• Recap of the HASTAC Scholars Welcome Event for academic year 2023-2024

    The Launch event for HASTAC scholars took place on September 21, 2023, and we were delighted to see the virtual gathering of familiar and new faces at our Welcome Event. This recap aims to provide you with a glimpse into what we discussed at the event.  We were thrilled to welcome scholars from the 2022-2024 […]

  • Welcome HASTAC Scholars!

    Welcome back to the new academic year! We are excited to continue working with you as part of the HASTAC Scholars program.  Allow us to introduce ourselves: we are Coline Chevrin and Parisa Setayesh, and we are taking over this year as the HASTAC Scholars Program Co-Directors. We are both doctoral students in the Earth […]

  • 2023 Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, authors of ‘The New College Classroom’ (2022)

    This year, HASTAC Scholars Nanditha Krishna, Britt Munro, Sidney A. Turner, Waleska Solorzano, and Matthew Taitano interviewed HASTAC Co-Founder Cathy Davidson and Christina Katopodis of the CUNY Graduate Center, authors of The New College Classroom. Britt Munro: I love the down-to-earth way you approach the realities of college teaching, and in particular your approach to ‘failure’- when things don’t go as planned- as potentially generative […]

  • Thank you, Pratt Institute! Thank you, HASTAC Community! HASTAC2023 is a wrap.

    Thank you, Pratt Institute! Thank you, HASTAC Community! HASTAC2023 is a wrap.

    Monday morning. 500+ HASTAC’ers have left the gorgeous Pratt Institute campus, home of HASTAC2023, “Critical Making and Social Justice.” I hope that the organizer of all of this, Chris Alen Sula, leader of the wonderful Pratt team, is sleeping in today, happy that it all went so well, all the panels, speakers, art installations, demonstrations, […]

  • A (Very Brief) History of HASTAC (2002-2023)

    A (Very Brief) History of HASTAC (2002-2023)

    NOTE: This was written quickly, without access to the HASTAC.org archives, from memory–and we know how faulty that can be. Please use the “Comments” to add names, insights, anything you wish.–CND On this very smoky morning, as I get ready for the 20th “advisory board” meeting of HASTAC at what has shaped up to be […]

  • HASTAC 2023 Conference Program is Live!

    HASTAC 2023 Conference Program is Live!

    The HASTAC 2023 Conference schedule is now available! Times and activities listed below are subject to change. The complete schedule can be found here. The 2023 HASTAC conference invites our community to engage with creative and design-based approaches to technology and education, particularly around issues of social justice and allied movements of design justice, data justice and […]

  • PUBLIC EVENT | Digital Fridays: March 31, 3:00pm-4:00pm EST featuring HASTAC Scholars Waleska Solórzano and Ian G. Williams

    PUBLIC EVENT | Digital Fridays: March 31, 3:00pm-4:00pm EST featuring HASTAC Scholars Waleska Solórzano and Ian G. Williams

    Join us for our upcoming Digital Friday featuring HASTAC Scholars Waleska Solórzano and Ian G. Williams RSVP here to access the Zoom link for the event. “Exploring a Venesporic Lesbian Utopia in Fina Torres’ Liz in September,” Waleska Solórzano. According to the United Nations, more than seven million Venezuelans are displaced across international borders as […]

  • Recap: Welcome New HASTAC Scholars

    Recap: Welcome New HASTAC Scholars

    Summary A summary of the Orientation Event for 2022-2024 cohort of HASTAC Scholars on February 3, 2023. This includes 1) sign up information for HASTAC Scholars Spring 2023 programs and 2) brief tutorials on registering and participating on HASTAC Commons. Greetings HASTAC Scholars –  It was great to see so many new faces at the […]

  • Cotton Candy, Magic, and Making Space

    Cotton Candy, Magic, and Making Space

    How can we better include voices, perspectives, and practitioners that are not regularly recognized or celebrated? What is possible when we prioritize care and love in spaces where this is not traditionally explored? And what happens when we make cotton candy in an academic library? NC State University‘s Making Space Event Series, based in the […]

  • Shifting Expectations

    Shifting Expectations

    Our 3rd Grade Classroom on The First Day of Snow Often as teachers, we mask our emotions. We are suppose to be peppy all the time. For the most part, I am a glass half full person. For teacher wellness, I need to also share when things are just, meh. I saw a meme the […]