In the spring of 2022 the Center for the Humanities will offer two workshops on collaborating across the humanities disciplines and beyond. The first event will explore collaborative teaching (April 6) and the second will look at collaborative research (April…
In the spring of 2022 the Center for the Humanities will offer two workshops on collaborating across the humanities disciplines and beyond. The first event will explore collaborative teaching (April 6) and the second will look at collaborative research (April…
Visual AIDS, the NYU Center for the Humanities, and NYU Libraries invite you to a discussion about the visionary curator William Olander About this event Visual AIDS, the NYU Center for the Humanities, and NYU Libraries invite you to a…
(by Sughnen Yongo-Okochi) A Vision Julia Butterfield is pursuing a master’s degree in Archives and Public History. Her keen interest in history led her to accept an internship at the Morris–Jumel Mansion, a mid-eighteenth-century federal-style museum located in northern Manhattan. The…
The NYU Center for the Humanities invites interested pairs of faculty members to apply for grants of $5,000 to support the development of team-taught, interdisciplinary undergraduate courses.
(by Sughnen Yongo-Okochi) In a career that spans three decades, Dr. Susan Koff has become a voice of authority in the world of dance education. Koff is Clinical Professor of Dance Education in the Department of Music and Performing Arts…
The Digital Theory Lab presents the new issue of Critical Inquiry, “Surplus Data” Surplus Data co-edited by Lab members Jeffrey Kirkwood and Leif Weatherby with Orit Halpern and Patrick Jagoda. Lab members David Bering-Porter, Matthew Handelman and Brian Justie will…
(by Sughnen Yongo-Okochi) When Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu went to Vietnam to conduct research for her second book, she had an idea of what the final product would be. She expected to focus on the beauty industry in Vietnam, but…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Creating a Digital Museum of the History of Dentistry at the College of Dentistry, NYU Principal Investigator: Andrew Spielman, Professor of Molecular Pathobiology and Director, Rare Book Library and Historical Archives Abstract: Imagine a digital museum where…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: COVID Collections Project Team: Jacob Remes, Ellen Noonan, Valerie Marlowe, Scott Knowles Abstract: As COVID-19 began to dominate the global agenda during the spring of 2020, museums, libraries, and archives around the world announced efforts…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: The Zine Union Catalog Project Team: Lauren Kehoe, Jenna Freedman Abstract: The Zine Union Catalog (aka ZineCat) is a union catalog dedicated to zines. A union catalog is a resource where libraries can share cataloging…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Archive of Cuban Socialism (ARCHUS) Principal Investigator: Maria A. Cabrera Arus Abstract: The proposed Archive of Cuban Socialism (ARCHCUS) will document and archive the material culture of everyday life in Cuba between 1959 and 1990.…
Digital Humanities Seed Grant Project Project Title: Inverting the Wunderkammer: Rethinking the Digital Humanities Through Botanic Histories and Archives Project Team: Ahmad Ansari, Elaine Ayers, Tega Brain, Laura Briscoe Abstract: Focusing on the the nineteenth-century bryological Mitten Collection at the New York Botanical…
Author Marcia Pally and Psychologist Carol Gilligan discuss the legacy of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen On the fifth anniversary of the death of the iconic Leonard Cohen, author of “Hallelujah” and many other works, Marcia Pally’s new study explores Cohen’s thoughtscape…