The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, the semester is coming to a close. It’s spring, the perfect time for…

Horror!

To anyone who attended the GC Digital Showcase yesterday, you may have already gotten a little bit spooked by A Pretty Terrifying Project: Examining Feminist Theme Co-Occurrences

Across Horror Video Games. This pro…[Read more]

Hi all,

Please come by TONIGHT, if you can, for the first of a few MA/MS Program events this week. This event is only in-person:

Agentic AI Final Showcase
Wednesday, May 13, 2026
6:30 pm — 8:30 pm, Room 9206
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/agentic-ai-final-showcase

From Professor McSweeney:
Please join us tonight to explore the applications a…[Read more]

Hello Group Admins!

The Commons Development Team recently released an update to the privacy options for groups. The new release adds a question to the “Public” privacy settings option that allows a Group Admin to make a public group only visible to logged-in Commons members.

Now, if you select the “Public” setting option under Group Privacy, you…[Read more]

Dear CUNY Community,
 
You are cordially invited to Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shah’s Building a Relational Language Model: Human Edition — a feminist and critical AI workshop series for CUNY students, faculty, and staff, made possible with funding from the CUNY AI Innovation Initiative.
Hosted by Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Fil…[Read more]

“Let’s Archive It!” Three CUNY Archivists on What it Means to Steward Collections

** RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, APRIL 13, 12-1:30PM**

Graduate Center, Room 9206 with hybrid option (RSVP for Zoom link here).

Doing archival research? Teaching with archives? Creating digital archives? Come hear from three CUNY archivists about the exciting archi…[Read more]

Queer DH: Key Projects and Concepts

Tuesday, March 17 || 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm || Zoom

What does it means to do queer digital humanities? This workshop will explore key themes of identity, narrative, and space in queer DH, and introduce participants to projects exemplifying the possibilities and limitations of queer(ing) digital humanities. We will…[Read more]

I am happy to share Listening for the Long Haul, a vibrant digital humanities / oral history project by Long COVID Justice (LCJ) and the History Moves project of Dr. Jennie Brier at UIC. I was honored to be a part of the project as co-founder of…[Read more]

Hello all,

Graduate Center Digital Initiatives and the Mina Rees Library are excited to invite you to an upcoming event:

“Let’s Archive It!” Three CUNY Archivists on What it Means to Steward Collections

Monday, February 23rd 2026, Noon to 1:30pm

Graduate Center, Room 9206

In-person event with hybrid option (RSVP for Zoom link here<…[Read more]

This spring, the Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library is offering three online workshops related to scholarly publishing. (Each workshop will occur twice: once on a Wednesday evening and once on a Friday afternoon.) All members of the CUNY community are welcome, regardless of campus. The workshops are especially well suited to faculty, graduate s…[Read more]

Hi all! I’ll be leading a workshop on Thursday on Digital Project Design in advance of the Provost’s Digital Innovation Grant deadline. You will be able to get something out of our work regardless of whether you are developing your project for a PDIG proposal or something else. I can’t wait to share with you a new activity for helping to refine…[Read more]

As members of the Group for Group Admins, you are all invited to join the next Commons Open Community meeting due to your extensive usage and knowledge of our platform. During the meeting we’d love to hear from you, our admin-level users, about how you are using the Commons to develop projects, facilitate collaboration, and foster connections…[Read more]

Dear All,

The week of January 19th the Teaching and Learning Center will be hosting its annual Mid-Winter Institute.

This year’s institute will include three connected programs.

1. Individual Consultations. January 20-22, on Zoom.

Graduate Center students can sign up for a 30-minute conversation to prepare for spring teaching with a TLC F…[Read more]

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will be holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to share our annual call for papers, due February 2, 2026: https://ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/

The ACH 2026 conference is focused on themes of transnationalism and solidarity, particularly with an…[Read more]

Faculty from Hostos Community College — Greg Marks, Amina Tajbhai, and Tram Nguyen — are planning a conference called “The Arc of the Nation: America at 250,” to take place on Feb. 27, 2026. Roosevelt Montas (Bard College), Bryan Garsten (Yale), and Amy Wood (Illinois State) will participate in a plenary on the future of civic education, the…[Read more]

The CFP is now live for the second cohort of faculty fellows at the Teaching and Learning Center’s Critical AI Literacy Institute, which will run from Spring 2026-Spring 2027.

Faculty can apply to one of three tracks:

1. Critical Foundations of AI. We will recruit faculty from multiple disciplines to work together to develop modules for a course…[Read more]