English Professor at QS Summit on AI
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.
2023 Wang Endowment Lecture
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!
I Am not a Robot: The Entangled Futures of A.I. and the Humanities
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?
AI is in Your Classroom – Even if You Didn’t Know It!
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.
Craft Chat with Virginia Hartman and Annie Liontas
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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Film Screening and Discussion
Join us for a screening of Ophelia, October 4th, from 1:00 – 3:30 pm in Corcoran 103
GW University Teaching Day
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…
WoW Talk on Trans Studies and Why It Matters
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…
Jenny Mckean Moore Reading Series: Fiction Writer James Han Mattson
Author James Han Mattson will appear virtually to read from his newly released novel, Reprieve, and take part in a discussion about his work. James Han Mattson was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received grants from the Copernicus Society of America and…
Jenny McKean Moore Reading – Nonfiction Writers: David and Margaret Talbot
The Jenny McKean Moore Reading Series presents two nonfiction writers: David and Margaret Talbot, on October 14th at 6:30 pm. Their book is By the Light of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution. They will be in conversation with Professor Virginia Hartman.