Call for Participation: DHI Lightning Talks Fall 2024

It’s that time of year!

Are you a member of the CUNY community working on a digital humanities project or question? Would you like to connect with other CUNY faculty, students, and staff working in digital humanities?

Sign up to attend and/or to present your digital humanities project, research, or questions with students, faculty, and staff from across CUNY’s campuses.

What: 10th Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks
When: Tuesday, November 19th 2024
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Where: Hybrid: Graduate Center Rooms 9205/9206 (9F) and Zoom
How to participate: In-person or synchronous Zoom options available

Lightning talks are informal, 3-minute / 3-slide presentations that offer a brief insight into your digital humanities project, research, or question. Projects at any stage–whether just beginning, in-development, or completed–are welcome! The audience includes a diverse community of engaged CUNY students and colleagues who are eager to hear about your project and offer feedback.

As a presenter, you will have the option to either: 1) present live over Zoom or 2) join us in person in rooms 9205/9206 (9F) of the CUNY Graduate Center. We welcome first-time presenters, as well as those who have participated in past CUNY DHI Lightning Talks. Learn more about some projects and past presentations on the CUNY DHI website.

Register to attend or present (both in-person and via Zoom) at http://cuny.is/cunygcdi24. 

After registering, presenters should submit their proposals to http://cuny.is/presentdhi24 by Friday, November 8th 2024. 

Presenters’ slides will be due by Friday, November 15th 2024 and made available after the event on our CUNY DHI blog. 

This event is free and open to all CUNY students, faculty, and staff.

Visit cuny.is/cunydhi for more info.

Welcome to the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative

Welcome to the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative, a nascent effort to build a digital humanities community at CUNY during the 2010-2011 academic year. Part of the Digital Studies Group, this effort is being headed up by Matthew K. Gold and Charlie Edwards.

Our goal in creating this initiative is twofold: we’d like to find digital humanists already embedded within the CUNY system, and we’d like to encourage discussion around the digital humanities to increase awareness of work in the field. To those ends, we’ll be sponsoring a series of public discussions during the year, and we’ll also work on building up resources to help introduce members of CUNY to the discipline. We hope, eventually, to build the kind of community that can find ways to collaborate on various kinds of scholarly digital projects.

Our major theme during the fall semester will be “What are the Digital Humanities?” We’ve chosen that theme both because it’s a question that many of you are likely to have, and because the question itself is one that (not surprisingly) preoccupies many practitioners in the field.

In the coming weeks, we will announce our public seminar schedule and some resources that will help orient newcomers to the field. Please stay tuned. In the meantime, you can find us here on this blog, over in our group, and on Twitter.

We very much hope you’ll join us either virtually, through our efforts on the Commons, or in person, at one of our meetups. We look forward to working with you in the coming year!

— Matt and Charlie

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