DHI Conference: Resources and Visibility in Digital Humanities
October 22 - 23, 2020
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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***Registration closes at 5pm on October 20.***
All times listed in CST.
Schedule
Day 1 (Thursday, October 22)
9-9:15 — Welcome and Opening
9:15-10:35 — Panel 1: Chicago History and Spatial Humanities
- Moderator: Jonathan Mekinda, UIC
- Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College
- “Digital Chicago: A Professional Project from Amateur Makers"
- Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra, UIC
- Discussion: "Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown Project"
- John Russick, Chicago History Museum
- "The Digital First Museum"
10:45-12:15 — Workshop: “Teaching Digital Culture” with Carly Kocurek, IIT
12:15-1:30 — Lunch Break
1:30-3:15 — Panel 2: Gaming and Transmediation
- Moderator: Kishonna Gray, UIC
- Patrick Jagoda, UChicago
- "From Gamification to Experimental Games"
- Samantha Bond, UIC
- "Using Games and Interactive Media to Transform Medicine"
- Judith Pintar, UIUC
- "Where Wikipedia meets Minecraft: Collaborative game design as transmediated public history"
- David Dubin, UIUC
- "Games as Works"
3:30-5 — Keynote: Moya Bailey, Northeastern U
- “Humans in the Digital Supply Chain”
Day 2 (Friday, October 23)
9:00-10:20 — Panel 3: Public History and Community Engagement
- Moderator: Teresa Helena Moreno, UIC
- Carolyn Randolph, UIUC
- “Decolonizing Data: A Community-Based Approach to Making Race Visible In the Age of Colorblind Mass Incarceration"
- Jennifer Brier and Ali Yusuff, UIC
- Discussion: "History Moves"
- Christina Harrington, DePaul U
- Presentation Title TBA
10:30-12:00 — Workshop: “Teaching with Digital Archives” with Elizabeth Hopwood, Loyola U
12:00-1:30 — Lunch Break
1:30-3:15 — Panel 4: Digitizing Cultural Resources
- Moderator: Janet Swatscheno, UIC
- Rebecca Graff, Lake Forest College
- "Digitizing Archaeology, Visualizing Commodity Chains: Chicago’s Charnley-Persky House Archaeological Project"
- Devin Hunter, UIS
- "History Harvests, Memory Labs, and Humanities Trucks: A Survey of Community Digitization Projects"
- Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, UIUC
- "Cinema from Inside Out: Digital Film Studies"
3:30-5 — Keynote: Sara L. Schwebel, UIUC
- "Children’s Literature as Public History: Bridging Divides Within and Beyond the Academy"
Date posted
Sep 14, 2020
Date updated
Oct 14, 2020