Susan Buck-Morss Debuts New WebsiteSusan Buck-Morss , a Distinguished Professor of Political Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, unveiled a new website, SusanBuckMorss.info , that presents her work in an interactive format. The site reflects her cross-disciplinary work, which ranges across Art History, Architecture, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, German Studies, Philosophy, History, and Visual Culture.
This course is the first open, online course in the history of the CUNY Graduate Center. What does inequality look like in 2013 and how might we imagine it differently for our collective futures? What can working with East Harlem teach us about the most urgent political economic issues of our time? How do the affordances of digital technologies augment the way we both research inequality and resist its corrosive effects? The course is run as a participatory, open, online course, a “POOC.” This is a reimagined vision of the MOOC (massive, open, online course) model that has gained so much attention in the mainstream press. Registration for this course is now open. Click here to go to the course site.
Commons In A BoxCommons In A Box (CBOX) is a project of the City University of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and is made possible by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. CBOX is a free software project aimed at turning the infrastructure that successfully powers the CUNY Academic Commons into a free, distributable, easy-to-install package. CBOX takes the complexity out of creating a Commons site, helping organizations create a space where their members can discuss issues, collaborate on projects, and share their work.
Find out more about Commons In A Box here.
JustPublics@365 brings together academics, community leaders, policy advocates, journalists and digital activists in ways that create new forms of knowledge, connect across traditional silos, and fosters transformation on issues of inequality and social justice. JustPublics@365 is a partnership between the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the Ford Foundation. This is a bold attempt to place social activists in conversation with researchers in ways that promote social transformation and to broaden the impact of academic scholarship on public policy and practice.
History Professor Gregory Downs (CCNY/GC) has just won a prestigious digital innovation fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his project “Mapping Occupation: The Union Army and the Meaning of Reconstruction.” The project will simultaneously convey new data about the presence, size, and persistence of Army outposts in the years after Appomattox, and use that data to develop interpretations about the crucial role of force in shaping emancipation, the development of new national rights, the newfound power of the federal government, and the insurgency launched by ex-Confederates against federal power. The project will also utilize newly organized data about Army outposts to develop an interactive website that will allow scholars to map federal power and emancipation in the post-war moment.
Lev Manovich, a world-renowned innovator in digital humanities and theorist of digital culture and media art, joined the Graduate Center’s doctoral faculty in January 2013 to lead digital humanities research. Manovich’s global reputation in digital humanities stems from the tremendous impact of his 2001 book, The Language of New Media, which has been translated into eight languages. His next book, Software Takes Command, will be published by Continuum in 2013. Manovich’s innovative leadership in digital humanities is also playing a key role in the development of a new field of software studies—the study of how software shapes contemporary societies.
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Gain knowledge and know-how at these Spring 2013 Digital GC events at the Graduate Center that focus on digital tools, technologies, and theories. This calendar includes seminars, guest lectures, conferences, and workshops, free to GC community members. From the line-up of CUNY Digital Studies/Digital Humanities seminars to hands-on workshops designed for students by students in the Digital Fellows program, the calendar displays the diverse engagements with digital theory and practice across the Graduate Center.
Welcome to the CUNY Graduate Center Digital Initiatives website, which highlights a broad range of exciting digital projects and resources at the CUNY Graduate Center. Look below to find projects arranged in thematic clusters, and click through those categories to explore individual projects. And if you’d like to stay involved, please join our group on the CUNY Academic Commons and follow us on twitter.
Provost’s Digital Innovation GrantsThis grant program supports cutting-edge digital projects designed, created, programmed, or administered by CUNY Graduate Center students. Learn about the ten current grants that represent digital research from a wide variety of disciplines, including Musicology, English, Philosophy, Anthropology, Religion, Urban Education, Sociology, History, and Computer Science.
Digital FellowsSupporting a variety of digital projects and helping to implement a strategic vision for public digital scholarship, Digital Fellows Erin Glass, Andrew McKinney, Alice Lynn McMichael, Hillary Miller, Laura Kane and Micki Kaufman each bring unique talents to the Graduate Center.
