Events – CHSS Digital Media CoLab

Final College Meeting of 2022-2023

mckenziem6 — Mon, 01 May 2023 16:43:36 +0000

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at ��vlog hosted Dr. Koen DePryck to discuss a teaching method known as, “Challenge��Based Learning”.

This event was hosted by the Deans office and the CHSS Digital Media CoLab handled the virtual meeting and on-site technology support. This was the last college meeting of the 2022-2023 academic school year, and took place on April 5, 2023 from 3:30-5:30. The presentation took place on-campus, in Brantl Lecture Hall, as well as virtually via Zoom.

(Front) Dr. Keon DePryck, Picture by Minyae Mckenzie.

Challenge Based Learning enhances students problems solving and comprehension skills, centering a class around a real world problem such as global warming. Using different perspectives of problem solving�� students can look from all angels to conceptualize multiple ways to go about achieving their goal. This��method of teaching can impact a teachers control in the classroom, letting students sort through personal and social impacts to come up with possible solutions. Once the possible questions that need to be examined are identified the professors then attempt to guide students through the thinking process that could lead them to their end goal.

When asked, ” Why do you feel reassured that Challenge Based Learning is necessary, ” Dr. Koen DePryck responded , ” I believe that education is one of the few elements that we have that can really make difference as far as our future is concerned… I really believe that is how we are built evolutionary. And with all my years with being involved with education I have never come across something as impactful as challenge based learning. Its not about replacing all other methods but about how we can get all learners involved in shaping the future… It’s a really crucial element in moving beyond the education and society divide…They can really hands on make a difference, not after college but while they are in college.”

New College Classroom Meeting

mckenziem6 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:49:03 +0000

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences at ��vlog hosted Drs. Cathy N Davidson and Christina Katopodis to discuss their new book ““

Hosted by the CHSS Dean’s Office, the event took place on Wednesday, February 1st, from 4pm – 5pm, and was followed by a reception. The presentation took place on-campus, in Brantl Lecture Hall, as well as virtually via Zoom. The CHSS Digital Media CoLab handled the virtual meeting and on-site technology support.

Dr. Cathy N Davidson (Left) ,Dr. Christina Katopodis, Dean Peter Kingstone, Associate Dean Jessica Brandt, and Associate Dean Leslie Wilson. Photo by Minyae Mckenzie.

Davidson and Katopodis gave insight on ways to engage students, setting aside the “sage-on-the-stage” approach and focusing on classroom involvement and student participation. Utilizing a Think-Pair-Share exercise, the presenters demonstrated how professors can engage students for a potentially more meaningful, and effective educational experience both in person and virtually.

Drs.Cathy N Davidson and Christina Katopodis (front) MSU faculty (back), Photo by Minyae Mckenzie.

TheirStory.io Introduction and Demonstration

castork3 — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:04:56 +0000

Everyone has a story. Many of us want to hear that story as part of our teaching, research, and scholarship. Join the CHSS Digital Media CoLab for an introduction and demonstration of TheirStory, a set of online tools and services designed to collect, preserve, and engage with the audiovisual stories of the individuals that make up a community.

In this 45-minute webcast you’ll hear from Dr. Chris Matthews, recently featured in��for his research on preserving the history of Black and Native Americans on Long Island.�� You’ll also get to hear from TheirStory Founder and CEO Zack Ellis, about some of the important and resourceful features of TheirStory to the education and non-profit communities.

Get connected with TheirStory! Follow their socials:

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Webinar: NJCH Community History program

castork3 — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:08:39 +0000

Event Name: Webinar: NJCH Community History program

Sponsor: NJCH

Date: Thursday, April 15

Time: 12-1pm

Location: Virtual

Registration:

What is the NJCH Community History (CH) program?

The New Jersey Council for the Humanities Community History program is an intensive, experiential offering for nonprofit organizations interested in documenting community stories, especially from voices often overlooked or marginalized.

The CH program allows organizations to participate in a structured course to develop an understanding of the principles of public history, investigate tools and modalities for doing that work in concert with their communities, and work with history professionals of various expertise. Each organization receives seed funding to begin their community history project.

All participants should review the njhumanities.org prior to participating in the webinar.

For additional information, contact us at info@njhumanities.org or 609.695.4838

The Democracy Conversation Project (DCP)

castork3 — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:48:56 +0000

Name:��The Democracy Conversation Project (DCP)

Sponsor: NJCH

Schedule:��

Tuesday, March 16 at 2:30 pm –
Wednesday, March 24 at 5:30 pm –
Friday, March 26 at 10:00 am –
Tuesday, March 30 at 3:00 pm –
Wednesday, April 7 at 3:00 pm –
Tuesday, April 13 at 10:00 am –
Wednesday, April 21 at 6:30 pm – One Nation Under God…Divisible?
Thursday, April 29 at 3:00 pm – Promoting the Understanding and Value of Democracy in 2021

Location: Virtual

Registration:��

The New Jersey Council for the Humanities is proud to announce its new program, the Democracy Conversation Project. Funded through the “Why it Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation” initiative, the Democracy Conversation Project (DCP) is a public humanities program designed to foster discussions among New Jersey communities about civic life and democracy in America. In these upcoming online events, participants can explore what democracy means, what opportunities are available and what challenges exist for nonprofits wishing to engage with civic life, and how NJCH can best support the cultural infrastructure of the state in the coming years as we all strive to enact and improve upon the society envisioned in the founding of the United States.

For more information please visit

Radical Futures – Imagining the Media of Tomorrow

castork3 — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:32:32 +0000

Event Name: Radical Futures – Imagining the Media of Tomorrow

Sponsor/Host: UConn Humanities Institute, the Future of Truth, and Digital Humanities & Media Studies

Date: Saturday, March 20 – Sunday, March 21

Schedule:

Saturday, March 20

Welcome and Introduction: 9-9:15(EDT)/14:00-14:15(CET)
Panel 1: 9:15-11(EDT)/14:15-16:00(CET)
Panel 2: 11:00-12:30(EDT)/16:00-17:30(CET)
Round Table: 13:30-14:30(EDT)/18:30-19:30(CET)

Sunday, March 21

Panel 1: 9:00-10:30(EDT)/14:00-15:30(CET)
Panel 2: 11:00-12:30(EDT)/16:00-17:30(CET)
Round Table: 13:30-14:30(EDT)/18:30-19:30(CET)

Location: Virtual

Registration:

The Radical Futures symposium brings together researchers from Germany and the US to discuss both the future of media and form(at)s of imagination/imaginaries in the 21st century. Central to the discussion is the role of knowledge of the future for the imagination of digital media in a variety of potential social contexts. How can our imagination contribute to knowing the future? Which kinds of imaginaries do we consult for this purpose? Whose imagination/imaginaries receive(s) a voice? What past imaginations/imaginaries have infused the present? What diverse digital media can we conjure up for futures that may not reflect who we are today? What truths are available today that inform realities to come?

For more information visit

TheirStory.io Instruction and Demonstration

castork3 — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:55:19 +0000

Event Name: TheirStory.io Instruction and Demonstration

Date: Monday, March 22, 2021

Time: 10 am

Location: Virtual

Registration:

Everyone has a story.�� Many of us want to hear that story as part of our teaching, research, and scholarship. Join the CHSS Digital Media CoLab for an introduction and demonstration of TheirStory, a set of online tools and services designed to collect, preserve, and engage with the audiovisual stories of the individuals that make up a community.��

In this 45-minute webcast you’ll hear from Dr. Chris Matthews, recently featured in for his research on preserving the history of Black and Native Americans on Long Island.�� You’ll also get to hear from TheirStory Founder and CEO Zack Ellis, about some of the important and resourceful features of TheirStory to the education and non-profit communities.

Get connected with TheirStory!

Spring Events: Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies

castork3 — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:58:46 +0000

Event Name: Spring Events: Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies

Sponsor/Host: Hagop Kevorkian Center NYU

Location: Virtual

Dates: Thursdays on March 4, March 18, April 1, April 15, and April 22

Time: 12:30 p.m.

Schedule:

Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: DIGITAL DATA GATHERING & CHANGING WAYS OF KNOWING I: WITNESSING + PROOF + HUMAN RIGHTS

Date: Thursday, March 4, 2021

Speakers: Hadi Al Khatib (Syrian Archive), Samira Koujok (Columbia University), Lorenzo Pezzani (Goldsmiths, University of London), and discussant Jillian York (EFF)

Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: DIGITAL DATA GATHERING & CHANGING WAYS OF KNOWING II: SOCIAL MEDIA AFTERLIVES

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021

Speakers: Yakein Abdelmagid (Research Strategist), Marc Owen Jones (HBKU), Marlene Schäfers (University of Cambridge), and discussant Adel Iskandar (SFU)

Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: SPACE & PLACE I: CRITICAL MAPPING & COUNTER-CARTOGRAPHY

Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021

Speakers: Majd Al-Shihabi (Systems Design Engineer), Nermin Elsherif (CHEurope), Ghazal Jafari (University of Virginia), and discussant Timur Hammond (Syracuse University)

Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: SPACE & PLACE II: VISUALIZATION & DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021

Speakers: Ahmad Barclay (Architect), Ahmad El-Gharbie’ (American University of Beirut), Fabiola Hanna (The New School) and discussant Hatim El-Hibri (George Mason University)

Workshop: DIGITAL FORAYS: FUTURE DIGITAL RESEARCH ON/IN/FROM THE MIDDLE EAST

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021

Speakers: Akram Khater (NC State University), Marina Rustow (Princeton University), David Joseph Wrisley (NYU), and Farès el-Dahdah (Rice University)

This year long series of workshops starts from a simple premise:

What does it look like to think, engage, and do research in this digital age?

This question cuts across the ways we consume culture, digest news, carry out politics, and craft ourselves. This series is a call for researchers to account for the ever increasingly digital world in which we live. In order to better activate our scholarship we must reimagine our methods, modes of collaboration, and how to participate in these quickly changing digital landscapes.

Many junior scholars are now working across a digital multimedia landscape and they are pushing the genres of storytelling, engagement, augmentation – thus changing the scales and shapes of their scholarship. Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies addresses threads from the Digital Humanities (DH), but also from an array of other ambiguous buzzwords: “Digital Scholarship,” “Public Humanities,” “Digital Publishing,” “Big Data.” At stake in changing methodologies are a range of interconnected issues that amount to seismic shifts in how we deepen, develop, and disseminate our research. Indeed, at present, the perils/promise of our digital age are exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced the most basic scholarly activities of teaching and research into online-compatible modalities – and ongoing dissent and protest in the Middle East (and around the world) where digital devices become appendages of how we capture, circulate, and remake the world.

For more information visit

Digital Forays: Lightning Talks from Junior Scholars

castork3 — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:58:40 +0000

Name: DIGITAL FORAYS: LIGHTNING TALKS FROM JUNIOR SCHOLARS

Deadline: Thursday, April 1, 2021

Location: Virtual

Time: 12:30-2:30 p.m.

Submission: Submit a

Through these lightning talks we hope to connect, model possible directions, and foster a conversation for those who are feeling frustrated, lost, and limited in academic/disciplinary silos. There are many junior scholars now working across digital methods in provisional ways – we hope to offer a space through this event to connect and see how/what they are working on!

FORMAT: 6 junior scholars/practitioners will be invited to this LIGHTNING TALK based on their.
Each will have 6 mins to speak about their digital scholarship – followed by engagement with 2 visiting discussants. There will also be a larger Q&A with the audience. There will be a $200 honorarium for participating and the deadline is April 1st to submit to present your work.

Feel free to reach out to Jared McCormick (Acting Director/DGS) at Kevo with any questions! (jsm22@nyu.edu)

For more information visit

The Reality of Human Trafficking in the Era of Misinformation

castork3 — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:40:51 +0000

Event Name: The Reality of Human Trafficking in the Era of Misinformation

Host: Center on Global Human Trafficking and RIGS

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Time: 2:30 pm

Location: Virtual

Registration: or visit

Panelists: Fawzia Afzal-Khan (Department of English), Bond Benton (School of Communication and Media), Sudeshna Chatterjee (University of Massachusetts Boston), Venezia Michalsen (Department of Justice Studies)

Moderator: Arnaud Kurze (Department of Justice Studies)

The event brings together scholars discussing the politics of information dissemination in the context of transnational labor, organized crime, and systemic genderized and race-based injustice.

Manipulative disinformation campaigns relying on social media have not only affected the very foundations of our political systems in recent years, but have also distorted our understanding of social issues, such as human trafficking. This round-table seeks to scrutinize the connections between the politics of information dissemination, large global patterns of anti-feminist oppression in the context of transnational labor and organized crime, and systemic genderized and race-based injustice in different criminal justice systems to cope with these challenges. Panelists including scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines share their views and reflect on how to best envision and implement strategies to address these repressive, power-driven institutional and cultural obstacles at home and abroad.