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Dear colleagues,

The Symposium Planning Committee is pleased to announce the program for this year's event and to open free registration. Please share information about the Symposium widely!

Thanks,
Kristen Mapes
Global DH Symposium Planning Committee, Chair

Global Digital Humanities Symposium
March 23-25, 2022

msuglobaldh.org | #MSUGlobalDH

Wednesday, March 23, 5:00-9:00pm EDT
Thursday, March 24, 1:00-5:15pm EDT
Friday, March 25, 9:00am-1:20pm EDT

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.
Full Program
All times listed are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Convert to your local time.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
  • 5:00-1:10pm - Welcome
  • 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
    • Nos Cambió La Vida/Our Lives Transformed: Stories of Statelessness
    • The Citing Slavery Project: Reckoning with the Law of Slavery and Its Legacy
  • 6:50-7:50pm - Project Showcase
    • Round 1 (6:50-7:20pm)
      • Nos Cambió La Vida/Our Lives Transformed: Stories of Statelessness
      • “The Woods” – A Collaborative Augmented Reality Game – Kyoung Lee Swearingen and Scott Swearingen
      • Interactive Exploratory Analysis for DH Trends – Manuel Cebral-Loureda
      • Multi-dimensional Image Smart System – Unleash the value of images – Tao Chen
      • Quanzhou: the maritime trade network centre from 10th to 14th century in the world – Shaojian Li and Hongxia Xu
    • Round 2 (7:20-7:50pm)
      • The Construction of Collective Identities in Social Networks – Alejandro Servin
      • Sustainable and Extensible Cultural Heritage Access in Virtual Reality: Experiencing a Renaissance Manuscript – Sabina Zonno
      • Digital Film Screening in Remote Areas of Southwest China: A Study Based on Field and Digital Humanities – Zenan Pu and Zitong Zhu
      • Black Lives Matter Murals: Slow Looking with the BLM Murals from Downtown Raleigh, NC – Kelsey Virginia Dufresne
      • Hazine: For Researchers of the Diverse Islamic Worlds – Heather Hughes, N.A. Mansour, Shabbir Abbas, and Marwa Gadallah
  • 8:00-8:30pm – Keynote presentation: Seeing the utan (forest) for the orang (people): a decolonial Indigenous approach to orangutan conservation, June Rubis
  • 8:30-9:00pm - Themed Discussion Rooms (Social Time)
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
      • MI Diaries: Starting a Community-Engaged DH Project during a Global Pandemic – Betsy Sneller and Suzanne Wagner
      • Digital Humanities Core Values Navigated in Global Pandemic Pedagogy – Najla Jarkas
      • The Digital Humboldt Project “in quarantine”: The challenges of digitising a German-Cuban collection in times of pandemic – Antonio Rojas Castro
    • 2:10–2:40pm Melding Socio-Cultural Digital Projects, Ethical Frameworks, and Artificial Intelligence Technology
      • Análisis comparativo digital de obras de arte indígena – Daniel Castillo
      • Recognizing Sounds and Aural Patterns in Ancient Chinese Texts: An Approach to Problems of Logographic Writing Systems – Gian Duri Rominger
      • Ética,un límite y un potenciador de la Inteligencia Artificial: una recomendación en el contexto del COVID-19 – Barbara Guadalupe Gaspar Gaona
    • 2:40–3:20pm ​Outlining Communities and Information through Digital Archives and the Static Web
      • An African Anthropocene Image Atlas – Amanda du Preez
      • Exilio 36-39: Mapping Exile Memory – Melanie Forehand
      • Learn-STATIC: Expanding the Potential of Digital Humanities Pedagogy With Static Web Technologies – Olivia Wikle (Presenting), Evan Peter Williamson, Gabriele Hayden, Kate Thornhill
      • Digital Storytelling and Knowledge Service of Academic Celebrities’ Characteristic Resources from the Perspective of Digital Humanities – Huilin Liu (Presenting), Li Niu, Jingyi Zeng, Lichao Liu
  • 3:30–4:40pm – Mapping Digital Spaces of Memory, Witnessing, and Resistance\
    • Pauliceia 2.0 – Collaborative Mapping of the History of São Paulo (1870-1940) An experiment of open science in digital humanities – Andrew Britt and Luís Ferla
    • Intersectional issues in digital mapping: The (De)colonial Memory Project and colonial monuments in Puerto Rico – Rafael Capó García and Sofía Martínez Rivera
    • A Geography of Terror and Repression – Jennifer Ross
    • Walking the Archive of District Six: Memory, Augmented Reality, and Counter-Surveying – David A. Wallace and Siddique Motala
  • 4:45-5:15pm - Trivia (Social Time)
Friday, March 25, 2022
  • 9:00-9:30am - Mini Workshops and Social Time
  • 9:40-10:40am – Developing Multilingual Foundations for Global Digital Humanities
    • Missing the Digital: Infrastructures in India – Maya Dodd
    • Building Multilingual Internets – Puthiya Purayil Sneha
    • Translating Tech: Urdu Social Media Discourse and the Question of Secularism for Postcolonial Digital Humanities – Max Johnson Dugan and Elliot Montpellier
  • 10:50am-12:10pm - Transforming Pedagogy and Curriculum: Challenges and Insights
    • Humanidades transdisciplinares en la UniverCiudad: el caso del grado en Humanidades Digitales Globales de Mondragon Unibertsitatea – Aitor Zuberogoitia and Beñat Flores
    • Cistern: a Database of Geographical Knowledge in the Ottoman World – Merve Tekgürler, Adrien Zakar, Isin Taylan, Umar Patel, Jayna Huang
    • Edición de textos y cuestión idiomática: impresiones de un primer acercamiento a las Humanidades Digitales – María Agustina Ryckeboer
    • Defining the Transnational through Anti-colonial Digital Humanities Pedagogy – Ashley Caranto Morford, Kush Patel, and Arun Jacob
  • 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