Category: Schools
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Research Trip – combining workshop, archival research and DH visits!
I had the opportunity last week and this week to combine a conference on the east coast with archival research work AND visits to two digital humanities (DH) centers. The conference was an intensive southern African workshop – I received some really helpful feedback and met some amazing Africanists. It is always inspirational to […]
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How a University Can Sell Its Soul: HASTAC’s Stanford Origins and the University’s Current Decision on Stanford University Press
“Austerity” When You Are Wealthier Than Just About Anyone In the wake of the decision by the President and Provost of Stanford University to either (depending on which account you read and when) kill its scholarly press immediately or bring Stanford University Press (founded 1892) to a slow death by withdrawing its $1.7 million annual […]
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Digital Humanities Website Review – www.storycorps.org
StoryCorps is a non-profit organization founded with a story-telling booth in Grand Central Station, New York City, in 2003 by Dave Isay that aims to share the stories of people to remind all of us in our society of our collective humanity. Specifically, StoryCorps states that their mission is to: preserve and share humanity’s […]
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Why Students Should Host Graduation Ceremonies
I’m taking a brief break from my #ProgressivePedagogy series to share a thought on graduation ceremonies. This post is the product of thinking through representations of race in film, award presentations and acceptance speeches at yesterday’s Oscars, and what I’ve learned from The New Education. I’m currently assisting as a fellow in a graduate class with Professors Cathy N. Davidson […]
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Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile to a US Community College
** This essay is originally posted on the CUNY Humanities Alliance website: http://cunyhumanitiesalliance.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=2697&action=edit)** I am pleased to share my research paper entitled, Voluntarily Exiled? Korean State’s Cultural Politics of Young Adults’ Social Belonging and Korean Students’ Exile to a US Community College, published by the journal, Higher Education. This ethnographic study examines the complicated interlink between the […]
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A Video History of Upstate New York I: “A nothing which let everything happen…”
IMAGE: Nam June Paik manuscript reproduction from poster, “Ralph Hocking Selections, March 16, 1994, Lecture Hall Six, 8:00 PM” A Video History of Upstate New York I: “A nothing which let everything happen…” (This is the FIRST installment in a blog series on the Experimental Television Center exploring the community and institutional culture of experimental media education […]
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Empowering Students & Creating Social Change through the Humanities
Result of the Humanities Alliance Postconference Survey ** This essay is also cross-posted on the Humanities Alliance and the HASTAC websites.** The Fall 2018 Humanities Alliance conference offered a unique opportunity to assess nationwide opinions about community college teaching and humanities education. The conference, “Community Colleges and the Future of Humanities,” was held by […]
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Collaborative Agenda Setting
One of my favorite roles as a Futures Initiative Fellow is running our business meetings in the rotation (we rotate who runs each meeting, giving our meetings a horizontal structure in which everyone’s input is equally valued). I wrote a post about these revolutionary office meetings that was picked up by Prof Hacker in The […]
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“SCHALTEN UND WALTEN” Towards Operative Ontologies
“SCHALTEN UND WALTEN” Towards Operative Ontologies IKKM Biennial Conference 2019 October 23–25, 2019, Weimar, Germany Assessing our situation, we cannot ignore the fact that whatever is given in our environment is done so by technical operations and not in the ways natural things exist, by physis, i.e. growing by themselves into being. Things like […]
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The Problem with Prestige
I recently had the honor of speaking alongside brilliant public scholars Jessie Daniels and Alex Gil at an NYC event hosted by the University of Edinburgh. The event, which was organized by (also brilliant!) Karen Gregory, Melissa Terras, Sian Bayne, and their Edinburgh colleagues, carried a daunting title: What is the future of the University? […]