Open Access in the Disciplines: A Conversation
October 6th, 12:00-1:30 pm (Gelman Library, Room 702): Learn how faculty from the sciences and humanities have opened their scholarship to the public, and the challenges and benefits they have encountered in the process. Panelists include Paul Brindley (microbiology), Lorena Barba (aerospace engineering), Ami Zota (occupational health), Alexa Alice Joubin (English).
Alexa Alice Joubin views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use ChatGPT responsibly, not as a shortcut. “In our inquiry-driven culture, we need to know how to retrieve information through queries,” Joubin said. “Further, democratic society needs good question-askers as much as good problem-solvers. Asking key questions helps to advance scholarly fields, and students develop editorial, curatorial and critical questioning skills that are employable skills and the foundation of civil society in an era of ChatGPT.”
Date and time: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 11:00 am, Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00) Program: Data Privacy Day 2022 Duration: 1 hour Description: Privacy Q&A session Your mobile devices are likely filled with apps running in the background or using default permissions you never realized you approved. These apps are gathering your personal information…
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…
Shakespeare’s plays enjoy a great deal of popularity across the world, yet most of us study Shakespeare’s local productions. Alexa Alice Joubin‘s Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford 2021) addresses this gap through a wide-ranging analysis of stage and film adaptations related to Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The New Books Network interview about the book is…
We are very pleased to announce this upcoming public talk! Plagues, Witches, and War: A MOOC Postmortem Bruce Holsinger(Fiction Writer and Professor of English, University of Virginia) Sponsored by the GW Digital Humanities Institute, in coordination withthe GW Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, English, and Creative Writing Date: Friday, December 5Time: 7 PM (includes talk followed by Q&A)Place: Marvin…
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…
