What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media
Forum on innovative and experimental dissertation formats
When: October 10, 4-5:30 pm EST
Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY, English Department Lounge, Room 4409
365 Fifth Avenue, NY NY 10016
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.
Posted: September 2, 2014, 4:51 PM