RenAIssance Studies: Techne, Technicity, and Artificial Intelligence 
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RenAIssance Studies: Techne, Technicity, and Artificial Intelligence 

In what senses might AI be theorized as a type of RenAIssance technology of re-generation that connects early modern thoughts on mind-body and modern models of ideation? Submit your proposal for our panel on RenAIssance Studies: Techne, Technicity, and Artificial Intelligence at the RSA in Boston, March 20–22, 2025

The Craft of Writing in the Age of AI

The Craft of Writing in the Age of AI

Generative AI tools stake claims to anonymized, collective authorship through machine-generated texts that are similar to patterns in the datasets they trained on. The notion of authorship faces new challenges of delineating the agency, knowability, and intentionality of written words. Led by Alexa Alice Joubin (English and Digital Humanities Institute) and Kylie Quave (University Writing Program and Anthropology), this session explores our society’s evolving relationship to written words and the future of the craft of writing.

AI and Religion

AI and Religion

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.

Generative AI from Performance Studies Perspectives

Generative AI from Performance Studies Perspectives

What is missing from the current debate are insights from performance studies. Since ChatGPT remixes statistically most likely combinations of words, its outputs are in fact a form of theatrical performance. It draws on users’ prompts and the publics’ collective memories to produce improvised performances, within specific parameters, for its user-audiences.

Creating Open Education Resources

Creating Open Education Resources

Faculty Perspectives: Creating Open Education Resources Wednesday April 12, 2023, 1 pm eastern time   Zoom link at: https://open.wrlc.org/events/wed-04122023-1300      Alexa Alice Joubin, author of the open-access Screening Shakespeare, https://screenshakespeare.org/, will share how she created the textbook. Open Education Resources (OER) for higher education have made significant progress over the last few decades. Textbook affordability continues…

I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities

I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities

Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as: What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical? In this symposium, we hope to open a discussion on the philosophical, ethical, political, and cultural, challenges that A.I. poses for our society.

AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!

AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!

GW Digital Humanities Institute founding co-director Alexa Alice Joubin recently spoke at a roundtable on artificial intelligence and higher education.  Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin embraces instructional AI in her classroom     From AI that write papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on…