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The 2016 GWU Digital Humanities Showcase

ByGWEnglish February 5, 2016October 6, 2021

Friday, February 12

12:30 – 3 p.m.

Please RSVP here

#GWDH16

Everyone is invited to a showcase of Digital Humanities (DH) projects underway across the George Washington University. The program will include brief presentations followed by discussion and a reception. Find out about innovative endeavors happening in Classics, The Elliot School, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Philosophy, Statistics, Health Sciences, DC Africana Archives Project, and more. This event is presented by the GW Digital Humanities Institute and GW Libraries.

Associate Professor of History Diane Cline, Director of Cross Disciplinary Collaboration and the XD@GW Faculty Cooperative, will give opening remarks

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Professor Alexa Alice Joubin: Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness

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What Can I Do with an English Major? A Lot!

ByGWEnglish September 8, 2014December 9, 2021

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T-Shirt Thursday April 2: DO NOT BE LEFT OUT

ByGWEnglish February 18, 2009October 7, 2021

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Disability Studies Across the Curriculum

ByGWEnglish February 9, 2007October 7, 2021

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Alexa Alice Joubin to give a TED talk

ByGWEnglish October 25, 2019October 4, 2021

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Private Bodies/Public Encounters: Susan Nussbaum at GW October 6

ByGWEnglish September 24, 2014December 9, 2021

PEN/Bellweather Prize Winner Susan Nussbaum Our first event in the Private Bodies/Public Encounters series will occur on Monday, October 6 from 7-9 PM in 309 Marvin Center. The event features novelist and playwright, Susan Nussbaum, from Chicago. Susan’s novel, “Good Kings Bad Kings”, details the lives and struggles of a multi-racial group of disabled youth institutionalized at the…

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