University of Texas at Arlington
Central Library, 6th Floor
Conference Agenda
#TXDHC15
Thursday, 4/9/15
4:00-5:00
5:00-6:00
Registration
Opening Keynote
Adeline Koh
Social Media and Revolutions: Imagined Communities and Social
Justice Movements
Atrium
Parlor
Friday, 4/10/15
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:30
Continental Breakfast
Overview and How We Teach Digital Humanities
Rebecca Frost Davis
Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and
Experiments
Atrium
Parlor
Kimberly Garza
Design History Meets Digital History: A Classroom Experiment
Tanya E. Clement
Social Studies and Digital Humanities
10:30-10:45
10:45-12:15
Break
How We Digitally Publish
Stephen Reid McLaughlin
Working With In-Copyright Materials for Digital Humanities
Research: Legal, Ethical, and Practical Issues
Atrium
Parlor
Matthew Christy & Jennifer Hecker
From Early Modern Printing to Postmodern Indie Publishing: Using
EMOP on AFP
Daniel Carter
The Cultural Impact of Content Management Systems: A Topic
Modeling Approach
12:15-1:15
Lunch
Or TXDHC Steering Committee Business Meeting
1:15-1:20
1:20-2:05
2:05-2:15
2:15-3:45
Eric Frierson, Senior Discovery Services Engineer at EBSCO
Information Services
Jeanette Claire Sewell & Brian Scott Riedel
Local History, Civic Visibility: GIS, The Humanities, and
Public–Private Collaboration
Break
How We Connect in Digital Humanities
Liz Grumbach & Matthew Christy
Considering Frameworks for the Ideal Digital Research Community:
The Past and Present of 18thConnect
James Silas Creel & Sarah Potvin
Atrium
315A
Parlor
Parlor
Atrium
Parlor
The Promise and Peril of RDF for Formalizing the Humanities
Matthew Cole LaFevor
Role of the Digital Humanities in Socio-Environmental Synthesis
Research: A View From Environmental History
3:45-5:00
5:00-7:00
Tours of UT Arlington Libraries Special Collections and the
Fablab
Reception and Poster Sessions
Stacy Elko
Virtual Art Galleries
University
Club,
Davis Hall
Hannah Alpert-Abrams & Dan Garrette
Automatic Transcription in Colonial Contexts: OCR for the Primeros
Libros
Mary K. Brantl
Enduring Women: Digital Humanities in the Classroom & Beyond
Timothy Duguid
Bigdiva: Big Data, Big Visuals, Big Searches, and Big Results
Erin Dorris Cassidy
Digital History and Undergraduates: Aligning Professor and Librarian
Expectations
Liz Grumbach
TypeWright in the Classroom: Service Learning, Digital Edition
Building, and Fostering Student Collaboration
Spencer D. C. Keralis & Rebecca Barham
A Visual Argument: Embedded Omeka Support for Art History
Saturday, 4/11/15
8:30-9:00
9:00-10:30
Continental Breakfast
How We Use Archives
Desiree Henderson
Digitized Diaries and the New Manuscript Archive
Atrium
Parlor
David C. LaFevor
Endangered Archives, Digitization, and the Possible Futures of
Historical Research in Latin America
Charlotte Nunes
Digital Oral History Collections: Implications for Innovation in the
Humanities
10:30-10:45
10:45-11:30
11:30-12:30
12:30-2:00
Break
Rod Sachs, Rhuda Brayner, Katrina Carey, Stephanie Dinh, &
Sebastian De La Torre
De-Archiving Digital Humanities: A Decolonial Option With
Undergraduates
Atrium
Lunch
Closing Keynotes
Alan Liu
Against the Cultural Singularity: Toward a Critical Digital
Humanities
Atrium
Parlor
George Siemens
Prepare for a More Human Digital University
2:00-4:00
Hackfest
TBA
Alphabetical List of All TXDHC2015 Presenters
Name
Title
Affiliation
Email
Alpert-Abrams,
Hannah
Barham, Rebecca
PhD Candidate, Dept. of
English
Art Reference Librarian,
University of North Texas
Libraries
Associate Professor, Dept.
of Visual Studies
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
PhD Candidate, School of
Information
Associate Professor,
Newton Gresham Library
UT Austin
[email protected]
University of
North Texas
[email protected]
St. Edward’s
University
UT Arlington
UT Arlington
UT Austin
[email protected]
Sam Houston
State
University
Texas A&M
[email protected]
UT Austin
[email protected]
Texas A&M
[email protected]
St. Edward’s
University
UT Arlington
[email protected]
UT Arlington
Texas A&M
[email protected]
[email protected]
Texas Tech
University
EBSCO
Information
Services
UT Austin
[email protected]
St. Edward’s
University
Texas A&M
[email protected]
Brantl, Mary K.
Brayner, Rhuda
Carey, Katrina
Carter, Daniel
Cassidy, Erin Dorris
Christy, Matthew
Clement, Tanya E.
Creel, James Silas
Davis, Rebecca
Frost
De La Torre,
Sebastian
Dinh, Stephanie
Duguid, Timothy
Elko, Stacy
Frierson, Eric
Garrette, Dan
Garza, Kimberly
Grumbach, Liz
Lead Software
Applications Developer,
Initiative for Digital
Humanities, Media, and
Culture
Assistant Professor,
School of Information
Senior Lead Software
Applications Developer,
Texas A&M University
Libraries
Director of Instructional
and Emerging Technology
Undergraduate Student
Undergraduate Student
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Initiative for Digital
Humanities, Media, and
Culture
Associate Professor,
School of Art
Senior Discovery
Services Engineer
PhD Candidate, Dept. of
Computer Science
Assistant Professor of
Graphic Design
Staff Research Assistant
and Project Manager,
Advanced Research
Consortium (ARC) and
18thConnect, Initiative for
Digital Humanities, Media,
and Culture
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Name
Title
Affiliation
Email
Hecker, Jennifer
Software
Developer/Analyst,
University of Texas
Libraries
Associate Professor, Dept.
of English
Research Associate
Professor and Digital
Humanities Coordinator,
University of North Texas
Libraries
Director of DH@Stockton
and Associate Professor of
Literature
Assistant Professor, Dept.
of History
Postdoctoral Fellow,
National SocioEnvironmental Synthesis
Center (SESYNC)
Professor, English Dept.;
Affiliated Faculty Member,
Media Arts & Technology
Graduate Program
PhD Candidate, School of
Information
Mellon/Council on Library
and Information
Resources Postdoctoral
Fellow in Digital
Scholarship
Digital Scholarship
Librarian and Assistant
Professor, Texas A&M
University Libraries
Assistant Director, Center
for the Study of Women,
Gender and Sexuality and
Professor in the Practice
of Humanities
PhD Candidate, Dept. of
English
Cataloging and Metadata
Librarian
Executive Director of the
Learning Innovation and
Networked Knowledge
Research Lab, UT
Arlington; cross-appointed
with the Centre for
Distance Education,
Athabasca University
UT Austin
[email protected]
UT Arlington
[email protected]
University of
North Texas
[email protected]
Stockton
University
[email protected]
UT Arlington
[email protected]
University of
Maryland
[email protected]
University of
California,
Santa Barbara
[email protected]
UT Austin
[email protected]
Southwestern
University
[email protected]
Texas A&M
[email protected]
Rice
University
[email protected]
UT Arlington
[email protected]
Houston Public
Library
UT Arlington &
Athabasca
University
[email protected]
Henderson, Desiree
Keralis, Spencer
D.C.
Koh, Adeline
LaFevor, David C.
LaFevor, Matthew
Cole
Liu, Alan
McLaughlin,
Stephen Reid
Nunes, Charlotte
Potvin, Sarah
Riedel, Brian Scott
Sachs, Rod
Sewell, Jeanette
Claire
Siemens, George
[email protected]
Cosponsored by
The University of Texas at Arlington Provost’s Office
UT Arlington Honors College
Digital Frontiers
University of North Texas Libraries
UT Arlington College of Liberal Arts
UT Arlington Libraries
UT Arlington Division of Digital Teaching and Learning
UT Arlington Departments of English, History,
Linguistics, and Art and Art History
Program Committee
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Laurel Stvan (chair), Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics and TESOL,
University of Texas at Arlington
Jody Bailey, Director of Grants and Research, UT Arlington Libraries, University of Texas at
Arlington
Jeff Downing, Digital Projects Librarian, UT Arlington Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington
John Garrigus, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Arlington
Ramona Holmes, Department Head, Digital Creation, UT Arlington Libraries, University of Texas at
Arlington
Spencer D. C. Keralis, Research Associate Professor and Digital Humanities Coordinator,
University of North Texas Libraries, University of North Texas
Rafia Mirza, Digital Humanities Librarian, UT Arlington Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington
Rod Sachs, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Texas at Arlington
Faedra Wills, Digital Projects Librarian, UT Arlington Libraries, University of Texas at Arlington