Tomorrow, Prof. Diane H. Cline (History) will give a seminar as part of a faculty series in the Department of Engineering Management & Systems Engineering (EMSE) in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS). We hope some of you can attend! The seminar will be held in the EMSE Conference Room (1776 G Street, Room 120). Here is…
Please join the English Graduate Student DH Working Group on Monday, May 12, 2014 in Rome Hall 771, 11.00 – 2.00, for another programming session with Prof. Daniel DeWispelare (English). This event will focus on building databases. Bring your your laptops, chargers, etc. to the session. iPads and iPhones don’t really work for this, as the things…
This April, the Digital Humanities Institute at George Washington University helped to sponsor the 2014 THATCamp (The Humanities and Technologies Camp) in Washington, DC. An “unconference,” THATCamp brought together teachers, students, software developers, members from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Sunlight Foundation, Tech Cocktail, Cuentos, GW Libraries, and scholars from across DC, as well as…
On February 20, the GW English Department hosted an interdisciplinary roundtable entitled #AltAc/#PostAc: Rethinking the PhD Job Search in the Humanities. This event was organized by Prof. Holly Dugan (English) and co-sponsored by the GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute and the Office of the Graduate Dean of GW Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. This event…
On January 24-25, the GW Global Shakespeares Symposium (org. by Prof. Alexa Alice Joubin and Prof. Ayanna Thompson) explored the prominence of the Bard in the global marketplace and (digital) media. The event featured concluded with a conversation between Prof. Thompson, director Julie Taymor, and actor Harry Lennix. The event was co-sponsored by the GW Medieval and Early…
Are you interested in the Digital Humanities (DH) and the future of publishing, especially electronic and open access publishing? Please note this event!On Thursday, November 14, Eileen Joy (director of punctum books and co-founder of the BABEL Working Group) will present a talk entitled “Freedom, Responsibility, E-Publishing, and Building New Cultural-Intellectual Publics.” This visit is co-sponsored…
Mark your calendars! Dr. Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) will be coming to visit GW and will engage students and faculty in conversation about Digital Scholarship and Careers in the Humanities. Jewell’s talk will take place on September 12 at 2-3 PM in Rome Hall, Room 771. Dr. Jewell is Associate Professor of Digital Projects at the…
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…
Digital Humanities (DH) is a vibrant field that uses digital technologies to study the interactions between cultural artifacts and society. In our second decade of the twenty-first century, we face a number of questions about the values, methods, and goals of humanistic inquiries at the intersection of digital media and theory. Topics addressed in the Inaugural…
