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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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Thursday May 31st: ARCHIVING CATASTROPHE: DIGITAL HUMANITIES & TIMES OF DISASTER

  • Posted by Amanda Licastro on May 25, 2012 at 5:12 pm

    Please join us for:

    ARCHIVING CATASTROPHE: DIGITAL HUMANITIES & TIMES OF DISASTER

    http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2012/05/25/may-31-archiving-catastrophe/

    The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative welcomes you to attend our event on May 31: “Digital Humanities and Natural Disasters: Archiving Catastrophe,” a panel discussion with Paul Millar (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Tom Scheinfeldt (George Mason University), and Steve Brier (CUNY Graduate Center).

    CUNY Graduate Center
    Thursday May 31, 2012, 6:30pm-8:30pm
    Room 6496

    Three leading Digital Humanists will take part in a panel discussion that addresses DH-related efforts to archive and preserve materials after catastrophic events. They will discuss the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, and the September 11 Digital Archive. These projects seek not only to preserve the digital record of the events, but to foster positive legacies by allowing the people affected to tell their stories in their own words, which as part of the historical record will remain accessible to a wide audience for generations to come.

    For more on this event and the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative go to: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

    Paul Millar is Head of the Department of English, Cinema, and Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Tom Scheinfeldt is Managing Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and Research Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Steve Brier is Senior Academic Technology Officer, Coordinator of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program, Co-Director of the New Media Lab, and faculty member in the PhD Program in Urban Education at CUNY Graduate Center.

    All events take place at The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave between 34th & 35th. The building and venues are fully accessible. For more information visit http://centerforthehumanities.org/seminars, call 212.817.2005, or e-mail ch@gc.cuny.edu. Many thanks to the Center for the Humanities for sponsoring this event.

    For more information about CUNY DHI, please visit our blog (http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/) and join our group (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/) on the CUNY Academic Commons.

    Also, share this event through our Eventbrite invitation: http://cunydhi.eventbrite.com/

    Thank you,
    The CUNY DHI team

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