GWEGSA Symposium: “Transvisceral” (#GWEGSA15 tweets)
More information on the “Transvisceral” Symposium can be found on the event website.
More information on the “Transvisceral” Symposium can be found on the event website.
Mark your calendars! “COMPOSING DISABILITY: Crip Ecologies” is coming: this week, Thursday, April 7th to Friday, April 8th, here at GW! This interdisciplinary symposium conclude with a Digital Humanities (DH) roundtable entitled “Digital Amphibians: Parallel Lives and Media Publics” on Friday, April 8th, from 5:15-6:30 P.M in Jack Morton Auditorium. “Digital Amphibians” will feature Alexis Lothian (UMD), Women’s Studies scholar focusing on fandom studies, speculative…
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…
The Centre for Early Modern Studies is looking to commission twelve short pieces for this year’s postgraduate blog series. Each piece will be paid, of around a thousand words in length, and – in a material turn for 2021/22 – take a single object or ‘key thing’ as both its title and point of departure….
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 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.
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