What Is a Dissertation? New Models, New Methods, New Media

This Forum showcases recent and current doctoral students whose dissertations exemplify innovative, experimental formats--Scalar, video, websites, comics, multimedia inter actives. The event will be livestreamed and live tweeted (#remixthediss) by Futures Initiative and CUNY DHI fellows who will leading collaboration on an open public Google Doc designed to record, celebrate, and model successful institutional change. Our goal is to model success stories (and challenges overcome) on the way to inventive, digital, experimental new forms of dissertations.Chair: Cathy N. Davidson, Distinguished Professor and Director, Futures Initiative and HASTAC@CUNYPanelists:Jade E. Davis, Communications, University of North CarolinaDwayne Dixon, Cultural Anthropology, Duke UniversityGregory T. Donovan, Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University (PhD, Graduate Center, CUNY)Amanda Licastro, English, Graduate Center, CUNYNick Sousanis, Teachers College, Columbia UniversityThe Forum is co-sponsored by the Futures Initiative, CUNY DHI (CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative), HASTAC (@CUNY and @Duke), NY2020, as well as by distance partners: the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge at Duke University, HASTAC Scholars (an international graduate student network), and the online journal Hybrid Pedagogy, and a growing list of programs at the GC and beyond. For more information click here.