Join us Thursday, 2/20 @ 7pm for a screening and discussion of the definitive graffiti and hip hop documentary Style Wars (1983). Famous for its coverage of Dondi White and tagged subway cars, this documentary captures the style and spirit of NY graffiti that set the bar high. But how… Continue reading »
Pregame for Valentine’s Day in this workshop on playlists and media archaeology with cd’s, emulators, and arcane knowledge of moods and the public domain.We know there’s an ellusive set of criteria for curating a playlist. We want to think about how a mix comes to be, and how it’s changed with… Continue reading »
In celebration of Black History Month this workshop explores Cornell University’s Hip Hop Collection. Renowned for its coverage of hip hop in the South Bronx from the past 40 years and Afrika Bambaataa’s annotations on vinyl sleeves, the Cornell Hip Hop Collection amasses thousands of photographs and flyers. In this workshop we’ll… Continue reading »
Are you working on an in-depth research project? Need help with keeping track of your research materials and formatting your citations and bibliographies? Attend an EndNote workshop to learn how it can help. Workshop Schedule Wednesday, October 23, 4-5:30pm – Register Sawyer Library Instruction Lab (328) Thursday, November 7, 7-8:30pm –… Continue reading »
Research is a practice of finding, thinking, connecting, and starting again. Notebooks are a valuable tool to record your thinking and engage it with curiosity. This drop in session is a semi-structured opportunity to write, diagram, practice, and revisit and build on your thinking while giving you a chance… Continue reading »
Research is a practice of finding, thinking, connecting, and starting again. Notebooks are a valuable tool to record your thinking and engage it with curiosity. This drop in session is a semi-structured opportunity to write, diagram, practice, and revisit and build on your thinking while giving you a chance to… Continue reading »
What, like, even really is “curation”? Or, like, a research practice that has organization and visual representation at the core of it, to maximize thoughts and connections. How is mood-boarding, the thematic collecting of disparate images and texts, a kind of research that can be harnessed for wackier, more rigorous,… Continue reading »
How do your own research practices reflect your values and ethics? How does the pipeline of information you interact with reflect the scholarship of your field? What do you want your work to do? Does it do that? In this workshop, we’ll develop new citational practices that are expansive and… Continue reading »
This 60-minute introduction to Zotero will teach participants how to build personal libraries, build bibliographies, and quickly create citations while writing using Word and Google Docs. This session specifically designed for organizing research and keeping lit reviews under control. Please bring a laptop. 10/18 @ 7:00 pm Sawyer 328… Continue reading »
How has the breadth of perspectives, lived experience, and recognized authority developed at Williams over the last two decades? Together we will use the framework of citational justice to examine the changing landscape of scholarship in our community. In this workshop we’ll apply the Bechdel Test for scholarship, the Gray… Continue reading »