Talk – 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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]]> Segarmakers, Wheelwrights, Merchants: Extracting a Million-Record Dataset from Historical NYC City Directories https://newyorkscapes.org/event/nyc-city-directories/ Wed, 18 Oct 2017 21:40:08 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=event&p=565 City directories present a tantalizing data source for the demographic, occupational, and spatial history of urban environments. New York City’s listings are no exception, with more than 120 years of directories and over a million entries documenting the city’s inhabitants available for public use. While these directories have been digitized and made publicly available by the New York Public…

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]]> Urban Humanities: A Symposium on Research Development, Digital Archives, and Documentary Perspective https://newyorkscapes.org/event/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/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:51:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/event/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/ 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? 3:00-4:45 pm Digital Archives and Public Humanities Chair: Peter Wosh, Director, Program in Archives and Public History, New York University Anne Karle…

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]]> Whitman among the Bohemians: Book and Website Launch, and Tour of Pfaff’s Cellar https://newyorkscapes.org/event/whitman-among-the-bohemians-book-and-website-launch-and-tour-of-pfaffs-cellar/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:50:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/event/whitman-among-the-bohemians-book-and-website-launch-and-tour-of-pfaffs-cellar/ For several years just before and just after his 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass appeared, Walt Whitman regularly frequented Pfaff’s beer cellar in downtown Manhattan. The basement bar was the gathering place of America’s first bohemians, and was described in the local press as “the trysting-place of the most careless, witty, and jovial spirits of New York—journalists, artists, and poets.

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]]> NewYorkScapes Project Showcase https://newyorkscapes.org/event/newyorkscapes-project-showcase/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:49:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/event/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. Presentations will include work on materials from the Municipal Archives, Fales Library, Tamiment Library, as well as a collaboration between NewYorkScapes and the New York Society Library.

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]]> Laura Fisher on the City of Words Project https://newyorkscapes.org/event/laura-fisher-on-the-city-of-words-project/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:47:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/event/laura-fisher-on-the-city-of-words-project/ Laura Fisher, 2012 NYU English PhD, now associate professor of urban literature at Ryerson University in Toronto, will be discussing City of Words, a digital and public humanities project—a Smartphone application and website—that geolocates literary and historical texts on a map of New York City. Its development team is now completing the initial iteration of the project…

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]]> Jeremy Rowe on Mapping the History of Photography in Nineteenth-Century New York and Arizona https://newyorkscapes.org/event/jeremy-rowe-on-mapping-the-history-of-photography-in-nineteenth-century-new-york-and-arizona/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:40:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/event/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. In a novel deployment of humanities data, the project maps an archive of documentary photographs of the Arizona territory and early photographic studios in New York City.

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