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What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media

Forum on innovative and experimental dissertation formats

Location

Off Campus

Date & Time

October 10, 2014, 4:00 pm5:30 pm

Description

Chair: Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Director, Futures Initiative and HASTAC@CUNY

Panelists:
Jade E. Davis, Communications, University of North Carolina  
Dwayne Dixon,  Anthropology, Duke University
Gregory T. Donovan, Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University
Amanda Licastro, English, Graduate Center, CUNY
Nick Sousanis, Teachers College, Columbia University


This Forum showcases recent and current doctoral students whose dissertations exemplify innovative, experimental formats--Scalar, video, websites, comics, multimedia inter actives. The Forum is co-sponsored by the Futures Initiative, HASTAC@CUNY, CUNY DHI (CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative), as well as by distance partners:  the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University, HASTAC Scholars (an international graduate student network), and the online journal Hybrid Pedagogy, and a growing list of programs at the GC and beyond.

The event will be webcast and live tweeted by Futures Initiative and CUNY DHI fellows who will leading collaboration on an open public Google Doc designed to record, celebrate, and model successful institutional change.

Livestreamed from: http://bit.ly/FuturesED-live

Twitter Hashtag: #remixthediss | Follow on Twitter: http://bit.ly/remixthediss-twitter

What is a Dissertation? (Public Google Doc): http://bit.ly/remixthediss-models

Think-Pair-Share Activity (Public Google Doc): http://bit.ly/remixthediss-questions

TAGSExplorer Hashtag Archive: http://bit.ly/remixthediss-twittermap