Community – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Thu, 25 Mar 2021 02:21:40 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Doc Chat: Slavery and Capitalism in the Archives https://newyorkscapes.org/event/doc-chat-slavery-and-capitalism-in-the-archives/ Mon, 15 Mar 2021 05:05:32 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=1752 Doc Chat is a program series that digs deep into the stories behind the Library’s most interesting collections and highlights ways that teachers can incorporate them into the classroom. In Episode 21, NYPL’s Matt Knutzen and NYU Professor Tom Augst explore the archives of the financial firm Brown Brothers & Company and discuss ways of locating the deep ties between Northern bankers and the…

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]]> Historical City Data Log-a-Thon https://newyorkscapes.org/event/historical-city-data-log-a-thon/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:02:18 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=834 Come join NewYorkScapes for a historical data catalog building event co-sponsored by the Digital Culture/s Colloquium on Thursday morning, December 13th, from 10-1. 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, logging our findings, and building out the NewYorkScapes data catalog listing.

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]]> NewYorkScapes Community Meeting and Happy Hour https://newyorkscapes.org/event/community-meeting-oct-4/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:40:37 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=808 Please join NewYorkScapes for an informal community meeting followed by happy hour to hear updates on our various projects and future directions for the coming year. All are welcome, including newcomers curious about getting involved with the community. Feel free to bring along a project update to share, or pitch a new endeavor for which you are seeking collaborators. We’ll meet at the NYU…

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]]> Culture Mapping 2018 https://newyorkscapes.org/event/culture-mapping-2018/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:47:58 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=721 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. APRIL 20: Bobst Library, Room 743 A librarian-led workshop with Nick Wolf, Andrew Battista, and Michelle Thompson focusing on…

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]]> Building Project-Based Research Communities around Humanities Data https://newyorkscapes.org/event/building-project-based-research-communities-around-humanities-data/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:15:32 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=702 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? Following an introduction by Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for Educational Technology at NYU, Thomas Augst (English, NYU) and Nicholas Wolf (NYU Libraries) report on NewYorkScapes and its…

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]]> NewYorkScapes Community Meeting and Happy Hour https://newyorkscapes.org/event/community-meeting-oct-17/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00:10 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=530 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. All are welcome, including newcomers curious about getting involved with the community. NewYorkScapes brings together researchers at NYU and beyond who share an interest in studying the cultural, historical…

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]]> Culture Mapping @ NYU https://newyorkscapes.org/event/culture-mapping-nyu/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 01:56:00 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=489 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 presentations will explore scholarly and pedagogical approaches to geospatial data, cultural geography, and interactive storytelling.

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]]> NewYorkScapes Happy Hour https://newyorkscapes.org/event/newyorkscapes-happy-hour/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:37:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/event/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. All are welcome; the group may be of particular interest to those working in the fields of urban studies, cultural history, digital humanities, and archives and public history. NewYorkScapes is a research community exploring the application of…

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