Covering the historical trends, current traits and future possibilities of the Italian fashion industry, selected articles from the latest special issue of Journal of Modern Italian Studies are now free to […]
Author Archive | Lisa Tagliaferri
Virtual Mapping
This past October at our first public Futures Initiative event at the Graduate Center, Curtis Wong, the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, gave a talk entitled “Mapping the Universe and Other […]
The MOOC Moment, Thurs. Feb. 26, 3:30pm, Grad Center Library
2012 was declared to be “the year of the MOOC” by no less than the New York Times, but stories of failure abounded about Massive Open Online Courses in the […]
Digital Humanities Event: “The Old English Poetry Project,” A Digital Archive
Friday February 6 at 7.30 p.m. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue Room 4406 Hosted by the Medieval Club of New York Professor […]
The Single Best Method For Class (Or Any Kind of) Participation (Thx SciFi Genius Samuel Delany)
Whenever the great science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany teaches or gives a talk, he asks questions and has one requirement: everyone has to raise a hand. Everyone. Whether one […]
Action on Education — Scholar & Feminist Conference — Barnard
Action on Education FEB 27-28, 2015 Barnard College THE SCHOLAR & FEMINIST CONFERENCE Speakers include Lalaie Ameeriar, Abigail Boggs, The Black Youth Project, Nuala Cabral, Natalia Cecire, Jaz Choi, Tressie […]
“The Postdigital Museum:” Ross Parry talk at Bard’s Graduate Center, NYC
Ross Parry will be coming to speak at the New Media Seminar at Bard’s Graduate Center on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. His talk is entitled “The Postdigital Museum.” The event […]
Photo Essay of Futures Initiative Syllabus Building Workshop
The Futures Initiative hosted its first workshop of the Mapping the Futures of Higher Education course this past Thursday, January 22nd. A number of the graduate students who will be […]
CUNY Soda Can
Finally, CUNY soda! This soda can was spotted on the SUNY Stony Brook campus! We at the Futures Initiative have been advocating for more CUNY swag 🙂 But more importantly, […]
Partnerships and Looking Forward
Demos Orphanides, Webmaster and Online Community Strategist at HASTAC@Duke, recently joined the HASTAC@CUNY and Futures Initiative team for a few days while we prepare for several exciting new things on […]