Kevin Hatch at El Museo del Barrio

Associate Professor Kevin Hatch will deliver a talk on Wednesday, July 22, as part of the book launch for RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTIZ, a monograph dedicated to the Nuyorican artist and founder and director of El Museo del Barrio in New York. Prof. Hatch’s talk will be drawn from the chapter he contributed to the book, “Raphael Montañez Ortiz: Media Magus.”

The book launch will be hosted by El Museo, and will take place virtually from 7:00-8:30 p.m. on Zoom. The event will include the participation of Raphael Montañez Ortiz and monograph editor Javier Rivero Ramos, and will feature contributions from Chon Noriega (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center), Ana Perry (CUNY Graduate Center), and artists Marcos Dimas, Pedro Reyes, and Juan Sanchez. Conversations will be followed by a Q&A.

Admission is free; tickets via Eventbrite are available here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/raphael-montanez-ortiz-tickets-113164632462

More information can be found here:

https://www.elmuseo.org/event/rmo-book-launch/

Workshop: Managing Your Academic Identity Online

Please consider attending the workshop “Managing Your Academic Identity Online,” to be held on Wednesday, July 29, at 2 pm by Zoom, hosted by the Department of Art History and the Binghamton Digital Humanities Research Institute (DHRI). This workshop is intended for scholars in the humanities and the qualitative social sciences and will be useful for graduate students as well.

Register to receive the Zoom link: https://binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsdu2tqDkjGtRkI7vGBVjB5luMB0kYx9gD

Manage your research images using Tropy

Reap the benefits of all your research by ensuring your digital photos are organized, described, and searchable with the easy to use and free tool, Tropy.  If you have visited archives or collections and returned with countless photos downloaded onto your computer, don’t feel overwhelmed, take charge! Designed for academics and archival researchers, Tropy enables you to categorize, transcribe, create metadata, annotate, record sources and citations, and maintain context invaluable for continued scholarly use.

Join in for a 45 minute demo of Tropy on Zoom, Thursday, July 9, 2:30pm.  Send an email to mfocht@binghamton.edu to RSVP and receive the Zoom access information.