Streaming dal Global Digital Humanities Symposium

Global Digital Humanities Symposium

March 22-23, 2018

Michigan State University

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Join in virtually! The event will be livestreamed at http://go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue its symposium series on Global DH into its third year. We are delighted to feature speakers from around the world, as well as expertise and work from faculty and students at Michigan State University in this two day symposium.

Program and Schedule

Thursday, March 22, 2018

   - 1:00-1:30 - Opening Remarks

   - 1:30-2:10 - Infrastructure for the Digital (Lightning Talks)

   - Introducing the Oxford-BYU Syriac Corpus: An Archive for the

      Preservation of Syriac Texts, James Walters, Rochester College

      - Bringing Arabic-Language Scholarly Content Online: An

      Investigation, John Kiplinger and Anne Ray, JSTOR

      - The Humanities Scholars Today: New Directions for Academic

      Libraries in Nigeria, Yetunde Zaid and Adebambo Oduwole, University of

      Lagos and Lagos State University, Nigeria

      - Syed Affan Aslam and Abdul Wahid Khan, Habib University

      - 3:00-3:40 - Pedagogy in/of the Digital (Lightning Talks)

      - Mapping Lusofonia: Integrating GIS Instruction into Foreign

      Language Curricula, Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros, Joshua Sadvari, and

      Maria Scheid, Ohio State University

      - Toward a Rubric-Based Assessment of Global Digital Tools and

      Pedagogies: Taking a closer look at Mandarin Tone Learning Apps, Yilang

      Zhao and Catherine Ryu, MSU

      - Tuning in: A Digital Soundscape of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Benjamin

      Fuhrman and Catherine Ryu, MSU

      - Beyond the Classroom: Maps, Texts and Multimedia to Make Visible

      the Afro Presence in Argentina, Marisol Fila, University of Michigan

      - Storytelling and Social Media: Tackling the Digital Divide, Autumn

      Painter and Marcy O’Neil, MSU

      - 4:30-5:30 - Keynote, Lisa Nakamura, "Racial Empathy Machine:

   Discourses of Virtual Reality in America After Trump"

   - 5:30-7:30 - Reception

Friday, March 23, 2018

   - 9:00-10:30 - Environmental DH Panel

      - Supporting Research, Public Engagement, and Learning Through

      Environmentally Focused Digital Humanities, Jamie Rogers, Florida

      International University

      - #EcoDH: Global Environmental Digital Humanities, Amanda Starling

      Gould, libi rose striegl, Craig Dietrich, Ted Dawson, Max Symuleski, Duke

      University, UC Boulder, Occidental College, and Vanderbilt

      - 11:00-12:15 - Creating Community

   - Colonial Pasts and Techno-Utopian Futures, Dhanashree Thorat,

      University of Kansas

      - Exploring Culture and Identity using Linked Open Data and the

      Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA), Taylor Wiley

      (presenting), Joshua Wells, Eric Kansa, Kelsey Noack Myers, and R. Carl

      DeMuth, Indiana University South Bend, Open Context, and Indiana University

      Bloomington

      - Digital Community Engagement at SIUE: How a Regional University can

      have a Global Impact, Katherine Knowles and Benjamin Ostermeier, The IRIS

      Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

      - Partnering for Digital Publishing: Resurfacing At-Risk Works of the

      Small, Independent, Feminist Press, Jane Nichols and Elle Bublitz, Oregon

      State University Libraries and Calyx Press

      - 1:30-2:30 - Language and Meaning

   - Mercator of the Trap: Black Orality and the Naming of Place in the Hip

      Hop Soundscape, Melissa Brown, University of Maryland

      - Visualizing Claude McKay’s Black Atlantic, Amardeep Singh, Lehigh

      University

      - Urban Language Topographies: Cites as Sites of Language

      Maintenance, Michelle McSweeney, Columbia University

      - 3:00-4:15 - Mapping and the Geo-Spatial

   - West Hollywood Goes Global: Exploring Queer Identity on GeoCities,

      Sarah McTavish, University of Waterloo

      - Digital Tools, Grassroots Use: Open Source Mapping Communities and

      Global Knowledge Production, Ned Prutzer, University of Illinois at

      Urbana-Champaign

      - Migrant Segregation in Victorian England: Geo-Spatial Technologies

      and Individual-Level Data Harmonisation, James Perry, Lancaster University

      - 4:45-5:45 - Keynote: Schuyler Esprit, “There, and In This Place”:

   Caribbean Readers in Public (Digital) Spaces

   - 5:45-6:00 - Closing remarks