Global Digital Humanities Symposium
April 8-9, 2016
Union Building, Room 55
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Free and open to the public.
Friday afternoon and all day Saturday will be livestreamed:
We are delighted to feature speakers from outside of the area as well as expertise and work from faculty at Michigan State University in this two day symposium. The Symposium will begin with a half day workshop on Minimal Computing and will include a range of talk types across the two days.
Breakfast, lunch, coffee, and snacks will be provided to all registrants on both Friday and Saturday. In addition, a reception with appetizers will be provided on Friday.
Schedule
Friday, April 8
- 9:00-11:30 - Minimal Computing Workshop, Alex Gil
- 11:45-1:00 - Lunch (provided)
- 1:15-1:30 - Welcoming Remarks
- 1:30-2:30 - (Global) Digital Humanities and Subalternity: Questions and Provocations - Radhika Gajjala
- 2:45-3:45 - Panel
- Mapping the Religious Soundscape of the Midwest, Amy DeRogatis and Bobby Smiley
- Muslims in the Midwest, Mohammad Khalil
- MSU Vietnam Group Archive, Charles Keith
- 4:00-6:00 - LOCUS (lightning talks session)
- 6:30-7:30 - Reception
Saturday, April 9
- 9:45-10:45 - Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature, Hoyt Long
- 11:15-12:15 - MSU Archive of Malian Photography, Candace Keller
- 1:30-1:45 - Remarks, Dean Christopher P. Long, College of Arts and Letters
- 1:45-3:00 - Roundtable
- 3:30-4:30 - Minimal Computing and the Borders of the New Republic of Letters, Alex Gil
- 5:00-6:00 - Lessons from Global, Pre-Modern, Jewish Digital Humanities, Dorothy Kim