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GIS / Mapping Working Group

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) / Mapping working group is a network of CUNY students, faculty and staff who are interested in sharing methods and techniques, and finding support from others about ways GIS can be used to further research and teaching.

The GIS/Mapping working group is part of a GC Digital Initiatives program designed to create collaborative communities of Digital Fellows, CUNY-wide graduate students, staff, and faculty to meet regularly and share their areas of interest. The working groups provide a sustained, supportive environment to learn new skills, share familiar skills, and collaborate with both the Digital Fellows and the CUNY digital community.

If you are using Geographic Information Systems or other mapping technologies in your teaching and/or research, or if you are interested in mapping your data, or using GIS technology to analyze/visualize your data, we invite you to join the GIS/Mapping working group.

Peruse our mapping resource bank here: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/gis-working-group/docs/gis-mapping-resources/

For the Spring 2024 semester, the GIS/Mapping working group will meet in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Room 7414, every other Tuesday from 2-4 p.m. Check out our event calendar for the specific meeting dates. Please stop by!

  • Proposals Due 4/15 for the Fall 2019 Mapping (In)Justice Symposium in NYC

    Posted by Olivia Ildefonso (she/her) on February 28, 2019 at 9:11 pm

    CALL FOR PROPOSALS

    Mapping (In)Justice: Digital Theory + Praxis for Critical Scholarship

    November 7-8, 2019 at Fordham University (New York, NY)

    Proposals Due: Monday, April 15th

    More info: https://mappinginjustice.org [mappinginjustice.org]

    ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

    This symposium creates space for critically considering digital mapping as both a method and an object of analysis. Specifically, we invite submissions that analyze or utilize spatial media so as to rethink and re-present distributions of capital, power, and privilege in historical, contemporary, and speculative contexts.

    We center “mapping” as an organizing theme for understanding and engaging social (in)justice because of its expanding role in literally and metaphorically arranging contemporary life. The everyday adoption of new spatial media—such as web-based mapping platforms, geosocial applications, and locative data—increasingly orient how society understands the past, experiences the present, and plans for the future. To map social justice and injustice is to consider how spatial media can help draw together dichotomies such as medium/method, art/science, and ontology/epistemology so as to trace, represent, and rework matters of inequity. This symposium thus encourages submissions that explore structural inequities in or through spatial media, especially as they relate to matters of difference—such as race, gender, class, ethnicity, ability, sexuality, and religion. We also encourage submissions that utilize digital mapping to spatially represent historically marginalized perspectives through empirical, textual, archival, participatory, and/or pedagogical methods.

    We welcome 250 word proposals for Short Papers and Gallery Projects that critically address matters of social (in)justice in historical, contemporary or speculative contexts in relation to—but not limited to—the following:

    – mapping in digital humanities and computational social sciences

    – critical and/or feminist GIS

    – participatory and collaborative mapping

    – digital geography, neogeography, and the geoweb

    – spatial learning and digital pedagogy

    – mapping public histories

    – aesthetics and representation in digital mapping

    – mapping of cultural texts and artifacts

    – mapping media ecologies and augmented realities

    – smart urbanism and spatial data infrastructures

    Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the Symposium Committee. 2,000 word papers will be requested prior to the symposium for accepted Short Paper proposals. Panels and keynotes will be livestreamed and the symposium proceedings will be archived in Fordham University’s Institutional Repository. A selection of papers from the symposium proceedings will be invited for inclusion in an edited volume or journal issue.

    KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Dr. Sarah Elwood, University of Washington

    Dr. Nazera Sadiq Wright, University of Kentucky

    FEATURED PROJECTS

    “Torn Apart / Separados” – Presented by Dr. Alex Gil, Columbia University

    “Participatory Mapping with the Morris Justice Project” – Presented by Dr. Brett Stoudt, John Jay College

    SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

    Gregory T. Donovan (Co-Chair), Jacqueline Reich (Co-Chair), Greg Acevedo, Sameena Azhar, Elizabeth Cornell, Tierney Gleason, Barbara E. Mundy, Ralph Vacca.

    NOTABLE DATES

    February 15th 2019: Submission Form  opens for Short Paper and Gallery Project proposals (250 words).

    April 15th 2019: Deadline for submitting abstracts through the Submission Form.

    May 15th 2019: Decisions will be communicated.

    September 1st 2019: Papers of 2,000 words are due from accepted Short Paper proposals. Project statements of 250-500 words and associated media files are due from accepted Gallery Projects.

    November 7th – 8th 2019: Accepted Papers and Gallery Projects will be presented at the Mapping (In)Justice Symposium in NYC.

    ADDITIONAL DETAILS

    Mapping (In)Justice is hosted by Fordham University’s Digital Scholarship Consortium and Office of Research in partnership with New York University and Columbia University. The symposium will take place at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University (113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023).

    For more information on the Mapping (In)Justice Symposium visit https://mappinginjustice.org/

     

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