Destruction and Documentation: Saving Syria’s Cultural Heritage Lecture Oct 15, 2014, 6:30 pm Room C198 Bernard Gagnon: View of Apamea, Syria. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Since 2011, Syria has been mired in war and destruction. The country’s cultural patrimony has been ruined and is likely to be obliterated. Join Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis as she introduces Manar al-Athar, an open access …

Data for Social Research 1: Finding Data – 6:30pm October 15 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Data for Social Research Part 1: Finding Data  October 15th, 2014, 6:30 – 8:00pm Location: C196.03 The Graduate Center Library offers a series of workshops on data mapping and GIS sources. The first in the series, Finding Data introduces sources of data (demographic, …

This semester, the Digital Fellows at the Graduate Center are offering free workshops for all students and faculty. These workshops will go beyond introducing you to software and websites; we’ll be suggesting new, digital solutions to ongoing research problems. Please join us for our latest workshops of the Fall 2014 term: Intro to Programming with Python  This …