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Dear colleagues,

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium (msuglobaldh.org) Planning Committee is pleased to share the program and to encourage free registration for the 9th annual Symposium, which will take place as a virtual event, March 18-20, 2024 and an in-person event at Michigan State University, March 22-23, 2024. The registration deadline is Monday, March 11.

During the Virtual Symposium, we will support live interpretation of presentations from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English, as well as live captions for presentations in English. 

Virtual

• Monday, March 18, 3:00 - 7:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones)

• Tuesday, March 19, 12:00 - 4:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones)

• Wednesday, March 20, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (converted to more time zones)

In-Person (at Michigan State University)

• Friday, March 22 (Symposium), 8:30am-6:30pm EDT (converted to more time zones)

• Saturday, March 23 (Unconference), 10:30am-2:00pm

In particular, we would like to point out virtual keynote presentations from Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Rachel Adams, with a response and discussion, led by Alex Gil. We are also looking forward to a keynote presentation from Bill Hart-Davidson on the in-person day on Friday.

Sincerely,

Global Digital Humanities Symposium Planning Committee

• 3:00 – 3:30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 3:30 – 4:30 pm – Keynote: “Uncertain Intelligences? anti-colonial and queer identity formations in the socio-technical imaginary” – Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
• 4:35 – 5:35 pm – Transnational Borderlands Thinking and Knowledge-Making through Feminist Data Mapping – Sylvia Fernandez, Niloufar Esmaeili, Kiri Avelar
• 5:45 – 6:45 pm – Artificial Intelligence: Praxis, Problems, and Play
• Generative AI and Linguistic (In)justice – Laura Hensch
• AI in Visual Art Education: Inspirations from Contemporary Artists – Borim Song, Ahran Koo
• Who wrote it better? Analyzing human and generative AI journalistic reporting – Abby Cole

• 12:00 – 12:15 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 12:15 – 1:15 pm – Humanidades digitales latinas y decolonialismo – Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Montse Feu, Paloma Vargas Montes
• 1:20 – 2:00 pm – Womanhood, Art, and Labor
• Analysing the Depiction of Motherhood through Multimodal Networks: a Comparative Study about socially engaged engravers producing in Brazil in the 20th century – Barbara Romero Ferron, Luana Medina Fortes
• Intersectional Play: Representation in Storytelling, Decolonization in Digital Games, and Black Women’s Cultural Labor Production – Diamond Beverly-Porter
• Chronicling Harriett: Afrofuturist Museology through Immersive Technology – Synatra Smith
• 2:10 – 3:10 pm – Digital Storytelling
• Mexico City From Above: Mapping Archival Aerial Imagery for Bilingual Digital Storytelling – Jessica Mack
• Transcending Boundaries via Digital Storytelling: A Case Study of Ghayath Almadhoun’s Poetry Films – Tianrui Ma
• Exploring Vernacular Arab Architecture in Educational Immersive Virtual Environments: The case of Sheikh Isa House in Bahrain. – Eiman Elgewely
• 3:15 – 4:15 pm – Keynote: “Empire of AI: How AI is Widening Global Inequality” – Rachel Adams

• 9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 9:10 – 10:25 am – Text Analysis: Languages of Power & Resistance
• Unleashing Diverse Voices of Colonialism: Topic Modeling Translated and Original Adventure Fiction in Semi-colonial China (1898-1919) – Xuezhao Li
• Entre la censura, el vigilantismo, y la resistencia: Activismo K-Pop y Derechos Humanos en Colombia. – Andrés Lombana-Bermúdez, Sergio Rodríguez Gómez
• The Language of Colonialism: A Study of the Speeches of the Viceroys of India – Gauri Jhangiani
• Computational Political Propaganda Detection on Twitter during Russia-Ukraine War: A Critical Discourse Analysis based Theoretical Framework – Husnain Raza
• 10:30 – 11:00 am – Project Showcase (Concurrent sessions in breakout rooms)
• Visualizing 400 Years of History of the Indigenous Native American -The Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia – Babiha Bakshi
• VideoDreams and the Transmedia Novel+: Blurring the edges between literature, video games, music, programming, and digital archaeology – Fernando Montes Vera
• ‘Singing the Song of the Land You Are In’ – Digital Humanities and Post-Colonial Study of the Kyrgyz Manas – Anguelina Popova, James Plumtree
• Discovering Sukhareva: Neurodiversity, Minimal Computing, and the History of Autism – Ian Goodale
• Digital Humanities as Memory Work: Memory Eternal as a Virtual Site of Mourning – Monique Tschofen, Armstrong Jolene, Fisher Caitlin, Maaren Kari, Siobhan O’Flynn, Pruska-Oldenhof Izabella, Egan Kelly, Angela Joosse, Lai-Tze Fan
• Conservation Narratives Reimagined: Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Environmental Protection in the Global South – Olarotimi Ogungbemi
• A Voice of Distress: A Computational Linguistic Exploration of “Political Depression” During COVID-19 Pandemic – Qilin Liu
• The Blackspeare Project: Developing Post-Secondary Teaching Resources for Shakespeare Scholars – Hannah Bowling
• 11:10 – 12:10 pm – Multilingual Praxis in DH
• Adaptability is traditional: incorporating a digital toolkit in Anishinaabe language and cultural revitalization – Ellie Mitchell
• Characterizing similarities between TenTen family corpora: revealing a hierarchy in multilingual digital tools – David Bordonaba-Plou, Laila M. Jreis-Navarro
• Bridging the Gap for Digitally Disadvantaged Languages – Quinn Dombrowski
• 11:15 – 1:15 pm – A Discussion Among Keynote Presenters Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss and Rachel Adams, with a response by Alex Gil
• 1:15 – 1:30 pm – Closing Remarks

• 9:00 – 9:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
• 9:15 – 10:15 am – Keynote: Mixing and Mastering Genre Signals: Generative AI, Writing, and the Near Future of Writing Technologies – Bill Hart-Davidson
• 10:30 – 11:30 am – Lightning Talks
• 10:30 – 11:10 – Power and Advocacy on the Internet
• #AdiosStarbucks: The Impact of Cross-Border Political Discourses within an Online Community and Their Influence on Consumer Behaviors Amidst Political Uncertainty. – AGARZELIM ALVAREZ-MILÁN
• Security Issues, Migration and the Japa-Syndrome in Nigeria: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study of Social Media Posts – Ayo Osisanwo
• Digital Intersectional Gender Responsive Approach to the Issue of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Global Pandemic – Farinaz Basmechi
• #nativetiktok: Indigenous Comedy and Survivance in the Age of Social Media – Aaron Whitestar
• A Corpus-based study of the Internet Fraud Language of the Afropolitan Nigerian youth – Victor Abonyi
• 11:10 – 11:30 – Decolonization in practice
• Decolonial Art Practices: Virtual Exhibition as a Teaching Tool – Alla Myzelev, Ilene Sova
• Digitizing Colonized Heritage: Strategies and Challenges – Caroline T. Schroeder
• 12:30 -1:30 pm – Lightning Talks
• 12:30 – 1:00 pm – Humans & Algorithms: Discontents & Infrastructures
• Misogyny Goes Viral: Understanding TikTok’s Algorithmic Influence on Andrew Tate’s Content – Sunday Ayodabo
• Advances in Open Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Scholarly Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities Research – John Adebayo
• From “Hello World” to “Hello Mom”: The Transition of Human-AI Relationship – Nini Zhou
• 1:00 – 1:30 pm – Navigating Femininity Across Space and Time
• The Travels of Lady Nijo: Pilgrimage, Travel, and Tourism in 13th and 14th Century Japan – Daniel Fandino
• Uncovering and Showcasing the Work of a 19th Century Botanist and Educator using Digital Humanities Tools – India Smith, Erin Lane, Katie Sagal
• “Reclaiming the Female Narrative: Recovering Women’s Voices in Global South Cold War Politics.” – Adelina Tratarou
• 1:45 – 2:45 pm – Equity and Inclusion in Digital Access: Panel of Perspectives from North American College Professors in a Collaborative Online International Learning Community (Mexico, Canada and the U.S.) – Christina Acosta
• 3:00 – 4:00 pm – Rhetoric of Empire: Semantic Networks and Colonial Legacy in User Reviews of Themed Hotels in Las Vegas – Ayodele James Akinola
• 4:15 – 5:15 pm – Poster Session
• World Scripts Explorer: one stop to explore, learn and write any world script – Vyshantha Simha
• Digital Activism among Dalit-Bahujan Communities in India: Anti-Caste Discourses in Relations and Conflict – Tereza Menšíkov
• A Digital Critical Disability Studies “Care Web”: Imagining a Disability Studies Collective Archive – Griffin Zimmerman
• Tailoring Strategies to Navigate Censorship in Russian Political Landscape: Archival Activism and Technology – Ilia Venyavkin, Ilya Utekhin, Anna Nemzer
• Translation Networks – Ali Bolcakan
• Pandemic Storytelling across Cultural Contexts: Comparing Covid Self-Portraits from Korea, Singapore, Columbia, and the U.S. in Digital Archives – Natalie Phillips, Soohyun Cho, Sydney Logsdon
• “Abortion Access Has Everything to Do with Access to Information”: A Digital Collection of Abortion Memories – April Urban
• Digital Rights in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Perception of Privacy Literacy Among Selected Bipoc Graduate Students in the United States – John Adebayo
• OCR for Coptic Literature: Digitizing an Under-resourced Historical Language Corpus – Lydia Bremer-McCollum, Caroline Schroeder