Featured Speakers
Opening Colloquium with Jacqueline Goldsby, University of Chicago
Keynote Lecture by Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania ![]()
Closing Roundtable
with
Rolena Adorno, Yale University ![]()
Edward Ayers, University of Richmond ![]()
Willard McCarty, King’s College London ![]()
George Miles, Yale University ![]()
Panels
Digital Politics and Society
Chair: Joseph Yannielli, Yale University
1. Lauren Klein, City University of New York, “Towards an Ethics of Electronic Research: Accounting for Absence in the Jefferson Digital Archive” ![]()
2. Lauren Gutterman, New York University, “OutHistory.org: An Experiment in LGBTQ Community History-Making”
3. Laila Shereen Sakr, University of California, Santa Cruz, “On Implementing the Digital Form: An Arabic-English Web-Based Archive” ![]()
Moderator: Paul Sabin, Yale University
The Material Object in Digital Culture
Chair: Hilary Menges, Yale University
1. Jane Tippett, University of Delaware, “Physicality vs. Practicality: The Book as Object in the Age of Digitization”
2. Heather Ball, City University of New York, “The Alternate Medieval Medium: Experiencing Medieval Manuscripts through Digital Technologies” ![]()
3. Jessica Weare, Stanford University, “The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretative Loss” ![]()
Moderator: Kariann Yokota, Yale University
Mapping History
Chair: Christine DeLucia, Yale University
1. Julia Mansfield and Scott Spillman, Stanford University, “Mapping Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Networks” ![]()
2. Scott Nesbit, University of Virginia, “Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping” ![]()
3. Simon Wiles, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan, “Buddhist Authority Databases”
The Digital Age Library
Chair: Sebastian Lecourt, Yale University
1. Claudia Schlessman, University of Pennsylvania, “The Scholar as Archivist: A Case Study in Negotiating the Borders between Description and Analysis” ![]()
2. Sean Morton, University of Windsor, Ontario, “University Library Book Acquisitions Policies in an Electronic Age” ![]()
3. Molly Dolan, University of Illinois, “The Future is Now: Sustainability, Preservation, and Ongoing Access to Humanities Data” ![]()
Moderators: Ken Panko and Barbara Rockenbach, Yale University
Finding the Words: The Digital Linguistics Database
Chair: Eugenia Kelbert, Yale University
1. Eugenia Kelbert, Yale University, “Ménage á trois, or General Theory of Communication”
2. Paulina Bounds, University of Georgia, “Large-Scale Digital Audio Archiving” ![]()
3. Micah Stupak and Garret Voorhees, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Digital Kiksht” ![]()
Moderator: Douglas H. Whalen, Haskins Laboratories
Evolving Reading Practices
Chair: Patrick Redding, Yale University
1. Katherine Liu, Folger Shakespeare Library, “The Folger’s Evolving Response to the Information Age: Digital Image Database”
2. Rachael Sullivan, University of Texas, Dallas, “Dickinson Meets DoubleClick: Remediating Poetry” ![]()
3. Austin Graham, University of California, Los Angeles, “The Digitized Blues: Listening to Langston Hughes in the Age of the Online Sound Archive”
Moderator: Louise Bernard, Yale University
How-To Digital Humanities
Chair: April Merleaux, Yale University
1. Shane Lundrum, Brandeis University, “Camera, laptop, and what else?: Hacking Better Tools for the Short Archival Research Trip”
2. April Merleaux, Yale University, “Reimagining Ethnic Studies in the Era of Digital Research” ![]()
3. Sharon Teague, University of Toronto, “Accessing Wills: MS Access as a Tool for Historians” ![]()
Moderator: Andrew Offenburger, Yale University
Theorizing the Digital Archive
Chair: Dan Gustafson, Yale University
1. Stewart Campbell, Columbia University, “Eugène Atget and the Digital Archive” ![]()
2. Julie Meloni, Washington State University, “Toward a Realization of the n-Dimensional Text” ![]()
3. Alexandre Monin, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University: “What is a Tag: Digital Artifacts as Hermeneutical Devices”
Moderator: Jessica Pressman, Yale University
