All events will be located in the MSU Union Lake Huron Room unless otherwise noted. All times listed are in EST time zone. The Symposium will be livestreamed at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh (aka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaHp3evL4GQ).
Thursday, March 16, 2017
11:30-12:00 – Registration
12:00-12:30 – Opening Remarks (Stephen Rachman, Director of the Digital Humanities Program in the College of Arts and Letters)
12:30-2:30 – LOCUS-Style Lightning Talks (Moderators: Kristen Mapes and Laura McGrath)
- 12:30-12:55 – Building and Collecting Resources
- Bengali literature and History as Digital Humanities: Analysis of Bichitra, an Online Tagore Variorum and the Bengali Oral History project titled “Bengali Intellectuals & Decolonization: Visualizing Oral Histories Using Digital Tools, Asif Iqbal, MSU
- Connected Bhakti Bibliographies Database, Jon Keune, MSU
- Archival Repatriation: Reuniting the Crows with their Ancestors, Rebecca Wingo, Macalester College
- Exploring Endangered World Heritage Sites through a Digital Humanities Project, Heather Walder, MSU
- 12:55-1:05, Discussion
- 1:05-1:25 – Memory and Representation
- The Indian Imagined: Stereotyping and Representation in Mainstream Digital Environments, Rocio Quispe-Agnoli, MSU
- Tweets of a Native Son: The Mythology of James Baldwin on Twitter, Melanie Walsh, Washington University in St. Louis
- Illuminating Imperial Exploration through Livingstone Online, Adrian S. Wisnicki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- 1:25-1:35 – Discussion
- 1:35-1:55 – Text Mining, Textual Resources
- Moving across the Scale: A Reflection on the use of Digital Tools for Historical Analysis, Marisol Fila, University of Michigan
- Mining: An Approach to Material and Digital Worlds, Eduard Arriaga and Andrés Villar, University of Indianapolis and Western University
- Digital Historical Trauma: A Digital Perception on the Press and Memory of the Baker Massacre, 1870, Jen Andrella, MSU
- 1:55-2:05 – Discussion
- 2:05-2:25 – Mapping
- Accra Wala: Mapping roads, mapping history, mapping partnerships, Jennifer Hart, Wayne State University
- Mapping the Northern Frontier: Geo-Spatial Visualization and the Exploration of Indigenous Culture in Japan, Christina M. Spiker, St. Catherine University
- “The Emperor Keepeth Many Feasts in the Yeare’: Digital Mapping of Time, Space, and Culture in Mughal Feasts, Justin Wigard and Shane Sever, MSU and Central Michigan University
- 2:25-2:30 – Wrap Up
2:30-2:45 – Break
2:45-3:45 – Cultural Memory, Identities, and Social Justice (Moderator: Ellen Moll)
- Shifting Representations of Zulu Identities, from Analog to Digital, Liz Timbs, MSU
- Humanizing Data –or- DH against archival violences, Anelise Hanson Shrout, California State, Fullerton
- Witnessing Hate: Case Studies in Data, Documentation, and Social Justice, Andrea Ledesma, Brown University
3:45-4:00 – Break
4:00-5:00 – De-coding and Re-coding Literary Canons (Moderator: Sean Pue)
- Forgetting the Famines: the Kiplings and their Indian Interlocutors, Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University
- Retelling the Story of Okonkwo: A Digital exploration of the Clash of Cultures in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Tunde Opeibi and Oluwasola Aina, University of Lagos and Crawford University, Nigeria
- Towards a Platform for Studying and Analyzing Chinese Poetry, Chao-Lin Liu, Harvard University
5:00-5:15 – Break
5:15-6:45 – ARC Panel: Access, Data, and Collaboration in the Global Digital Humanities
- Dr. Timothy Duguid
- Dorothy Porter
- Dr. Daniel Powell
Friday, March 17, 2017
8:30-9:00 – Registration and Breakfast
9:00-10:00 – Keynote: Games as Sovereign Spaces, Elizabeth LaPensée, MSU
10-10:15 – Break
10:15-11:15 – Reconfiguring Narrative: Connectivities in Literary and Game Studies (Moderator: Steve Rachman)
- Contending with Hegemonies, Exploring Linkages and Possibilities of Assertions in the Global South: A Study through Role Playing Computer Games, Siddhartha Chakraborti, Aligarh Muslim University
- Hacking “el sistema”: Digital Hyper-Punk Fiction in Latin America, Eduardo Ledesma, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
- Annotation, Bibliography, and Networks: Systems of Textual Classification for Premodern Chinese Texts, Evan Nicoll-Johnson, UCLA
11:15-11:30 – Break
11:30-12:30 – Mapping and 3D Environments (Moderator: Alice Lynn McMichael)
- Boundary-work: mapping borders, edges, and margins in “Fortress Europe, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Western Michigan
- The $500 Challenge: 3D Modeling of Heritage Structures in Endangered or Developing Areas, William Spates, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, KK Birla Goa Campus
12:30-2:00 – Lunch
2:00-3:50 – Workshop
3:50-4:15 – Break
4:15-5:15 – Defining Digital Humanities: The Political and Ethical Stakes (Moderator: Brandon Locke)
- Archival Emanations and Contrapuntal Transformations: Digital Cultural Productions in Post-1965 Indonesia, Viola Lasmana, University of Southern California
- Gaps and Silences: A Case Study in Web Archiving Diverse Content, Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Catherine Morse, Jo Angela Oehrli, Juli McLoone, Meredith Kahn, University of Michigan
- Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities: Complex Global Interconections in Search of Social Justice, Eduard Arriaga, University of Indianapolis
5:15-5:25 – Break
5:30-6:30 – Closing Remarks (Christopher P. Long, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters) and Closing Keynote: Dismantling the Master’s House: Practising DH in the Global South, Padmini Ray Murray, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology
6:45-8:45 – Reception (at the MSU Hub)