CUNY Academic Commons

Please circulate among your graduate student communities. Thank you!

The deadline for our eighth annual cross-institutional NYCDH Digital Humanities Graduate Student Project Award is fast approaching! We invite all graduate students attending an institution in New York City and the metropolitan area to apply by Friday, September 10,…[Read more]

Feel free to stop by on Zoom tomorrow (Thursday, June 25th) at 2:30 to learn more about Micki Kaufman’s ‘Quantifying Kissinger and other endeavors, but you must register. See here for details.

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]

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]

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]

Please see the post below for information about the Archives & Performance Fellowship regarding the Penobscot River and watershed. Masters students are eligible to apply.

Best,
Lisa Rhody
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THE IN KINSHIP ARCHIVES & PERFORMANCE FELLOWSHIP
A year-long interdisciplinary fellowship experimenting with research and…[Read more]

Dear all,

With apologies for cross posting, the NYC DH <nycdh.org> is excited to announce this year’s call for applications for the NYCDH Graduate Student Award. If you are a graduate student, please consider submitting a proposal for your digital project. Please also share the call widely with colleagues and fellow graduate students. You can…[Read more]

Dear all,

The Python Users’ Group (PUG) is back for the Spring semester. For those who haven’t been in our meetings yet, it is good to know that we promote a casual and welcoming atmosphere (usually with some snacks), where people can chat about python, work together or just hang around. We have people in different levels of expertise with lot…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

Hi all,

The participants of the Digital Humanities Research Institute will be presenting lightning talks next week. Come hear from this talented group of scholars, librarians, and museum and community organization leaders on their plans to expand communities of digital humanities practice at their home institutions across the cou…[Read more]

In this workshop we’ll explore the digital footprint you ​leave behind whenever you connect to the Internet.

We will address questions about digital privacy and introduce tools you can use to manage your data. We will discuss search engines, web browsers, IP-addresses, Incognito/Privacy mode, and more.

The event will be held at the [Read more]