Dear colleagues,

This Thursday and Friday, we are proud to put on the fifth annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium, bringing together presenters from around the world, and which has shifted to an all-virtual event this year. Pre-registered attendees have been sent Zoom information, but the Symposium will be livestreamed on Youtube (go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh), and all are welcome to tune in. Feel free to send the livestream information along to your students as well. The program and technology plan are available on the website, and we encourage engagement on Twitter at #MSUGlobalDH.

Global Digital Humanities Symposium

March 26-27, 2020

msuglobaldh.org

#MSUGlobalDH

Program

All times listed below are in eastern daylight time (EDT). Here is a tool to convert to your local time.

Thursday, March 26

9:30 am – 10:45 am Opening Remarks and Keynote Presentation, Miguel Escobar Varela, Emic interfaces: UX design for cultural specificity
10:45 am – 11:00 am Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Lightning Talks

First section (11:00-11:35 am)

Between Phallus and Freedom: An Ethnography on the Embodied Experiences of Tinder Users in Cape Town, Leah Junck
Digital Mapping of Culpability and the Culpable in African War Texts, Richard Ajah
Building an Inclusive Digital Local History in the Midwest, Benjamin Ostermeier
Regularization of Kinship Relations to Enrich the Social Networks, Bin Li
Time for questions (11:35-11:50)

Second section (11:50-12:15)

DH and Cultural Heritage: Digitisation of Eyo Festival in Nigeria, Felix Bayode Oke
Digital Apprehensions of Indian Poetics, Zahra Rizvi, Asra Mamnoon, A. Sean Pue
Empowered Minorities: Language Rights and Differential Outcomes For Minorities Enjoying Kremlin Support, Martha Olcott, Michael Downs, and Brigid McBride
Time for questions (12:15-12:30)

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch break
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm Challenging Communication Technologies: Current World Events and Trends

Can Library Metadata Stand with Hong Kong?, Joshua Barton, Mike Erickson, Lucas Mak, and Nicole Smeltekop
Digitalising political communication in West Africa: Facebook and Twitter in election campaigns and political practices in Ghana, Akwasi Bosompem Boateng
Intersection: Digital Humanities, Research Data Management and Libraries in African Higher Education Institutions, Thembelihle Hwalima

2:45 pm –3:00 pm Break
3:00 pm –4:15 pm Moving Parts: Social Change, Categories, and the Intersections of Pedagogy and Research

Teaching with Data in the Academic Museum, Beth Fischer
Digital Humanities and the discursive complexities of colonial ‘letterature,’ Ayodele James Akinola
Map-Based Storytelling for Evolving Places, Sayan Bhattacharyya

Friday, March 27

10:00 am – 11:00 am Keynote Presentation, Carrie Heitman, Narrative and Nomenclature: Research Dialogues on Place-Based Knowledge in the Age of Digital Distance
11:00 am – 11:15 am Break
11:15 am – 12:00 pm Poster Session (now Lightning Talks)

Visualizing Poetic Meter in South Asian Languages, A. Sean Pue, Ahmad Atta, and Rajiv Ranjan
Echoes of Handicraft: The Use of Digital Technologies in Preserving and Representing Textiles from East Asian Ethnic Minority Groups, Xiaolin Sun and Catherine Nichols
Humanities Commons: Making the Digital World Open, Communicative, and Personal, June Oh
OCTRA: A Transcription tool for the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS), supported by CLARIN, the European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology – Emmanuel Ngue Um

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch break
1:00 pm – 2:15 pm The Future of the Archive: Case Studies in Power, Data, and Collaboration

The Evolution of the Enslaved Project, Kylene Cave and Duncan Tarr
Sites of Memory: Reflecting on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Erik Ponder
When Managing a digital archive becomes a be-or-not-to-be issue, Emmanuel Ngue Um

2:15 pm – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Collaboration, Cultural Knowledge, and Community as DH Learning for the 21st Century

Collaborative Pedagogy: Foreign Language and Literature Courses, Data Science, and Global Digital Humanities, Katherine Walden, Jarren Santos, Celeste Sharpe, Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, Sarah Calhoun, and Mirzam Pérez
Students as Knowledge Producers: Understanding Arab-Americans in central Ohio through Oral History Narratives, Hanada Al-Masri, Cheryl Johnson, Olivia Reynolds and Alexis Grimm

4:00 pm – 4:15 pm Closing remarks, Christopher P. Long (Dean, College of Arts and Letters)
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm Social time (not livestreamed)

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium is sponsored by 20 units from around Michigan State University's campus, including the College of Arts & Letters; Department of English; Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures; Department of Theatre; Experience Architecture Program; Department of Linguistics and German, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages; Department of Romance and Classical Studies; Muslim Studies Program; Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities; Graduate School; Canadian Studies Center; Hub for Innovation and Learning Technology; Department of History; Matrix; H-Net; Asian Studies Center; MSU Libraries; African Studies Center; Department of Anthropology; and Center for Gender in Global Context.

Thanks,

Kristen