In an ongoing effort to surface and share relevant events, publications, workshops, and opportunities that may be of interest to “The Digital GC” community, GC Digital Initiatives posts regular updates each Monday to our blog.
If you would like for us to share information about an upcoming event, workshop, or other announcement relevant to the Digital GC community, you can submit your information through the Digital GC Submission Form.
New @ the Digital GC
This week, the GC Digital Fellows’ website features a new project, “Visualizing the Local Impact of the NEH,” in light of Trump’s recent federal budget announcement. Where and what kinds of projects receive funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)? How might we visualize such funding to reflect upon the devastating effects that cutting this funding would have? Jojo Karlin walks through various data visualizations of the NEH budget that the Digital Fellows, particularly Tahir Butt and Hannah Aizenman, produced following the lead of GC Digital Initiatives Deputy Director Dr. Lisa Rhody. Note that Lisa and the Digital Fellows are currently planning an interactive map showing in greater detail the impact the NEH has had on a state-by-state and institution-by-institution level. These projects take time, energy, and commitment, and we at GCDI want to get people involved. If you want to participate, please contact gc.digitalfellows@gmail.com or come by Python User Group at 12 PM Wednesdays in room 7414.
GC Digital Initiatives Resources
The GC Digital Initiatives offer a wide range of resources to support your interests in scholarly communication, digital scholarship and research methods, digital humanities, and digital pedagogy. Have a question? Want to try something new? Interested in finding a community of resources using a similar digital tool? Here are some of the GC Digital Initiatives resources that you can take advantage of this week.
Monday Maker Hours
When: alternating Mondays from 4:00 – 6:00 PM, next is March 20
Where: The Digital Scholarship Lab, Graduate Center Room 7414
GC Digital Fellows Office Hours
When: Tuesdays from 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Where: The Digital Scholarship Lab, Graduate Center Room 7414
Python User Group (PUG)
When: Wednesdays 12:00 – 2:00 PM
Where: The Digital Scholarship Lab, Graduate Center Room 7414
GCDI Digital Project Working Groups
The next meetings of the Text Analysis and GIS Working Groups will be announced soon.
Interested in participating? Sign Up!
Workshops & Discussions @ The GC
The GC Digital Fellows of GCDI and many of our partners across the GC offer workshops related to our mission to promote a Digital GC. Here’s what’s planned this week:
ITP Skills Lab/Teaching and Learning Center Workshop: Hybrid Online Learning
When: Monday, March 20, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Where: GC Library basement, Room C196.01
Teaching and Learning Center Workshop: Demystifying Ed Tech
When: Wednesday, March 22, 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Where: GC Room 5417
GC Library & NYPL: Collaborative Research Seminar on Archives and Special Collections
When: Thursday, March 23, 6:00 PM
Where: TBA.
Note that the application deadline for this seminar has already passed.
Digital Fellows Workshop: Data Visualization 2
When: Thursday, March 23, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Where: GC Room 9205
Events Nearby
There’s so much going on in the NYC area. Here are just a few of the events that caught our eye.
OpenLab at City Tech: Open Pedagogy Event: Multimedia Pedagogy Across the Disciplines
When: Thursday, March 23, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Where: CUNY City Tech, 300 Jay St, Faculty Commons Room N227, Brooklyn, NY
Data & Society Biotech Futures Talk + Lab Series: Synthetic Biology: Learn to Program Life
When: Saturday, March 25, 2:00 – 6:00 PM
Where: GenSpace, 33 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Calls for Participation & Funding Opportunities
HASTAC & James Madison University’s 2017 Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop (June 12-18, 2017 online via Slack)
Registration opens: March 21, 2017
The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in feminist research.
Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs (Stipend: $67,500 per year)
Deadline to apply: March 22, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
CUNY Graduate Center Videography Fellowships ($34,175 per year)
Deadline to apply: March 23, 2017
CUNY Graduate Center New Media Lab: Digital Dissertation Award (award amount: $1,000)
Applications due: March 27, 2017
AAS / CUNY Summer Digital Fellowship (total compensation: $3,000)
Deadline to apply: March 31, 2017
Registration open for the 2017 American Society for Environmental History Conference: “Winds of Change: Global Connections across Space, Time, and Nature” (March 29 – April 2, 2017 in Chicago, IL)
There is a fee for registration, more info here.
*There are a number of panels on the material and environmental effects of the digital! See here.
Registration open for the 2017 Queerness and Games Conference (April 1-2, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA)
The event is free and open to the public.
Call for Proposals: HSTAC 2017: “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities” (Nov. 2-4, 2017 in Orlando, FL)
Deadline for submissions: April 7, 2017
Google Public Policy Fellowship (award amount: $7,500)
Applications due: 12:00 AM midnight EST May 26, 2017
