Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Shannon Mattern and Kimon Keramidas: A Conversation on New Designs for Teaching and Learning

Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Please join us for a dinner conversation with Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Shannon Mattern, and Kimon Keramides on Tuesday, April 2nd at 5:30pm on developing new designs for teaching and learning in an era of digital innovation.

Making, Playing, Knowing: New Designs for Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age will take place from 5:30-8:30 pm at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus in Lowenstein Hall, 12th Floor, President’s Dining Room  Please join us for a light buffet from 5:30-6:00 with the talks beginning at 6:00pm.

Ann Pendleton‐Jullian is an architect, writer, and educator of international standing whose work explores the interchange between architecture, landscape, culture, science, and technology. She has served as the Walter H. Kidd Professor and former Director of the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University. From 1993‐2007, she was a tenured professor of architecture at MIT and Associate Head of the Department for three of those years. Pendleton-Jullian is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Design at Georgetown University’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship. Her 2009 Tedx-Columbus talk considers the relationship between making, playing and knowing.

Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern is an Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School. Her teaching and research address relationships between the forms and materialities of media and the spaces — architectural, urban, and conceptual — they create and inhabit. Her publications and collaborative digital projects have addressed libraries and archives, media companies’ headquarters, place branding, public design projects, urban media art, media acoustics, media infrastructures, and material texts. She’s recently become the editor of MediaCommons’s The New Everyday, and you can find her online at wordsinspace.net.

Kimon Keramidas

Kimon Keramidas is Assistant Director for the Digital Media Lab and Adjunct Instructor at the Bard Graduate Center. Kimon also teaches courses in interface design, the material culture of media, digital media in the museum, and the history of scenic design. In addition to his work at the BGC, Kimon is Director of Digital Initiatives at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, where he oversees new initiatives in the integration of digital media in support of the center’s programs and developing and maintaining MESTC’s web presence across a number of sites. He is also a founding member of the The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

This program is sponsored by the Fordham Digital Humanities Working Group and the Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Digital Pedagogy with the generous support of the Deans of the Arts and Sciences and the Mellon Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar Fund.

Kindly RSVP by March 29th.  For more information, contact mmcgee [at] fordham [dot] edu.

Upcoming Event: Dr. Eileen Gardiner and Dr. Ronald Musto, Executive Directors of the Medieval Academy of America, to speak on Issues and Debates in the Digital Humanities

Please join us on Friday, December 7, at 6pm, for a talk by Drs. Eileen Gardiner and Ronald Musto on Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies: Issues and Debates. The event will take place in McGinley Center Faculty Lounge, Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus. Drs. Eileen Gardiner and Ronald Musto will address two major questions: what are the digital humanities and why do they matter? 

Dr. Eileen Gardiner
Dr. Ronald Musto

An array of platforms, applications, disciplinary approaches, tools and online collections in the humanities all come under the rubric of “digital.” But are the digital humanities simply another methodological approach to scholarly research and communication in the traditional humanities, are they an add-on to current disciplinary research questions and agendas, or are they a specialized subset within the structure of current humanities departments and institutes? Are all humanists now “digital” to the extent of their acculturation to the new technologies and use of digital resources, or are digital humanists a small circle of cutting-edge theoreticians and practitioners? Where is the work of digital humanities best performed? How is it funded, sustained and evaluated? Is the capital and monetization necessary to digitization dramatically changing the very nature of humanistic discourse? Can we even find a common definition of the humanities in the current academic and technological environment? The answers — though argued by some with great certitude and vigor — are still far from certain.

As publishers of Italica Press and past co-directors of the ACLS Humanities E-Book Project, Drs. Eileen Gardiner and Ronald Musto have considerable experience with new digital media. Dr. Gardiner is the editor of The Holy Land on Disk, and curator of two  websites: one on the history of Hell (www.hell-on-line.org) and the other on a medieval Irish pilgrimage route (http://www.pilgrimswaytopurgatory.org). In addition, she is the author of Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante (2008) and a variety of articles, including “Visions and Journeys,” in Dante in Context (CUP, forthcoming). Dr. Musto is the editor www.peacedocs.com and the co-author (with Gardiner) of “The Electronic Book” in The Oxford Companion to the Book (2009) and The Digital Humanities: A Primer to Students and Scholars (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press). Dr. Musto is also the general editor of the five-volume Documentary History of Naples, and co-author of Medieval Naples, 400-1400.  

Gardiner and Musto met at Fordham University while undergraduates. Dr. Gardiner went on to do a Ph.D. in medieval English literature at Fordham while Dr. Musto completed a Ph.D. in medieval history at Columbia University.  
This event is was organized by Fordham University’s Center for Medieval Studies with co-sponsorship from the Digital Humanities Working Group. A reception will follow the talk.

Patrick Burns and Jon Stanfill named as Fordham’s 2012-13 HASTAC Scholars

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Working Group, is pleased to announce the second year of Fordham’s GSAS-sponsored HASTAC Scholars with awards to Patrick J. Burns, a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Classics, and Jon Stanfill, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Theology.

Patrick Burns (Classics)
2012-13 HASTAC Scholar

Burns’ digital research focuses on the application of corpus-linguistics methodologies, such as tree banking, annotation, and the use of the Python Natural Language Toolkit in the study of Latin literature.  Burns participated in the NEH-sponsored Summer Institute on the Perseus Project held at Tufts University last summer that explored many of these topics. He has also been at work on a digital teaching resource, the Tin Latin Reader, which he uses in the Latin courses he teaches.

Jon Stanfill (Theology)
2012-13 HASTAC Scholar

Stanfill will be investigating both the pedagogical possibilities of experiencing the world of Byzantium in the virtual realm, and the promise of cladistic analysis, which uses evolutionary biological algorithms for the editing of medieval manuscripts. Stanfill traces his interest in cladistic analysis to a seminar taught by Center for Teaching Excellence Director and medieval studies scholar Erick Keleman.

HASTAC (an acronym for Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, pronounced “haystack”) is an international network of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, librarians, archivists, museum curators, publishers, and IT specialists. Members of the HASTAC community blog, host forums, organize events, and discuss new ideas, projects, and technologies that reconceive teaching, learning, research, writing and structuring knowledge.

The HASTAC Scholars program fosters an innovative community of graduate students nominated and sponsored by their institutions to participate in an online community focused on digital scholarship, pedagogy, and publishing. The award comes with a modest honorarium and access to campus digital humanities mentorship, as well as the opportunity to participate in the dynamic online community that includes HASTAC Scholars from more than 75 universities from around the world.

The 2011-2012 Fordham HASTAC scholarship, which marked the university’s inaugural year participating in the program, went to Elizabeth Cornell, a pre-doctoral fellow in the Department of English, for her work on the Keywords Collaboratory, an interactive project directed by Fordham English professor Glenn Hendler and University of Washington professor Bruce Burgett.

The Digital Humanities Working Group and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences plan to make the HASTAC Scholars program an annual award, with application deadlines in early September 2013. Stay tuned for more information.

You Online: Developing Your Online Academic Presence

We are happy to report that You Online: Developing Your Online Academic Presence led by Michael Mandiberg is still on for Wednesday, November 7, 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. despite the disruptions of the Hurricane Sandy disaster. The lecture and workshop will take place at the Flom Auditorium of the Walsh Library at Fordham Rose Hill.

Professor Michael Mandiberg

Michael Mandiberg is a interdisciplinary artist, designer and scholar whose work employs each of these methodologies, in part to investigate the significance of their overlap. He creates conceptual art projects, design objects, and publications that explore themes that include environmentalism, systems of exchange, pedagogy, software art, collaboration, Free Culture, and appropriation. Among his projects: He sold all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, made perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and created Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy online at TheRealCosts.com. He is co-author of Digital Foundations Collaborative Futures and the editor of The Social Media Reader.

A recipient of residencies and commissions from Eyebeam, Rhizome.org, and Turbulence.org, his work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Transmediale. A former Senior Fellow at Eyebeam, he is currently Director of the New York Arts Practicum, Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY; and a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His work lives at Mandiberg.com

Program Details: This faculty and graduate student development program will have two parts.  Part I is an hour-long presentation by Professor Mandiberg on the importance of cultivating an online presence and ways to establish one, including the steps for building a basic website using WordPress. This part will be held in Flom Auditorium of Walsh Library and open to anyone in the Fordham community and their guests. Part II will be a hands-on workshop for thirty graduate students and faculty members. Due to the hands-on nature of this workshop, space is limited and pre-registration for the workshop section was required. Participants will learn to create pages and posts in WordPress, and they will leave with a working site framework. Lunch will be served to the thirty workshop participants.

This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Fordham Graduate Student Digital Humanities Group, the Digital Humanities Working Group with support from the Arts and Sciences Deans of Fordham University, the Medieval Studies Program, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Communications and Media Studies, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Department of Theology, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Fall 2012 Fordham Digital Humanities Programs Start in October!

Fall 2012 at Fordham includes a weekend of THATCamp, a workshop on developing an online academic presence, and a discussion of recent issues in the digital humanities and medieval studies.  Please join us for some of these upcoming events!

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Friday – Saturday, October 5-6
THATCamp NY 2012 at Fordham-Lincoln Center
Lowenstein Hall, 12th Floor
(starts at 3:00 p.m. on Friday and continues Saturday 9:00 a.m.- 6:00 pm)

THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp), the internationally-recognized humanities and technology “unconference,” will take place at Fordham Lincoln Center, Lowenstein 12th floor lounge. THATCamp is a series of free “unconferences” devoted to hands-on work and discussion of the intersection of technology and the humanities. It is hosted by research and cultural institutions multiple times a year. THATCamp NY 2012 is free and open to any one who is interested, but seating is limited so registration is required. Registration begins on September 1, 2012 (http://newyork2012.thatcamp.org/).

THATCamp participants include researchers, students, librarians, archivists, curators, educators, technologists, and others interested in using technology to produce humanities scholarship. Sessions at THATCamp are informal: There are no papers proposed or presented. Attendees pitch potential ideas before the weekend on the THATCamp blog and decide on topics of discussion when they arrive. THATCamp NY 2012 discussions will emphasize the theme of collaboration among members of metropolitan research institutions to strengthen current projects and inspire new digital humanities scholarship. JSTOR, the library database for online academic journals, will host the workshop “Using JSTOR’s Data for Research.” Other multi-level workshops are being planned for participants who wish to learn more about specific tools, skills, trends, and platforms for digital scholarship and pedagogy. Fordham’s participation in this event has been spearheaded by Elizabeth Cornell (Pre-Doctoral Fellow, English).

This event is co-sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group, Fordham IT, Hunter College Library, the CUNY Libraries, New York University Library, and JSTOR/Ithaka.

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Michael Mandiberg, editor, 
The Social Media Reader

Wednesday, November 7, 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
You Online: Developing Your Online Academic Presence
a workshop for faculty and graduate students on cultivating an effective online presence
Walsh Library, Flom Auditorium, Fordham-Rose Hill

Led by Michael Mandiberg, Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island and at the CUNY Graduate Center.

This three-hour workshop will have two components: In the first part, Mandiberg will describe the importance of cultivating an online presence and ways to establish one, including the steps for building a basic website using WordPress. This part will be held in Flom Auditorium and open to anyone in the Fordham community.

The second part will be a hands-on workshop for fifteen graduate students and fifteen faculty members. Due to the hands-on nature of this workshop, space is limited and pre-registration for the workshop section will be required.Stay tuned for a link. Participants will learn to create pages and posts in WordPress, and they will leave with a working site framework. Lunch will be served to the thirty workshop participants. Professor Mandiberg is the author of several books on new media, and the editor of The Social Media Reader (NYU Press, 2012).

This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Fordham Graduate Student Digital Humanities Group, the Digital Humanities Working Group, and others (co-sponsor list is in formation).

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Friday, December 7, 6:00 p.m.
Digital Humanities and Medieval Studies: Issues and Debates
A lecture and Q&A with Eileen Gardiner and Ron Musto, Directors of the Medieval Academy of America
McGinley Center, Faculty Lounge, Fordham-Rose Hill

Eileen Gardiner
Ron Musto

Eileen Gardiner and Ron Musto are the Directors of the Medieval Academy of America, the largest scholarly organization of medievalists in the world. They are also the publishers of Italica Press, past co-directors of the ACLS Humanities E-Book Project, and Fordham University alumni. They have spoken and written widely on the humanities and the world wide web, including articles and presentations on Google Books, online publishing (in which they have considerable experience), the electronic book, and search engines. Their talk will focus on recent projects in medieval art history, history, literature, and theology and point to debates in the field about, for instance, text encoding, business models for online publishing, sustainability, and standardization of data across platforms, among other topics.

Organized by the Center for Medieval Studies with co-sponsorship from the DHWG.

THATCampNYC 2012 October 5-6, 2012 at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus

Fordham University’s Digital Humanities Working Group is delighted to announce that THATCamp NYC 2012 will take place at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus on October 5-6th.

Organized in collaboration with Hunter College Libraries, NYU Libraries, CUNY Libraries, and JSTOR, THATCamp NYC 2012 will be a space for librarians, archivists, researchers, scholars, and computer scientists working within the digital humanities to explore ways to foster collaboration among themselves and libraries, archives, academic institutions, and other information centers.

Registration for THATCamp NYC 2012 will open on September 1st.  Stay tuned for more news on this exciting upcoming event.

Cathy Davidson Speaks About Teaching for the 21st Century at Fordham’s Faculty Technology Day 2012

Glenn Hendler, Cathy Davidson, and Micki McGee at Walsh Library

Post written by Elizabeth Cornell

The average person in school today will change careers 4 to 6 times over the course of his or her lifetime.

Sixty-five percent of fifteen year olds alive today will work in careers that have not yet been invented.
These predictions, offered by Duke University professor Cathy Davidson, probably surprised many people in the audience at Walsh Library on Faculty Technology Day. Over a hundred of Fordham’s faculty, graduate students, and staff gathered to hear Davidson’s talk on May 22, 2012. She used the predictions to introduce what she sees as a major problem in education today: Most institutions and teaching methods still place their attention on training students to become proficient twentieth-century workers. As she writes in her book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (2011), “We have schooled a particular form of attention based on a particular set of values for the last one hundred years, with an emphasis on specialization, hierarchy, individual achievement, the ‘two cultures,’ linear thinking, focused attention to task, and management from top down.” These are what Davidson calls “keywords for an industrial age.”

William James and Frederick W. Taylor contributed to twentieth-century ideas about attention and work.

Most institutions still teach and train students as though they will have one career, one specialty, and a small network of contacts. Bleak job climate aside, few American students plan to graduate from college and go looking for factory jobs or expect to manage a collection of workers focused on specific, repetitive  tasks.

Our current social and work environments, as well as aspects of our learning environments, are much different. They require us to multitask. They are filled with distractions. We communicate with people all over the world, instantly and in full color with sound. We gather and exchange information in ways that were, in some cases, unknown even five years ago. Though some people claim multitasking and distractions are what’s “wrong” with our culture, Davidson sees them as opportunities for new ways of thinking, expression, building things, and creating knowledge. She warns that schools are not preparing their students for such a climate. Schools should be training students to participate in projects that require collaboration among individuals with different strengths and talents, not teaching students how to ace a multiple choice test or to work silently and alone, at a single, timed task.

In the digital age, students need to be proficient at following a workflow that is not task specific. Students should become efficient multitaskers, which can be achieved through remixes and mashups. They need to fully engage in process, such as publishing a good draft on a blog or wiki, and revising later based on feedback from the crowd. Learning to data mine is necessary, as well, and that includes “big data,” the visualization of data, and storytelling. Students need to develop blended skills, including  an interdisciplinary familiarity with the front end and the back end (such as code) of things. Our differences are valuable. We should collaborate by difference and crowdsource our skills and ideas. These, Davidson says, are the keywords for the digital age.

Near the end of her talk, Davidson asked: “How are we training students for a Wikipedia world where people share knowledge for free, will change their jobs at least once but probably more times than that, and may work in a job that hasn’t been invented yet?” At that point, the audience knew the answer: We’re not. “What can we do to change our institutions?” Davidson knows this almost is a silly question to ask, but she nonetheless makes educators responsible: “It’s our job, not our administrations’, to make these changes.”

How do we begin? For Davidson, the most important thing we can do is change the focus of our attention: we’re not seeing what she calls “the gorilla in the room” because we have been told to look for something else. That is, we still value the old keywords, but they no longer apply to anyone’s needs today or in the future. Change can take place, as she writes in her book, if we see things differently, in a way “that’s based on multitasking our attention—not by seeing it all alone but by distributing various parts of a task among others dedicated to the same end.” Davidson closed her speech by urging us to “think, learn, and share” with each other so we can discover digital and non-digital solutions for learning and working together in a digital age.

Cathy Davidson’s visit on Faculty Technology Day was made possible by the Information Technologies Academic Computing Group, the Faculty Technologies Centers, the Arts and Sciences Deans and the Digital Humanities Working Group. Special thanks go to Associate Vice President for Academic Computing Fleur Eshghi for her work on this program.

Guest post by Elizabeth Cornell, Pre-Doctoral Fellow at Fordham University’s English Department.

Spring 2012 Digital Humanities Programs at Fordham

Fordham’s Digital Humanities Working Group is pleased to announce three campus events that feature speakers from across the country who are advancing thinking on new modes of pedagogy, working with new digital tools, and forging the links between theory and practice in the digital humanities.

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Linking Networks of People with Networks of Information: the Linked Jazz Project, a talk by Cristina Pattuelli (Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science) on Linked Jazz, a project mapping jazz networks using semantic web protocols will be on Wednesday, April 11th at noon in Dealy Hall, Room 304 on Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus.  

Cristina Pattuelli
Principal Investigator for
Linked Jazz
Linked Jazz investigates the potential of the application of Linked Open Data (LOD) technology to enhance the discovery and visibility of digital cultural heritage materials. More specifically, the project explores the applicability of Friend-Of-A-Friend (FOAF) to digital archives of jazz history to expose relationships between musicians and reveal their community’s network. 
Cristina Pattuelli is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the Pratt Institute, New York. Her research focuses on information organization and knowledge representation methods and tools applied to information systems — digital libraries in particular. In addition to her research on information organization and knowledge representation methods and tools applied to information systems, and the semantic web, Pattuelli is also interested in human information behavior and interaction applied to specific user groups and communities of practice. Pattuelli teaches courses on Knowledge Organization, Cultural Heritage and Human Information Behavior. She received her Ph.D. in Information and Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also holds advanced degrees in Philosophy, Cultural Heritage Studies, and Archives from the University of Bologna, Italy.
This talk is recommended for anyone interested in jazz history, cultural heritage research, and new uses of linked open data on the semantic web. For more information on the Linked Jazz project, click here or cut and paste this URL: http://linkedjazz.prattsils.org/.

This program is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group with support from the Arts and Sciences Deans of Fordham University, and co-sponsored by the American Studies Program.  It is free and open to the public.

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Debates in the Digital Humanities: An Evening with Matthew K. Gold, Elizabeth Losh, and Tom Scheinfeldt, Monday, April 30th, Lowenstein Hall, 12th floor President’s Dining Room, 6pm-8pm.

Debates in the Digital Humanities,
edited by Matthew K. Gold,
was published in January by
the University of Minnesota Press.

Join us in a discussion of recent debates in the digital humanities. This event celebrates the publication of the collection Debates in the Digital Humanities with the volume’s editor Matthew K. Gold and contributors Elizabeth Losh and Tom Scheinfeldt.  In a wide-ranging discussion this symposium will consider what is (or are) the digital humanities as a field (or as scholarly practices), and why this burgeoning area of scholarly inquiry may be critical to the revival of the humanities and academic life in general.


Matthew K. Gold, editor,
Debates in the Digital Humanities

Matthew K. Gold is the Director of the CUNY Academic Commons, an Assistant Professor at New York City College of Technology and CUNY Graduate Center Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, as well as the Advisor to the Provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center. His teaching and research interests center on the digital humanities, digital writing and rhetoric, open-source pedagogy, and new-media studies. Recent work has appeared in The Journal of Modern Literature, On the Horizon (co-authored with George Otte), and Kairos, as well as the edited collections From A to : Keywords of Markup  and Learning Through Digital Media. Gold is the editor of the collection Debates in the Digital Humanities, published by University of Minnesota Press (2012) as both a printed book and forthcoming as an open-access webtext. His digital projects include Looking for Whitman, a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy sponsored by two NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants, and a recently awarded Title V Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.  For more information on Matthew Gold, visit: http://mkgold.net/.

Elizabeth Losh, Director of the
Culture, Art, and Technology Program
U.C. San Diego

Elizabeth Losh is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009) and Director of the Culture, Art, and Technology program at Sixth College at U.C. San Diego. She writes about institutions as digital content-creators, the discourses of the “virtual state,” the media literacy of policy makers and authority figures, and the rhetoric surrounding regulatory attempts to limit everyday digital practices. She has published articles about videogames for the military and emergency first-responders, government websites and YouTube channels, state-funded distance learning efforts, national digital libraries, the digital humanities, political blogging, and congressional hearings on the Internet. For more information about Losh’s work, visit http://losh.ucsd.edu/.

Tom Scheinfeldt,
Managing Director of the
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History
and New Media,
George Mason University

Tom Scheinfeldt is Managing Director of the Center for History and New Media and Research Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Tom received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University, where his doctoral thesis examined inter-war interest in science and its history in diverse cultural contexts, including museums, universities, World’s Fairs and the mass media. A research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and a fellow of the Science Museum, London, Tom has lectured and written extensively on the history of popular science, the history of museums, history and new media, and the changing role of history in society. In addition to managing general operations at the Center for History and New Media, Tom directs several of its online history projects, including Omeka, THATCamp, One Week | One Tool, the September 11 Digital Archive, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800, and Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives. Tom is co-editor (with Dan Cohen) of Hacking the Academy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012) and blogs at foundhistory.org.

This event is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Working Group with support from the Arts and Sciences Deans of Fordham University, and is co-sponsored by the American Studies Studies Program and the Medieval Studies Program.  Although it is free and open to the public, due to the intimate size of the room, registration is required no later than April 27th.  Register here or cut and paste http://dhdebates.eventbrite.com into your browser.

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Faculty Technology Day Keynote with Cathy N. Davidson. In partnership with Fordham’s Information Technology and Academic Computing Group, we will be welcoming Cathy N. Davidson to press the keynote at Faculty Technology Day, Tuesday, May 22nd* at the Walsh Library on the Fordham Rose Hill campus.

Cathy N. Davidson, author of
Now You See It and co-founder of
HASTAC.

Cathy N. Davidson served as Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University from 1998 until 2006, where she helped create the Program in Information Science + Information Studies, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and many other programs.  In 2002, she co-founded HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, or “haystack”), a virtual network of innovators with over 6,500 members that directs the annual $2 million HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions.

Davidson is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University and has published more than twenty books, including Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America; Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (with photographer Bill Bamberger); and The Future of Thinking (with HASTAC co-founder David Theo Goldberg).

In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, a position confirmed by the Senate in July 2011. She is currently on a thirty-site author tour for her latest book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Press), which Publishers Weekly has named “one of the top ten science books” of the Fall 2011 season.  For more information on Cathy Davidson, visit her website at http://www.cathydavidson.com/

Additional information on the title and time of Davidson’s keynote will follow.

This program is made possible by the Information Technologies Academic Computing Group, the Faculty Technologies Centers, the Arts and Sciences Deans and the Digital Humanities Working Group.  Special thanks go to Associate Vice President for Academic Computing Fleur Eshghi for her work on this program.

* Please note the change of date; originally scheduled for Monday, the program will now take place on Tuesday.

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