Events

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

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.

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,

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!

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.

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 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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.