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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…

THATCamp DC 2015: Saturday April 18!
[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…

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…

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Composing Disability: Crip Ecologies, April 7-8, 2016
[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,…

THATCamp: The Humanities and Technologies Camp at GWU
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…