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]

Dear colleagues,

Please join us in May for Manifold Drop-In Office hours!

Manifold Drop-In Office Hours Whether you’re starting a new digital project, need expert guidance to overcome roadblocks in an existing project, or simply want to ask a question, our CUNY Manifold Team will be on hand to provide support and answer your qu…[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]

Dear Colleagues,

Curious about incorporating archival materials into your teaching practice?

Join us for our last Manifold Community event of the year exploring Daniel Simidor: A New York Haitian Revolutionary— a Manifold digital project that centers the life and work of community activist, educator, and longtime archivist Daniel Simidor. D…[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]

Hello everyone,

Please join us tomorrow at the GC!

Manifold Community Event

Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 5th floor, Room 5307

At the advent of the centennial of Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists—the trailblazing 1926 magazine created by a new generation of Black art…[Read more]

Manifold Workshops and Events

Drop-In Manifold Office Hours – Wednesdays

• March 4, 2:00 – 3:00 PM
• March 18, 6:30 – 7:30 PM

Zoom Link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/88464191378?pwd=1HUvwm6WyRQ9ZKlRKjVbN27OId5bVE.1

Join us for bi-weekly drop-in office hours this spring! Whether you’re starting a new digital project, need expert guidance to ov…[Read more]

Dear Manifold Users,

Manifold will be down for scheduled maintenance on Thursday, February 26, 2026 and will be unavailable for up to 3 hours between 5-8 PM eastern.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you.

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]

Open Education Publishing Institute 2026: Open Pedagogy on the CUNY Academic Commons & Manifold

Call for Participation 

The Teaching and Learning Center and the GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center are pleased to invite applications from GC student instructors for the 2026 Open Education & Publishing Institute. Previous Open…[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]

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 Colleagues,

Welcome to spring semester!

I hope you all are well and staying warm. Please see details below for Manifold workshops and office hours happening in January/February.

These workshops are open to all CUNY faculty, students, and staff. We hope you can join us!!

Kind regards,

Robin

Robin Miller, MSLIS

Open Educational…[Read more]