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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.