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News and Announcements | February 6, 2017

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NYC Digital Humanities Week

Today marks the first day of NYCDH Week, a week-long series of workshops, lightning talks, and social events for digital humanists of all stripes and at all skill levels. There is a kickoff gathering all day today at the CUNY GC and an exciting array of workshops and discussions on platforms, computing languages, and more general scholarly and pedagogical topics going on all week.
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News and Announcements | February 2, 2017

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Hookup culture on campus

On February 8th, Lisa Wade will be discussing her book, “AMERICAN HOOKUP: The New Culture of Sex on Campus,” which explores the culture of sex found in many American college campuses today. Lisa argues that today’s hookup culture equates college with freedom, fun, and casual sex. However, there are good, bad, and even ugly sides to this type of campus life.
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What We’re Reading | January 12, 2017

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Hillary Clinton and beyond

Professor Wendy Hayden's (English) rhetoric course, Hillary Clinton and Beyond, explored rhetoric in the context of the recent election. The course experimented with a crowdsourced syllabus in which Wendy chose the readings for the first four classes of the semester and then turned the syllabus over to the students. By the end of the semester, her course uncovered answers to some of the guiding questions about Clinton and the power of rhetoric.
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Teaching Tips | December 8, 2016

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Teaching fails

During an ACERT Lunchtime Seminar, Laura W. Kane and Sarah Ruth Jacobs introduced the aims and editorial guidelines of the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, which is a collaborative effort between 23 faculty members, graduate students, and academic staff at CUNY and other institutions.
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