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How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked?

Keynote Speaker
Peter Stallybrass, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania
Colloquium Speaker
Jacqueline Goldsby, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Closing Roundtable
Rolena Adorno, Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish, Yale University
Edward Ayers, President, University of Richmond
Willard McCarty, Professor of Humanities Computing, King’s College London
George Miles, Curator, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Conference Program

 Abstracts
Dickinson Meets DoubleClick: Remediating Poetry Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretive Loss, and the Google Books Project The Scholar as Archivist: A Case Study in Negotiating the Borders between Description and Analysis Eugène Atget and the Digital Archive On Implementing the Digital Form: an Arabic-English Web-based Archive The Alternate Medieval Medium: Experiencing Medieval Manuscripts through Digital Technologies Digital Resources and Buddhist Studies: the Buddhist Authority Databases Project Toward a Realization of the n-Dimensional Text The Future is Now: Sustainability, Preservation, and Ongoing Access to Humanities Data Camera, Laptop, and What Else?: Hacking Better Tools for the Short Archival Research Trip OutHistory.org: An Experiment in LGBTQ Community History-Making Towards an Ethics of Online Research: Accounting for Absence in the Jefferson Digital Archive Mapping Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Networks University Library Book Acquisitions Policies in an Electronic Age Accessing Wills: MS Access as a Tool for Historians The Digitized Blues: Listening to Langston Hughes in the Age of the Online Sound Archive Large-Scale Digital Audio Archiving
 Friday February 19
Registration: 3:30-4:00 PM Colloquium with Jacqueline Goldsby: 4:00-5:00 PM
 Saturday February 20
Keynote Lecture by Peter Stallybrass: 9:00-10:00 AM Sessions I: 10:15-11:45 AM Break: 11:45 AM-12:45 PM Sessions II: 12:45-2:15 PM Sessions III: 2:30-4:00 PM Sessions IV: 4:15-5:45 PM Roundtable: 6:00-7:15 PM
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Registration: 3:30-4:00 PM Colloquium with Jacqueline Goldsby: 4:00-5:00 PM Keynote Lecture by Peter Stallybrass: 9:00-10:00 AM Sessions I: 10:15-11:45 AM Break: 11:45 AM-12:45 PM Sessions II: 12:45-2:15 PM Sessions III: 2:30-4:00 PM Sessions IV: 4:15-5:45 PM Roundtable: 6:00-7:15 PM

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