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From: Amanda Regan <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Subject: [ACH Community] Job Announcement: Digital Scholarship Specialist –
Univ of FL
To: regan008 via community <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>

Dear all,

Please see below for a job announcement from K…[Read more]

Hi All,

Please find below an opportunity to take a free class with Shannon Mattern
(https://arth.sas.upenn.edu/people/shannon-mattern) at Metro NY Library
Association.

Best,

Matt

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*From:* Shannon Mattern <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2025 10:51 AM
*To:* Shannon Mattern…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

This week writer Amanda Guinzburg shared screenshots of an extended conversation she had with ChatGPT, which she invited to help her think through how to prepare a letter pitching her work to a literary agent. What she got was a bluffing, obsequious robot that repeatedly misleads her about its capacities while continuously…[Read more]

See attached for a flyer for a zine launch event June 18th, 7-8:30 at The Word is Change Bookstore in Brooklyn.

Best,
Luke

—
Luke Waltzer, Ph.D.
Director, Teaching and Learning Center
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3300.19
New York, NY 10016
http://cuny.is/teaching

[cid:[email protected]]

Our Literacies Are…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Our team at the Teaching and Learning Center has been running our Teach@CUNY Summer Institute this week, supporting 70 first year doctoral students who are preparing to teach at CUNY starting in the fall. There is much interest in and concern about AI. At a panel of undergraduate students yesterday, two out of the three panelists…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Our semester is winding down, but the AI hot takes machine continues to churn, unabated. Many of the pieces I’ve shared in these roundups have been focused on what our responsibilities are as educators towards our institutions, our disciplines, our communities, and, most of all, our students. This will continue to be a key…[Read more]

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From: Lise Jaillant <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, May 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Subject: [DHSI] AI & Society Special Issue – “When Data Turns into Archives”
To:

Dear all,

🎉 I am delighted to share that our Special Issue, “When Data Turns into
Archives: Making Digital Records More Accessible with AI,…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Sharing a few pieces this week that span genAI’s impact on our work in universities, highlight some smart responses and intentional uses, and reveal much about how the federal government is perceiving the space.

Kashmir Hill writes in the New York Times about college professors who use genAI, and students who are calling them on…[Read more]

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From: Nugent McLean, Colleen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, May 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Announcement: Relaunching DHNow!
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>

Dear all,

We are delighted to announce the reboot of *Digital Humanities N…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

The onslaught of AI-related think pieces, research, reports, and commentary continues this week. The conversation remains intense.

The most talked about piece among those working in or otherwise connected to higher education is this from James Walsh in New York Magazine: “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College.” (Ap…[Read more]

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From: Vo, Khanh <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, May 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Subject: [DHSI] Public Launch of the Stolen Relations Project
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>

Dear All,

We hope this email finds you as well as can be expected given current
circumstances.

We ask you to j…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Sharing three readings we’ve been discussing this week, each profound and challenging in their own way.

Suffice it to say, British journalist and technology media critic Ed Zitron has had enough. This week he offered a rather forceful reaction against how the massive capitalization of the AI industry has distorted public…[Read more]

Greetings, All,

Sharing several noteworthy readings that caught our team’s attention this week…

We’ll start with the the White House’s Executive Order on “Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth,” issued Wednesday, the impacts of which are sure to reverberate through the American educational system in the coming year.…[Read more]

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From: Amanda Regan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Subject: [ACH Community] Call for Reviewers for ACH2025
To: regan008 via community <[email protected]>

Dear all,

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2025,
a virtual conference, from June 11-13, 2…[Read more]