DIGITAL HUMANITIES LECTURE: Ryan Cordell - Bibliography & the Sociology of Large Language Models
Drawing on experiments from the Viral Texts project (https://viraltexts.org), this talk will reflect on the relationship between bibliography & AI in two directions. First, the talk will consider how bibliographic methods can help scholars, as D.F. McKenzie wrote of printed texts, "to describe not only the technical but the social processes" of AI models' "production and reception." The talk will argue that historical practices, such as reprinting in historical newspapers, can offer vital interpretive purchase for theorizing the dominant text-reuse technology of our moment. From here, the talk will describe a series of experiments aimed at understanding what analytical use LLMs might offer scholars researching in large-scale historical collections, for tasks such as genre classification, textual segmentation, or topic identification. Ryan Cordell (Information Sciences and English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Cordell is co-PI of the Viral Texts project, which uses robust data mining tools to…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Communications Building (CMU). Campus room: 120. Accessibility Contact: Simpson Center, 206.543.3920, schadmin@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM.
Accessible Presentations: Global Accessibility Awareness Day w/ CREATE
CREATE Director Jennifer Mankoff kicks off the UW's Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) midday session.
The session includes: Best practices for accessible presentations - CREATE participating postdoc Avery Mack , Basic disability studies history and concepts, important grounding for any kind of work with people with disabilities - CREATE participating postdoc Emma McDonnell , Welcome message by Andreas Bohman, Vice President for UW Information Technology , Presentation by UW Provost Tricia Serio, Registration required. Zoom link provided with registration.
Event Accommodations
Contact Susie Hawkey by April 30 to request accommodations: 206-543-6504, shawkey@uw.edu.
Also make sure to catch these CREATE offerings: Connecting Dots book talk with Joshua Miele - CREATE collaborator Joshua Miele will talk about his new memoir about the professional: his unique approaches to solving accessibility challenges; and the personal: canes and dogs, braille and babies, screen readers and spacecraft, and the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: 250. Accessibility Contact: shawkey@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: All are welcome.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00 PM – 1:55 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. Computing Instructors Workshop/Keynote with Amy Ko: Global Accessibility Awareness Day w/ CREATE
Zoom only workshop with CREATE faculty members: Kevin Lin hosts and Amy Ko delivers the keynote.
The workshop is designed for instructors in all disciplines–the humanities, arts, and sciences–who teach programming. Connect with and learn from other UW instructors. We will share resources and ideas for making our computing courses more accessible towards meeting the 2026 digital accessibility requirements. Learn from accessibility experts on topics such as pedagogy, community, teaching tools, assessments, and visuals.
Registration required. Zoom link provided with registration.
Accommodations
Contact Susie Hawkey by April 30 to request accommodations: 206-543-6504, shawkey@uw.edu.
Also make sure to catch these CREATE offerings at GAAD 2025: Disability History and Accessibility Best Practices. CREATE Director Jennifer Mankoff will introduce CREATE participating postdocs Emma McDonnell and Avery Mack.
, Connecting Dots book talk with Joshua Miele - CREATE collaborator Joshua Miele will talk about his…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: shawkey@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Special Events. Workshops. Target Audience: Instructors of computing, programming, or data analysis from all disciplines: humanities, arts, sci.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. Joshua Miele book talk: Global Accessibility Awareness Day w/ CREATE
Connecting Dots book talk with Joshua Miele - CREATE collaborator Joshua Miele will talk about his new memoir. In the book, Miele shares his unique approaches to solving accessibility challenges, such as automated tools for generating tactile maps, a somewhat shady scheme for crowd-sourcing descriptions of YouTube videos, and a brief but brutal sabotage campaign against inaccessible ATMs in the late 90s. Along the way, he talks about canes and dogs, braille and babies, screen readers and spacecraft, and the rebellion and romance throughout his life that ties them all together.
Registration required. Zoom link provided with registration.
Accommodations
Contact Susie Hawkey by April 30 to request accommodations: 206-543-6504, shawkey@uw.edu.
Also make sure to catch these CREATE offerings at GAAD 2025: Disability History and Accessibility Best Practices. CREATE Director Jennifer Mankoff kicks off the midday GAAD session, which includes presentations by CREATE participating postdocs Emma McDonnell and Avery…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: Bezos Seminar Room - G04. Accessibility Contact: kqvoss@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Student Activities. Target Audience: All are welcome.
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
For more info visit create.uw.edu. AccessADVANCE Capacity Building Institute
Join AccessADVANCE and colleagues from across the country to share challenges and solutions for creating systemic changes that supports the recruitment and participation of faculty with disabilities in STEM careers. We welcome the participation and perspectives of people with disabilities, administrators, faculty, and disability services professionals. Online via Zoom , In-person on the UW campus in Seattle , Learn more and apply , Apply to participate by April 11, Virtual and in-person participants are invited to propose and lead a flash talk (~15 minutes). You can also suggest panel discussions topics & volunteer to facilitate or join a panel. Virtual participants will receive Zoom links prior to the event. We will explore topics like: Accommodating faculty with disabilities , Funding accommodations , Finding community , Informal accommodations and interdependence , Intersectional issues particularly impacting women faculty with disabilities.
Event interval: Ongoing event. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Target Audience: People with disabilities, administrators, faculty, and disability services professionals.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 – Thursday, May 22, 2025.
For more info visit docs.google.com. DUB Research Day
DUB Research Day brings together our regional community for a day of research talks and networking in advance of CHI 2025. Join us to engage with research that will appear at CHI 2025, great research from the past year, and an exciting invited keynote.
Please join us in-person for this event. Community networking will be in-person, but talks will also be available for synchronous remote viewing via Zoom.
For more information about this event, including information on how to RSVP and participate, be sure to join the DUB mailing list.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2). Campus room: 401. Accessibility Contact: dub-research-day@dub.washington.edu. Event Types: Academics. Conferences. Diversity Equity Inclusion. Exhibits. Meetings. Student Activities. Target Audience: All are welcome.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit dub.washington.edu.