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Dear colleagues,

We look forward to seeing you next month at the Global DH Symposium! Take a note of the fantastic program assembled as well as the social activities schedule. Registration is free and closes on March 18. The event will be livestreamed, but registration provides access to the Zoom event, where live interpretation and closed captions will be available.

Best,
Kristen Mapes


Global Digital Humanities Symposium
March 23-25, 2022
msuglobaldh.org
#MSUGlobalDH

Wednesday, March 23, 5:00-9:00pm EDT (in your timezone)
Thursday, March 24, 1:00-5:15pm EDT (in your timezone)
Friday, March 25, 9:00am-1:20pm EDT (in your timezone)

Registration is open and the program is now available! Join us for a fantastic free and fully virtual event. Registration Deadline: Friday, March 18

We are pleased to support presentations in English and Spanish, with live interpretation from English into Spanish and French, and from Spanish into English. Live captions will also be provided for presentations given in English.

In particular, we would like to point out keynote presentations from
  • Olivia Quintanilla (Towards Marine Justice: Indigenous Pacific Island Ecologies and the Right to Nature),
  • June Rubis (Seeing the utan (forest) for the orang (people): a decolonial Indigenous approach to orangutan conservation), and
  • Hanna Musiol (Industry, Postcolony, and the Immersive Arts of Environmental Storytelling)!
The Symposium will conclude with a roundtable discussion panel bringing together the work of these three scholars.

Find the presentation schedule below. There will also be two social activities each day of the Symposium (discover the full social activities program).

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
5:10–5:40pm – Keynote presentation: Towards Marine Justice: Indigenous Pacific Island Ecologies and the Right to Nature, Olivia Quintanilla
5:40-6:40pm – Accessing Diasporic Histories: Values-Driven Digital Projects
6:50-7:50pm - Project Showcase
8:00-8:30pm – Keynote presentation: Seeing the utan (forest) for the orang (people): a decolonial Indigenous approach to orang utan conservation, June Rubis

Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:00-1:30pm - Keynote presentation: Industry, Postcolony, and the Immersive Arts of Environmental Storytelling, Hanna Musiol
1:40-3:20pm - Lightning Talks
1:40–2:10pm Digital Disruptions: DH in a Pandemic
2:10–2:40pm Melding Socio-Cultural Digital Projects, Ethical Frameworks, and Artificial Intelligence Technology
2:40–3:20pm ​Outlining Communities and Information through Digital Archives and the Static Web
3:30–4:40pm – Mapping Digital Spaces of Memory, Witnessing, and Resistance

Friday, March 25, 2022
9:40-10:40am – Developing Multilingual Foundations for Global Digital Humanities
10:50am-12:10pm - Transforming Pedagogy and Curriculum: Challenges and Insights
12:20-1:20pm – ​Environmental Justice, Indigenous Futures, and Digital Humanities: A Discussion Among the Keynote Presenters



Kristen Mapes
Assistant Director of Digital Humanities, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI kmapes@msu.edu