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…
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…
[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…
