Events

Past Events

Culture Mapping 2022

NewYorkScapes's annual Culture Mapping symposium will take place April 7 - 9, 2022. This year's conference is organized under the theme "Archives & Afterlives."

Doc Chat: Slavery and Capitalism in the Archives

NYPL's Matt Knutzen and NYU Professor Tom Augst explore the archives of the financial firm Brown Brothers & Co. and discuss ways of locating the deep ties between Northern bankers and the slaveowning South.

Affiliate Event: Preparing Students for a Data-Driven World

A leading panel of interdisciplinary faculty discuss how data are used across technical and creative fields and how they use empirical reasoning and data-based assignments to prepare to live and work in a data-driven society.

Culture Mapping 2020

  Thanks to all who joined us for a fantastic symposium! To view recordings of our sessions, please follow the links in the program below, or view the whole conference playlist here. The public conference guide, which includes shared links,

Culture Mapping 2019

Join NewYorkScapes for a two-day symposium exploring culture, place, and digital methods. Featuring workshops on data and digital pedagogy, art installations, film screenings, and panels. Register now!

Historical City Data Log-a-Thon

Come join NewYorkScapes for a historical data catalog building event co-sponsored by the Digital Culture/s Colloquium. We'll be searching open-access digital libraries and data sources high and low for undiscovered data documenting the history of the city of New York.

NewYorkScapes Community Meeting and Happy Hour

Please join NewYorkScapes for our annual informal community meeting and happy hour to kickoff 2018-2019, provide updates on our shared projects, and plot future directions for the coming year.

Mapping the Text Conference 2018

Mapping the Text will be held on Saturday, 21 April 2018 in conjunction with the annual CultureMapping@NYU event hosted at NYU Libraries on Friday, 20 April and sponsored by NewYorkScapes.

Culture Mapping 2018

Are you interested in applying digital tools to the interpretation and visualization of cultures, geographies, and urban experience? Come share methods and motives with NewYorkScapes, a research community exploring spatial humanities and urban cultures.

Building Project-Based Research Communities around Humanities Data

How might we build collaboration into the curation and interpretation of data in the humanities? How might a tool that facilitates the sharing of humanities data enable new kinds of networked research communities?

Segarmakers, Wheelwrights, Merchants: Extracting a Million-Record Dataset from Historical NYC City Directories

Come hear about an ongoing effort to extract over a million entries documenting the New York City's from its historic city directories for public use.

NewYorkScapes Community Meeting and Happy Hour

Please join NewYorkScapes for an informal community meeting and happy hour to hear updates on our shared projects, new website, and future directions for the coming year.

NewYorkScapes @ the NYU English Working Group Open House

Join us along with other research and discussion groups at the NYU English Department Working Group Open House! Representatives from NewYorkScapes will be on hand to present upcoming events, share projects in progress, and to sign up new members to

Culture Mapping @ NYU

How might digital technologies help enable new ways of conceptualizing history, visualizing place, and mapping culture? NewYorkScapes presents a one-day symposium on the use of digital tools in the study of urban cultures. A series of panels, workshops, and project

NewYorkScapes Happy Hour

Please join the NewYorkScapes working group at NYU for an informal happy hour to share ideas for the group's events and activities for the coming year.

Solidarity and the City: A Roundtable Discussion between Scholars, Educators, and Activists on Space, Social Justice, and Digital Methods

A roundtable discussion exploring the ways scholars, educators and activists have responded to the challenge of urban change.

Urban Space Reading Group

The Urban Space Reading Group will be meeting with David Kishik to discuss his new book, The Manhattan Project: A Theory of a City.

Jeremy Rowe on Mapping the History of Photography in Nineteenth-Century New York and Arizona

Jeremy Rowe presents a digital project that uses geolocation as a tool for understanding the economic development of historic photography.

Urban Space Reading Group

The Urban Space Reading Group will be discussing Neil Smith's Uneven Development.

Urban Space Reading Group

The Urban Space Reading Group will be discussing Edward Soja's Postmodern Geographies

NewYorkScapes Faculty Development Workshop

This workshop featuring the development firm Collective Access will explore how software tools can efficiently support project-based learning.

Happy Hour Discussion: Scholarly Writing in an Online Environment

NewYorkScapes is hosting an informal happy hour discussion about scholarly writing in online environments.

Historic Sites, Racialized Geographies, and the Responsibilities of Public Historians

A discussion session dedicated to exploring the reponsibilities of public historians in interpreting relationship between present-day landscapes and historic sites.

Urban Space Reading Group

The Urban Space Reading Group will be discussing David Harvey's "Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society."

Laura Fisher on the City of Words Project

Laura Fisher of Ryerson University in Toronto will be discussing a digital and public humanities project that geolocates literary and historical texts on a map of New York City.

NewYorkScapes Project Showcase

Students in the digital humanities graduate course “Mapping Archives: Cultural Geographies of New York City” will present their projects from Fall 2014.

NewYorkScapes Writing Group Workshop

Jo Livingstone, a fifth-year in the English PhD program, will circulate a sample from her dissertation, "Middle English Imperial Romances and Landscape of British Nationalism."

Whitman among the Bohemians: Book and Website Launch, and Tour of Pfaff's Cellar

Come hear about the bohemians of antebellum New York who supported, slept with, parodied, and drank with Walt Whitman at a pivotal moment in the poet's life and career.

Urban Humanities: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Perspective

What new opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration do digital tools afford scholars working with archival resources? How might new digital tools make the history, art, and culture in New York City visible in new ways, to new publics?