Citizen Cartography @NYPL: Map Warper Workshop at The Graduate Center GC Digital Initiatives and CUNY DHI invite you to attend a special workshop in collaboration with the New York Public Library, hosted at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Join us: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Room C203, The Graduate Center, CUNY …
The Digital GC: 2014-2015 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, …
A project by Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, and Lev Manovich, On Broadway is an urban data visualization project “On Broadway” that represents 13 miles of Broadway using images and data from Instagram, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Street View, the US Census Bureau, and more. The result is a visually rich image-centric interface, where numbers play only a secondary role, and no maps are used. The project …
We are excited to draw your attention to a new course at the Graduate Center, starting this Fall, aimed at introducing doctoral students to digital tools, methods, and scholarship early in their graduate careers. Co-taught by Profs. Matthew K. Gold (English, Liberal Studies) and Stephen Brier (Urban Education), and open to students across the GC, …
The goal of the Graduate Center’s JustPublics@365 program is to bring together academics, community leaders, policy advocates, journalists and digital activists in ways that create new forms of knowledge, connect across traditional silos, and foster transformation on issues of inequality and social justice. JustPublics@365 is a partnership between the Graduate Center of the City University …
History Professor Gregory Downs (CCNY/GC) has just won a prestigious digital innovation fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his project “Mapping Occupation: The Union Army and the Meaning of Reconstruction.” The project will simultaneously convey new data about the presence, size, and persistence of Army outposts in the years after Appomattox, and use …
2015 GC Digital Fellows Application Based in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab, the GC Digital Fellows Program operates as an in-house think-and-do tank for digital projects, connecting Fellows to digital initiatives throughout The Graduate Center. Digital Fellows utilize a team-based approach as they explore creative solutions for projects that can be implemented in a collaborative …
The CUNY Academic Commons is an online, academic social network for faculty, staff, and graduate students of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Designed to foster conversation, collaboration, and connections among the 23 individual colleges that make up the university system, the site, founded in 2009, has quickly grown as a hub for …
Begun in the Fall of 2010, the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative “aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities.” DHI is a public group on the CUNY Academic Commons, open to everyone, including “experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and …
The Masters of Arts in Liberals Studies Program (MALS) is a “unique interdisciplinary thirty-credit degree program that allows students to design and pursue an individual course of study, and to take courses in the Ph.D. programs.” The Digital Humanities track is one of its eighteen tracks. Copied below is the description for MALS 781000 – …
