Program

Featured Speakers

Opening Colloquium with Jacqueline Goldsby, University of Chicago
Keynote Lecture by Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania Video available

Closing Roundtable Video available with
Rolena Adorno, Yale University Video available
Edward Ayers, University of Richmond Video available
Willard McCarty, King’s College London Video available
George Miles, Yale University Video available

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” Video available
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” Video available
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” Video available
3. Jessica Weare, Stanford University, “The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretative Loss” Video available
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” Video available
2. Scott Nesbit, University of Virginia, “Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping” Video available
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” Video available
2. Sean Morton, University of Windsor, Ontario, “University Library Book Acquisitions Policies in an Electronic Age” Video available
3. Molly Dolan, University of Illinois, “The Future is Now: Sustainability, Preservation, and Ongoing Access to Humanities Data” Video available
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” Video available
3. Micah Stupak and Garret Voorhees, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Digital Kiksht” Video available
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” Video available
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” Video available
3. Sharon Teague, University of Toronto, “Accessing Wills: MS Access as a Tool for Historians” Video available
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” Video available
2. Julie Meloni, Washington State University, “Toward a Realization of the n-Dimensional Text” Video available
3. Alexandre Monin, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University: “What is a Tag: Digital Artifacts as Hermeneutical Devices”
Moderator: Jessica Pressman, Yale University

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 Speakers
Christine DeLucia Claudia Scala Schlessman Eugenia Kelbert Garret Voorhees Heather F. Ball Hilary Menges Jessica Weare Joseph Yannielli Julia Mansfield Julie Meloni Laila Shereen Sakr Lauren Gutterman Lauren Klein Micah Stupak Molly Dolan Paulina Bounds Rachael Sullivan Scott Nesbit Scott Spillman Sean Morton Sebastian Lecourt Shane Landrum Sharon Teague Simon Wiles (魏希明) Stewart Campbell T. Austin Graham Taylor Spence
 Talks
Accessing Wills: MS Access as a Tool for Historians Camera, Laptop, and What Else?: Hacking Better Tools for the Short Archival Research Trip Closing Roundtable Dickinson Meets DoubleClick: Remediating Poetry Digital Kiksht Digital Resources and Buddhist Studies: the Buddhist Authority Databases Project Eugène Atget and the Digital Archive Keynote Address Large-Scale Digital Audio Archiving Layers of the Past: GIS, Social Process, and Contingency in Historical Mapping Mapping Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Networks On Implementing the Digital Form: an Arabic-English Web-based Archive OutHistory.org: An Experiment in LGBTQ Community History-Making The Alternate Medieval Medium: Experiencing Medieval Manuscripts through Digital Technologies The Dark Tide: Digital Preservation, Interpretive Loss, and the Google Books Project The Digitized Blues: Listening to Langston Hughes in the Age of the Online Sound Archive The Future is Now: Sustainability, Preservation, and Ongoing Access to Humanities Data The Keyword Historian: Adventures in the Digital Archives The Scholar as Archivist: A Case Study in Negotiating the Borders between Description and Analysis Toward a Realization of the n-Dimensional Text Towards an Ethics of Online Research: Accounting for Absence in the Jefferson Digital Archive University Library Book Acquisitions Policies in an Electronic Age What is a Tag: Digital Artifacts as Hermeneutical Devices