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[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…
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…
Hello everyone! This message is intended for anyone who plans on attending the Programming / Coding / Database Tutorial for Digital Humanists lead by Prof. Daniel DeWispelare (English) on Saturday afternoon, April 5, from 1-4 pm in Rome 771. This event is being organized by Maia Gil’Adi for EGSA. Prof. DeWispelare makes these announcements: Please bring…
On February 4, 2017, the GW Digital Humanities Symposium entitled Global Chaucer and Shakespeare in a Digital World was held at the National Churchill Library & Center in Gelman Library. Co-sponsored by the GW Digital Humanities Institute and the Department of English, this international event (including presenters from across the US as well as Argentina, Abu Dhabi, and Brazil)…
Announcement: M.W. Bychowski published an article, “Unconfessing Transgender: Dysphoric Youths and the Medicalization of Madness in John Gower’s “Tale of Iphis and Ianthe” in the OA journal Accessus Abstract: On the brink of the twenty-first century, Judith Butler argues in “Undiagnosing Gender” that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) defines the psychiatric condition of…
