Virtual Symposium
Monday, March 18 – Wednesday, March 20, 2024
All times listed below are in eastern daylight time (EDT). Click on the link below each day to see the start time listed in several time zones.
The event will be live streamed (per presenter permission) at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh.
Monday, March 18, 2:30-7:00pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Tuesday, March 19, 11:30am-4:00pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Wednesday, March 20, 8:30am-1:00pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Each virtual day will include Speed Networking. Using breakout rooms, we will have 2 short meet and greet opportunities. This means that groups of 4-6 will be gathered in a breakout room to introduce themselves and answer a question prompt for 7 minutes and then will be reshuffled into another room for 7 minutes with different people.
In-Person Symposium
Location: Michigan State University, Main Library, USA
Friday, March 22 (Symposium), 8:30am-6:30pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Presentations will be live streamed (per presenter permission) at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh. All presentations will take place in English. Presentations and Reception will occur in the Green Room (4th Floor, West), while Poster Session will be held in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West).
Saturday, March 23 (Unconference – Open Space Discussions), 10:30am-2:00pm
The event will not be livestreamed. Most activities will take place in English but discussions in other languages are welcomes. Open Space Discussions will occur in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West)
Monday, March 18
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2:30-3:00pm – Speed Networking
3:00 – 3:30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks (slides)
3:30 – 4:30 pm – Keynote presentation: “Uncertain Intelligences? anti-colonial and queer identity formations in the socio-technical imaginary” – Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss (Moderator: Arun Jacob)
4:30 – 4:35 pm – Transition
4:35 – 5:35 pm – Transnational Borderlands Thinking and Knowledge-Making through Feminist Data Mapping – Sylvia Fernandez, Niloufar Esmaeili, Kiri Avelar (Moderator: Silvia Tita)
5:35 – 5:45 pm – Break
5:45 – 6:45 pm – Artificial Intelligence: Praxis, Problems, and Play (Moderator: Merve Tekgürler)
- 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
Tuesday, March 19
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11:30am – 12:00pm – Speed Networking
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 (Moderator: Alex Gil)
1:15 – 1:20 pm – Transition
1:20 – 2:00 pm – Womanhood, Art, and Labor (Moderator: Jen Andrella)
- 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
2:00 – 2:10 pm – Break
2:10 – 3:10 pm – Digital Storytelling (Moderator: Steven Wang)
- 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 (Presenting), Mohamed Ali
3:10 – 3:15 pm – Transition
3:15 – 4:15 pm – Keynote presentation: “Empire of AI: How AI is Widening Global Inequality” – Rachel Adams (Moderator: Jesse Draper)
Wednesday, March 20
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8:30- 9:00am – Speed Networking
9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:10 – 10:25 am – Text Analysis: Languages of Power & Resistance (Moderator: James Akinola)
- 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 (Presenting), Maria Ivana Lorenzetti, Marco Rospocher
10:25 – 10:30 – Transition
10:30 – 11:00 am – Project Showcase (Concurrent sessions in breakout rooms)
- Room 1 – Visualizing 400 Years of History of the Indigenous Native American -The Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia – Babiha Bakshi [recording]
- Room 2 – VideoDreams and the Transmedia Novel+: Blurring the edges between literature, video games, music, programming, and digital archaeology – Fernando Montes Vera [recording]
- Room 3 – ‘Singing the Song of the Land You Are In’ – Digital Humanities and Post-Colonial Study of the Kyrgyz Manas – Anguelina Popova, James Plumtree
- Room 4 – Discovering Sukhareva: Neurodiversity, Minimal Computing, and the History of Autism – Ian Goodale [recording]
- Room 5 – Digital Humanities as Memory Work: Memory Eternal as a Virtual Site of Mourning – Monique Tschofen, Jolene Armstrong, Caitlin Fisher, Kari Maaren, Siobhan O’Flynn, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Kelly Egan, Angela Joosse, Lai-Tze Fan [recording]
- Room 6 – Conservation Narratives Reimagined: Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Environmental Protection in the Global South – Olarotimi Ogungbemi [recording]
- Room 7 – A Voice of Distress: A Computational Linguistic Exploration of “Political Depression” During COVID-19 Pandemic – Qilin Liu [recording]
- Room 8 – The Blackspeare Project: Developing Post-Secondary Teaching Resources for Shakespeare Scholars – Hannah Bowling [recording]
11:00 – 11:10 am – Break
11:10-12:10 – Multilingual Praxis in DH (Moderator: Kristen Mapes)
- 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
12:10 – 12:15 pm – Transition
12:15 – 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
Friday, March 22
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Green Room (4th Floor, West)
8:30 – 9:00 am – Breakfast (provided)
9:00 – 9:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:15 – 10:15 am – Keynote presentation: Mixing and Mastering Genre Signals: Generative AI, Writing, and the Near Future of Writing Technologies – Bill Hart-Davidson (Moderator: Kathleen Fitzpatrick)
10:15 – 10:30 am – Break
10:30 – 11:30 am – Lightning Talks (Moderator: Max Evjen)
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 am – 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
11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Lunch (provided)
12:30 -1:30 pm – Lightning Talks (Devin Higgins)
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
1:30 – 1:45 pm – Break
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 (Presenting), Osama Butt, Olga Aida Escobedo López, María Isabel Rojas López, Victoria Alva Lugo, Boris Vladimir Tapia Peralta, Karina Galvan Zavala (Moderator: Kate Topham)
2:45-3:00 pm – Break
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 (Presenting), Frank Onuh, Sunday Adegbenro, Olarotimi Ogungbemi, Tunde Ope-Davies (Opeibi) (Moderator: Steven Wang)
4:00 – 4:15 pm – Break
4:15 – 5:15 pm – Poster Session, Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West)
- Digital Activism among Dalit-Bahujan Communities in India: Anti-Caste Discourses in Relations and Conflict – Tereza Menšíková
- A Digital Critical Disability Studies “Care Web”: Imagining a Disability Studies Collective Archive – Griffin Zimmerman
- Translation Networks – Ali Bolcakan (Presenting), Christi Merrill
- 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, Marine Avequin, Gracie Rudolfi, Natalie Liliensiek, Natalie Seitz, Neha Navathe, Quynh Tong, Lorraine Inman, Carina Abbasov
- “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: Research Agenda on 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
5:15 – 6:30 pm – Reception Dinner (provided) Green Room, (4th Floor, West)
Saturday, March 23
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During a half-day unconference attendees will have the opportunity to share and learn from each other through Open Space Discussions. The program for this day will be created at the beginning, and possibly during, the unconference. No submission process or preparation is involved to participate. All activities will take place in English, and the Open Space Discussions will not be livestreamed. The unconference day will happen in the Digital Scholarship Lab, Flex Space (2nd Floor, West).
Schedule:
10:30 – 10:45 am – Coffee and Registration (provided)
10:45 – 11:15 am – Welcoming Remarks, Opening Circle, Principles, & Session Proposals
11:15 – 11:30 am – Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Session 1
12:30 – 12:45 pm – Break [Lunch provided]
12:45 – 1:45 pm – Session 2
1:45 – 2:00 pm – Closing Circle, and Closing remarks
