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 (all times EDT)
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
Digital Analysis of poetic themes in Mirza Ghalib, 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
12:15-1:30 - Lunch (provided)
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