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Conference Program

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Thursday, Dec 1

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Pre–conference Workshop

#alt–ac: Alternative Careers Workshop
Korey Jackson, Fiona Barnett

North Quad SPACE 2435

Friday, Dec 2

7:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Registration

Rackham Building Main Entrance Lobby

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Breakfast

Rackham Assembly Hall

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Keynote 1 – Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University

Now You See It: The Future of Learning in a Digital Age
Introduction by Daniel Herwitz, Director of Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

Rackham Amphitheater

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM: Break and Refreshments

Rackham Assembly Hall

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM: Keynote 2 – Dan Atkins, University of Michigan

Cyberinfrastructure
Introduction by Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan

Rackham Amphitheater

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Moving to Session Rooms

 

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Concurrent Sessions 1

North Quad & Rackham Building

Session A1 (Roundtables) – North Quad SPACE 2435

1. The Story of the Beautiful: Freer’s Peacock Room Recontextualized
   Nardina Mein, Lee Glazer, Joshua Neds–Fox
2. Digital Media @ Pitt: Behind the Scenes of Multimodal, Creative–Critical Media Production
   Jamie Bianco, Trisha Red Campbell, Steph Ceraso, Erin Anderson

Session B1 (Roundtables) – North Quad Ehrlicher Room

1. Communication and Collaboration in International Digital Humanities Projects
   Ethan Watrall, Dean Rehberger, Catherine Doley, Scott Pennington, Peter Alegi, Alex Galarza
2. Iterations of Change: How Digital Technology Is Transforming Asian American Studies
   Konrad Ng, Lisa Nakamura, Lori Kido Lopez

Session C1 (Roundtables) – Rackham East Conference Room

1. Digital Scholarly Communication – Notes from the Wired! Lab for Digital Historical Visualization
   Mark Olson, Victoria Szabo, Elizabeth Baltes, Erica Sherman
2. Kairos–OJS Plugin Project: Author, Editor, and Reader Tools for Scholarly Multimedia
   Kathie Gossett, Cheryl Ball, Douglas Eyman

Session D1 (Roundtables) – Rackham West Conference Room

1. From the Center: Facilitating Feminist Digital Praxis and Pedagogy Through Collaboration
   Margaret Rhee, Isela Gonzalez, Allyse Gray
2. Mobile Collaborations: Student Research | Citizen Scholarship
   Bridget Draxler, Jon Winet, Peter Likarish

Session E1 (Lightning Talks) – Rackham Amphitheater

1. Blogging and Blooks: Communal Authorship in a Contemporary Context
   Staci Stutsman
2. The Future of the Book is Now – A Case–Study
   Spencer Striker
3. Rethinking the Dissertation: Experiments and Practices in the Future Cinema Lab at York University
   Caitlin Fisher
4. Building and Editing a Born–Digital Volume: Writing History in the Digital Age
   Kristen Nawrotzki, Jack Dougherty
5. Massively Multireader: A Networked Teaching of House of Leaves across Five Classrooms
   Brian Croxall

12:45 PM – 1:00 PM: Moving to Rackham Building

 

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Lunch

Rackham Assembly Hall

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM: Moving to Session Rooms

 

2:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Concurrent Sessions 2

North Quad & Rackham Building

Session B2 (Roundtables) – North Quad Ehrlicher Room

1. Authors, Articles, Editors, and Editions: Publishing Scholarship in the Digital Age
   Douglas Seefeldt, Amanda Gailey, Brian Sarnacki
2. New Sites for Composition: Studying the Research of Writing in Digital Spaces
   Ben Gunsberg, Steven Engel, Chris Gerben
3. Special Feature Panel: The University of Michigan and Global Circuits of Knowledge
   Margaret Hedstrom, Andres Pletch, Derek Peterson, Rebecca Scott, David Wallace Edgardo Pérez–Morales, Timothy Murray

Session C2 (Lightning Talks) – Rackham East Conference Room

1. Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Culture
   Christopher Long
2. Why Not Invite a Crowd?: The Open Scholarly Review Experiment for Postmedieval’s “Becoming Media”
   Jen Boyle
3. “Isn’t that a Tool?”: Interpreting and Championing Digital Scholarly Communication in the Humanities
   Sophia Krzys Acord
4. Authorial Ecologies: Digging into Image Data to Answer Authorship Related Questions
   Jennifer Guiliano, Michael Simeone, Rob Kooper, Dean Rehberger
5. Neochoreometry: A Novel Method for Dance Movement Analysis
   Billy Andre

Session D2 (Lightning Talks) – Rackham West Conference Room

1. Digital Adaptation
   Monica Williams
2. Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy
   Chuka Onwumechili
3. Digital Literacies for a Software Culture
   Megan Ankerson
4. Beyond Bricks & Pixels: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Organizing a Community in the Digital Age
   Fiona Barnett
5. Rethinking (Through) Comics
   Nick Sousanis

Session E2 (Feature Program) – Rackham Amphitheater

1. 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM: New Directions in Communication Studies on the Digital Revolution
   Elliot Panek, Katie Frank, Julia Lange, Candice Haddad, Amanda Cote
2. 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM: The Future of Digital Publishing
   Phil Pochoda (chair), Tara McPherson, Dan Cohen, Richard Eoin Nash

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM: Break and Refreshments

Rackham Assembly Hall

5:30 PM – 6:15 PM: Keynote 3 – Jim Leach, National Endowment for the Humanities

Digital Technologies in the Civilizing Project of the Global Humanities
Introduction by Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University

Rackham Amphitheater

6:15 PM – 6:30 PM: Moving to Institute for the Humanities

 

6:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Reception

Opening reception of installation “Loops” by OpenEnded Group
Q & A session

Institute for the Humanities Lobby (202 South Thayer Street)

Saturday, Dec 3

7:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Registration

Rackham Building Main Entrance Lobby

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Breakfast

Rackham Assembly Hall

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM: Keynote 4 – Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia

The Technocultural Imagination
Introduction by Paul Courant, University of Michigan

Rackham Amphitheater

9:45 AM – 10:15 AM: Break and Refreshments

Rackham Assembly Hall

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM: Keynote 5 – Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Data, Code, and Research at Scale
Introduction by Dan Cohen, George Mason University

Rackham Amphitheater

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Moving to Session Rooms

 

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Concurrent Sessions 3

North Quad & Rackham Building

Session A3 (Lightning Talks) – North Quad SPACE 2435

1. Project Bamboo: Building Applications and Shared Infrastructure for Humanities Research
   Quinn Dombrowski
2. Culturomics 2.0 and the Petascale Humanities
   Kalev Leetaru
3. E3 2011 & the Production of Gaming Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis of In–Person, Online, and TV Contexts
   Julia Lange
4. Algorithmic Rhetoric and Search Literacy
   John Jones
5. Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA)
   Camilo Acosta
6. Supporting Humanities Research on XSEDE
   Dora Cai, Kalev Leetaru, Robert Sinkovits

Session B3 (Lightning Talks) – North Quad Ehrlicher Room

1. Western Washington University’s Viking Village: a 21st Century Digital Learning Commons
   Dawn Dietrich
2. Practice What You Preach: Engaging in Humanities Research Through Critical Praxis
   Janneke Adema
3. Doing History on Facebook
   Amanda Sikarskie
4. Switching Codes: Rethinking the Verbal and the Visual After the Revolution
   Roderick Coover, Thomas Bartscherer
5. Opportunities for Humanities Scholarship in Immersive Scientific Visualizations
   Linda Vigdor

Sessions C3 (Lightning Talks) – Rackham East Conference Room

1. From Zero to Sixty in Two Semesters: Establishing the Digital Humanities in Graduate Curricula
   Holly Tucker
2. Ojibwe Language Classes at the University of Michigan: Culture, Preservation, and the Pedagogy of the Digital Age
   Adam Kriesberg
3. Digital Literacy and Game–based Learning
   Chris Leeder
4. Telecollaboration 2.0 in Language Teacher Education – The Role of the Cross–Cultural Mediator
   Shannon Bishop
5. Architectural Historians and Digital Humanities: Trailblazing for Scholarly Societies
   Allison Benedetti
6. Recovering the Recovered Text: Digital Canon(s) and Lost Texts
   Amy Earhart

Sessions D3 (Lightning Talks) – Rackham West Conference Room

1. Quilt Index International and Digging Into Data: Two Material Digital Repository Initiatives Advancing Global Knowledge Production in the Humanities
   Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Amanda Sikarskie
2. Making History in a Virtual Archive: The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project
   Michael Kramer
3. Networking the Public Domain: How Fans, Scholars, and Collectors Came Together to Build the Media History Digital Library
   Eric Hoyt
4. Databases and Enslaved Families: Tracing the Roots of African–American Communities in Virginia
   Lynn Rainville
5. Chicana por mi Raza: Reunifying the Archive, Recreating the Activist Network
   Maria Cotera
6. Designing the Archive as Argument
   Kevin Hamilton, Ned O’Gorman

Sessions E3 (Roundtables) – Rackham Amphitheater

1. Communicating Book Histories with Digital Metadata
   Kirstyn Leuner, Laura Mandell, Lindsey Eckert
2. Is Christo the Future of Digital Scholarly Communication
   John Russell, David Baker

12:45 PM – 1:00 PM: Moving to Rackham

 

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Lunch

Rackham Assembly Hall

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM: Transportation to North Campus

 

2:30 PM – 7:00 PM: North Campus Tour

North Campus & Duderstadt Center

Group 1:
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM: Screening of Upending by OpenEnded Group
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM: Tour of Digital Media Commons
Viewing of plant by OpenEnded Group
Posters and Demos (continuous)

Group 2:
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM: Tour of Digital Media Commons
Viewing of plant by OpenEnded Group
Posters and Demos (continuous)
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM: Screening of Upending by OpenEnded Group

Posters and Demos

1. Curiosity Project
   Susanna Hapgood, Jeff Kupperman, Aviva Dorfman
2. Performing the Argument of Digital Writing: The 2011 Conference on Computers and Writing Web Publication
   Naomi Silver, Anne Gere, Matt Burton, Crystal VanKooten
3. Expressing Human Complexity: The Father Divine Project
   Will Luers
4. The Fourth Node on the Internet:  An Online Display and Digital Library Documenting ARPA Network History at the University of Utah
   Alison Regan, Ambra Gagliardi, Amy Brunvand
5. Ellipsis: An Open Source Application for Scholarly Collaboration
   William Garr
6. The Marriage of Standards and Access: Centralized Services as a Tool for Collaboration, Publication and Curation
   Elijah Meeks
7. Feminist Interventions in Digital Publishing: The Fembot Project
   Karen Estlund, Carol Stabile, Bryce Peake
8. Community–Based Yearbook Collaborative Digitization
   Noah Lenstra
9. Learning to Design and Build Apps: Best Practices
   John Barber
10. The People’s Weather Map
    Mark NeuCollins
11. The Football Scholars Forum – An Online Community of Humanists Studying Soccer
    Alex Galarza, Peter Alegi
12. Cluster Vision: A System to Dynamically Explore Images and Texts
    Joan Beaudoin
13. Evil in Modern Thought: A Digital Adaptation
    Monica Williams
14. E–Textbook Initiatives: How Tapping the Undergraduate Market Can Benefit University Publishing––and Students
    Rebecca Crist
15. Views from a Distance: A Nephological Model
    Derek Mueller
16. Integrating Digital Collections into the Liberal Arts Curriculum
    Catalina Oyler, Joshua Finnell, Jessica Clemons
17. Radical Effects on Learning: Transforming Communities and Practice
    Elizabeth Dorland

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Break

 

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM: Reception in Digital Media Commons

 

6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Transportation back to Central Campus

 

8:00 PM: Gathering of HASTAC Scholars

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Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan 2011.
For more information about HASTAC, visit the HASTAC web site.