[Cross-posted from the GW English blog] George Washington University’s biennial Composing Disability Conference returns in Spring 2016 with the theme of “Crip Ecologies.” The event will be held April 7-8, 2016; featured speakers include Sunaura Taylor and Riva Lehrer, with others to be announced soon. Crip Ecologies is sponsored by the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion,…
Brief announcement: Registration still open for “Beyond the Professoriate” VIRTUAL conference to be held on May 2 and 9 (registration closes Wednesday, April 29, at 5pm EST). This event is specifically geared toward grad students and recent PhDs in Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM fields. Find out more information (including how to register) at the…
[via Prof. Diane H. Cline, GW Department of History] THATCamp DC 2015 is coming to GWU on Saturday April 18th, and you won’t want to miss it. See who else is coming by visiting the event website’s list of campers! At this THATCamp there will be a planning meeting for GW DH’ers to develop a prioritized…
Today is International Mother Language Day! People worldwide are tweeting in indigenous and other languages in an effort to celebrate global linguistic diversity. Many of the tweets appearing with the #MotherTongue and #IMLD2015 hashtags also showcase archival and digitization efforts underway to help promote and sustain minority languages. To read more about the history of…
The first DH SHOWCASE at GW is TODAY! Event website (with full schedule): go.gwu.edu/GWDoesDH Official hashtag: #GWDoesDH Sponsors and collaborating organizations: GW Digital Humanities Institute: @GWDHI GW Libraries: @gelmanlibrary Shira Eller (GW Librarian, Art and Design) Karim Boughida (GW Librarian for Digital Initiatives): @kboughida GW English: @gwengl GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences: @gwucolumbian…
Get ready, people! Friday, February 20 is our first DH SHOWCASE. This interdisciplinary event is organized and sponsored by the GW Digital Humanities Institute, GW Libraries, and the Office of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. Our informal event will include brief presentations from Classics, English, GW Libraries, History, Japanese, Jewish Cultural Arts, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. There will…
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…
On Friday, February 6, the GW English Graduate Student Association (GWEGSA) organized its 2015 symposium entitled “Transvisceral,” an all-day event that concluded with a keynote by Sharon P. Holland. Thanks to Haylie Swenson for her work organizing this event! Swenson has also posted an archive of #GWEGSA15 tweets; of particular interest to readers of this blog…
GW Digital Humanities Symposium 2015: DISRUPTING DH Date: Friday, January 30, 2015 Time: 9am – 4pm (with coffee breaks, followed by reception) Venue: Jack Morton Auditorium (805 – 21st Street NW, First Floor) This symposium explores critical approaches to the digital humanities (DH). What happens when academics, activists, and publishers join forces to rethink how we research, teach,…
A kind invitation from Prof. Holly Dugan (English): I write to invite you to an informal lunch and coffee with Rebecca Laroche next Monday, January 12th and to hear her presentation on transcribing and coding archival recipes as part of the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective [EMROC] on Tuesday, January 13th at 4:45 (in my and…
