CUNY DHI_Lightning Talks_2024

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1. CUNY DHI Lighting Talks Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York 10th Annual Tuesday, November 19th 2024 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. RM 9205/9206 & Zoom The Graduate Center, CUNY
2. The DH Syllabus as Archive Digital Pedagogy, Feminist Citation, and Sustainability Andie Silva, York College and Graduate Center November 19, 2024 https://bit.ly/SilvaDHI Accessible text version of talk
3. Website backend and content by Tactical Technology Collective https://myshadow.org/ Andie Silva DHI 2024
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6. we increasingly rely on digital archives to preserve our shared cultural heritage … any interruption in access reminds us of the fragility of our digital landscape Chris Freeland, “Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record,” The Internet Archive Andie Silva DHI 2024
7. “Feminist citational practices acknowledge the historical marginalization and silencing of Authors of Color, authors with marginalized genders and gender identities, and disabled authors/authors with disabilities in academia via the intentional crediting of their scholarship.” Andie Silva DHI 2024 Lori Wright, Neisha Wiley, Elizabeth VanWassenhove, Brandelyn Tosolt, Rae Loftis, Meg L. Hensley, “Feminist Citational Praxis and Problems of Practice” Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 3/4 (FALL/WINTER 2022), pp. 124-140
8. Anna Kijas, Quinn Dombrowski, and Sebastian Majstorovic sucho.org Andie Silva DHI 2024
9. Andie Silva DHI 2024 Brittany Myburgh, Keith Cheng, and collaborators, https://blackdigitalhumanities.com/
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11. Maria Cotera and Linda Garcia Merchant https://www.chicanapormiraza.org/ Sarah Rafael García https://www.libromobile.com/
12. DHI 2024 https://www.libromobile.com/bipocartspaces Valerie James, Chicano Park takeover
13. Andie Silva DHI 2024 Steven Klein, “Data Management Research Guide” https://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/datamgmt
14. Andie Silva DHI 2024 Alex Ketchum https://www.lgbtqarchives.com Colored Conventions Project (P. Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, Lauren Cooper, et al) bit.ly/Black-DH-List
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16. “As scholars/curators Erica Lehrer and Cynthia E. Milton point out, the root meaning of the word “curate” is “caring for”: this connection between “curation” and “caring for,” they contend, demands that we think of curation “not only as selection, design, and interpretation, but as care-taking— as a kind of intimate, intersubjective, interrelational obligation” … the “caring for” the past that is at the root of curation can take the form of carefully attending to aesthetic practices through writing: the critical analysis of art objects/aesthetic practices by placing them in relation to one another can function as a mode of queer curation. To “care for” is also to “care about”; thus the project of queer curation, as I understand it, is the obligation to impart that “caring about” to others. Andie Silva DHI 2024 Gayatri Gopinath Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora Duke University Press, 2018
17. 1. Teaching and learning can happen beyond project-building a. building coalition and contributing to existing work can be extremely rewarding and ensure longevity if the project is already hosted and supported elsewhere b. in the classroom and beyond, deliberately small-scale and local community projects have incredible value for those involved, and they can be short lived by design 2. Amplify voices whenever possible a. employ feminist citation practices by naming individuals, not just projects, and centering the work of folks outside hegemonic voices and spaces b. work with the library to contribute to or enhance libguides, archives, and resource lists 1. Archiving, Pedagogy, Care Work Andie Silva DHI 2024
18. 3. Build a (sustainable) classroom archive a. require sustainability approaches like The Endings Project and sunsetting plans b. use tools like Perusall to take snapshots of websites to be used for class c. upload to work to Google Docs, Academic Works, and Humanities Commons with CC licenses 4. Accessibility = preservation a. center accessibility in project planning, evaluation, and design i. list and share best practices for sustainable websites b. model accessibility with syllabi, slides, and alternative assignments Archiving, Pedagogy, Care Work Andie Silva DHI 2024
19. Thank You! Andie Silva DHI 2024 asilva@york.cuny.edu
20. Digital Archives
21. Adonde: Nuyorican Founders in The Digital Age Jonathan B. Toro • Nov 2024
22. “Let it not be forgotten the esthetic that has been developed by the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in NYC.” - Lois Elaine Griffith
23. NUYORICAN POETS CAFE FOUNDERS ARCHIVE PROJECT WEBSITE
24. Thank you! https://nuyoricanarchive.wordpress.com/
25. 11/19/2024 Humanidades Digitales is the Spanish for digital humanities (DH). A Commons Group was created years ago, after a meeting in Mina Res. Humanidades digitales Silvia Rivera Alfaro Digital Fellow / Candidate, PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures This semester we started a blog about DH projects • In Spanish (about any topic) • Around topics that communicate with the identities imagined as “Spanish speaking” • OER about those communities or about Spanish
26. 11/19/2024 There are many reasons why creating this resource is important. Some of them are: • CUNY is a Hispanic-serving institution and it is important to understand how DH are contributing in our institution across colleges. • There are CUNY faculty, students, and alumni working in Humanidades Digitales. • It is a way to highlight the Spanish language as a central part of US past and contemporary culture and intellectual life. Reasons Silvia Rivera Alfaro Digital Fellow / Candidate, PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures Examples of projects to highlight Dr. Wendy Barrales, Alum from Urban Education Lidia Hernandez Tapia, Candidate, LAILaC and ITP alum Dr. Aránzazu Borrachero, Professor at Digital Humanities (GC) and Queensborough Community College Dr. Rebecca L. Salois and Dr. Rojo Robles, Baruch College
27. 11/19/2024 Silvia Rivera Alfaro Digital Fellow / Candidate, PhD Program in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures You can collaborate writing about resources created by others or about your own resources. Join the CUNY Academic Commons group to become an author. Collaborate! Examples of projects to highlight Dr. Tania Aviles, Dr. Anthony J. Harb, LAILaC alumni, Andrea Ariza, Rosalía Reyes Simon, Ph.D. candidates, LAILaC, Ricardo Martín Coloma, Ph.D. candidate, LAILaC and ITP alum Dr. Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana, Baruch College Dr. Clayton McCarl, Spanish and Digital Humanities professor, University of North Florida. LAILaC and ITP alum Natalia Villarroel Torres, LAILaC candidate; and Silvia Rivera Alfaro, LAILaC candidate and ITP alum
28. 28 Tuka Al-Sahlani CUNY DHI Lightning Talks Nov. 19, 2024 Arab American Women Academics: Digital Index
29. The Library of Missing Datasets (2016) Data Feminism (2020) Archiving (2020) The word "missing" is inherently normative. It implies both a lack and an ought: something does not exist, but it should. This is not usually intentional; it comes from the ignorance of being on top. We describe this deficiency as a privilege hazard.” Through this turn, the notion of archive has also been extended and interrogated as a site of memory, of loss and of power.” The Why(s) 29
30. Arab American National Museum University Library/ Google Scholar Crowdsourcing Arab American Book Award Non-Fiction Search terms: Arab American women; Arab American feminists; Arab American women writers Forthcoming… The How(s) 30
31. 31 The Index 31 31
32. Platform/Application Development
33. Catch our DHRIFT Digital Humanities Infrastructure for Teaching Technology DHRIFT Team: CUNY Graduate Center Leanne Fan, GC Digital Fellow, Project Manager Zachary Lloyd, GC Digital Fellow, Developer Lisa Marie Rhody, Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives, Project Director Stephen Zweibel, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Project co-Director Consultants Patrick Smyth, Development and Accessibility Sara Cannon, Designer
34. What is DHRIFT? ❖ A customizable OER platform for publishing DH workshops and institutes on the web ❖ A set of core workshops on foundational DH topics ❖ A minimal computing workflow for reproducing and sharing resources and content ❖ A community of co-learners, creators, and facilitators
35. DHRIFT Core Core workshops include: • Python • R • JavaScript • Command Line • Text Analysis • HTML/CSS • and more! Each workshop includes: • Landing page • Interactive features • Glossary • Theory to Practice
36. Write and run code, all in the browser
37. Learn more… …at https://dhrift.org/ https://app.dhrift.org/ (under active development)
38. CUNY SPS OpenLab A collaborative open digital pedagogy platform for all CUNY SPS community openlab@sps.cuny.edu | Jesse Rice-Evans, OpenLab Manager
39. Welcome to the OpenLab! In operation since 2011, the OpenLab was created by CUNY, for CUNY. • City Tech OpenLab • BMCC OpenLab • CUNY SPS OpenLab • Runs on WordPress (⅓ of the internet does too!) and BuddyPress OpenLab allows for more informal connection and collaboration for remote/async teaching and learning environments
40. ✨SSO✨ Launched November 2024 Open-source plugin development means other OpenLabs will be able to repurpose and use the SSO plugin for their local networks!
41. Digital tool for an endangered language revitalization Celeste Escobar Linguistics PhD Program The Graduate Center tape.ayvu@gmail.com
42. Paĩ Tavyterã Guaraní The Paĩ Tavyterã, as it is called in Paraguay, belongs to the Tupi-Guaraní linguistic family, subgroup 1 and is considered an endangered language (Campbell et al., 2002). On the Paraguayan side, it has not been linguistically documented or described, with a census figure of 15,500 in 2022. However, this figure does not reflect the actual number of speakers. To date, there is no census of speakers (monolingual or bilingual), but ethnographic observations over the last decade suggest that older adults (30 and up) are exclusively monolingual, with an imprecise degree of understanding of Spanish, with approximately no more than 150-200 speakers.
44. www.tapeayvu.com Launch of a web platform and app for files with content in the language Digitization of content in the language in multimodal form
45. Institutional Projects
46. Designing a NYC PIT Pop-Up Shop Rev. Dr. Katie Cumiskey Director, CUNY PIT Lab Professor, Psychology/CSP, CSI & Grad Center katie.cumiskey@csi.cuny.edu
47. What is public interest technology? Emerged as intentional effort in US to create an interdisciplinary field. Evolving into a community of practice. Reduce disconnect between rapid development in emerging tech and citizen engagement in shaping tech. Different from civic tech.
48. Who We Are: CUNY PIT Lab Innovation Space and Media Lab: • Centralized space to demonstrate PIT at CUNY and NYC region. • Access to tools/resources to boost communication and engagement. • Catalysts for community partnerships to build tangible into PIT Careers. (Partnership with BetaNYC) Research/Practice Hub within the CUNY system: • Dedicated to advancing projects that center tech in service to the public interest. • Support initiatives that address social, economic and systemic inequities.
49. The Vision: NYC PIT POP UP A storefront property, central location in New York City Showcase cross-sector collaboration as exemplars of PIT in Action. Engaging potential partners from the private and civic sectors
50. Making commitments for future collaborations and job creation. Collective visualization of a sustainable, regional innovation hub: •community perspectives, •creative expression and •interactive elements to foster connections and break down silos. The Vision: NYC PIT POP UP
51. Who Built America? OER Stefano Morello Assistant Director for Digital Projects American Social History Project
53. Beta 2.0 • Funded by NEH, Ford Foundation, and CUNY Office of Library Services • Updated Textbook + Supplemental Essays (“Closer Look,” “Historians Disagree,” “Making Sense of Evidence”) + Primary Sources (“History Matters”) • Beta 2.0
54. Next Steps My WBA? Collection Tool January 2025 CSS and Navigation Restyling + PDF and ePub export March 2025 Expand History Matters Repository TBD Intra- and Extra-Institutional Professional Development for Teachers TBD
59. Digital Projects (Data Visualization, Mapping, Physical Computing)
60. Free Tools for Bibliometric Analysis
63. ◤ Off the Pages of the Green Book Primary Sources and Data Literacy A Collaborative Classroom Assignment DH Lightning Talks November 19, 2024 Iris Finkel - ifinkel@hunter.cuny.edu
64. ◤ Mapping the Green Book http://publicdomain.nypl.org/greenbook-map/trip.html
65. ◤ Current stage Project components • Raw data ◦ Scan PDF ◦ Github - NYPL • Spreadsheet / other tools to clean and organize data • Geocode addresses ◦ Online tools • Tableau Public
66. ◤ Student-centered collaboration Class assignment goals ◦ Engage with a primary source; promote data literacy; use technology; consider research question in relation to data Secondary sources: Taylor, C. A. (2020). Overground Railroad : The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America. Abrams Press. Negro Motorist Green Book virtual exhibit. Smithsonian Institute and Candacy Taylor .https://negromotoristgreenbook.si.edu/. Thank you!
67. CUNY Mapping Service Steve Romalewski Valerie Bauer Will Field
68. www.censushardtocountmaps2020.us us.redistrictingandyou.org
69. mygovnyc.org
70. longislandzoningatlas.org
76. Digital Publishing
77. DIGITAL DANTE turns 10 HOW A SITE HACK, A WORLDWIDE LOCKDOWN, AND ANALYTICS TOOLS REVEALED A GLOBAL READERSHIP Julie Van Peteghem (Hunter / Graduate Center)
79. a first peak summer [winter] break Dantedì (3/25) website down back online!! winter [summer] break Dante anniversary years: Dante celebrations: 2015: 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth 3/25: Dantedì or Dante Day (since 2020) 2021: 700th anniversary of Dante’s death official day of Dante in Italy & beyond Digital Dante over the years: Where in the world: 1.5+ million users top 10 from 5 continents 6.5+ million views only 3 countries never clicked
80. DIGITAL DANTE Google Earth
81. Matthew K. Gold Laurie Hurson Krystyna Michael
82. CUNY Academic Commons CUNY Manifold Open Education & Infrastructure
83. Open Education Publishing
88. Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice Edited by Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman The tools, alternative infrastructures, and liberatory teaching practices transforming digital humanities Publication date: April 8, 2025 Available through Open Access on the University of Illinois Press OA Books page
89. Three Sections: T • Readings • Infrastructures • Pedagogies
90. Contributors Daniela Agostinho Monika Barget Jenny Bergenmar Susan Brown Tanya E Clement Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld Jaime Lee Kirtz Cecilia Lindhé Laura Mandell Lisa Marie Rhody Mark Sample Susan Schreibman Andie Silva Nikki L. Stevens Ravynn K. Stringfield Dhanashree Thorat Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Kristin Veel Astrid von Rosen Jacqueline Wernimont
91. Digital Pedagogy
92. Trauma-Informed Social Work Pedagogy CUNY Commons By Katrina Hannan
93. Background & Purpose Trauma refers to difficult experiences that leave lasting marks (or wounds), whether they be physical or emotional. Research indicates that having traumatic experiences negatively impacts mental health (CDC, 2023; Felitti, 1998; Giano et al., 2020). There is a high prevalence of trauma among clients served by social service agencies (CDC, 2013; Felitti et al., 1998), particularly a history of childhood trauma (Knight, 2015; Levenson, 2020; Mersky et al., 2019). Results from the World Mental Health Survey Consortium found that 70% of people worldwide have experienced at least one trauma (Benjet et al., 2015). Therefore, it is vital that social workers are trauma-informed.
95. Find it on the Commons https://traumainformedsw.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
96. The States Project: An Audio Based Digital Project Sean Patrick Palmer
97. Genesis • Digital projects still writing intensive • New Yorkers’ perception of United States • Lack of knowledge of “flyover states” • Encourage oral communication • Encourage digital skills • Interdisciplinary
98. Procedure • Students are assigned states at random • Answer weekly set of questions • I correct those assignments • Students produce either video or podcast
99. Website and Notes • https://seanppalmer.commons.gc.cuny.edu/sta tes-project/ • Show these projects in class • Tech useful for all kinds of projects • I’ve done ◦ Presidents of the United States ◦ Historical American Scandals
100. Affective Landmarking as a Close Reading Visualization Practice By Meha Gupta PhD Student, English, CUNY Graduate Center
101. Problem at hand Non-Academic Administrative Distant Reading Student Close Reading A “controversial” text
102. A technique of close reading that encourages readers to consciously objectify their emotions at different locations in a text and presents it visually as a spectrum. Affective Landmarking
103. Computation, visualizing the emotional experience
104. The CUNY Digital Humanities + Teacher Education Group Anthony Wheeler, M.A. CITE Research Associate, Central OAA Ph.D. Student, Urban Education (Cohort 20) anthony.wheeler@cuny.edu CUNY DHI Lightning Talks November 19, 2024 tinyurl.com/DHI24-DHTEG
105. What is Computing Integrated Teacher Education? CITE is a $16+ million, four(+) year initiative to support CUNY faculty to integrate New York State Computer Science and Digital Fluency learning standards-aligned content and pedagogy into required education courses, field work/clinical experiences and student teaching. Our Central Mission: How can CUNY programs prepare all educators to equitably and meaningfully integrate computing and digital literacies into public school classrooms?
106. Driven by the EnCITE Framework (Vogel et al., 2024) Equipping teacher candidates to teach and learn about, with, through, and against technology ABOUT WITH THROUGH AGAINST To support teachers’ learning Teachers engage in conversations about technology, digital citizenship, and its impacts (from a user and teacher perspective). Teachers learn with technology to help them explore concepts for themselves. Teachers express themselves and their learning through their creation and modification of computational artifacts Teachers to think critically about technologies to disavow, discontinue, dismantle unjust tech that shapes education, their own lives, and lives of students and communities. To support teachers’ pedagogy Teachers strategically bring these conversations to their students. Teachers teach with technology to support student learning and participation. Teachers prompt their students to express themselves through creation and modification of computational artifacts. Teachers strategically bring these conversations to their students.
107. “DH in teacher education reminds teacher educators of the growing and multiple forms of knowledge, from decolonization of knowledge to the postmodern lens of embracing new literacies, to creativities for the good of our society. CITE design under the umbrella of DH needs to consider the CUNY student populations and their lived experiences, making digital literacy assignments/ artifacts meaningful to students with process-oriented support and cultivation. DH is a perfect starting place for ‘an intersectional endeavor’ of remixing theories/practices in culturally sustaining pedagogy, critical race theory, digital literacies, constructionism, etc.” - Dr. Ting Yuan, College of Staten Island Digital Humanities as Connective Tissue
108. Thank You! cuny.is/cunydh