Interdisciplinary Archives - Digital Humanities Institute

2016 Composing Disability Symposium and “Digital Amphibians” Roundtable

ByAlexa Alice Joubin April 6, 2016July 29, 2021

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…

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

ByAlexa Alice Joubin August 21, 2015July 29, 2021

[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,…

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DH Showcase TODAY: Abstracts + Twitter Archive

ByAlexa Alice Joubin February 20, 2015August 15, 2021

The first DH SHOWCASE at GW is TODAY! Event website (with full schedule): go.gwu.edu/GWDoesDH Official hashtag: #GWDoesDH Sponsors and collaborating organizations: GW Digital Humanities Institute: @GWDHI GW Libraries: @gelmanlibrary Shira Eller (GW Librarian, Art and Design) Karim Boughida (GW Librarian for Digital Initiatives): @kboughida GW English: @gwengl GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences: @gwucolumbian…

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DH Showcase (Fri Feb 20): RSVP at Event Website

ByAlexa Alice Joubin February 12, 2015July 29, 2021

Get ready, people! Friday, February 20 is our first DH SHOWCASE. This interdisciplinary event is organized and sponsored by the GW Digital Humanities Institute, GW Libraries, and the Office of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration. Our informal event will include brief presentations from Classics, English, GW Libraries, History, Japanese, Jewish Cultural Arts, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. There will…

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Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Disability Comes of Age at GWU

ByAlexa Alice Joubin October 31, 2014December 1, 2021

Throughout the month of October, the Digital Humanities Institute was proud to co-sponsor a series entitled “Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Disability Comes of Age at GWU” [access the series flyer here and more info on our Facebook page]. This series featured award-winning novelist/playwright Susan R. Nussbaum, Krip Hop artist/activist/scholar Leroy F. Moore, Jr., and filmmaker Patricia Berne. Pushed…

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AltAc/PostAc: Rethinking the PhD Job Search in the Humanities

ByAlexa Alice Joubin February 25, 2014July 29, 2021

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…

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Inaugural GW Digital Humanities Symposium (January 24-26, 2013)

ByAlexa Alice Joubin January 30, 2013August 15, 2021

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…