NYC Digital Humanities | Aaron Plasek | Friends Activity https://nycdh.org/members/tranquil/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Aaron Plasek's friends. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:10:05 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a76eddfbe81e216200052ec9a6546add Alex Gil started the topic The Caribbean Digital VIII in the forum NYCDH Announcements https://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/the-caribbean-digital-viii/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 22:53:52 -0500 The TCD crew and community are back this Friday, Dec 3, 1p-3:30p. If you work in Caribbean Studies we hope you will join us. If on the other hand, you have colleagues and students who do, let them know. We’ve been going strong for 8 years now, and our community is strong. This year we’ll be touching on the question of institution building in the…[Read more]

]]> 88a8a716750d7bbf8da68bfcc86d263d Alex Gil started the topic The Caribbean Digital VII in the forum NYCDH Announcements https://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/the-caribbean-digital-vii/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:17:50 -0500 It is always my honor to invite you to our annual get together. This year, well, it’s a bit different…

The Caribbean Digital VII Build: October – December 2020 Launch: 4 December 2020 at 1:00-2:00pm (EST) – Register here

This year, the seventh annual Caribbean Digital event will be held virtually, with three asynchronous digital community…[Read more]

]]> 7d7af61ba8918dcc51d343e07c6deee9 Angus Grieve-Smith's profile was updated https://nycdh.org/activity/p/8870/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:37:15 -0500 a62a95df0dabefc7f97547ed1cf1b889 Alex Gil started the topic Dhanashree Thorat at Butler Studio April 19, 4PM in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/dhanashree-thorat-at-butler-studio-april-19-4pm/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:07:39 -0400 Please join us next Friday, April 19th at 4pm in Studio Butler (208b) for “Decolonizing Data Regimes” with Dhanashree Thorat.

If you are coming from outside CU, just shoot me a line at agil@columbia.edu.

Abstract: In this age of datafication, the quantification of human bodies, behaviors, and interactions has raised myriad concerns about ethics…[Read more]

]]> b53e1c483c1456a79504edba2bf3fe11 Alex Gil started the topic Ted Underwood guest lecture at the Studio Butler in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/ted-underwood-guest-lecture-at-the-studio-butler/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:24:58 -0400 Dear all,

Please join us on Thursday, March 28th at 4pm in Studio at Butler (208b) for “Machine Learning and Human Interpretive Theory” with Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). If you’re coming from outside Columbia, send me a line at agil@columbia.edu ahead of time (48 hours before plz) so I can put your name on the door…[Read more]

]]> 9754a1fce2f42c2104c9ac4b3f721f93 Alex Gil posted an update in the group NYCDH Announcements: Dear all, Please join us on Thursday, March 28th at 4pm in […] https://nycdh.org/activity/p/8489/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:23:35 -0400 Dear all,

Please join us on Thursday, March 28th at 4pm in Studio at Butler (208b) for “Machine Learning and Human Interpretive Theory” with Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). If you’re coming from outside Columbia, send me a line at agil@columbia.edu ahead of time (48 hours before plz) so I can put your name on the door…[Read more]

]]> d985cd99a750a557048bbce517513717 Angus Grieve-Smith started the topic September 29, 4PM. MetroLex: Digitization and its Discontents in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/september-29-4pm-metrolex-digitization-and-its-discontents/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:18:15 -0400 The Dictionary Society of North America has partnered with local organizations in the New York City area to establish a series of meetups called MetroLex. MetroLex meetups bring together lexicographers, linguists, technologists, educators, and other language professionals to share research and projects relating to dictionary technology, dictionary…[Read more]

]]> 094ede283e693bee2bc778fc24abd0c1 Alex Gil started the topic Sept 29 - Puerto Rico Mapathon - Studio@Butler in the forum NYCDH Announcements https://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/sept-29-puerto-rico-mapathon-studiobutler/ Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:27:17 -0400 Dear NYCDH’ers,

Columbia’s Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities & Columbia University Libraries ask you to join us for:

PUERTO RICO MAPATHON
for Hurricane Relief

September 29, 2017 | 2PM-5PM | Studio@Butler (208B)

Come help with relief efforts on the ground in Puerto Rico by contributing your time to open-source m…[Read more]

]]> 734b2e67b750dba666cc08c72318eee4 Angus Grieve-Smith started the topic Reminder: Friday April 14, The History of Negation in French in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/reminder-friday-april-14-the-history-of-negation-in-french/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 17:55:33 -0400 Please attend the fifth of our six Dressler colloquia of the school year.
Have you ever wondered why there are two negator morphemes in French (ne
… pas), or why the situation was once the same in English (its use of NOT
started as a “ne … not” construction)? We will learn how the French
situation arose, in more detail than textbooks usually…[Read more]

]]> 9a99d316f6ba09a0221252502394170a Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic April 7th - The History of Negation in French, Columbia University in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/april-7th-the-history-of-negation-in-french-columbia-university/#post-2683 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:49:51 -0400 Again, the talk is not today, but next Friday, April 14. I hope to see you all there!

]]> 3595fb05afe505e40c398bb5d3000f98 Alex Gil started the topic Columbia University Digital Humanities in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/columbia-university-digital-humanities-5/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 13:00:01 -0400 Dear NYCDH friends,

Yesterday we launched Columbia University Digital Humanities—acentral informational portal for the varied digital humanities work at Columbia University, with a gallery of Projects, People and Teams, and a Brief History mini-essay to connect us to our precedents.

We did this so you can see that we are many and are doing w…[Read more]

]]> 26920208183cda047782b89ff411005e Alex Gil started the topic Columbia University Digital Humanities in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/columbia-university-digital-humanities-4/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:59:55 -0400 Dear NYCDH friends,

Yesterday we launched Columbia University Digital Humanities—acentral informational portal for the varied digital humanities work at Columbia University, with a gallery of Projects, People and Teams, and a Brief History mini-essay to connect us to our precedents.

We did this so you can see that we are many and are doing w…[Read more]

]]> 34c463e046cc5acb42e8f13bf719e8e2 Alex Gil started the topic Columbia University Digital Humanities in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/columbia-university-digital-humanities-3/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:57:43 -0400 Dear NYCDH friends,

Yesterday we launched Columbia University Digital Humanities—acentral informational portal for the varied digital humanities work at Columbia University, with a gallery of Projects, People and Teams, and a Brief History mini-essay to connect us to our precedents.

We did this so you can see that we are many and are doing w…[Read more]

]]> 62aaa35f16b532add2b5fcda83e4d3da Alex Gil started the topic Columbia University Digital Humanities in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/columbia-university-digital-humanities-2/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:57:38 -0400 Dear NYCDH friends,

Yesterday we launched Columbia University Digital Humanities—acentral informational portal for the varied digital humanities work at Columbia University, with a gallery of Projects, People and Teams, and a Brief History mini-essay to connect us to our precedents.

We did this so you can see that we are many and are doing w…[Read more]

]]> 1d6436bc4c00d61afd81fd8b1d2f4931 Alex Gil started the topic Columbia University Digital Humanities in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/columbia-university-digital-humanities/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:57:33 -0400 Dear NYCDH friends,

Yesterday we launched Columbia University Digital Humanities—acentral informational portal for the varied digital humanities work at Columbia University, with a gallery of Projects, People and Teams, and a Brief History mini-essay to connect us to our precedents.

We did this so you can see that we are many and are doing w…[Read more]

]]> 38436e143d21755585286d3dcc4abc91 Angus Grieve-Smith replied to the topic April 7th - The History of Negation in French, Columbia University in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/april-7th-the-history-of-negation-in-french-columbia-university/#post-2668 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:53:05 -0400 John McWhorter writes:

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we must host Angus Grieve-Smith a week later than previously planned. Please mark your calendars for April FOURTEENTH for this interesting talk.

]]> 0879d6c93c3cd1e642fcb706eb5e7906 Alex Gil started the topic April 4: Michael Sinatra lecture at the Studio@Butler in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/april-4-michael-sinatra-lecture-at-the-studiobutler/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:23:27 -0400 Dear all,

Next Tuesday, April 4, 2-:3:30pm, we are honored to welcome Michael Sinatra, from l’Université de Montréal, to the Studio@Butler.

Prof. Sinatra promises to delight and instruct us on “Leigh Hunt, Textual Studies, and Digital Humanities.” Sinatra has been working in digital humanities for more than a decade, and has done outstanding d…[Read more]

]]> 088242c7b59516902d443eaa46194498 Angus Grieve-Smith started the topic April 7th - The History of Negation in French, Columbia University in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/april-7th-the-history-of-negation-in-french-columbia-university/ Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:18:49 -0400 THE HISTORY OF NEGATION IN FRENCH
Dressler Lecture Series
Friday, April 7
4 PM
S.W. Mudd Building, Room 327
500 West 120th Street (Corner of Amsterdam Avenue)
Subway: 116th Street (#1 train)

Angus Grieve Smith
Columbia University Information technology

The basic outlines of the history of negation in French are well-known: that in Old French…[Read more]

]]> 3e3d40d67a148614862bad26a941badc Alex Gil started the topic CFP: MLA18 - Minimal Computing in States of Insecurity in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/cfp-mla18-minimal-computing-in-states-of-insecurity/ Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:42:48 -0500 Dear friends,

As you know, the MLA will be in NYC next year. Jentery Sayers and I are putting together a panel on minimal computing in this political climate (Link to CFP below). If you’re interested in joining us, shoot me an email with your idea/proposal.

https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_10450

]]> af53a56c23fccf0139cf3b2d1013dfec Alex Gil posted an update in the group NYCDH Announcements: FEB25 - Saturday - Battery Park American Veterans for the […] https://nycdh.org/activity/p/6958/ Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:29:56 -0500 FEB25 – Saturday – Battery Park
American Veterans for the NEH: Voices on Democracy

Dear all, I’m gonna try to join the veterans this Saturday in Battery Park. As many of you know the NEH has played a pivotal role in digital humanities nationally. Some of you may have already benefited from it, and f we can keep it alive for the next 2 years, I’m…[Read more]

]]> 0b8f60a17fdb941a902bbb9892953e93 Collin Jennings started the topic Global | Local: Experiments in the Arts and Humanities (Bard College Conference) in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/global-local-experiments-in-the-arts-and-humanities-bard-college-conference/ Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:16:57 -0500 Friday, March 31, 2017 (All day) to Saturday, April 1, 2017 (All day)

The Experimental Humanities (EH) concentration at Bard College, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host a two-day conference on the theme of global-local experiments in the arts and humanities. The sciences and the arts have long used experimental methods…[Read more]

]]> f83be3a40d955e9633c3470f67df7313 Alex Gil started the topic Lauren Klein, Studio@Butler, Nov 1. 2-4pm in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/lauren-klein-studiobutler-nov-1-2-4pm/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:23:24 -0400 **Apologies for the resend. Original message got garbled**

Hi all,

We are honored to invite you to the Studio (Butler Library 208b) next Tuesday, November 1, 2016 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM to listen to Dr. Lauren Klein on “The Shape of History: Reimagining Nineteenth-Century Data Visualization.” Klein’s talk should speak to a broad swath of interests,…[Read more]

]]> 15a7a6869ab8688e65a1ceadfd8a7602 Angus Grieve-Smith and Philip Parzygnat are now friends https://nycdh.org/activity/p/5737/ Wed, 18 May 2016 01:43:18 -0400 b78adbc9e46b5fee4a3231edf747f61c Alex Gil posted an update in the group NYCDH Announcements: Dear friends, We have an exciting talk/workshop coming to […] https://nycdh.org/activity/p/5664/ Sat, 30 Apr 2016 17:20:18 -0400 Dear friends,

We have an exciting talk/workshop coming to the Studio@Butler next week organized by the History in Action series in the History Department at Columbia University.

https://studio.cul.columbia.edu/event/history-race-and-digital-humanities-with-matt-delmont/

Wednesday, May 4, 1:00 PM

Studio@Butler (208b Butler Library)

“History,…[Read more]

]]> f7ac2e17bbf2e09c9b44bf8c0817ee48 Alex Gil posted an update in the group NYCDH Announcements: Dear all, it is with great pleasure that I share with you the […] https://nycdh.org/activity/p/5656/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 00:31:20 -0400 Dear all, it is with great pleasure that I share with you the announcement for a two day event at the Heyman Center bringing together archeologists and media archeologists this coming Thursday and Friday. I’m particularly excited that Bethany “The Mentor” Nowviskie and Matt Kirschenbaum are among the invited guests. I hope many of you can join us.…[Read more]

]]> ad9ba6e7212301b04db332b4559fd768 Angus Grieve-Smith and Patrick J. Burns are now friends https://nycdh.org/activity/p/5650/ Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:51:17 -0400 6db7e2f7c2ac2a4d0c3e4a88cd9e3d40 Alex Gil started the topic TOGETHER WE LISTEN: The New York Public Library Unveils Our Open Transcript Corr in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/together-we-listen-the-new-york-public-library-unveils-our-open-transcript-corr/ Sat, 12 Mar 2016 02:13:57 -0500 Columbia’s Digital Humanities Center and Oral History MA Program Invite You To…

TOGETHER WE LISTEN: The New York Public Library Unveils Our Open Transcript Correction Tool!

Test out our newly developed transcript correction tool + tell us what you think.

Monday, March 28th from 3:00 – 5:00pm
Studi…[Read more]

]]> b3c1931763f28ccf777228efc64e7536 Dimitris Papadopoulos's profile was updated https://nycdh.org/activity/p/5310/ Thu, 04 Feb 2016 18:15:38 -0500 82044d080acd0f0cd8a1caf0d01ae159 Alex Gil started the topic NYCDH Week in two weeks from now! in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/nycdh-week-in-two-weeks-from-now/ Sat, 23 Jan 2016 20:50:22 -0500 Two weeks to go for NYCDH! We have a week lined up for you full of free workshops in New York City. Take a look at the schedule below to see the wonderful range we were able to organize! On Tuesday we will all get together for a kickoff event. Whether you’re a veteran or dh-curious, come meet the New York City Digital Humanities community.

All…[Read more]

]]> 26ff0cd8664ab8b7d83feb2f7ff13034 Alex Gil started the topic Announcing NYCDH Week Spring 2016! in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/announcing-nycdh-week-spring-2016/ Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:09:11 -0500 Dear NYCDH’ers, we bring some big news for our community!

Save the date for our inaugural week-long event!
DHWeek Spring 2016
February 8-12

DHWeek Spring 2016 is a week-long celebration of all things digital humanities in New York City, hosted by NYCDH. Join us for this inaugural five-day event, packed with workshops, networking sessions, a…[Read more]

]]> 6822c325071ea44b76cc319e40f8ee8a Alex Gil started the topic The Caribbean Digital II in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/the-caribbean-digital-ii/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:06:49 -0500 Dear friends,

I’m proud to announce our second installment of the caribbean digital conference. Come discuss with us our digital Caribbean at the Columbia Maison Française, Dec 4, all day. We’re looking forward to a vibrant discussion, presentations of new projects and a good sense of where we are in digital humanities in and about the…[Read more]

]]> 07fc7de07f5feb0199f8c1b2ad613beb Alex Gil replied to the topic Linking Omeka to Neatline Records in the forum NYC Omeka Group via email http://nycdh.org/groups/nyc-omeka-group/forum/topic/linking-omeka-to-neatline-records/#post-1379 Thu, 05 Nov 2015 17:30:01 -0500 Like Patrick suggests, the Omeka forums are great. If you feel brave, the
page you want to look out in the Neatline documentation is “Creating themes
for individual Neatline exhibits.
<http://neatline.org/2014/04/01/creating-themes-for-individual-neatline-exhibits/&gt;”
I might’ve been wrong about the php. This might be simple javascript in…[Read more]

]]> eccbbb50c53fc255aaac8d629b1f71f7 Alex Gil replied to the topic Linking Omeka to Neatline Records in the forum NYC Omeka Group via email http://nycdh.org/groups/nyc-omeka-group/forum/topic/linking-omeka-to-neatline-records/#post-1376 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:35:32 -0500 Hi Heather,

Yes, but you would have to add some custom made php. Are you comfortable
doing that?

a.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:38 AM, NYC Digital Humanities <wordpress@nycdh.org
> wrote:

]]> 4b9d7592fc369c9e712ce71282f80a48 Collin Jennings replied to the topic Talk @ NYU | Andrew Goldstone, "Corpus or Field? A Challenge for Quantitative Methods" in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/talk-nyu-andrew-goldstone-corpus-or-field-a-challenge-for-quantitative-methods/#post-1339 Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:19:39 -0400 REMINDER: This Thursday!

Sponsored by the NYU Department of English and NYU Libraries

Corpus or Field?
A Challenge for Quantitative Methods
Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers University

4:30 PM, Thursday, October 15
East Room, Avery Fisher Center,
Bobst Library, 2nd Fl.

One of the most promising prospects for quantitative methods in literary…[Read more]

]]> c8041ceb63b6d0702e9663f9bcdb1bd0 Alex Gil and Claire Potter are now friends https://nycdh.org/activity/p/4830/ Thu, 08 Oct 2015 14:59:39 -0400 c8366297321c952fa540fb08a8f86e7d Collin Jennings started the topic Talk @ NYU | Andrew Goldstone, "Corpus or Field? A Challenge for Quantitative Methods" in the forum NYCDH Announcements via email http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/talk-nyu-andrew-goldstone-corpus-or-field-a-challenge-for-quantitative-methods/ Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:02:45 -0400 Mark your calendars. This promises to be a fascinating talk:

Sponsored by the NYU Department of English and NYU Libraries

Corpus or Field?
A Challenge for Quantitative Methods

Andrew Goldstone, Rutgers University

*4:30 PM, Thursday, October 15 *
*East Room, Avery Fisher Center, *
*Bobst Library, 2nd Fl. *
*New York University *

One of the…[Read more]

]]> ad4852984f33c4306ddf03b1a172c6f3 Alex Gil and Sharon Lintz are now friends https://nycdh.org/activity/p/4746/ Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:58:34 -0400 5679979dadc4954ce3a766952875ca15 Alex Gil started the topic Is Open Access to Data Always a Good Thing? in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/is-open-access-to-data-always-a-good-thing/ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:05:34 -0400 Hi all, we have a really exciting event at Columbia this week, which may be of interest to our community. Description below. Here’s a link to the Eventbrite for RSVPs.

A Panel Discussion on Secrecy, Privacy and the Public Good

Government agencies and private corporations possess vast troves of data that can be used to build new businesses,…[Read more]

]]> ac37ddafa7b50ac2cfc72a9ef3ff29e8 Alex Gil started the topic International and Global History 2.0 in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/international-and-global-history-2-0/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:35:14 -0400 Dear NYC-DH’ers,

Matthew Connelly informs me that his class on data mining in recent american history is open to auditors from around the city. You can write to him directly, or ping me for more info. The class blurb is below.

International and Global History 2.0
A Laboratory for Data-Mining Diplomatic and Military Archives Since 1945

History…[Read more]

]]> d4f00e9e4d08019e6cc9c504c1d4fbed Alex Gil started the topic Rickers Bot Hackathon in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/rickers-bot-hackathon/ Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:48:39 -0400 Dear all,

Hope you had a nice summer. We’re kickstarting things at the Studio@Butler for the Fall tomorrow with a hackathon for our Rikers Bot project.

Come build the Twitter RikersBot v.1 with us. The bot will tweet the stories composed by young people of Rikers prison and Columbia following the workshops of July 2015. The Bot will incorporate…[Read more]

]]> f964b83ff4477b62bb9e2864ffd1e437 Alex Gil started the topic Barbara Hernstein Smith. 'On Method: What Was “Close Reading”?' in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/barbara-hernstein-smith-on-method-what-was-close-reading/ Mon, 04 May 2015 01:44:32 -0400 Dear friends,

We have arrived at the last installment of our “On Method” series, and we’re closing in style. Prof. Barbara Hernstein Smith will be historicizing for us “close reading” to close what has been an exiting year for us! I hope to see some of you there. Below is the full description.

Heyman Center Workshops

On Method: What Was…[Read more]

]]> f9f7ec7026eceaf34d9464d4ab668f98 Alex Gil started the topic Nepal Mapathon in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/nepal-mapathon/ Sat, 02 May 2015 18:30:58 -0400 Dear NYC-DH’ers,

Our Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities & The Center for International History invite you to:

Nepal Mapathon for Earthquake Relief
May 7, 10-3 PM at Butler Library 208B (Studio@Butler)

Come help with relief efforts on the ground in Nepal by contributing your time to open-source mapping

Following the recent…[Read more]

]]> 9826c7b690441bca7ccb11985c689c49 Alex Gil started the topic Bodies Under Algorithm in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/bodies-under-algorithm/ Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:52:22 -0400 Dear NYC-DH’ers,

I would like to invite you to a little combo we’re putting together around some issues we care about:

Bodies Under Algorithm
6:00pm, 12 May 2015 at Butler Library 203, Columbia University

Who sets the terms and conditions governing our digital lives? The Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities and the Center for…[Read more]

]]> 2742f740832440f2112598c72f278bea Alex Gil started the topic history of data / data in history in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/history-of-data-data-in-history/ Sat, 11 Apr 2015 04:10:57 -0400 Hi all,

Below an event taking place next week at the Heyman Center (by invitation only, but slots open, I think).

history of data / data in history
Friday, April 17, 2015 – Saturday, April 18, 2015 9:00am – 5:00pm
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room

Historians of data offer greater analytical purchase on the limitations and dangers of…[Read more]

]]> 3730c1e54a0c067bc7a46055b9eb7dbc Alex Gil started the topic Miguel Ripoll: "Modular application development for DH projects." in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/miguel-ripoll-modular-application-development-for-dh-projects/ Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:54:20 -0400 NYC-DH Last minute announcement: Miguel Ripoll: “Modular application development for DH projects: towards and extensible collaborative model..” This Friday, 1:00pm-3:00pm at the Studio@Butler.

In this workshop, renowned web designer Miguel Ripoll—who built, among other things, the new LAIC Department website— will talk about strategies and tec…[Read more]

]]> 0aa4915bd9979804f34e2b12f8ed2118 Alex Gil started the topic Rens Bod. "Empiricism in the Humanities: Patterns versus Interpretations" in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/rens-bod-empiricism-in-the-humanities-patterns-versus-interpretations/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:40:30 -0400 Dear all,

Next Wednesday, April 8, at 6:15pm, we welcome Rens Bod at the Heyman Center as part of our #xpmethods encounters “on method in the humanities.” You may know Bod from his book, A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present. The event promises to be very lively and topical for…[Read more]

]]> cac7b3865fe8576da5153c1c1b35e6ab Alex Gil started the topic d3.js workshop in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/d3-js-workshop/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:32:19 -0400 when: April 10, 2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
where: Studio@Butler, Butler Library 208b, Columbia University

At the root of complex interactive visualizations are simple, data-driven shapes. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to the D3.js JavaScript library, and will walk participants through the steps necessary to use data to control a…[Read more]

]]> 171e706b612683e421ea9a95b6cb7479 Alex Gil started the topic “How to Kill Facebook”: Eben Moglen on Privacy and Social Networks in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/how-to-kill-facebook-eben-moglen-on-privacy-and-social-networks/ Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:08:45 -0400 When: March 31, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Studio@Butler, Butler Library 208b, Columbia University

Universities were the freest places in human society to compute—and therefore to read, communicate and learn—from the beginning of computing until yesterday. They are no longer. Mostly, you did it to yourselves. Some of it is being done to yo…[Read more]

]]> b5997a20825f1be3377bd6e659622bba Alex Gil started the topic John Macfarlane on Pandoc in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/john-macfarlane-on-pandoc/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:28:40 -0400 John MacFarlane, chair of the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley and author of numerous pieces of software for humanities research, is visiting the Group for Experimental Methods in the Humanities. He will give a presentation on pandoc, a tool for authoring academic documents using plain text, and lead a workshop on…[Read more]

]]> 7ddeb76e62ec8ac1401229fa0453f793 Alex Gil started the topic Steve Jones. The Priest and the Punched-Card Machines in the forum NYCDH Announcements http://nycdh.org/groups/nycdh-announcements-71439400/forum/topic/steve-jones-the-priest-and-the-punched-card-machines/ Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:17:10 -0500 Please join us next week at the Studio@Butler for an exciting event with Steve Jones on the birth of humanities computing! This event is free and open to all NYCDH’ers. If coming from outside Columbia, please RSVP to agil@columbia.edu.

Blurb:
It’s the canonical founding myth of humanities computing and the digital humanities: In November 1949, t…[Read more]

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