Resources and Visibility in Digital Humanities

Day 1 (Thursday, October 22)
Abstracts and Bios can be found here.

9:00-9:15 — Welcome

9:15-10:35 — Panel 1: Chicago History and Spatial Humanities

• Moderator: Jonathan Mekinda, UIC
• Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College
  • “Digital Chicago: A Professional Project from Amateur Makers"
• Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra, UIC
  • Discussion: "Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown Project"
• John Russick, Chicago History Museum
  • "The Digital First Museum"

10:45-12:15 — Workshop: “Teaching Digital Culture”  with Carly Kocurek, IIT

12:15-1:30 — Lunch Break

1:30-3:15 — Panel 2: Gaming and Transmediation

• Moderator: Kishonna Gray, UIC
• Patrick Jagoda, UChicago
  • "From Gamification to Experimental Games"
• Samantha Bond, UIC
  • "Using Games and Interactive Media to Transform Medicine"
• Judith Pintar, UIUC
  • "Where Wikipedia meets Minecraft: Collaborative game design as transmediated public history"
• David Dubin, UIUC
  • "Games as Works"

3:30-5 — Keynote: Moya Bailey, Northeastern U

• “Humans in the Digital Supply Chain”

Day 2 (Friday, October 23)
Abstracts and Bios can be found here.

9:00-10:20 — Panel 3: Public History and Community Engagement

• Moderator: Teresa Helena Moreno, UIC
• Carolyn Randolph-Kato, UIUC
  • “Decolonizing Data: A Community-Based Approach to Making Race Visible In the Age of Colorblind Mass Incarceration"
• Jennifer Brier, UIC
  • Discussion: "History Moves"
• Christina Harrington, DePaul U
  • "Community-Based Participatory Approaches to Centering Marginalized Voices in our Engagement with Health Information"

10:30-12:00 — Workshop: “Teaching with Digital Archives” with Elizabeth Hopwood, Loyola U

12:00-1:30 — Lunch Break

1:30-3:15 — Panel 4: Digitizing Cultural Resources

• Moderator: Janet Swatscheno, UIC
• Rebecca Graff, Lake Forest College
  • "Digitizing Archaeology, Visualizing Commodity Chains: Chicago’s Charnley-Persky House Archaeological Project"
• Devin Hunter, UIS
  • "History Harvests, Memory Labs, and Humanities Trucks: A Survey of Community Digitization Projects"
• Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, UIUC
  • "Cinema from Inside Out: Digital Film Studies"

3:30-5 — Keynote: Sara L. Schwebel, UIUC

• "Children’s Literature as Public History: Bridging Divides Within and Beyond the Academy"