Featuring Professor N. Katherine Hayles, this public lecture will offer a set of criteria by which a system may be judged to be cognitive or not, testing it against minimally cognitive biological lifeforms such as unicellular organisms and plants.
Dear English Department students, Welcome back to campus and to the 2024-2025 academic year, with a special welcome to first-year students and newly declared majors and minors! I’m delighted to greet you in my role as Chair of the English Department. I return for my second year leading the department, rejoining an amazing group of…
According to Professor Alexa Alice Joubin, meta-cognition and critical questioning skills are among the most important competency in the era of artificial intelligence. Prof. Joubin spoke at the QS Summit.
Attendant with Pearls: Abolition, Portraiture, Agency, and the Properties of Benevolence is the topic of this year’s Wang Endowment Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Patricia Matthew. All are welcome!
Generative Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) tools have the potential to alter profoundly the ways we work, create, think, and behave. They raise such questions as:
What makes humans distinctive? Can machines have consciousness? What is intelligence? Are the methods used to create A.I. tools ethical?
Happy new year! Join us for our first even of the year to learn about the latest AI. From AI that write original papers, essays, and poems, to those that create art or write computer code, these technologies are quickly impacting on many aspects of higher education.
The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of fiction! We’re joined by novelists Virginia Hartman (The Marsh Queen) and Annie Liontas (Let Me Explain You) for a discussion of their books and writing.
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Join us for a screening of Ophelia, October 4th, from 1:00 – 3:30 pm in Corcoran 103
The 2022 George Washington University Teaching Day will take place in Gelman Library on October 6. Register here to attend the free event. The English Department’s Alexa Alice Joubin will be one of the speakers. She will address open-access tools to foster inclusiveness. There e are multiple ways to facilitate inclusion…
GW English professor Alexa Alice Joubin is giving a WoW Talk today on Trans Studies and Why It Matters. Here is the Zoom link. All are welcome! The WoW Talks at George Washington University are 10-minute TED style presentations that offer snapshots of faculty’s latest research. In her talk, Professor Joubin…
