Events & Workshops

Introduction to R for Statistics with Mehmet Cansoy, PhD

Wednesday, February 18
5 p.m.

Interested in data analysis with a cutting-edge software that is also free? Join us for an introduction to the R language and learn how to generate reproducible analysis using open-source and free tools for your research and teaching with Mehmet Cansoy, PhD, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology and one of the Humanities Institute’s co-directors. We will explore the capabilities of the R, different ways of using it, and answer any questions you might have for transitioning your research and teaching to this new tool.

Parade of Tools: An Introduction to Digital Scholarship

February 10
5 p.m.

A whirlwind tour through tools built for data, text, and network analysis, digital exhibition, digital publishing, mapping, timeline creation, web annotation, and more serves as an introduction to the possibilities for digital scholarship work across disciplines. We will explore how developing digital pedagogy can help promote dynamic, accessible research, develop digital literacies, strengthen digital citizenship, and promote play and collaboration, with time for discussion about how you might use these tools in your work and classroom.

Grief, Mourning, and Art with Patricia Miranda (Part I)

Wednesday, September 9
8 p.m.

In this two-part, virtual lecture/workshop, artist, curator, and educator Patricia Miranda will use the lens of art to speak to both individual and collective ideas around grief, loss, mourning, and solastalgia. During part-one, Miranda will introduce the work of contemporary artists engaging in themes of grief, loss, and mourning and present them in the context of the challenges we face with Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Grief, Mourning, and Art with Patricia Miranda (Part II)

Wednesday, September 16
8 p.m.

In part-two of this virtual lecture/workshop, Patricia Miranda will discuss how the tools of art and diplomacy can help us effectively engage in the difficult conversations of our time.

Rememory as Praxis: Black Women Performance Artists with Niama Safia Sandy, Holly Bass, Jazmine Hayes, and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz

Wednesday, September 23
8 p.m.

Inspired by her critically-acclaimed ongoing FOR/FOUR conversation series, the Fredrickson Family Innovation Lab is thrilled to present Niama Safia Sandy in conversation with performance artists Holly Bass, Jazmine Hayes, and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz as they work through the lens of Morrison's notion of rememory. Each invoking the subversion of dominant narratives toward extolling the presence and power of Black viewpoints and personhood, these three Black women performance artists utilize their bodies and the happenings they create as a bridge toward an aesthetic of transfiguration and a strategy of legibility, resistance and visibility.

Power, Politics, and the Census with Kenneth Prewitt

Wednesday, October 21
8 p.m.

In this webinar, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University and former Director of the U.S. Census Bureau Kenneth Prewitt will talk about the importance of the decennial census in the context of critical social cleavages in American society. He will assess the multiple threats to the accuracy of the 2020 census, focusing on the relationship between the census and political polarization, threats to representation, and the fundamental ways we think about ourselves and society.

Bringing Power Back to Politics with Eitan Hersh

Wednesday, November 4
8 p.m.

In this webinar, political scientist and data analyst Eitan Hersh will discuss how the way we engage with politics needs to change. He will address the negative impacts of political hobbyism - the voracious consumption of news and social media coupled with only symbolic actions - and present the need for a stronger alternative, focusing on building institutions, developing agendas, and creating the capacity to mobilize and govern coalitions.

Unfolding Narratives: Mining the Biotechnological Imaginary with Laura Splan

Wednesday, March 17, 2021
7 p.m.

In this webinar presentation, artist Laura Splan will showcase her recent exhibition at BioBAT Art Space at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, which featured an immersive installation of SARS-CoV-2 molecular animations. She will also discuss recent bioart residencies where she developed projects that explore the interconnectedness of cultural and biological systems during the coronavirus pandemic. Splan’s interdisciplinary studio practice often uses textiles materialities and gestures to understand the structures that form our entangled precarity while also evoking the technologies that circumscribe it.