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2025 DHI Lightning Talks

2025 DHI Lightning Talks

Full slide deck for the 2025 CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks.

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November 03, 2025
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  1. CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lighting Talks 2025 Building a Digital

    Humanities Community at the City University of New York Tuesday, October 28th 2025, 6:30pm Skylight Room & Zoom
  2. Open infrastructure for open education: OpenLab at City Tech &

    CBOX OpenLab CUNY DHI Lightning Talks 2025 | Tuesday October 28, 2025 Charlie Edwards, City Tech
  3. The OpenLab at City Tech openlab.citytech.cuny.edu An (award-winning!) open platform

    that everyone at the college can use Open education, collaboration, community
  4. Commons in a Box OpenLab An open platform for open

    learning Built through collaboration Customizable to meet institutional needs Supports open pedagogies, OER, and more
  5. Transcarta Dr. Sarah Archino, Furman University Dr. Karen Shelby, Baruch

    College Dr. Doug Singsen, University of Wisconsin-Parkside
  6. Transcarta is an interactive app consisting of a map, timeline,

    and image viewer for use by teachers, students, researchers, and members of the public. Transcarta will have the ability to customize selections of artworks by geographic region, time period, subject matter, and other criteria, to display customized lists of artworks on an interactive map. The map and timeline would help users understand and visualize the interconnections between different artworks and cultures over time. The map and timeline could be used by instructors to anchor a fully OER curriculum or to supplement a textbook or other readings.
  7. Transcarta will be developed and operated by Art History Teaching

    Resources (AHTR), a web-based platform that connects a diverse field of educators in art history, visual culture, and related fields. Transcarta will be used to easily visualize the geographic and chronological relationships between subject and site.
  8. Piloting in Morocco • Survey form • What, where, when,

    who • Did you report to the police, and why not • Personal follow up: Do you want to be contacted by Nawara - if yes, how
  9. Thank you! Designing and Evaluating a Prototype of a Trilingual

    Data Collection Tool for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region to Collect Data About Violence Against Sex Workers: Multiple Methods Approach in User-Centered Design: https://formative.jmir.org/2025/1/e65210 User-Centered Design for Designing and Evaluating a Prototype of a Data Collection Tool to Submit Information About Incidents of Violence Against Sex Workers: Multiple Methods Approach: https://humanfactors.jmir.org/2024/1/e53557 Or search “Ditmore” on JMIR.org
  10. Guyanese in the USA A review of Guyanese data in

    the American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample and New York City Neighborhood T abulation Areas (ACS, PUMS, and NYC NTA data, 2023) by Rohan Ramnarain M.S. Candidate, Data Analysis and Visualization
  11. Guyanese in the USA are almost twice as likely to

    have private health insurance vs. public coverage.
  12. Machine-reading Gentrification on Bed-Stuy's Storefront Signs Alex McQuilkin MS, Data

    Analysis & Visualization Capstone Fall 2025 Matt Gold
  13. Old-school vs. new-school signage Taxonomy borrowed from John Jay sociolinguist

    Shonna Trinch/cultural anthropologist Edward Snajdr's "What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn" (2020)
  14. Retail turnover in Bed-Stuy • More likely to open (2018-24):

    bars, coffee shops, real estate agencies, art galleries • More likely to close (2018-24): hair salons, barber shops, daycare centers, churches
  15. Tunes Near and Far: Collections of the Chinese Musical and

    Theatrical Association: A Digital Exhibit on Omeka Cen Liu, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance The Graduate Center, CUNY
  16. •How can we learn from Black diasporic and Latinx practices

    that exist outside of academia and traditional K-12 education in ways that can help us reimagine practices that lead to liberatory futures ? •I use visual tools within my research to serve as a counter-narrative to rethink pedagogical practices aims to uplift non-traditional educational spaces and honor non-academic ways of knowing. Ph.D. in Urban Education CUNY Graduate Center
  17. Finding Lesbian Housing Practices in the Lesbian Switchboard Call Logs

    Maggie Schreiner, CUNY Graduate Center DHI Lightning Talks, October 28, 2025
  18. Digitization and OCR Process Sunday April 17. Roslyn + Nicole

    8:30 ♀ called wanting referrals to discussion groups and comfortable places to meet people. Referred to us by MCC. Refered her to LFL, I House, West Side Discussion Group. 8:45 ♀ called for apartment to share or sublet - gave her the ads we have on our board - also she wanted sub-lets. 8:55 ♀ called for info about Boston, and Events - ♀♀ organizations, etc. told her about Boston, D.O.B. 10:20 ♀ called. Feeling very lonely, Afraid to take steps to meet and be with other women. Wanted assurances about taking risks and trying to form relationships. Roslyn signing off. See you tomorrow.
  19. Call Frequencies by Category (using Voyant) Housing words: • apt*

    • apartment* • evict* • home* • landlord* • rent* • room* • shelter* Housing Health Entertainment
  20. Close Reading using Taguette 7:35 ♀ wanting to share apt

    in Queens (September ?, 1972). 7:39 ♀ called having problem with other tenants in her apartment, name calling, harassment, wants to know where to get help before her kids start getting hassled, referred to lesbian mothers groups for support (May 13, 1980). 700 ♀ called in need of lawyer & psychotherapist. Was kicked out her apt because landlord discovered she was lesbian. LANDLORD HOLDING ALL HER POSSESSIONS. Discuss Her options (April 6, 1978). Themes: • Roommates • Harassment • Eviction
  21. Why? • David Zeitlyn (2012) on archives as instruments of

    hegemony or subversion • Michel Callan (1998) on “the material reality of calculation” • Micki McGee (2005) on the belabored self • Maribel Casas-Cortes (2021) on precarious writings How?
  22. 54
 A Digital Humanities Tool for Confronting Difficult Histories UI/UX

    Developer: David Schwittek (CUNY) Lead author: Temi Odumosu (UW) Annotating The New Union Club

  23. • OpenSeaDragon and custom JS
 • Ethical UI patterns
 •

    Grayscale/Color filtering
 David Schwittek
 10/28/2025
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  24. AI-Supported Design as Interpretive Practice
 Crtical UI/UX
 David Schwittek
 10/28/2025


    Using code creatively 
 Reducing the barriers to coding.
 Achievable end goals.
 UI/UX can serve as a critical lens for 
 public engagement with difficult materials.
 Cognitive Offloading
 AI tools don’t replace thought—they help us build better, more ethical tools, faster.

  25. Omnibus Ciambelli • Bernardino Ciambelli: ◦ Journalist ◦ Serial novelist

    ◦ Playwright ◦ Public figure • Problem: inconsistent archive • Solution: curated, open access edition
  26. Omnibus Ciambelli (Novels) • I misteri di Mulberry Street (1893)

    • I drammi dell’emigrazione (1894) • I misteri della polizia (Il delitto di Water Street) (1895) • I misteri di Bleecker Street (1899) • Il delitto di Coney Island (La Follia, 1907)* • La strage degli innocenti (La Follia, 1909)* • I misteri di Harlem (Ovvero, la bella di Elizabeth Street) (La Follia, 1910)* • Il terremoto di Sicilia e Calabria (1909) • L’aeroplano fantasma (La Follia, 1911)* • I sotterranei di New York (1915) • Amore, lussuria e morte (L’Indipendente, 1916)* • La prostituta di Vienna (1917) • La trovatella di Mulberry Street (1919)
  27. Digital Memories Vol. V A Collaborative Manifold Publication Edited by

    Lini Radhakrishnan and Cathleen Melamed Spring 2025
  28. Project Phases Project Initiation “Collaboration” theme and review template introduced

    and discussed with the class Editing Process Developed and shared the submission, editing, and progress tracking processes Theme Embodied Collaborative processes: class feedback, inspiration from the Manifold community Manifold Onboarding Cycles of ingestion testing, review categorization, and design choices
  29. Embodying Collaboration Throughout Production REVIEW PROCESS EDITING PROCESS CATEGORIZATION DESIGN

    ELEMENTS • Participatory logo designs • Visual relief - Linked images • Broad Categorization • Reviewer identified keywords in Manifold tags and TOC • Site preview & class feedback before publication • Collaboration questions for each review • Requested feedback on editorial review • Documented innovations in Manifold Resource Collections • Professor’s contribution to introduction Winning design on Vol Cover Other submissions featured in TOC thumbnail, collection coverl
  30. Manifold Design and Processes Cohesion Manifold helped us provide a

    visually unified, curated collection of digital reviews Flexibility Manifold allowed us to integrate visual elements and links within the texts and in the resource collection, both of which are useful for archiving Flexible workarounds made possible by the platform
  31. Many thanks to Professor Borrachero, Professor Miller, and the Digital

    Memories Spring 2025 class for their invaluable contributions and guidance. Visit our project here: Digital Memories Volume V Thank You!
  32. Why Make A Website For Your Tenants’ Association? • Corruption

    spreads in secrecy • Public information can counter real estate speculation • Embolden neighbors to take action against their landlords • All you need is a domain, a hosting service, and a Wordpress install (if that)
  33. “Stewardship, not ownership, is the path to adulthood” – Amy

    Starecheski, Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City • Landlords are well organized and share information with each other • They depend on tenants who: • Don’t speak to each other • Don’t know their rights • Are afraid of standing up to corruption • Redress the power imbalance through publishing and creating networks!