CUNY Academic Commons | Lisa Hirschfield | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/fmaus/activity/ Activity feed for Lisa Hirschfield. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d1bc43fbaf7233cd4107113137ec4eb4 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site The Taphofiles https://taphofiles.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=519 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 18:16:43 -0500 Yesterday I completed transcribing the burial records for Green-Wood Cemetery. By the end I’d managed to improve my time from four hours per page to two. Interesting entries included two children killed by gunshot […]

]]> 8c21fbb58e5928225bd36a244898a0fd Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site The Taphofiles https://taphofiles.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=505 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 22:20:01 -0500 My facility with burial ledger transcription is improving. Today I did an entire page—57 entries. It doesn’t sound like much but a lot of time is eaten up with deciphering handwriting, and manipulating an o […]

]]> c9a1d593c3cdca7af1ae71c2567acd31 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site The Taphofiles https://taphofiles.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=463 Sun, 20 Dec 2020 22:12:21 -0500 I spent about 4 hours transcribing burial records today, completing the first of six pages in the process. 40 new records are in the spread sheet now. Some names and addresses required cross-checking with […]

]]> 72f61381acd3e04c297aaaf49ad1e934 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site The Taphofiles https://taphofiles.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=461 Wed, 09 Dec 2020 22:54:25 -0500 I’ve been slowly transcribing the 347 records from Green-Wood’s 1863 burial ledger. So far, a 20-record session takes approximately 90 minutes—if I don’t get sucked down an archival rabbit hole. Common rabbit h […]

]]> b88546e23e6a02d259f5975c2ab91e0b Lisa Hirschfield created the site The Taphofiles https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/721332/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:19:46 -0500 f4d4c13820b7a49b594689ab7fcee710 Lisa Hirschfield joined the group DARC (Digital Archive Research Collective) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/704490/ Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:44:15 -0400 2c1084c84c1f985870b1550d165d9bda Lisa Hirschfield joined the group CUNY Pie https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/644608/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 19:05:09 -0500 38afa598c31184037c9a9974d00b5d08 Lisa Hirschfield joined the group Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/611332/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:39:09 -0500 d82587d70222a755164b1f612d9f744e Lisa Hirschfield joined the group CUNY Technology Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/611330/ Tue, 19 Nov 2019 02:37:58 -0500 98ea2ceb96d9d6e9f44b2140634ac1e3 Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/594855/ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:24:22 -0400 3409a7f54828661806b9c7d78cba928a Lisa Hirschfield and Michael Cisco are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/503668/ Wed, 16 May 2018 14:47:04 -0400 519a749ac5db0302abe4e9fdc04f64fd Lisa Hirschfield and Nicholas Evangelos Levis are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/503665/ Wed, 16 May 2018 14:38:20 -0400 4ae199a18be1a211793bbde41ea9f06c Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/502831/ Sun, 13 May 2018 03:26:01 -0400 47df6e8cdf72950c58eefc1112f19b57 Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/502751/ Sat, 12 May 2018 01:47:57 -0400 6bcf316ee3158518b3827d388d026a48 Lisa Hirschfield changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/502642/ Fri, 11 May 2018 03:35:36 -0400 bb69c6236d5e13e12c906963ad4b5aa1 Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/502641/ Fri, 11 May 2018 03:25:38 -0400 7c9fb081086728051f5cf9010dbf7e9e Lisa Hirschfield joined the group Teaching and Learning Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/490468/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 04:33:22 -0500 757f241def56e4a89c9f1d7b0de070e6 Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/486967/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:09:33 -0500 7eb634144c1327efcbdc475db018cf4c Lisa Hirschfield joined the group GIS / Mapping Working Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/480597/ Fri, 08 Dec 2017 17:28:22 -0500 4900cd8d45b1b0b128c0b29bf8eeffee Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, The Home Pie, on the site CUNY Pie https://cunypie.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2017/10/14/the-home-pie/#comment-264 Mon, 16 Oct 2017 01:53:55 -0400 Great post-Yom Kippur post, Matt! But shame on me for my ignorance of CUNY Pie! I suppose I can blame my genetic predisposition to lactose intolerance, which, like my genetic predisposition to guilt, has lately […]

]]> 1a56e640cd5cdf6c144fb51c80e6c498 Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/466487/ Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:03:15 -0400 481010da042d84f75b9e3dbd336d7eb9 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=531 Mon, 12 Dec 2016 01:09:48 -0500 Shawn Graham uses the keyword “History” to reflect on the essay’s function in education, and to suggest strategies and models for reinvigorating the practice of writing and learning in the undergraduate […]

]]> d3427e6a1e695940cf5aa1525f56f0c6 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Remixing Code, Resisting Control, on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/27/remixing-code-resisting-control/#comment-114 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:25:56 -0500 Excuse the theoretical jargon, but that is SO COOL!

I think it works – aesthetically, to be sure. It’s interesting how some parts of the image are very clear, other sections are interpolated with patterns that […]

]]> 852201a5ff1153ea6dd9ea221fac13cd Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=244 Sun, 27 Nov 2016 16:21:52 -0500 My bot – “Rhyme and Punishment” (@Crimeaandpun – political pun intended) and the hashtag is #Dissident –  posts verse from dissident poets every 15 minutes. What is currently operating is a very imperfect and in […]

]]> e19b03a9b0396cbebf8b7f2f130b072c Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Cooling Systems at Data Centers, on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/21/cooling-systems-at-data-centers/#comment-83 Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:11:11 -0500 I love Elizabeth Warren’s tweet!

]]> fb96c9f2658895255d28c70541e106e6 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Stories and Maps, on the site Clouds https://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/18/stories-and-maps/#comment-62 Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:03:55 -0500 I totally agree – in my opinion, it’s just as dangerous to discount or ignore the aesthetic experience of working with the internet. Unlike so many other activities, we engage with it mostly on a conceptual level, […]

]]> 35eef4ec8b2481c8c1d8df4b46e4cb28 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=185 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:10:48 -0500 I had already been making efforts to look for surveillance cameras and speed cameras at intersections and in the subway, cell towers, dishes, analog TV antennae, and various mystery boxes on telephone poles. Until […]

]]> 8401527c8b3381f85641af634423f9f2 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Cloud Text Experiment: Finnegans Ache, on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/14/cloud-text-experiment-finnegans-ache/#comment-39 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:59:28 -0500 Thanks for the link to the repository! I read through the tutorial but seeing the script on a single page will be helpful. I’m a perennial Python newbie, no matter how many workshops I take, and haven’t worked […]

]]> 0372b3917c8c6a063f0b254d47954736 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=180 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:42:32 -0500 I was checking out manhole covers on my way to work and noticed one abbreviation (“DWS”) that I later searched for online. Here’s a handy Wikipedia page on manhole cover abbreviations in NYC, and some of them lin […]

]]> 05cbfae2c7fb0d1846259bb70d559ae2 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=415 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 01:57:33 -0500 I had mixed feelings about Moretti’s Graphs Maps Trees after I first read it; upon a second reading, they are just as mixed. For one thing, I don’t believe he makes–or intends to make–arguments so much as off […]

]]> 4a9b0145f50fcaa154c182c979d2e88c Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Skills Lab Notifications, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/07/skills-lab-notifications/#comment-61 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:19:45 -0500 I attended.

]]> e12fca9ae98ce25ac5f610237de2dad2 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Making Personal the Public Record, on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/11/07/making-personal-the-public-record/#comment-22 Mon, 07 Nov 2016 20:11:47 -0500 I’ve been thinking about this too – the NYPL has several crowd-sourced projects, including Building Inspector and Map Warper- which help the library correctly identify and georectify maps in their collection, and […]

]]> 433a007ac3d2bf0d0285327b1e6797b4 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=365 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 03:33:19 -0400 I discovered these two films last spring while doing some research. They’re entertaining, but also extremely relevant to this week’s readings – especially Dewey, in my opinion.  This is what the progressive e […]

]]> 82a4060907529e26187c7755e0104bf3 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Agency and Passivity in the Digital Age: Learning with Dewey, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course https://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/27/agency-and-passivity-in-the-digital-age-leaning-with-dewey/#comment-55 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 02:27:30 -0400 I think that passive learning and teaching is less likely in an interactive setting, only because interactivity requires active engagement on some level. Unless, as both Dewey and Bass suggest, there is no effort […]

]]> 83147e53a0f567502a59860f75c2d05e Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Youth in the Neoliberal Age, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/22/youth-in-the-neoliberal-age/#comment-46 Mon, 24 Oct 2016 02:25:49 -0400 Because he is looking at the current situation from a position based in the past, I think Deresiewicz isn’t able to see that younger people today can still make critical distinctions between their role as […]

]]> 46e6c6badb60fd1ece5fb8e4a4d0e455 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Clouds http://clouds.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=105 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:16:00 -0400 Our class discussion today — in particular the implications of placing organic life and inorganic objects on the same plane of ethical consideration, the Internet of Things (and “smart hou […]

]]> 04a6b3fe41b003490eb08259309ebaf7 Lisa Hirschfield joined the group GC Events and Workshops https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/445583/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:26:02 -0400 09014976f8eee8459c444208719f7edd Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Multiverse: Egalitarian Frankenstein, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/04/279/#comment-35 Wed, 05 Oct 2016 18:36:35 -0400 I totally agree with your argument. On the other hand, disentangling higher education and the pursuit of ancient truths from the world of work has its own perils, one of which is alienation. The out-of-touch […]

]]> 410f538564acbeba39ffee750076179f Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Provocation on Christensen, The Innovative University, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/03/provocation-on-christensen-the-innovative-university/#comment-34 Wed, 05 Oct 2016 16:22:17 -0400 I second you, Ximena! In addition to the DNA analogy I was also put off by the way he slipped back and forth between criticizing corporate analogies and using them, not to mention the constant reiteration of the […]

]]> c976c03cdb71daa6e6ceee9ca89465d4 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Totally unofficial and informal class meet up?, on the site Fall 2016 ITP Core 1 Course http://2016itpcore1.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/04/totally-unofficial-and-informal-class-meet-up/#comment-33 Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:27:32 -0400 That would be great but I wouldn’t be able to do it before since I already leave work a little early to get to the GC (I work in the Bronx). If there are any labs that a few of us are not going to attend maybe we […]

]]> b15da03104e57397b38c6c5fba7ef35d Lisa Hirschfield joined the group CUNY GC ITP Program https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/439643/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:21:23 -0400 685cd5e4d2511d3793c694eb09c4ee1e Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=301 Tue, 17 May 2016 03:34:03 -0400 * King Lear (V, iii)

It has been a mad dash toward deadlines with many obstacles confronted, and thankfully, most overcome.

Much of the difficulty arose with our efforts to mount the project on the Omeka pl […]

]]> 5a66a150ca8e7343d554c5c38c790fe0 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=274 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:05:03 -0400 We had an instructive experience this past week in our efforts to finish gathering the biographical data we need for this project. So far, we’d been working from primary sources such as manuscript burial r […]

]]> 84a1eb6bb34e10f806277e0eb1f856ad Lisa Hirschfield's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430753/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 02:12:23 -0400 bd9b8af9ebbb25f7ca9c621c963aedca Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=234 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:04:00 -0400 While exploring the papers of Jacques Judah Lyons in the American Center for Jewish History’s archives, I came across some original documents with hand-drawn gravesite maps and burial lists for the Chatham Square […]

]]> 176bfab59a3759b99e26f8426bf94630 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=247 Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:42:29 -0400 “What is the role of a cemetery in an urban environment? What does the cemetery say about who we are as a people?” Asked, and answered, in Curbed.

]]> bee146cd3c21bc33ff623b2d580aefc5 Lisa Hirschfield commented on the post, Nicola Certo - personal update, on the site Digital Praxis Seminar Fall 2015 – Spring 2016 http://dhpraxis15.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/28/nicola-certo-personal-update/#comment-317 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:36:41 -0400 I saw your tweet with the GIF – it definitely got my attention!

]]> bb1cdd60368874c0035134691faa8940 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=231 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 03:49:25 -0400 Friday morning Conn Mac Aogain, Davide Colasanto, and Lisa Hirschfield spent time in a basement room of Shearith Israel’s formidable synagogue on 70th Street and Central Park West. Our tasks were to verfiy the […]

]]> f14b9bf7bb54603fbfeae328a15da914 Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=187 Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:15:32 -0400 Today our project team met onsite with Zach Edinger—the sexton of Shearith Israel—and one of his associates. He graciously answered questions about the historical information he had provided us (a large set of d […]

]]> b5b24a0f2ab2db1f3053bb9654d6677a Lisa Hirschfield wrote a new post on the site Building Necropolis http://necropolis.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=113 Sat, 12 Mar 2016 03:17:18 -0500 Every cemetery tells a multitude of stories: stories of its occupants, stories about its community, and stories about its own origins. We knew that the cemetery we chose for Necropolis would determine what kin […]

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