The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning (CCNMTL) will hold the final University Seminar for New Media Teaching and Learning session in the 2007-2008 academic year.
MIT history professor John Dower and program director Scott Shunk will discuss lessons learned from five years of developing an innovative educational platform. Visualizing Cultures is a gateway to seeing history through images that once had wide circulation among peoples...
Courtney Bender, associate professor of religion at Columbia University, will examine a recent emphasis on space in religious studies including how religious groups live within and imagine social contexts. This emphasis focuses more attention on the lived social and national...
In the United States, public space is splintering into shards. Poor urban planning and the demise of many institutions of civil society are two factors that are to blame. But newer technologies - like television - are usually also seen...
David Magier, Director of the Columbia University Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, will explore the opportunities and challenges in incorporating human rights documentation into teaching and research. Many of the challenges of working with archival collections of the...
Professor Douglas Greenberg will describe the work of the USC Shoah Foundation and the technologies it has developed for searching the 52,000 testimonies of Holocaust survivors it has collected. In addition to describing the content of this digital library and...