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Good evening/day/morning,

We look forward to having you join us at the Global DH Symposium Next Week! Please join us and spread the word. All are welcome to tune into the livestream, regardless of registration. However, registering will provide full access to the Symposium: including access to sessions in breakout rooms, social activities, and to live language interpretation.

Best,
Kristen

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 available! Join us for a fantastic free and fully virtual event. Registration Deadline: TODAY, March 18. The Symposium will also be livestreamed to Youtube, and registration for the livestream is not required. By registering, you gain access to the live language interpretation, social activities, and the project showcase presentations.

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
4:30-5:00 pm – Speed Networking [Social Activity]
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
8:30-9:00 pm – Themed Discussion Rooms [Social Activity]

Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:30-1:00 pm – Speed Networking
1:00-1:30pm - Keynote presentation: Industry, Postcolony, and the Immersive Arts of Environmental Storytelling, Hanna Musiol
1:40-3:20pm - Lightning Talks
1:40-2:30 pm Digital Disruptions: Writing and Knowing Anew
2:30-3:20 pm ​Outlining Communities and Information through Digital Archives and the Static Web
3:30–4:40pm – Mapping Digital Spaces of Memory, Witnessing, and Resistance
4:45-5:15pm – Trivia [Social Activity]

Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00-9:30 am – Mini Workshops and Social Time
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
1:20-1:40 pm – Speed Networking [Social Activity]


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