Call for Participation | Pelion Summer Lab 2019 “Data & Power” We are happy to announce that this summer we will be hosting the 3rd Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural …
Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities – Data & Power
Author: Kristen Hackett
Kristen Hackett is a PhD candidate in environmental psychology program and a GC Digital Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is also a member of the executive committee of the Justice For All Coalition. Her scholarship and activism focus on housing and community development. Learn more at http://kristenhackett.info.
Why Are Academic Websites So Ugly?
In my research I look for the nineteenth-century American poems that I believe have been wronged by being printed in physical books, and I create interactive digital websites for reading …
Facebook: Friend or Foe?
Facebook: Friend or Foe? Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, recently released an op-ed in The New York Times, “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook,” expressing concern about the monopolistic nature …
PyCon: Oh, the Humanities! Teaching and Learning Interdisciplinary Python
Hi, I’m Lisa Tagliaferri. I’ve been doing postdoctoral research at the MIT Digital Humanities Lab and you may know my Python tutorials on DigitalOcean. Today, I would like to talk …
How I organize my digital library
There might not be a Netflix original series about it, but organizing our digital life is today at least as important as organizing any other aspects of our life—if not …
Tools of Technological and Intellectual Change: OER and the Democratization of Knowledge Production
Much has been written about the production of knowledge, the validity or social value of new forms of knowledge, the public debates about the politics and/or (im)proper practices of access …
Open Pedagogy Symposium TOMORROW!
Tomorrow, May 3, join us for a discussion of Open with adjunct faculty, library students, GC students, and library faculty as the word pertains to labor, the academy, and colonialization. …
Open Resources, Annotated Bibliographies, and the Age of Revolution
As a student and teacher of revolutionary literature and history, I believe that time is always ripe to talk to about the potential, performance, and process of structural change. What …
Transforming TEI for the Web
Last month, I led a workshop for the GC Digital Initiatives on “Getting Started with TEI.” For those who don’t know, TEI (short for Text Encoding Initiative) is a method …
Still Looking for Digital Justice
This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the Last Road to Freedom website, which I designed to tell the story of America’s Civil War contraband camps and to digitize transcribed …
