The Technological Pandemic: The Present and Future of Coming Together
Sat, Feb 8, 2025
10:00 AM–6:00 PM
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, NYC. Registration required to receive room information and attend. Coffee, lunch, and snacks provided.
You are invited to attend a day-long workshop facilitated by Nishant Shah and CUNY Professor Alexandra Juhasz in partnership with the Digital Narratives Studio at the School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This workshop explores the technological shifts experienced during the management of the COVID19 pandemic, profoundly altering how we come together as groups, collectives, communities, and people. The workshop aims to unpack these shifts to understand how pandemic conditions persist long after the biological pandemic has been managed. This reflective space will help us hold, grieve, map, name, and understand the changes we have collectively undergone and how they affect our practices of coming together.
Coffee, lunch, and snacks will be provided. Register HERE to receive room information and attend.
Workshop Notes:
The workshop offers basic catering for the participants. We can accommodate up to 25 participants. First come, first served. Once the registration is closed, you will be informed if you made it into the invited list or the wait list. 2 days before the workshop, you will be asked to confirm attendance. Non-confirmation may result in cancellation and expanding invitation to participants on the waitlist. Attendance at Dr. Shah’s public talk about the project on Friday, February 7th, 5-7 pm in the Skylight Room at the CUNY GC will be useful but is not required.
Workshop Facilitators:
As a Feminist, Humanist, and Technologist, Nishant Shah works at the intersections of digital technologies and society since 2003. He has been the founder of the Centre for Internet & Society, India, the Director of the Digital School at Leuhpana University, Germany, Vice-President of ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands, and a Knowledge Partner for the Dutch Human Rights Organisations Hivos and Oxfam.
Currently, as the Professor and Director of Global Media and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he explores the questions of authorship, authority, and authenticity amid evolving AI and platform technologies.
Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth. She is the author/editor of scholarly books on AIDS including We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (with Ted Kerr, Duke, 2022) and Really Fake (with Nishant Shah and Ganaele Langlois, Minnesota, 2021). Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996) and The Owls (Dunye, 2010). She writes about her cultural and political commitments in scholarly and more public platforms including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and Lamda Literary Review.
With support from: Social Practice CUNY, Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Grad Center, GC Digital Initiatives, The Futures Initiative, and Art and Science Connect CUNY.
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