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Greetings, All,

I’d like to encourage GC students who are interested in connecting with other student instructors to reflect upon their teaching this fall to consider registering for Teaching Strategies (PDEV 79401), description below. The course will meet virtually on Fridays from 11:45am-1:45pm. The workload will be minimal, and targeted…[Read more]

Dear all,

As of this week, CUNY Manifold has been upgraded to Manifold  version 5.0! The new version boasts a number of accessibility and usability enhancements as well as key features on our way to even greater flexibility for Open Educational Resources! The centerpiece of this release, a new Access Controls feature, allows users to limit…[Read more]

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
General Issue with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy

Issue Editors:
Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University)
Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library)

Editorial Assistant:
Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate Center)

Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-sub…[Read more]

We are excited to announce the release of a new resource for those working in Open Education: The OER Starter Kit Workbook!

The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of The OER Starter Kit released last year. The new edition includes worksheets attached to each chapter to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, us…[Read more]

To our CUNY friends and colleagues,

No one will deny that the coronavirus pandemic has left all of us with a deep sense of displacement. Not only have our 25 campuses splintered into thousands of individual bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens, but much of the family and community that we count on for support during the school year now…[Read more]

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
General Issue
with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy

Issue Editors:
Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University)
Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library)

Editorial Assistant:
Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate Center)

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)…[Read more]

Note: The following email was sent to all EOs and APOs at the Graduate Center on Monday, March 16. 

Dear Colleagues,

As the university transitions to remote instruction, research, and work, GC Digital Initiatives staff is available for consultations on a wide range of topics related to technology. We invite GC faculty, students, and staff…[Read more]

Hello all,

We are pleased to announce the Spring calendar for the Python Users’ Group (PUG for short).

The Python Users’ Group (PUG for short) is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming language, where we learn, work, chat, snack and have the occasional beer. It is an…[Read more]

Learn how to publish with Manifold!

Join Jojo Karlin and Krysia Michael Thursday, February 6, at 6pm in room 5307 

to learn how to publish openly-licensed course materials (public domain texts, things you own, new collaborations you wish to share) in beautiful, annotatable digital books.

Register at NYCDH Week 2020.

In this free…[Read more]

There’s a GA position at my work (Barnard College library), $30/hour. You don’t actually have to be in grad school, so if you have non-student friends who might be interested, please send the announcement along.

The Graduate Assistant – Instructional Technologist at Barnard’s Digital Humanities Center, will assist Digital Humanities Center sta…[Read more]

You are cordially invited to join the students in Methods of Text Analysis for their final class, which will include an open convening of 2 roundtable discussions, each addressing the course’s centralizing question: “Can there be a feminist text analysis?”

When? 6:30 – 8:30 PM

Where? Room 5307 at The Graduate Center

Each roundtable will…[Read more]

Hi friends,

I wanted to invite CUNY DHers and pythonistas to an event coming up at Columbia on Tuesday: Implementing Historical Algorithms. We have a Python User Group up here that I was inspired to start based on this community at CUNY and it would be great to close the loop and have you visit. The presentation will be by Jeff Binder, a former…[Read more]

“The Incommensurable: Explainability and the Autonomy of Computational Automation”

Tuesday, November 12th, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Room 5307

Reception to follow

This talk addresses some of the philosophical implications of a computer program being no longer constrained by the limits of human knowledge. I will understand this freedom from human k…[Read more]

Hi folks interested in digitalization and global infrastructure!

This seems like a cool fellowship (accepting applications through Nov. 10).

Application requires

• a CV,
• a reference letter,
• and Links to two (2) samples of published material, in English, in at least one of the CyberBRICS project areas (i.e. cybersecurity, Internet a…

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Come present your digital projects, ongoing digital humanities work, or research questions at the Fifth Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks event.

When: Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM with reception to follow

Who: All CUNY Students, Faculty, and Staff

Where: The Martin E. Segal Theatre, The…[Read more]

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Special Issue:
Extended Reality (XR) Pedagogies & Applications:
Interactive & Immersive Educational Technologies

Issue Editors:
Amanda Licastro (Stevenson University)
Angel David Nieves (San Diego State University)
Victoria Szabo (Duke University)

This special issue of The Journal of…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to direct your attention to an upcoming event at the University of Maryland that will be livestreamed.  “The Sound of Public Humanities and its Oscillatory Accessibility” presented by Setsuko Yokoyama, a PhD candidate in English. I offer a snippet of the abstract below, but you can read more here: https://mith.umd.edu/dialo…[Read more]

Dear all, 

We are writing to let you know about four upcoming GC Digital Initiatives workshops, including Intro to Python, Intro to Mapping, and Intro to Omeka. This Friday we will also be celebrating the publication of “Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019,” which will bring together a number of contributors to discuss their work…[Read more]

Hi All —

I’m delighted to invite you to an upcoming event on September 20 celebrating the publication of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, which will be offered as part of the Ph.D. Program in English’s Friday Forum Series. Details below:

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019

September 20, 2019: 4:00 PM

The Graduate Center
365…[Read more]