Memory, Erasure and Virtual Repatriation: The Zimbabwean Case

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

Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Nontsikelelo Mutiti, co-researchers of ReadingZimbabwe.com have been collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available information of as many publications about Zimbabwe from the 1950s to the present as is possible to identify and locate. This national archive is now submerged and is threatened with extinction: many of the key books of Zimbabwe's literary …

Doing Digital Oral History Workshop

Room C202 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

Register today! GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series presents a featured workshop on doing digital oral history by Doug Boyd Ph.D., a national expert on oral history, archives, and digital technologies.  Boyd serves as the Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries.  Boyd manages the Oral History in the Digital Age collaborative initiative …

Manifold Lunchtime Community Events

Room 5307 @ The GC

Join the Lost & Found team to explore how they publish the CUNY Pedagogy Series on Manifold. Dr. Kendra Sullivan (Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center) and Roxanne Shirazi (Mina Rees Library & CUNY Digital History Archive) will share how they use Manifold to digitally preserve and share archival and teaching materials from Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, and Adrienne …