“Spatiality and Digital Mapping” was held in Keating Hall on the Fordham University Rose Hill campus on October 29, 2014. The program was organized by the Fordham Medieval Studies Program and co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group. Roughly 15 people attended the two hour workshop. Dr. David Joseph Wrisley (@DJWrisley) is Associate Professor in the Department of English and…
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“Libre Software, Libre Education” with Richard Stallman (Columbia University, October 17, 2014)
“Libre Software, Libre Education” with Richard Stallman(Columbia University, 10-17-2014) The lecture “Libre Software, Libre Education” was held in Butler Library on the Columbia University campus on October 17th. Roughly 20 people attended the event, most of whom were Columbia University students. The speaker, Richard Stallman is, according to the event description, a “Mac Arthur Award winner, Harvard alum, founder of…
Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria’s Cultural Heritage, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (CUNY, October 15, 2014)
On October 15th, The Graduate Center at the City University of New York hosted Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis as she presented her lecture, “ Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria’s Cultural Heritage.” The talk was co-sponsored by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center and the M.A. program in Liberal Studies. Macaulay-Lewis is an archeologist, educator, author and…
Protected: Manuscript Materiality Lab and Scriptorium (NYU, 10-10-2014)
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What Is a Dissertation? New Models, New Methods, New Media (CUNY Graduate Center, October 10, 2014)
The Futures Initiative at CUNY Graduate Center, HASTAC@CUNY, CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, along with distance partners that included the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University, HASTAC Scholars, Hybrid Pedagogy, held a forum titled What Is a Dissertation? New Models, New Methods, New Media last Friday, October 10, 2014. The forum was held at CUNY Graduate Center and showcased…
“What is a Dissertation, New Models, New Methods, New Media.” (CUNY, October 10, 2014)
On Friday, October 10th I attended, “What is a Dissertation, New Models, New Methods, New Media.” This event was a panel discussion, which was part of a series of talks put forth by CUNY as part of their digital humanities initiative. The panel consisted of five PhD candidates, who were chosen to speak because of the brilliant and innovative ways…
“Book Traces Comes to Butler Stacks” with Prof. Andrew Stauffer (Butler Library, Columbia University, October 9, 2014)
Presented by Professor Andrew Stauffer of the University of Virginia English Department, Book Traces is ostensibly an ongoing “crowd-sourced web project aimed at identifying unique copies of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century books on library shelves.” (http://www.booktraces.org/about/) But identifying these books is really just the beginning of a multifaceted process that bears fruit in both pedagogy and digital scholarship, and has important…
“Urban Humanities: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Practices” (NYU, May 13, 2014)
The Humanities Initiative at NYU held the URBAN HUMANITIES: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Practices to promote awareness of existing initiatives in New York City, and to foster the development of new work in urban humanities. Two of the main questions addressed during this symposium were, “What new opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration do digital tools afford…
“UX/DH” (Pratt Institute, April 12, 2014)
On April 12, 2014, the New York City Digital Humanities Student Group, UX/IA Pratt, and ASIS&T @ Pratt hosted the UX/DH event at Pratt SILS, featuring presentations on current and possible intersections between user experience and digital humanities. The first panel, “User Experience at New York University Libraries,” featured three Pratt SILS UX Practicum students discussing their work at NYU…
“How Did They Make That? Reverse-Engineering Digital Projects” with Miriam Posner (CUNY Graduate Center, March 27, 2014)
Miriam Posner, teacher and coordinator at the UCLA Digital Humanities program, recently presented her lecture “How Did They Make That? Reverse-Engineering Digital Projects” at the CUNY Graduate Center. The aim of Posner’s lecture was to provide techniques for dissecting Digital Humanities projects and for understanding how they were built. Posner stated that these techniques could be useful both for “modeling…