3rd Annual
Digital Humanities Conference
University of Toronto | 30 August 2018
Join our tri-campus and interdisciplinary community to celebrate digital humanities research, projects, and knowledge at our one day networking conference. The meeting will be at UTM in the Instructional Building room 235, from 10am-6pm on Thursday the 30th of August, 2018. It will begin with research presentations by new Assistant Professors, followed by lightning research talks and demonstrations, and end with an Arcades showcase of digital projects and posters by graduate and undergraduate students. Coffee, lunch, and snacks are included with registration. Please register by August 23rd so we can estimate catering requirements.
AT A GLANCE SCHEDULE
9:30 am Registration with coffee and snacks
10:00 am – 10:30 am Welcoming Remarks and Smudging Ceremony [IB 235]
- Elder Cat Criger, Indigenous Centre, UTM
- Elspeth Brown, Historical Studies, UTM
- Alexandra Gillespie, English & Drama, UTM
- Chris J. Young, Jackman Humanities Institute
10:30 am – 12:00 pm New Faculty Panel [IB235]
- Chair: Elspeth Brown, Historical Studies, UTM
- Jennifer Adese, Sociology, UTM
- Barend Beekhuizen, Language Studies, UTM
- Alexandra Bolintineanu, Centre for Medieval Studies & Woodsworth College
- Cillian O’Hogan, Centre for Medieval Studies
- David Nieborg, Arts, Culture and Media, UTSC
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch and Networking Tables
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Lightning Research Talks [IB235]
- Chair: Alexandra Gillespie, English & Drama, UTM
- Paul Barrett, English, Concordia University, “Digitally Reading Canada Reads: Digital Humanities and the Canadian Public Sphere”
- Patrick Keilty, Faculty of Information, “Pornography’s Graphical Interface”
- Felan Parker, Book & Media Studies, St. Michael’s College, “Studying Indie Game Development Beyond Developers”
- Laure Perrier, Map & Data Library, UTL, “Emerging Requirements for Researchers from Funding Agencies”
- Lilian Radovac, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology, UTM, “Social Movement DH: Notes from Alternative Toronto”
- Scott Richmond, Cinema Studies Institute, Innis College, “The Turtle as Transitional Object”
- Shafique Virani, Historical Studies, UTM, “Digitally Deciphering an Arcane Script”
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm Lightning Demonstrations [IB235]
- Chair: Chris J. Young, Jackman Humanities Institute
- Kathy Chung, Records of Early English Drama, “The Use of Git in the Context of the Records of Early English Drama (REED)”
- Lawrence Evalyn, English, FAS, “Generating Social Network Graphs from TEI Plays”
- Brian Gettler, Historical Studies, UTM, “Training Undergraduates in DH: Thoughts from the Classroom”
- Annie Heckman & Amanda K. Goodman, Study of Religion, FAS, “Buddhism from the Margins: A Digital Archive of Dunhuang Ritual Mauscripts”
- Melissa Gniadek, English, FAS, “The Marble Faun Digital Edition 1.0″
- Pamela Klassen, Study of Religion, FAS, “The Kiinawin Kawindomowin Story Nations Project”
- Mariya Maistrovskaya, Information Technology Services, UTL, “Publish a Journal, Showcase Your Research, and Stream Media on UTL Platform”
- Gregory Newsome, Faculty of Music, “Visualizing Orchestration with Orcheil
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Student Arcades Projects & Drinks
- CFP: Faculty, Staff, Librarians, and Postdocs
- CFP: Graduate Student Papers and Posters
- CFP: Undergraduate Student Posters
The conference organizing committee welcomes proposals in the following formats:
Conference Papers (Synchronous): 15-20 minute presentations to be organized into themed sessions. Papers will focus on research that utilizes or has been enabled by digital technologies. Paper sessions will be conducted live over Zoom.
Digital Exhibits / Project Demonstrations (Asynchronous): Exhibits/demonstrations will showcase digital sites, archives, visualizations, etc., with an emphasis on both design and research content. Digital exhibits/project demonstrations will be curated as asynchronous WordPress pages on the CDHI/DHN website with descriptions, screengrabs, links, etc. in order to allow viewers to explore the project asynchronously and leave comments and questions. Project designers will be expected to respond periodically to the comments/questions over the course of the conference.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- De/anti/postcolonial DH
- Indigeneity, technology, and DH
- Network and data sovereignty
- DH and the Global South
- Black DH
- Asian diaspora studies
- Critical ethnic studies
- Feminist data practices
- Queer/trans/non-binary DH
- Technology, pleasure, and desire
- Bias in algorithms, AI, or machine learning
- Critical/alternative archiving and preservation
- Born-digital research and archiving
- Digital/data privacy and the right to be forgotten
- Critical infrastructures (i.e., software/hardware, tools, people)
- Migration and movement
- DH and the global past
- Deep mapping
- Decolonizing mapping and spatial analysis
- Remote sensing/scanning
- AR/VR/XR
- Critical app studies
- Electonic literature
- Multilingual DH
- Critical surveillance studies
- Radical digital pedagogy
- Digital research ethics
- Equitable community partnerships
- Justice-oriented DH praxis
- Accessible DH
- Genealogies of the critical digital humanities
All full-time faculty members, librarians, and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto, including research stream, teaching stream, and CLTAs, are welcome to apply.
Please submit 250-word abstracts and a 150-word biography to dhn.admin@utoronto.ca by 31 August 2021. We will notify successful applicants by 15 September 2021.
All U of T Graduate Students are invited to submit proposals for conference papers and posters to occur synchronously over Zoom on the afternoons of October 21 and 22. Paper presentations should span 10-15 minutes and will be organized into themed sessions. Posters will be presented from 4:00-5:00 EST on Friday, 22 October.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- De/anti/postcolonial DH
- Indigeneity, technology, and DH
- Network and data sovereignty
- DH and the Global South
- Black DH
- Asian diaspora studies
- Critical ethnic studies
- Feminist data practices
- Queer/trans/non-binary DH
- Technology, pleasure, and desire
- Bias in algorithms, AI, or machine learning
- Critical/alternative archiving and preservation
- Born-digital research and archiving
- Digital/data privacy and the right to be forgotten
- Critical infrastructures (i.e., software/hardware, tools, people)
- Migration and movement
- DH and the global past
- Deep mapping
- Decolonizing mapping and spatial analysis
- Remote sensing/scanning
- AR/VR/XR
- Critical app studies
- Electronic literature
- Multilingual DH
- Critical surveillance studies
- Radical digital pedagogy
- Digital research ethics
- Equitable community partnerships
- Justice-oriented DH praxis
- Accessible DH
- Genealogies of the critical digital humanities
All graduate students at the University of Toronto are welcome to apply.
Benefits to Students
Win cash prizes!
Gain valuable presentation experience
Network with like-minded peers and professors from a variety of fields
Include your presentation on your CV and applications
How to Submit–Posters
Please email dhn.admin@utoronto.ca with a 150 word abstract outlining the research to bepresented in your poster by 31 August 2021. Also include the title of poster and your minor/major/specialist field. We will notify successful students by 15 September 2021 and provide printing information at that time.
How to Submit–Papers
Please submit 150-word abstracts and a short biography to dhn.admin@utoronto.ca by 10 September 2021. We will notify successful applicants by 15 September 2021.
Helpful Poster Design Guides
UTM: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/posters
Gerstein: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=251602&p=1674771
Registered undergraduate students from any U of T campus, discipline, and year-level are invited to submit posters in the humanities or interpretative social sciences on topics that engage with digital technology, digital tools, digital cultures, or research production.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- De/anti/postcolonial DH
- Indigeneity, technology, and DH
- Network and data sovereignty
- DH and the Global South
- Black DH
- Asian diaspora studies
- Critical ethnic studies
- Feminist data practices
- Queer/trans/non-binary DH
- Technology, pleasure, and desire
- Bias in algorithms, AI, or machine learning
- Critical/alternative archiving and preservation
- Born-digital research and archiving
- Digital/data privacy and the right to be forgotten
- Critical infrastructures (i.e., software/hardware, tools, people)
- Migration and movement
- DH and the global past
- Deep mapping
- Decolonizing mapping and spatial analysis
- Remote sensing/scanning
- AR/VR/XR
- Critical app studies
- Electronic literature
- Multilingual DH
- Critical surveillance studies
- Radical digital pedagogy
- Digital research ethics
- Equitable community partnerships
- Justice-oriented DH praxis
- Accessible DH
- Genealogies of the critical digital humanities
Benefits to Students
Win cash prizes!
Gain valuable presentation experience
Network with like-minded peers and professors from a variety of fields
Include your presentation on your CV and grad school/job applications
How to Submit
Please email dhn.admin@utoronto.ca with a 150 word abstract outlining the research to be
presented in your poster by 31 August 2021. Also include the title of poster and your
minor/major/specialist field. Posters will be presented from 4:00-5:00 EST on Friday, 22 October. It is your responsibility to be available to speak about your research during this time. We will notify successful students by 15 September 2021 and provide printing information at that time.
Helpful Poster Design Guides
UTM: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/posters
Gerstein: http://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=251602&p=1674771