Calendar
The institution provides an excellent combination of discussions and lectures, led by cultural historians, archivists and experts in the field of American literature, art and urban history, and periodical studies.
Day Eleven
Morning Session
Topic: Teaching Periodicals in the Digital Age
Seminar scholar: Christopher La Casse, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Afternoon Session
Topic: Review of Institute and Participant Presentations
Day Ten
Morning Session
Activity: Site Visit of the Tenement House Museum and the Lower East Side
Afternoon Session
Location: Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University
Topic: Cool Realism: The New Journalism and New York Literary Culture
Seminar scholar: Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology
Day Nine
Morning Session
Topic: Independent Work
Afternoon Session
Luncheon: The Algonquin Hotel (59 West 44th St)
Topic: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
Seminar scholar: Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina
Day Eight
Morning Session
Virtual Tour of Literary Harlem
Tour Leader: Lavelle Porter, New York City College of Technology
Afternoon Session
Signifying Genre: George S. Schuyler and the Vagaries of Black Pulp
Seminar Scholar: Brooks Hefner, James Madison University
Day Seven
Morning Session
Virtual Tour of Union Square and Madison Square Park
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Afternoon Session
New York Modernism in the Magazines
Seminar scholars: Adam McKible, John Jay College, and Suzanne Churchill, Davidson College
Day Six
Morning Session
Virtual Tour of Printing House Square
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Afternoon Session
The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century New York Newspapers
Seminar Leader: Karen Roggenkamp, Texas A&M University
Day Five
Morning Session
Virtual Tour of New York’s Seaport District
Tour Leader: Mark Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Afternoon Session
Melville Among the Magazines
Seminar scholar: Graham Thompson, University of Nottingham
Day Four
Morning Session
Digital Methods Workshop
Seminar scholar: Jason Ellis, New York City College of Technology and Edward Timke, Duke University
Afternoon Session
Consult on Digital Project ideas with Professors Ellis, Timke and Kreitz
Day Three
Morning Session
Crying the News: A History of New York’s Newsboys
Seminar scholar: Vincent Di Girolamo, Baruch College, CUNY
Afternoon Session
Mapping the Print Communities of Latina/o New York
Seminar scholar: Kelley Kreitz, Pace University
Day 2
Morning Session
Institute Program Overview; Digital Tools Demonstration
Seminar leaders: Matthew Joseph, Adam McKible, Mark Noonan, and Kelley Kreitz
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Digitalizing the Social Networks of the Early Black Republic of Letters
Seminar Scholar: Jim Casey, Princeton Center for Digital Humanities
Afternoon Session
Paper Gotham: New York City as Pulp Mecca
Seminar scholar: David M. Earle, University of West Florida
Opening Lecture
At John Holt’s Tomb: Patriot Printers in the City of Print
Keynote Speaker: Mark Noonan, Institute Director