May 17 | The Digital GC End-of-Year Showcase and Activism and the Intersectional Internet


Please consider joining us for the final 2 events sponsored by the GC Digital Initiatives in 2016-2017: The Digital GC End-of-Year Showcase and our graduate symposium, Activism and the Intersectional Internet:

The Digital GC End-of-Year Showcase
Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center
Event hashtag: #digitalgc
Free and Open to the Public
Reception to follow, room 3317

Please join us for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the wide array of digital projects initiated during the 2016-2017 academic year. The program features projects by members of the GC community, including:   

The Digital Praxis Seminar
 ​The Digital Praxis Seminar is a two-course sequence that introduces students to the landscape of digital humanities tools and methods through readings, discussion, lectures, and hands-on workshops. The spring seminar culminates in the launch of collaborative student projects. Students from the 2016-2017 Digital Praxis seminar will unveil the following projects at the Showcase:

  • Endline: a web application for students and teachers of poetry interested in engaging more deeply with texts through TEI encoding
  • Zine Union Catalog: a unified search interface for “zine” collections located at across multiple libraries and archives

Presentations will also include:

  • Digital Innovation Grant projects
  • GC Digital Fellows
  • Program Social Media Fellows
  • Videography Fellows
  • Futures Initiative
  • New Media Lab
  • ITP Program
  • GC Digital Research Institute participants
  • and more…

The Showcase is an excellent way to learn about opportunities, resources, and projects made available through the GC Digital Initiatives. All members of the GC community are welcome, and we look forward to seeing you there. More information can be found on our website: http://cuny.is/gcdi.

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Activism and the Intersectional Internet
Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
The Graduate Center, CUNY

The GC Digital Fellows welcome you to a half-day symposium on digital activism that brings together designers, software developers, community organizers and scholars to discuss the possibilities and limitations of digital activism—past and present—and its relationship to offline grassroots efforts. Our keynote speaker will be distinguished scholar, activist, and media-maker Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock, Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT.

This event is free and open to the public. An RSVP would be appreciated. For more information and a complete agenda, visit http://cuny.is/activism17.