is designed to help humanists become more confident and skilled users of computational tools for text analysis. This in-person workshop will take place December 16-17 and includes an introduction to common…
Alexa Alice Joubin spoke at a recent GW Coders meeting. GW Coders, in collaboration with GW Digital Humanities Institute, offers a summer internship for students to enhance their coding skills. During this meeting, Seth Blackburn, the 2021 intern, shares his experience. He also introduces some of the tools he used as a research intern to build websites…
The Centre for Early Modern Studies is looking to commission twelve short pieces for this year’s postgraduate blog series. Each piece will be paid, of around a thousand words in length, and – in a material turn for 2021/22 – take a single object or ‘key thing’ as both its title and point of departure….
