A lecture by journalist and author Virginia Heffernan entitled "A New Aesthetic Called 'Aesthetic': Online Frescoes, Instagram Self-Portraiture and What Digital Humanities Can Be." The lecture took place at the Heyman Center for the Humanities on September 15, 2016. The lecture was sponsored by the Columbia Department of English, School of the Arts, and the Heyman Center for the Humanities.
This panel took place during the two-day conference (April 8-9, 2016) hosted by the Heyman Center for the Humanities on the popular television program The Wire. This third panel was titled "Immersion Journalism" and featured June Cross, Columbia University, Andrea Elliot, New York Times, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Journalist and author, and Andrea K. McDaniels Baltimore Sun. The Panel was organized by June Cross, Columbia University School of Journalism.
Salman Rushdie, David Ignatius, Michael Schudson, and Lee C. Bollinger spoke on issues related to President Bollinger's recent book, Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century. Michael Doyle chaired the discussion.
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