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The Localized History Project@AAARI-CUNY is hiring! 

The Localized History Project is a youth driven history collective housed at the Asian American/Asian Research Institute@CUNY. We recently were awarded 2.5 million dollars to work in collaboration with the Asian American Education Project to build NYC’s first ever youth driven, community led,…

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Hi all! If you’re interested in physical and digital archives and are a graduate student physically located in NYC, consider applying to be a tester to work with Sourcery this July. Here’s the call I received:

“We’re looking for NYC-based grad students to help us beta test our Sourcery app — could you please share with your students? $1k for 40…[Read more]

Our thanks to the many friends, colleagues and people new to The Graduate Center, who attended our event “Biography and Memoir Illustrated: A Talk with Writer Timothy Ledwith, Comics Artist N. Steven Harris and Historian Debbie-Ann Paige Moderated by Graphic Novelist Sara Gómez Woolley.”

It took place at The Graduate Center, in the DGSC Social…[Read more]

Come see and hear Biography and Memoir Illustrated: A Talk with Writer Timothy Ledwith, Comics Artist N. Steven Harris and Historian Debbie-Ann Paige Moderated by Graphic Novelist Sara Gómez Woolley!

May 15, 20257:00pm – 9:00pm at The Graduate Center, Room 5414 on the 5th Floor

Today, 167 Fairview Avenue is an unremarkable single-family ho…[Read more]

GCDI Conversations in Digital Scholarship
A Symposium Hosted by the GC Digital Fellows

May 13, 2025 from 2 -4 PM

The GC Digital Fellows are hosting a seminar featuring roundtable discussions on topics related to digital scholarship and methods. These sessions will be held concurrently on May 13, 2025 from 2-4pm, and are designed to generate a…[Read more]

The SPCUNY Happy Hour Salon at The Francis Kite Club  will be today, Thurs April 24 from 5pm-7pm.
where: The Francis Kite Club, 40 Loisaida Ave, NYC 10009
what: a chance to hang out and chat with friends and colleagues over delicious pizza from Volca Pizza pop up, courtesy SPCUNY.Network & mingle & resource share & get fed & have fun!yummy drin…[Read more]

Hello DARC community,
I am writing to invite you to join a roundtable discussion on digital archives as part of the GCDI Conversations in Digital Scholarship, which will take place on May 13 from 2-4pm, in-person at the GC. This will be an informal, but facilitated, conversation of 5-10 people who are working with or building digital archives.…[Read more]

Thank you to everyone who came out a couple of weeks ago to Brooklyn, Books, and Basketball: Whatever Happened to Frankie King (no question mark!) on Wednesday March 26, 2025 at the Graduate Center!

Professor Sara Gómez Woolley, (noted Graphic novelist, illustrator of Pirate Queens for National Geographic) instructor for The Art of Visual…[Read more]