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SUMMARY: Private: Towards A Pedagogy of Equality
DESCRIPTION: You are invited to join the Futures Initiative for a live-stre
amed\, one-hour workshop on engaged pedagogy as a way of modeling a more eg
alitarian society. The workshop will take place on August 28 at 1 pm at th
e CUNY Graduate Center\, rm. 9204\, and will be facilitated by Professor Ca
thy Davidson. This workshop opens The University […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: You are invited to join the Futures Initia
tive for a live-streamed\, one-hour workshop on engaged pedagogy as a way o
f modeling a more egalitarian society. The workshop will take place on
August 28 at 1 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center\, rm. 9204\, and will be
facilitated by Professor Cathy Davidson. This workshop opens The University Worth Fighting For\, a series of worksho
ps that tie student-centered\, engaged pedagogical practices to institution
al change\, race\, equality\, gender\, and social justice.
To help bu
ild momentum prior to this workshop\, we also invite you to join this student-led read
ing group\, “Towards a Pedagogy of Equality.” This public\, student-led
discussion is open to anyone for the next month on the learning community\
, HASTAC. The workshop on August 28 at the Graduate Center is intended to b
uild upon the online conversation. Instead of a conventional academic talk\
, we hope to highlight many diverse voices in the workshop\, and include as
many creative\, activist\, non-traditional approaches to pedagogy as possi
ble.
Suggested Readings and Viewings:
HASTAC has invited Futures Initiative Graduate Fellow and HASTAC Scholar <
a href="https://www.hastac.org/u/danicasavonick">Danica Savonick to get
us started on our first conversation. Danica is a doctoral student in Engl
ish at the Graduate Center\, CUNY and an educator at Queens College. She ha
s posted several blogs on pedagogy and equality on HASTAC (on collaborative pedagogy and social j
ustice\, teachi
ng #BlackLivesMatter\, and designing collaborative digital projects). Danica is cur
rently writing a dissertation on pedagogy and social justice.
Join the Conversation
HASTAC is an open\, free network. Log in or register as a new user to leave a comment.
An
yone can join the conversation\, any member can post. We encourage lively
debate\, respectful of difference. We hope undergraduate and graduate stude
nts anywhere will join this conversation\, and we hope faculty members migh
t challenge their students to contribute to this public forum by posting in
the Comments section.
You can also join us on Twitter for an ongoing
dialogue using the hashtag #fight4edu.
Join the conversation on HASTAC.
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC)
GEO:40.748649;-73.984007
ORGANIZER;CN="Katina Rogers":MAILTO:katina@katinarogers.com
URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/towards-a-pedagogy-o
f-equality/
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LAST-MODIFIED:20150910T155900Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T140000
SUMMARY: Private: Sept 24: Peer Mentoring and Student-Centered Learning Wor
kshop
DESCRIPTION: Details WHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue ROOM:
C198 WHEN: September 24\, 2015\, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CONTACT INFO: futuresini
tiative [at] gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7201 WATCH ONLINE: http://bit.ly/futur
esed-live RSVP NOW HASHTAG: #fight4edu Learn more about the workshop and th
e series at futuresinitiative.org. Description Join us at the Graduate Cent
er on Thursday\, September 24 from 1-2 PM in room C198 for an open\, […]
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WHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Ave
nue
ROOM: C198
WHEN: September 24\, 2015\, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM<
br />CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7
201
WATCH ONLINE: http://bit.ly/futur
esed-live
RSVP NOW
HASHTAG: #fight4edu
Learn more about the workshop and the series at futuresin
itiative.org.
Description
Join us at the Graduate Center on Thursday\, September 24 fro
m 1-2 PM in room C198 for an open\, livestreamed workshop led by Prof. Kand
ice Chuh and Futures Initiative Graduate Mentors Hilarie Ashton\, Natalie O
shukany\, and Rachel Oppenheimer. The workshop will be livestreamed at http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live<
span style="font-weight: 400">.
This workshop is the second in the The University Worth Fighting For\, a series of workshops that tie student-cent
ered\, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change\, race\, equal
ity\, gender\, and social justice.
To help build momentum and to provide a place to discuss related theory
and research in greater depth\, we also invite you to join a student-led r
eading group that will open on HASTAC on September 18. The discussion group
will remain open for three weeks following the workshop.
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC)
GEO:40.748649;-73.984007
ORGANIZER;CN="Katina Rogers":MAILTO:katina@katinarogers.com
URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/sept-24-peer-mentori
ng-and-student-centered-learning-workshop/
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LAST-MODIFIED:20150915T175717Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151002T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151002T160000
SUMMARY: Private: Queering the Map: Theoretical Reflections on Spatial Meth
ods for Action Research
DESCRIPTION: WHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue ROOM: 9204-920
5 WHEN: October 2\, 2015\, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiativ
e [at] gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7201 WATCH ONLINE: http://bit.ly/futuresed-l
ive RSVP NOW HASHTAG: #futuresED In The Practice of Everyday Life\, de Cert
eau writes that “What the map cuts up\, the story cuts across.” But what if
the everyday stories you seek are […]
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WHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue
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OM: 9204-9205
WHEN: October 2\, 2015\, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM
CONTAC
T INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7201
WATCH ONLI
NE: http://bit.ly/futuresed-live
RSVP NOW
HASHTAG: #futuresED
In The P
ractice of Everyday Life\, de Certeau writes th
at “What the map cuts up\, the story cuts across.” But what if the everyday
stories you seek are already cut up by centuries of structural inequality
and oppression\, such as those of lesbians and queer women? In this talk on
“Queering the Map\,” Jack Gieseking investigate
s what can be gained for the study of queer lives and spaces by bringing to
gether the isolated but overlapping stories of lesbians and queer women in
maps\, from the hand-drawn to the most technologically advanced and interac
tive.
Drawing upon qualitative
and quantitative work on lesbians’ and queer women’s spaces and economies
in New York City from 1983 to 2008—including multi-generational focus group
s and mental maps\, archival research and GIS—Gieseking works through three
different types of mapping methods and platforms within a participatory ac
tion research framework. Through a close analysis of mental maps\, and GIS
maps made across platforms using QGIS\, CartoDB\, and TileMill/Mapbox\, the
y suggest that the spatial and verbal can both obfuscate or illuminate unde
rstandings of everyday life. It is the queer practice of holding these seem
ing binaries in tension that reveals the most rich and complicated knowledg
e.
Jen Jack Gieseking is a
sociocultural geographer\, feminist and queer theorist\, and urban environm
ental psychologist. He is engaged in research on co-productions of space an
d identity in digital and material environments\, with a focus on sexual an
d gender identities. Jack’s work pays special attention to how such product
ions support or inhibit social\, spatial\, and economic justice. She is wor
king on his first monograph\, Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians\,
Dykes\, and Queer Women\, 1983-2008. He is Assistant
Professor of Public Humanities in American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford\, Connecticut\, and recently completed a Postdoctoral Fe
llowship at Bowdoin College.
Jack’
s first book is The People\, Place\, and Space Reader\, c
o-edited with William Mangold\, Cindi Katz\, Setha Low\, and Susan Saegert<
/span>\, and recently out with Routledge. He has held fellowships with the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as German Chancellor Fellow\; The Center
for Place\, Culture\, and Politics\; The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies
\; and the Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Dissertation Fellows Program. Jac
k has published in Journal of Urban Affairs\, Qualitative Inquiry
\, Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy\, Antipode\, and Radical Hi
story Review\, and has contributed to HASTAC as well. She also writes about his research a
s a blogger with the Huffington Post Gay Voices.
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC)
GEO:40.748649;-73.984007
ORGANIZER;CN="Katina Rogers":MAILTO:katina@katinarogers.com
URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/queering-the-map-the
oretical-reflections-on-spatial-methods-for-action-research/
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DTSTAMP:20260608T124733Z
CREATED:20151013T185045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151013T185558Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T160000
SUMMARY: Teaching the Humanities as a Survival Skill
DESCRIPTION: Thursday\, October 22 | 1 PM to 2 PM | http://bit.ly/Futures
ED-live | #fight4edu Details WHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM: 9205 WHEN: Thursday\, October 22\, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CONTACT INFO:
futuresinitiative@gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7201 WATCH ONLINE: http://bit.ly
/FuturesED-live HASHTAG: #fight4edu RSVP NOW Description Join us at the G
raduate Center on October 22 from 1-2 PM […]
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Thursday\, October 22 | 1
PM to 2 PM | http://bit.ly/FuturesED
-live | #fight4edu
Details
WHERE: The Graduate Center\,
365 Fifth Avenue
ROOM: 9205
WHEN: Thursday\, October 22\, 1:00
PM-2:00 PM
CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative@gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7
201
WATCH ONLINE: http://bit.l
y/FuturesED-live
HASHTAG: #fight4edu
RSVP NOW
Description
Join us at the Graduate Center on October 22 from 1-2 PM in room 9205 for a
n open\, livestreamed workshop. The workshop will be livestreamed at http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live.
Th
is discussion is the third in the The Univers
ity Worth Fighting For\, a series of workshops that tie student-centere
d\, engaged pedagogical practices to institutional change\, race\, equality
\, gender\, and social justice.
To help build momentum and to provide
a place to discuss related theory and research in greater depth\, we also
invite you to join this student-led reading group that will open on HASTAC
on October 16. The discussion group will remain open for three weeks follow
ing the workshop.
Learn more about t
he series
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC)
GEO:40.748649;-73.984007
ORGANIZER;CN="Katina Rogers":MAILTO:katina@katinarogers.com
URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/teaching-the-humanit
ies-as-a-survival-skill/
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vate: Private: Private: Feb 5\, 1-2pm – Ideas in Circulation: Open Scholars
hip for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION: Friday\, February 5 | 1 PM to 2 PM | http://bit.ly/FuturesED-l
ive | #fight4edu | RSVP DetailsWHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Avenu
eRoom: 9205WHEN: Friday\, February 5\, 1:00 PM-2:00 PMCONTACT INFO: futures
initiative [at] gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7201 DescriptionJoin us at the Grad
uate Center on February 5 from 1-2 PM for an open\, livestreamed discussion
with several special guests: April Hathcock (Librarian for […]
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Friday\, February 5 | 1 PM
to 2 PM | http://bit.ly/FuturesED-l
ive | #fight4edu | RSVP
Details
WHERE: The Graduate Center\, 365 Fifth Av
enue
Room: 9205
WHEN: Friday\, February 5\, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
CONTACT INFO: futuresinitiative [at] gc.cuny.edu\; (212) 817-7201
Description
Join us at the Graduate Center on February 5
from 1-2 PM for an open\, livestreamed discussion with several special gue
sts:
- April Hathcock (Librarian for Scholarly Communications\, NY
U)
- Matthew K. Gold (Associate Professor of English and Digital Huma
nities\; Executive Officer\, MA Program in Liberal Studies)
- Michell
e Fine (Distinguished Professor of Psychology\, Urban Education\, and Women
's Studies\; Advisor of the Public Science Project
- Stephen Zweibel
(Data and Digital Projects Librarian\, The Graduate Center)
Thi
s is the fifth of eight conversations in The University Worth Fighting For\, a year-long project desi
gned to tie student-centered\, engaged practices in our classrooms to large
r issues of institutional change\, equality\, race\, gender\, and all forms
of social justice.
This event will focus on access\, equality\, and
diversity in the context of open scholarship\, and scholarly communication.
The event will include discussion about the "digital divide\," academic li
braries\, open-source development\, and more.
Online Discussio
n Group
To help build momentum and to provide a place to disc
uss related theory and research in greater depth\, we also invite you to jo
in this student-led reading group that will open on HASTAC. The discussion
group will remain open for three weeks following the workshop.
Learn more about the series
<
p>More details at HASTAC.org
LOCATION:CUNY Graduate Center (GC)
GEO:40.748649;-73.984007
ORGANIZER;CN="Shawna M. Brandle":MAILTO:shawna.brandle@kbcc.cuny.edu
URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/feb-5-1-2pm-ideas-in
-circulation-open-scholarship-for-social-justice/
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CREATED:20180216T165317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T165317Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T140000
SUMMARY: New Media Lab general meeting
DESCRIPTION: Join us Wednesday\, February 21 from 12:30 until 2:00 in the l
ab (room 7388.01) for presentations by Christina Katopodis and Natalie O’Sh
ea on their projects: The Walden Soundscape Christina Katopodis\, EnglishTh
e Walden Soundscape project is my effort to share the sounds at Walden Pond
in Concord\, MA with any interested reader of Henry David Thoreau’s […]
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from 12:30 until 2:00 in the lab (room 7388.01) for presentations by Chris
tina Katopodis and Natalie O’Shea on their projects:
The Walden Soundscape
C
hristina Katopodis\, English
The Walden Sounds
cape project is my effort to share the sounds at Walden Pond in Concord\, M
A with any interested reader of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden in the form of
an immersive website experience. I’m recording sounds at the pond in all f
our seasons\, and creating companion stop-motion animation videos of a walk
around the pond in each season. This project calls attention to the musica
lity of Thoreau’s philosophy and writing\, and serves to immerse readers of
Walden in the visual and sonic landscape of the pond. The project is part
of my dissertation on the impact of sound and sonic vibrations on the Ameri
can Transcendentalists\, who were interested in maintaining harmony with na
ture (in a musical sense of active\, reciprocal participation) and who unde
rstood music to be an experience not limited to the hearing world.
Modeling the paleodistribution o
f baboons and vervets: A primate model for early modern human biogeography<
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Natalie O’Shea\, Anthropology
Early modern human demography and biogeography are related to a wide
range of important issues in modern human origins research\, from the earl
iest appearance of markers of symbolic culture in the archaeological record
to the global dispersal of Homo sapiens by at least 60 thousand y
ears ago. However\, our ability to discern ancient patterns of population s
tructure from the fossil record and patterns of variation in extant populat
ions is limited. Patterns of genetic and morphological variation in other w
idely-distributed\, ecologically-flexible primates can provide useful insig
hts into past human demographic and biogeographic changes. Baboons (genus <
em>Papio) and vervets (genus Chlorocebus) are broadly co-dist
ributed with each other and human populations in woodland and savannah habi
tats across sub-Saharan Africa\, making them good ecological model taxa for
early modern human populations. This study will utilize recently developed
species distribution modeling techniques to map the current and past distr
ibutions of baboons and vervets to identify regions in which populations of
the earliest members of our species may have persisted through difficult c
limate conditions in Africa over the past 130 thousand years. Overall\, the
results of this work will provide a model for early modern human demograph
y and biogeography and also expand our understanding of African faunal evol
ution more broadly.
ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Kirchhof":MAILTO:jkirchhof@gc.cuny.edu
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SUMMARY: New Media Lab general meeting
DESCRIPTION: Join us Thursday\, March 22 from 12:30 until 2:00 in the lab (
room 7388.01) for presentations by: Stefano Morello\, English\, “East Bay P
unk Digital Archive” The East Bay Digital Punk Archive is an open access ar
chive that aims to preserve free and democratic access to the subjugated kn
owledge produced by several subcultural formations that emerged […]
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il 2:00 in the lab (room 7388.01) for presentations by:
Stefano Morello\, Eng
lish\, "East Bay Punk Digital Archive"
The East Bay Digital Punk Archi
ve is an open access archive that aims to preserve free and democratic acce
ss to the subjugated knowledge produced by several subcultural formations t
hat emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area between the late 1970s and the mi
d 1990s. Lawrence Livermore’s Lookout! zine (1984-1995)\, yet to b
e collected in its entirety in any institutional archive\, plays a central
role in this project\, as it represents an extraordinary\, previously unear
thed\, document of punk’s alternative modes of existence and access to know
ledge.
Alexis Larsson\, English\,
and
Scott W. Schwartz\, Anthro
pology.
ORGANIZER;CN="Joe Kirchhof":MAILTO:jkirchhof@gc.cuny.edu
URL;VALUE=URI:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/events/event/new-media-lab-genera
l-meeting-16/
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SUMMARY: New Media Lab general meeting
DESCRIPTION: Join us Tuesday\, April 17 from 12:30 until 2:00 in the lab (r
oom 7388.01) for presentations by: Sheehan Moore\, Anthropology: This proje
ct examines images that claim representational authority over future landsc
apes in southern Louisiana. These images include maps and digital rendering
s of disappeared coastlines\, subsiding lands\, and underwater Main Streets
– topographies that do not yet […]
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17 from 12:30 until 2:00 in the lab (room 7388.01) for presentations by:
Sheehan M
oore\, Anthropology:
This project examines images that claim repr
esentational authority over future landscapes in southern Louisiana. These
images include maps and digital renderings of disappeared coastlines\, subs
iding lands\, and underwater Main Streets – topog
raphies that do not yet exist but that nevertheless demand action in the pr
esent. They enter circulation in urgent news stories and fifty year urban m
aster plans\, and they are magnets for words like ‘resilience’ and ‘retreat
.’ At public planning meetings\, predictive maps that stage the parish land
scape over coming decades are important guides for community decision-makin
g. In order to better understand these risky images\, the futures they purp
ort to represent\, and their effects in the present\, this project asks aft
er the kinds of data sets and attendant assumptions that go into mapping th
ese not-yet-existent landscapes. What inclusions and omissions make them po
ssible? What contingencies or uncertainties are elided? These questions can
help us understand how representations of climate futures set the paramete
rs for action and imagination.
and
Federico Di Pasqua\, Classics:
Introduction to Classical Cultures is a video-podcast series about the
Classics that features motion graphic design to provide a smart and enjoyab
le overview of Greek and Latin literature. The series is aimed to update th
e teaching approach of the classics\, bringing it closer to the rest of the
humanities. Subjects of the podcast-series will be the works of the most i
mportant Classical authors\, which largely coincide with the course “Classi
cal Cultures” offered in most universities in the United States. The six vi
deos—three about Greek authors\, three about Latin authors—will cover the
major literary genres of antiquity and will be in chronological order\, so
as to offer a general overview on Classical culture.
Join
us Wednesday\, May 2 from 12:30 until 2:00 in the lab (room 7388.01) for p
resentations by:
Dr. Lev Manovich\
, Ph.D. Program in Computer Science:
Dr. Lev Manovich is one the lead
ing theorists of digital culture worldwide\, and a pioneer in application o
f data science for analysis of contemporary culture. Manovich is the author
and editor of 13 books including AI Aesthetics (forthcoming 2018)\, Theories of Software Culture\, Instagram and Contemporary Image\, Data Drift\, Software Takes Command\
, Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database and The Language of New Media which was described as "the m
ost suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan." He
was included in the list of "25 People Sha
ping the Future of Design" in 2013 and the list of "50 Most Inter
esting People Building the Future" in 2014. Manovich is a Professor of
Computer Science at The Graduate Center\, CUNY\, and a Director of the Cultur
al Analytics Lab that pioneered analysis of visual culture using comput
ational methods. The lab created projects for Museum of Modern Art (NYC)\,
New York Public Library\, Google and other clients.
and
Anders Alex Wallace\, Anthropology:
Fro
m Berlin to Beijing\, men are joining seduction communities (charm schools)
to learn skills in dating women. These communities raise questions of inti
macy\, consent\, and authenticity as problems for men who learn techniques
of social persuasion as they seek to attract women and transform their pers
onal identities. By displacing sexual inhibitions\, these communities focus
on developing forms of social capital through “weak ties” (Putnam 2000) th
at allow men to feel a sense of belonging in impersonal urban environments.
This project uses digital software for text mining and topic modeling of b
ig data to find out how men are developing an embodied sense of masculine i
dentity through standardized training in seduction skills. Conducting stati
stical analyses and comparisons among prescriptive texts (ebooks and seduct
ion manuals) with descriptive accounts (digitally published diaries) of use
rs’ experiences and mishaps in striving to embody so-called “alpha masculin
ity\,” this project aims to discover what kinds of social intimacies follow
from the labor of dating consultants\, and what happens to those men who b
uild social communities—both online and in real life—around their practices
. For which men do seduction skills come to be thought of as integral to th
eir self-fashioning? How does rationalizing intimacy create new forms of po
wer and dependency between men? What do seduction communities reveal about
the vulnerabilities and frailties of masculinity today? This research is be
ing developed for public view using Scalar\, a multimedia storytelling plat
form. Please visit the website for more information.
Introduction
to the UNIX command line. Topics covered will include navigating the filesy
stem\, manipulating the environment\, executing useful commands\, and using
pipes to communicate between programs. This synchronous workshop will teac
h you how to communicate directly with your computer’s operating system usi
ng a text-based interface and is a useful first step in learning many other
technical skills.
If you’re interested in attending\, please register h
ere!