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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · 2d

It's still not too late to join our Open House today!

GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · 8d

#digitalhumanities #gradschool #openhouse
The M.A. in Digital Humanities Program Open House is only a week away!

Prospective students interested in our program are welcome to join us via Zoom on Monday, October 6th from 5-6 PM.

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · 8d

The Program Director and advisors will be on-hand to take your questions about all aspects of the program, as well as the application process.

Please RSVP using the QR code above or through the link below! We look forward to meeting you all soon🙂

M.A. in Digital Humanities - Virtual Open House, October 2025

The Program Director and advisors will be on-hand to take your questions about all aspects of the M.A. in Digital Humanities Program, as well as the application process.

www.gc.cuny.edu

GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · 8d

#digitalhumanities #gradschool #openhouse
The M.A. in Digital Humanities Program Open House is only a week away!

Prospective students interested in our program are welcome to join us via Zoom on Monday, October 6th from 5-6 PM.

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Luke Waltzer @lukewaltzer.bsky.social · 11d

Shout out to @kmichael.bsky.social and @jojokarlin.bsky.social for making this happen via their @gc-dh.bsky.social course @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 12d

@craignewmark.bsky.social Wikimedian-in-Residence project, with support from @wikimedianyc.bsky.social, @cuny.edu Digital Humanities grad students, #HostosCommunityCollege will dive into
the archives this fall to learn Wikipedia editing and elevate the Save Hostos Movement:
tinyurl.com/49e8x7tr

LibGuides: Hostos Library | Archives: History | Save Hostos Movement

Information about the Hostos Archives including college history, finding aids, and visitor information.

tinyurl.com

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Aug 25

The July/August issue of #ReviewsInDH is now live! Jennifer Guiliano & I are happy to share "Latinx Oral Histories," edited by the brilliant Elena Foulis and Jennifer Lozano. Great projects, big and small, illuminating the collective impact of #DigitalHumanities reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n7-8

Vol. 6, No. 7/8: July/Aug. 2025 - Latinx Oral Histories II · Reviews in Digital Humanities

Vol. 6, No. 8 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...

reviewsindh.pubpub.org

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Sep 5

This panel connects DH scholars whose projects recover the history of centuries of oppression in the US territory and who do community-engaged research with diverse Latinx/Hispanic and Afro Latinx communities and who respond to the present lived by these communities.

GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join us for the panel “Latinidad in the making: DH projects and collective futurities” hosted by GC Digital Initiatives, the Ph.D. Program in Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures, and the MA Program in Digital Humanities!

🗓️ September 12, 4PM EST
📍 Registration link: tinyurl.com/LatinidadDH

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · Aug 27

Started teaching "Critical AI Studies" last night in the @gc-dh.bsky.social & @cunyenglish.bsky.social programs. Great first class discussion in which we tried to come up with a community agreement on the use of AI for coursework (still unsettled).

Website: criticalai2025.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Syllabus – Critical AI Studies

criticalai2025.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 20

This interactive digital exhibit visualizes carousel locations throughout New York City and features practical information such as fee structures, neighborhood demographics, and more. Check out this wonderful project here: www.carouselsofnyc.com and find out more about the story of carousels in NYC.

Carousels of New York City

www.carouselsofnyc.com

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 20

Last semester, Kelly Karst, Julissa Russo, Carla Ordonez, and Leonard Santos worked with Professor Bret Maney from our class Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices to develop this wonderful project, and successfully presented it at the CUNY Graduate Center Digital Showcase.

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 20

#digitalproject#digitalhumanities#datavisualization
Carousels of NYC🎠

What’s your first memory of carousels?
Carousels evoke joy and nostalgia, drawing people across diverse backgrounds, yet their placement is often restricted to wealthier neighborhoods, limiting accessibility for many communities.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Aug 17

100 years of July temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025...

Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 13

created data visualizations to illustrate the disparity of women’s matches compared with men’s matches. Check out this wonderful project here: gdprowres.com and see how rare women’s matches still are!

Gender Disparity In Professional – The numbers don't lie

gdprowres.com

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 13

Women’s matches have been held since wrestling’s earliest days, but they have been and still are significantly underrepresented. Last semester, Martin Bueno, Cathy Melamed, Madison Watkins, and Elijah Nunez, working with Professor Bret Maney from our class Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices,

Gender Disparity In Professional – The numbers don't lie

gdprowres.com

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 13

#digitalproject#digitalhumanities
Gender Disparity in Professional Wrestling (GDPW) 🤼‍♀️

What are some of the greatest women's professional wrestling matches you've ever seen?

Professional wrestling has thrilled audiences for over a century, evolving from radio broadcasts to TV and digital streaming.

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 6

Check out this wonderful project here: womenofbandura.github.io/women-of-ban... and see how the WOB is educating new generations of bandura players in the U.S.!

Women of Bandura - North America | Women of Bandura - North America

womenofbandura.github.io

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 6

Last semester, @womenofbandura.bsky.social team from our class Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices developed this digital archive project. Created in collaboration with WBENA, the project highlights the contribution of women, who were traditionally excluded from playing the bandura.

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GC Digital Humanities @gc-dh.bsky.social · Aug 6

Women of Bandura🎵

What is the name of the instrument that has been synonymous with Ukrainian identity? Hints are in the image!

Women have and continue to play a vital role in advancing the rich history represented by the instrument that has been synonymous with Ukrainian identity.

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Jul 10

📖 Very excited about the publication of this book, out in November...

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social:

uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...

#OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press

Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...

uolpress.co.uk

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Dr Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir @vanlinduist.bsky.social · Jul 16

CfP for #IMC Leeds 6–9 July 2026
“The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time”
Sponsored by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social

How can digital methods help us study or represent medieval ideas of time?

Submit by 1 Sept 2025
#IMC2026 #DigitalHumanities #MedievalSky
IMC Padlet: tinyurl.com/52dbx5ey

CfP for IMC Leeds, 6-9 July 2026

The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time

Sponsor: Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts, Iceland
Submission deadline: 1 September 2025

The Icelandic Centre for Digital Humanities and Arts invites contributions that explore how digital methods and tools can illuminate, represent, and reinterpret medieval temporalities. While we particularly welcome research with a focus on the Northern World, this call is open to comparative or globally situated projects across disciplines, periods, and geographies that approach time as both a subject of inquiry and a structuring principle.

Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):

Visualising medieval perceptions or structures of time
Tools and technologies for measuring, representing, or distorting medieval time
Digital editions of computus texts
Digital reconstruction of objects or texts, lost or transformed over time
Manuscript temporality (e.g. mise-en-page, palimpsests, gloss traditions, marginalia) using computational approaches
Modelling temporal rhythms in liturgy, agriculture, politics, or narratives
Analysis of long-term temporalities in environmental, climatic, or landscape data
Artificial intelligence and the automation of temporal interpretation
Temporal modelling in metadata, databases, markup languages, and DH infrastructures
Interface design and user experience in projects that convey or manipulate medieval temporalities
Re-mediating or reimagining medieval time in games or immersive digital environments
Temporal poetics and the aesthetics of time in digital medievalism

Please submit an abstract of around 200 words, a short bio including affiliation and contact information, and indicate your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual).
Proposals and queries should be sent to Katrín Lísa L. Mikaelsdóttir (kll@hi.is) no later than 1 September 2025.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · Jul 17

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Ask @nicklaiacona.bsky.social about it if you see him at #dh2025! www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Performant Studio

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

www.performantsoftware.com

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Jun 27

New in the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) blog, Not from Here:

"Digital Humanities Interview Series: Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla"

iehs.org/digital-huma...

Digital Humanities Interview Series: Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla

What inspires you to work in digital humanities and how did you get started? As a transborder scholar studying gender identities and violence at the U.S.-Mexico border through literature and archiv…

iehs.org

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · Jun 26

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Records. That's the ongoing digital humanities project that rediscovers relatively underrepresented political events in American history. @ccp-org.bsky.social

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 26

There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.

In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

1 E.g., Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina
(1865, Charleston, SC), Colored Conventions Project Digital Records
(last visited June 15, 2025), https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/
show/570 (“ ‘Right’ is defined to be the just claim, ownership, or lawful
title which a person has to anything”).

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Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social · Jul 1

Paid PhD position klaxon! An MA “(or equivalent) in History, Rhetoric, Political Science, English, Digital Humanities, or a related field” is needed, as is excellent English (but no Danish).

Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚀 We’re #hiring a PhD student to join our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)” 🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation!
👉 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
📅 4 Sep 2025

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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · Jul 2

We welcome proposals for the @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships in the following areas:

🟢 Literature and Digital Humanities

🟢 DH-based research engaging with GLAM

🟢 Creativity

Apply by 27 July to be considered for internal selection: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/c...

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