The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative is holding its annual “Lightning Talks” event on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017. They are inviting students, faculty, staff or groups from all disciplines to join and share their ongoing, current, and recent work, and to get a glimpse of the wide variety of digital projects that can be found across the CUNYverse.
Jeff Allred details his adaption of Billy Budd into a Wordpress-based role-playing game and how it engaged his students. His project will also be featured as part of a "digital panel" at the American Studies Association conference in early November.
This week, ACERT invited two CUNY colleagues to campus, Maura Smale (Head Librarian, City Tech) and Mariana Regalado (Library, Brooklyn College). They presented their work on what they call, borrowing from social anthropologist Tim Ingold, the “taskscapes” of students from several CUNY campuses (including Hunter’s).
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.
The annual NYC DH Week next is a fantastic event for anyone curious about the digital humanities or interested in building skills with tools ranging from Omeka to Python.
For those of you who are curious about the "digital humanities" there is no better place to start than the 2012 Debates in the Digital Humanities volume edited by CUNY's own Matt Gold.
