CUNY Academic Commons

Please see this link for a terrific job opportunity directing the Center for Teaching and Learning at Mercy College.

https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=176837877&Title=Director%2C%20Center%20for%20Teaching%20%26%20Learning

Hi all,

We’re writing to share an opportunity for current students, faculty, and staff at The Graduate Center, CUNY, to apply to learn some digital research skills with GC Digital Initiatives and the GC Digital Fellows for free this January 14-17, during our week-long intensive GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI). The deadline to apply is THIS…[Read more]

From GC Digital Fellow Olivia Ildefonso:

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Hi all,

We’re happy to announce that we will be having a GIS day event at the GC. All of the info is below. Please share it with your networks and anyone who you think would be interested in attending. We are also still looking for a few more presenters to talk (for about 8 min) about how they…[Read more]

Join us this November for the following ITP Skills Labs, Mondays 6:30-8:30PM in C196.03. Register through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gc-itp-skills-labs-tickets-49715918651

Wordpress Theming with PHP and CSS | November 5 | Danara Sarioglu

• This workshop will combine the HTML/CSS coding with Wordpress to discuss how to customize…

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Publishing with Manifold: CUNY Teachers Edition

November 15 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm

CUNY teachers!

Come learn how you can publish materials on Manifold, a digital platform for scholarly publishing! Learn how to turn a Google Doc into a polished publication or create a mobile-friendly version of a public domain text!

Join Manifold Digital F…[Read more]

Dear all,

Please see the invitation below from Dan Siepmann, Edith Gonzalez, and Helen Koh to participate in a CUNY-wide town hall event on finding funding to support your humanities scholarship.

Best wishes,

Lisa

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Learn more about funding your scholarship, creative practice, or special projects at a unique…[Read more]

The CUNY Academic Commons is hiring! Please see our ad below for this part-time position.
 
Project Manager (Part-Time)
Review of applications will begin on November 5
The CUNY Academic Commons ( https://commons.gc.cuny.edu ), an open-source academic social network connecting the 25 campuses of the City University of New York, seeks a Project…[Read more]

The Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R-CADE) invites hands on research and creative activity with digital technologies. We provide up to $1,300 to accepted panels for the purchase of hardware, software, and other materials.
This year’s theme is “Trash,” and our keynote speaker is Sarah T. Roberts. Submission deadline is November 30,…[Read more]

Monday, October 29, 6:30pm-8:00pm, Room 9204

Click here to Register

Poetic Computation: a Talk with Taeyoon Choi

This talk with Taeyoon Choi considers the intersection between computation and poetics, and code and care. Computation is poetic when technology is used for critical thinking and aesthetic inquiry – a space where logic meets e…[Read more]

Dear all,

Please see below for a short-term position that requires experience in Python programming and text analysis. Please contact Erec Koch directly if you are interested.

Best,

Lisa

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A faculty member is looking to work with a Python developer who has experience in text analysis to write a program to find…[Read more]

Web & Applications Developer, Carnegie Mellon Libraries

Reporting to the Director of Digital Strategy, the Library Web & Applications Developer works with faculty, staff, and other campus partners to understand needs; evaluate technologies to meet these needs (or anticipate emerging opportunities); designs, implements, tests, and supports…[Read more]

Hi all,

The Career Center is offering an excellent opportunity to meet employers and learn more about working in the Public Policy sector. I encourage you to consider attending if you’re interested in careers in public policy, research, or civil service.

Best,

Lisa

Graduate Center Public Policy Career Fair.

Date: Monday,…[Read more]

Python Users’ Group (or PUG for short) invites you all for our first meeting of the year! It is going to be on October 15, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in the GC Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 7414). We will make sure to have some pizza.

PUG is an open and informal collaborative space for experimentation and exploration with the Python programming l…[Read more]

The Software Arts: Warren Sack at NYU on Thurs., Oct. 18th, 11:30am-1:30pm

http://as.nyu.edu/ceh/events/2018-2019/TheSoftwareArts.html

Thursday Oct. 18 11:30am-1:30am

19 Washington Sq. North, Event Space

The subject of Warren Sack’s talk will be The Software Arts, a book manuscript for the MIT Press “Software Studies” series…[Read more]

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Social Media and Democracy Research Grants

https://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/view/social-media-and-democracy-research-grants/

Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis, with the next period of review beginning October 10, 2018.

Overview
The longstanding study of media effects on democracy and…[Read more]

Dear all,

Bring your lunch to the GC Digital Scholarship Lab on Tuesday, September 25th at 12:30 PM as we live stream the MITH Digital Dialogues event, “Elaborating a (Digital) Methodology of the Oppressed in US Latina/o Digital Humanities.” Lorena Gauthereau, who is a CLIR-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Her…[Read more]

Hi all,

There’s a position currently advertised at the Whitney Museum of American Art that sounds like a position that may be of interest. Even if you’re not ready for a position like this quite yet, the job posting offers a very interesting breakdown in the kinds of skills that museums may be looking for in a technologist. Here’s the direct…[Read more]

The Graduate Center’s Teaching and Learning Center (GCTLC) and Digital Initiatives (GCDI) teams are hiring two full-time Open Educational Technology Specialists who will help move forward our shared commitment to supporting homegrown, open source tools for teaching, learning, research and scholarship, including the CUNY Academic Commons…[Read more]

See below for a terrific opportunity from Jose Luis Orbegozo at CUNY TV.

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Dear CUNY Professor,

My name is Jose Luis Orbegozo. I work at CUNY TV as a Senior Producer, and I’m also the Associate Director of Community Programming. I wanted to extend to you the following invitation to collaborate in a new CUNY TV Digital Series.

On…[Read more]

From: Christine Yao <christine.yao@GMAIL.COM>
Date: September 18, 2018 at 4:07:58 AM EDT
To: L-C19-AMERICANISTS@LISTS.PSU.EDU
Subject: New C19 Podcast Season (Emily Dickinson ep) + Join Our Team
Reply-To: “C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists” <L-C19-AMERICANISTS@lists.psu.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

I am thrilled to announce…[Read more]