Please join us on May 19th 2015 for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the innovative and diverse digital projects initiated during the 2014-2015 academic year! Presentations will be given by: the Digital Praxis Seminar, the GC Digital Fellows, Provost’s Digital Innovation Grantees, the New Media Lab, the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate […]
Author Archive | Lisa Tagliaferri
Google’s “Education on Air” Free Online Conference
I was notified about this from the college where I’m teaching — it may be of interest to some of you just to see what others are doing and what Google for Education is all about. It seems less-directed to Higher Ed than K-12. May 8th, 10AM-3PM EDT May 9th, 7AM-9:30PM EDT Recordings of sessions […]
MEDIA RES #1: lightning talks by NYC graduate students on DH projects
(in English & literary studies) 2:00 – 3:30 pm Friday, May 8th, 2015 CUNY Graduate Center, Room C415A NYC has more graduate students executing projects in the digital humanities than perhaps anywhere else in the world. Even so, few venues exist that make visible the diverse set of methods, philosophies, and inquiries that drive this […]
Fri., May 1 | Knowledge Visualization: From Abstract Space to Real Impact
By Lisa Tagliaferri on April 29, 2015 in andre skupin, content, knowledge, live data, Of Interest, presentation, social media, structures
André Skupin San Diego State University When: Friday, May 1, 2015, 12:30‐13:30 Where: Rm C415A, Concourse Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York In recent years, visualization has solidly established itself within the mainstream of contemporary society. From social media platforms to news outlets and academic publication channels, information is now routinely […]
April 20 | Federica Muzzarelli, “Exploring Identities: Women Photographers and Gender Performance”
TODAY, 6:30pm: Lecture by Distinguished Writer Rebecca Solnit, City College
Rebecca Solnit’s maps have been among the inspiration behind some of the mapping ideas we’ve been developing through this course, and she is speaking this evening, April 2 at City College. Rebecca Solnit to Deliver Mumford Lecture The Graduate Program in Urban Design is pleased to announce the eleventh annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism, […]
ARC Student Fellowships — Deadline Friday April 17
By Lisa Tagliaferri on March 24, 2015 in advanced research collaborative, arc, digital literacy, graduate student award, immigration, inequality, multilingualism, Of Interest, research praxis
The Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) is accepting applications from Level II doctoral students for Research Praxis Awards for the upcoming academic year. Their research themes closely match those of many students in the Mapping the Futures graduate course — immigration, inequality, multilingualism, digital education. Below is a link to the application (due April 17), and under […]
NYCDH Second Graduate Student Project Award
By Lisa Tagliaferri on March 13, 2015 in award, graduate students, new york city digital humanities, nyc digital humanities, nycdh, Of Interest
NYCDH is pleased to announce our second annual cross-institutional NYCDH digital humanities graduate student project award. We invite all graduate students in the city of New York to apply by August 1, 2015. First prize winner(s) will receive a cash prize of $1000. Two runner up positions will receive $500 each. All three winning proposals will […]
Lecture – Christina Moon March 23rd @ 6:30 The Graduate Center CUNY
The Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, Fashion Studies and The Center for the Study of Women & Society invite you to the lecture by Christina Moon (Parsons, The New School for Design): New York/Los Angeles. Fashion Capitals and Fast Fashion This talk explores the emergence of new kinds of fashion workers in the New York and Los Angeles […]
NYPL Mapping Division and NYPL Labs Visit: Photo Essay
By Lisa Tagliaferri on March 8, 2015 in Class Recap, class trip, nypl, nypl labs, nypl mapping division, photo essay, photos, Reflection
On Friday, March 6, members from the Futures Initiative team and the graduate Mapping the Futures course met with the NYPL Mapping Division and NYPL Labs for a behind-the-scenes look at some of the significant and innovative work they are doing with maps. Matt Knutzen showed us a number of maps from the NYPL collection, beginning with […]
