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From: Grace Eve Afsari-Mamagani <gafsari@nyu.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 1:05 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Tomorrow and Saturday: Culture Mapping 2020
To: DHSI List <Institute@lists.uvic.ca>
Dear all,
I hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy.
I’m writing on behalf of NewYorkScapes and NYU’s Department of English to
remind you that our annual Culture Mapping symposium
(http://newyorkscapes.org/event/culturemapping2020/) will take place
tomorrow (April 17) and Saturday (April 18) via Zoom.
Among difficult circumstances, we’re excited to convene an incredible group
of practitioners who will share their work and help us imagine collective
futures. We hope you’ll join us, if you’re able. Pre-registration is
available until Thursday evening, and live registration will also be
available throughout the conference.
We’d particularly like to invite you to our two keynote lectures.
The first will be delivered tomorrow at 5:45 p.m. by Kubi Ackerman, who
directed the Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York and
curated the museum’s exhibition “Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the
Numbers.” He has also held positions at the Cooper Union Institute for
Sustainable Design and the Urban Design Lab at Columbia University.
Our second keynote, at 10 a.m. on Saturday, will be delivered by Hannah
Alpert-Abrams. She is a program specialist in digital humanities and
scholar specializing in information science, book history, and DH. (She
also does incredible work on the future of higher ed and you should read
her latest piece here
(https://medium.com/@halperta/what-the-humanities-do-in-a-crisis-a7ae63263b0e)
.)
Finally, we’ll be hosting a special session on digital pedagogy on Saturday
from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. We welcome all to come share their experiences (in
general or from the past few weeks), ask questions, and build a community
of support.
The full program & registration are available on our website
(http://newyorkscapes.org/event/culturemapping2020/).
Take good care,
Grace
