April 5 | Behind the Camera, Covering the Image: Caroline Key and Shelly Silver

Wednesday April 5th, 7:00 pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre This event features a selection of films and videos by Caroline Key and Shelly Silver; each uses forms of occlusion to recover vulnerable, untranslatable, or invisibilized layers of social material. Caroline Key will screen her film Speech Memory, which questions the entanglement of immigration, cultural assimilation,… Read More

April 3 | “Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research, Social Change”

Please join faculty and students from this year’s team-taught courses, Futures Initiative Peer Mentors, and the Humanities Alliance for our Spring Symposium: Pedagogy, Research & Social Change. As the final event in this year’s University Worth Fighting For series, this daylong symposium will celebrate work that connects student-centered learning to institutional and social change. Where:… Read More

Due April 30 | Applications – The Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Scholarship

The Decorative Arts Trust is accepting applications for our 2017 Summer Research Grants. This arm of the Trust’s Emerging Scholars Program provides support for graduate students working on a Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation in a field related to the decorative arts. More information, as well as descriptions of past grant projects, can be found our website. Applications… Read More

Mar 30 | The Public and Publics Conference

Thursday, March 30th, 9:00am—6:00pm Keynote: Don Mitchell, Uppsala University, Sweden Martin E. Segal Theatre How have scholars, activists, and artists apprehended their position in public life and their belonging in a collective? How can we make sense of the designation of public, as opposed to private, spaces, both literal and figurative? Through a series of… Read More

Mar 29 | TLC Workshop: Social Reading and Writing with Online Annotation Tools

March 29, 1-3pm Room 9206 Are you looking for ways to improve your students’ close reading skills or to kickstart class discussion by asking students to annotate readings online as a group before they come to class? Are you trying to find (new) strategies for peer review or collaborative writing projects? Or are you designing a hybrid or online… Read More

Mar 23 | GC Digital Initiatives Data Visualization Workshop

Workshop: “Visualization 2”  Thursday, March 23rd, 2017 – 6:30-8:30pm Have you learned some Python and now want to learn how to make pretty pictures out of your data? This workshop is a deep dive into making graphs using the matplotlib visualization library. We’ll cover the basics of making pie charts, bar graphs, line and scatter… Read More

Mar 31 | Navigating NYSHIP workshop

Navigating NYSHIP workshop, March 31, 2-3:30pm, in Room 5409   Trying to use NYSHIP insurance for the first time, or re-enrolling after a gap? Confused about what to tell providers’ offices when they ask for your insurance–or about how to even read that blue-and-white card? Have you been on NYSHIP for a little while, but still have questions about claims, how… Read More