Digital Fellows Guest Workshop: Geospatial Mapping with QGIS

Room C196.02 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Digital Fellows Guest Workshop: Geospatial Mapping with QGIS Thursday, April 23, 2015 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT) Please join guest speaker Abby Mullen (Northeastern University) for the latest Digital Fellows workshop of the Spring 2015 semester. This workshop will focus on QGIS and the use of historical maps, georectification, and adding other data on top …

Free

ArcGIS All-Day Workshop

ArcGIS | All day workshops on Feb 27, Mar 27, Apr 24 ($30) | Frank Donnelly Do you have a research question that you'd like to envision geographically? Maybe you'd like to study neighborhoods and businesses to target a market. Or perhaps you want to visualize the distribution of education, employment, or resources across the country or …

$30

New Media Lab Meeting

Room 7388.01 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Tuesday, April 28, 12:30 – 2:00 Presenting: Stephanie St. Pierre, “Food Systems, Health and Community” and Alice Lynn McMichael, “Documenting Cappadocia” Please visit the New Media Lab website for more information.

ITP Workshop: Photoshop

Photoshop| April 29, 4:15 to 6:15 | Room TBD | Sissi Liu 劉思 Participants will learn basic skills such as understanding and adjusting the histogram, tonal scale, refining colors with hue/saturation, changing fill and opacity.  Then we will delve into more advanced skills such as layering and collage, burning and dodging, creating effects with blur gallery. Students …

free

Futures Initiative Event: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

Room 9206, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, United States

May 5: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Open Class Session and Reception, Presentations of Works-in-Progress, Recap, and Interactive Session–Bring Your Markers!, 5-8pm, The Graduate Center, CUNY, William Kelly Skylight Conference Room Please visit the Futures Initiative website for more information.

The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase

Room 9205 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase 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 …

Free

Futures Initiative Event: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Library, Alumni Lounge, and Segal Theatre

May 22: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Exhibit of the CUNY Map of NYC, Reception, and Recognition Ceremony for all Futures Initiative Scholars, Evening, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Library, Alumni Lounge, and Segal Theatre  Please visit the Futures Initiative website for more information.

CUNY DHI: Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York

Room C197 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

#cunydhi We invite you to The Graduate Center for this CUNY-wide event, which will a feature a series of lightning talks on current and recent digital humanities work at our institutions. To see our full line-up of more than twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff across the CUNY campuses, please visit the CUNY …

“TBD:” A Talk by Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

The Skylight Room @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

Increasingly, it would seem, the future is already known, determined by algorithms that analyze, predict and pre-empt actions.  Privacy is dead, and so is consent, because regardless of our own actions, we are betrayed by people “like us.”  To what extent, though, does this situation offer new possibilities for action and modes of identification?  This …