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Rebecca Amato started the topic April 8@NYU: Humanizing Data: Data,
Humanities, and the City, Day-Long Symposium in the forum NYCDH
Announcements:

Please join us on Saturday, April 8 @ NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Conference Room.

Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City

April 8, 2017 ▪ 9:00 am – 8:30 pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Conference Room
Saturday, April 8, 9am to 8:30pm

Co-sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab, NYU Gallatin, NYU Shanghai Center
for Data Science and Analytics, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU,
and the Institute for Public Knowledge

(LINK:

Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City

)

This day-long symposium examines how we can use data and digital strategies
to enhance and disrupt the kinds of research questions, methods, and
narratives that define the humanities. It also complicates the role of the
urban university in a global “city-state” such as New York, where the
boundaries between university and city are quite blurred. This symposium is
an opportunity to rethink our alliances, forge stronger and more equal
relationships between university-affiliated researchers and community-based
organizations, and amplify opportunities to share both resources and
authorship with one another.

Schedule:

9-9:30am: Coffee and pastries

9:30-9:45am: Brief Welcome, Rebecca Amato, Urban Democracy Lab/NYU Gallatin

9:45-11:15am Panel One: Queering the Web
How are history, social change and stasis, and the actions of people over
time simply and creatively represented on a website? How do the
computational structures, design paradigms, and visual histories of the
digital medium reify social norms? Do gender and sexuality play a
significant role in the performative experience of the computer interface?
This panel will discuss how the course “Queering the Web: A Practical,
Digital Inquiry into the History of Gender and Sexuality” addresses these
complex questions, through the study and redesign of the public history
site OutHistory.org. Site founder and independent scholar Jonathan Ned
Katz, along with professors Kimon Keramidas and Elizabeth Heard and their
students will discuss the development of the class and progress made
towards answering these questions.

Kimon Keramidas, Draper Program, NYU
Jonathan Ned Katz, Outhistory.org
Elizabeth Heard, Performance Studies, NYU
Cindy Li, MA candidate, Social Cultural Analysis, NYU

11:30-1pm Panel Two: Decolonizing Data
The power dynamics inherent in data collection, interpretation, and
dissemination reproduce inequities, bolster systems of oppression, and
reduce human experience to a numbers game. As our cities turn to
informatics for policymaking, budgeting, policing, and resource
distribution, this panel seeks to critique the use of data in a world more
complicated, messy, and creative than the numbers would have us believe.

Jack Tchen, NYU
Noah Fuller, NYU
Heather Lee, NYU Shanghai
Jane Choe, B.A. Gallatin 2018
Molly Elizabeth Smith, MLK Jr. Scholar, B.A. Gallatin 2018

1-2:30pm LUNCH BREAK (recommendations to be provided)

2:30-4pm Panel Three: Activist Geographies
Mapping and geographical analysis have transformed humanities scholarship
by anchoring narratives of all kinds in space and place. Where an incident
happens, whether it be historical, political, or even literary, changes the
way we understand it. Yet maps themselves can also be deterministic,
forcing us to lose sight of the ways in which, as Mark Monmonier writes,
“maps lie.” This panel looks at mapping as a powerful tool for activism and
analysis, while also demonstrating the need to include other perspectives,
such as interactivity, oral history, and historical narrative, to deepen
its utility.

Caleb Elfenbein, “Mapping Islamophobia,” Grinnell College
Erin McElroy, “Anti-Eviction Mapping Project,” San Francisco Tenants Union
Julian Chambliss, “Recovering Black Community Space: Hannibal Square and
Black Social World in Central Florida,” Rollins College
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Visiting Scholar, NYU, Co-editor with Rebecca Solnit
of Nonstop Metropolis

4:15-6pm: Simultaneous Workshops and Break-Out Discussions

Practical Data Workshops

Part I: Collecting and Protecting Your Data, Nick Wolf and Vicky Steeves,
NYU Libraries, Data Services: 45 minutes (20 Cooper Square, Room 222)

In this workshop we’ll talk about recommended practices at different times
in the research life cycle, from the gathering of data and research
materials to personal archiving and sharing project data. We’ll focus on
helpful workflow tools for managing data such as the Open Science
Framework, options for short-term storage, and ways to approach long term
preservation, sharing, and distribution.

Part II: Free and Open Source Digital Tools, Nick Wolf and Vicky Steeves,
NYU Libraries, Data Services: 45 minutes (20 Cooper Square, Room 222)

Recent years have seen an explosion of higher-quality, community-supported
researcher tools for working on digital projects. In this workshop we’ll
engage collectively in a conversation about what tools have been effective,
what we need to know about community development, and preview a few select
tools that are useful to current researchers working in web publishing,
project management, data cleaning and preparing, and spatial analysis.

Walking Tour: Below the Grid: An Interactive Guide to Walking Practice,
Noah Fuller
How does each of us move through the city? How can we reflect on and engage
with our walking practice? Join artist and curator Noah Fuller for a
multi-sensory walking tour that digs into the intermingled historical
layers below the New York City grid. [Traveling from the Bowery to Astor Pl
to Washington Square Park. Bring a smartphone and comfortable shoes.]

Project Development Mentorship, Jenny Kijowski, Educational Technologist,
NYU Gallatin
Do you have a digital humanities or data-driven project that you would like
to talk through? NYU Educational Technologist Jenny Kijowski will
facilitate a practical discussion with symposium participants interested in
developing project ideas and creating a toolkit of resources that can
transform those ideas into actionable plans.

7-8:30pm: Data in Context: Lessons from Urban Space, Keynote with Gergely
Baics and Leah Meisterlin

With the growth of data pertinent to humanities scholarship, we have seen
the development of new tools and techniques of analysis. In this talk,
Baics and Meisterlin will present lessons from their recent work on urban
spatial research. Still, despite the changing technological landscape,
primary among these lessons is a simple return to first principles: the
answers we find depend on the questions we ask and the context in which we
ask them.

** Please RSVP here for individual panels and workshops **

Free and open to the public

________________________________

Rebecca Amato started the topic April 8@NYU: Humanizing Data: Data,
Humanities, and the City, Day-Long Symposium in the forum NYCDH
Announcements:

Please join us on Saturday, April 8 @ NYU, 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
Conference Room.

Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City

April 8, 2017 ▪ 9:00 am – 8:30 pm
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Conference Room
Saturday, April 8, 9am to 8:30pm

Co-sponsored by the Urban Democracy Lab, NYU Gallatin, NYU Shanghai Center
for Data Science and Analytics, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU,
and the Institute for Public Knowledge

(LINK:

Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City

)

This day-long symposium examines how we can use data and digital strategies
to enhance and disrupt the kinds of research questions, methods, and
narratives that define the humanities. It also complicates the role of the
urban university in a global “city-state” such as New York, where the
boundaries between university and city are quite blurred. This symposium is
an opportunity to rethink our alliances, forge stronger and more equal
relationships between university-affiliated researchers and community-based
organizations, and amplify opportunities to share both resources and
authorship with one another.

Schedule:

9-9:30am: Coffee and pastries

9:30-9:45am: Brief Welcome, Rebecca Amato, Urban Democracy Lab/NYU Gallatin

9:45-11:15am Panel One: Queering the Web
How are history, social change and stasis, and the actions of people over
time simply and creatively represented on a website? How do the
computational structures, design paradigms, and visual histories of the
digital medium reify social norms? Do gender and sexuality play a
significant role in the performative experience of the computer interface?
This panel will discuss how the course “Queering the Web: A Practical,
Digital Inquiry into the History of Gender and Sexuality” addresses these
complex questions, through the study and redesign of the public history
site OutHistory.org. Site founder and independent scholar Jonathan Ned
Katz, along with professors Kimon Keramidas and Elizabeth Heard and their
students will discuss the development of the class and progress made
towards answering these questions.

Kimon Keramidas, Draper Program, NYU
Jonathan Ned Katz, Outhistory.org
Elizabeth Heard, Performance Studies, NYU
Cindy Li, MA candidate, Social Cultural Analysis, NYU

11:30-1pm Panel Two: Decolonizing Data
The power dynamics inherent in data collection, interpretation, and
dissemination reproduce inequities, bolster systems of oppression, and
reduce human experience to a numbers game. As our cities turn to
informatics for policymaking, budgeting, policing, and resource
distribution, this panel seeks to critique the use of data in a world more
complicated, messy, and creative than the numbers would have us believe.

Jack Tchen, NYU
Noah Fuller, NYU
Heather Lee, NYU Shanghai
Jane Choe, B.A. Gallatin 2018
Molly Elizabeth Smith, MLK Jr. Scholar, B.A. Gallatin 2018

1-2:30pm LUNCH BREAK (recommendations to be provided)

2:30-4pm Panel Three: Activist Geographies
Mapping and geographical analysis have transformed humanities scholarship
by anchoring narratives of all kinds in space and place. Where an incident
happens, whether it be historical, political, or even literary, changes the
way we understand it. Yet maps themselves can also be deterministic,
forcing us to lose sight of the ways in which, as Mark Monmonier writes,
“maps lie.” This panel looks at mapping as a powerful tool for activism and
analysis, while also demonstrating the need to include other perspectives,
such as interactivity, oral history, and historical narrative, to deepen
its utility.

Caleb Elfenbein, “Mapping Islamophobia,” Grinnell College
Erin McElroy, “Anti-Eviction Mapping Project,” San Francisco Tenants Union
Julian Chambliss, “Recovering Black Community Space: Hannibal Square and
Black Social World in Central Florida,” Rollins College
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Visiting Scholar, NYU, Co-editor with Rebecca Solnit
of Nonstop Metropolis

4:15-6pm: Simultaneous Workshops and Break-Out Discussions

Practical Data Workshops

Part I: Collecting and Protecting Your Data, Nick Wolf and Vicky Steeves,
NYU Libraries, Data Services: 45 minutes (20 Cooper Square, Room 222)

In this workshop we’ll talk about recommended practices at different times
in the research life cycle, from the gathering of data and research
materials to personal archiving and sharing project data. We’ll focus on
helpful workflow tools for managing data such as the Open Science
Framework, options for short-term storage, and ways to approach long term
preservation, sharing, and distribution.

Part II: Free and Open Source Digital Tools, Nick Wolf and Vicky Steeves,
NYU Libraries, Data Services: 45 minutes (20 Cooper Square, Room 222)

Recent years have seen an explosion of higher-quality, community-supported
researcher tools for working on digital projects. In this workshop we’ll
engage collectively in a conversation about what tools have been effective,
what we need to know about community development, and preview a few select
tools that are useful to current researchers working in web publishing,
project management, data cleaning and preparing, and spatial analysis.

Walking Tour: Below the Grid: An Interactive Guide to Walking Practice,
Noah Fuller
How does each of us move through the city? How can we reflect on and engage
with our walking practice? Join artist and curator Noah Fuller for a
multi-sensory walking tour that digs into the intermingled historical
layers below the New York City grid. [Traveling from the Bowery to Astor Pl
to Washington Square Park. Bring a smartphone and comfortable shoes.]

Project Development Mentorship, Jenny Kijowski, Educational Technologist,
NYU Gallatin
Do you have a digital humanities or data-driven project that you would like
to talk through? NYU Educational Technologist Jenny Kijowski will
facilitate a practical discussion with symposium participants interested in
developing project ideas and creating a toolkit of resources that can
transform those ideas into actionable plans.

7-8:30pm: Data in Context: Lessons from Urban Space, Keynote with Gergely
Baics and Leah Meisterlin

With the growth of data pertinent to humanities scholarship, we have seen
the development of new tools and techniques of analysis. In this talk,
Baics and Meisterlin will present lessons from their recent work on urban
spatial research. Still, despite the changing technological landscape,
primary among these lessons is a simple return to first principles: the
answers we find depend on the questions we ask and the context in which we
ask them.

** Please RSVP here for individual panels and workshops **

Free and open to the public