Now you’ve some time to recover from our busy weekend, we’d appreciate it if you could please take a moment to fill out this survey on the 2016 Central New York THATCamp.

Thanks again for your participation – we hope that you enjoyed the event, and came away with some useful resources and ideas for your own work. If you would like to get in contact with any of the other participants, you can find everyone’s details on the Campers page of the website.

We’ll be contacting you in the future about more THATCamps, symposia, and other events at Cornell and Syracuse. In the meantime, look out for the new website for Cornell’s Digital Humanities Collaborative–a link will be posted on our placeholder website shortly. You can also contact Mia Tootill (mst88@cornell.edu) for info about Cornell’s new Digital Humanities Grad Network.

Thanks to everyone who turned up yesterday! Day 2 begins in Olin 702 at 10am with breakfast, followed by the first sessions at 10.15am. Or you can check out the schedule and drop by during the day. A couple of reminders:

• Sign up for dork shorts (an opportunity to present your digital work/ideas for future projects etc. in 1-2 minutes)–these will take place during lunch. See an example here.
• Is there anything we didn’t cover yesterday that you’d like to learn/tell people about? Propose a session and/or let me know you want to add something to the schedule.
• Use the hashtags listed in the schedule to live tweet your session and remember to use the googledocs to take collaborative notes

Welcome to the CNY 2016 THATCamp! We’re starting the day with the inaugural Graduate Student Digital Humanities Symposium in Olin Library 703, then the THATCamp will launch after lunch at 1.45pm, also in Olin 703. We hope you’ll join us for refreshments at the reception in the A.D. White House at 5pm.

If you can’t stay for the whole two days, feel free to check the schedule, which’ll be updated by 2.15pm today, and stop by for whichever sessions catch your interest!

Friday, April 8, 4.30pm

Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University

Come along a day early to hear Cathy Davidson deliver the plenary lecture at the Society for the Humanities’ Annual Fellows’ Workshop, “Thinking Time.” The daylong workshop precedes the Digital Humanities Grad Symposium and THATCamp, and is likewise open to the public.

Professor Davidson will be looking back historically to the origins of the modern university while also challenging us to deconstruct the higher education punch clock in the realms over which we have power: our classrooms.  She will think with us about what learning might look like if all vestiges of “seat time” were eliminated.  She departs from many pundits who seek to solve the “crisis” of higher education by such measures as reducing the four-year undergraduate clock to three years or slashing the PhD to a four-year project.  Switching out the time allocations does not get to the heart of the problems.  It does not transform the dependency of the present system on a punch-clock calibrated to the demands, aspirations, and paradigms of a different era.  By contrast, she advocates thinking deeply about how to create a more innovative, fluid, equitable, and activist model of higher learning not just for the world as it is, but also for the world as we wish it to be.

Hi Campers! Registration is now open for the CNY2016 THATCamp, which will be held in the Olin Library at Cornell University. Please register here by April 4, so we can order an appropriate amount of food (and T-shirts!) There are no registration fees, and breakfast, lunch, and coffee/tea will be provided.

The event will follow Cornell’s inaugural Graduate Student Digital Humanities Symposium; if you are interested in submitting a proposal for the half-day symposium, please contact Mia Tootill (mst88@cornell.edu) or go ahead and submit your abstract here (deadline 21 Feb). The THATCamp will launch with lunch on Saturday April 9 and continue through Sunday April 10.

Feel free to suggest a session on the Propose page. Sessions can be on any topic relevant to the humanities and technology – examples from previous THATCamps are listed on the page if you want ideas. The sessions are intended to be collaborative explorations of a topic, with proposers acting as session facilitators, but you can also suggest a topic you don’t yet know anything about and ask for a volunteer session leader. Final determination of which sessions will go ahead will take place on the morning of the event, based on the interest of those assembled.

Co-Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cornell Library, and the Cornell GPSAFC.

On April 9 and 10, we will be hosting the second Central New York THATCamp, this time at Cornell University. Further details and registration information will be available soon.

In the meantime, if you have questions please email Mia Tootill at mst88@cornell.edu. For more information on the THATCamp movement, see About.