Urban Humanities Series
Imagining Experience: a conversation with Margo Jefferson, Gregory Pardlo, Francine Prose, & A.O. Scott
Date: May 8, 2019
New York Institute for the Humanities and NYU Center for the Humanities present:
Imagining X 2
Two Events on Visual and Poetic Imagination
What role do experience and imagination play in writing poetry, fiction, & criticism?
Featuring:
Margo Jefferson, Writer, essayist
Gregory Pardlo, Writer, essayist
Francine Prose, Writer, essayist
A.O. Scott, Film critic
Co-sponsored by the Literary Reportage Program, Arthur L. Carter Journalism
Institute.
Please see also Imagining X 2 I: Imagining Color.
Event Location:
NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY
10003
United States
Imagining Color: a public lecture by Elaine Scarry
Date: May 2, 2019
New York Institute for the Humanities and NYU Center for the Humanities present:
Imagining X 2
Two Events on Visual and Poetic Imagination
Elaine Scarry is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. She is the author of The Body in Pain, Resisting Representation, Dreaming by the Book, On Beauty and Being Just, Who Defended the Country?, Rule of Law, Misrule of Men, Thinking in an Emergency, Thermonuclear Monarchy, and Naming Thy Name.
Co-sponsored by the Literary Reportage Program, Arthur L. Carter Journalism
Institute.
Please stay tuned for Imagining X 2 II: Imagining Experience.
*This event is at capacity. Registration does not guarantee seating. Seating is first come, first serve.*
Event Location:
NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY
10003
Building Project-Based Research Communities Around Humanities Data
Date: April 3, 2018
How might we build collaboration into the curation and interpretation of data in the humanities? How might a tool that facilitates the sharing of humanities data enable new kinds of networked research communities?
Following an introduction by Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for Educational Technology at NYU, Thomas Augst (English, NYU) and Nicholas Wolf (NYU Libraries) report on NewYorkScapes and its new accompanying website, a collaborative venture between NYU College of Arts and Sciences, NYU Libraries, and NYU IT, to build ties among researchers through project-based collaboration and support for place-based learning. With Seth Kaufman, founder of Brooklyn developer Whirl-i-gig, they will also introduce a prototype of Inquisite, an open-source environment for building and sharing data collections for the purposes of teaching and research.
Event Location:
NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY
10003
United States
Urban Digital Humanities: Design and Sustainability
Date: February 27, 2018
The quest to design digital and real solutions to environmental problems will be the theme of three interdisciplinary presentations crossing the boundaries of the humanities, architecture, and engineering.
Micro dwellings: where the Quantified Self meets the Quantified Home
Louise Harpman
Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Architecture for Crickets and Butterflies
Mitchell Joachim
Associate Professor of Practice, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Digital Pedagogy: School of the Earth, and more
Peder Anker
Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU
Moderated by Marion Thain, Director of Digital Humanities, NYU
Event Location:
NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY
10003
United States
The ‘Crisis’ Humanities, and the Digital Humanities? New Directions in the Humanities
Date: November 14, 2017
We invite you to take part in a conversation about the future of the humanities. Where should we be headed, how are we responding to the ‘crisis’ in the humanities, and what is the role and significance of the digital humanities within these new trajectories?
Starting with brief presentations from some of those leading new initiatives in the humanities, the event will be devoted primarily to discussion with the audience: come and be part of the conversation.
Speakers to include:
Gigi Dopico
Dean of the Humanities in Arts and Science, NYU
David Hoover
Professor of English, NYU
Julie Mostov
Dean of Liberal Studies, NYU
Marion Thain
Director of Digital Humanities, NYU
David Wrisley
Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi
Event Location:
NYU Center for the Humanities
20 Cooper Square
New York, NY
10003
United States