New Directions in Digital Humanities Scholarship
Sponsored by the
Council on Library and Information
Resources (CLIR), the
University of Illinois Library, the
Illinois Informatics
Institute, the
Department of History at the University of
Illinois, and the
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
(IPRH), this symposium aims to promote digital humanities scholarship at the University of
Illinois through discussion of opportunities and obstacles and by showcasing digital humanities
projects.
Join us on
February 26-27, 2009 in
Room 126
GSLIS Building. There is no fee to attend and no advance registration
required. For more information contact Mary Stuart (m-stuart@illinois.edu).
Program
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Keynote Address, 5:00 p.m.
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John Unsworth
Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois
Friday, February 27, 2009
Morning Session
Opening Remarks (8:45-9:30)
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- Welcome and Introductions
Paula Kaufman and
Antoinette Burton
- Brief statement of goals of symposium
Ray Fouche and
Mary Stuart
Project profiles, (9:30-11:30):
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Jefferson's Travels
Scot French, Director of Virginia Center for Digital History, and Bill Ferster,
Director of Technology, VCDH
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Rethinking Timelines: Modeling Historical Narrative in Time and Space (Silk Road Atlas,
China)
Ruth Mostern, University of California - Merced
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The Roots of Modern America: Technology, Culture and Social Change
The Difference Slavery Made
Will Thomas, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Digital Iam:
History of Mobility in Russia
John Randolph, Department of History, University of Illinois
Lunch break (11:30-1:00)
Afternoon Session (1:00-4:45)
Project profiles continued (1:00-2:30):
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Emancipating Digital Data: The Lincoln Digitization Project
Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS), University of Illinois
Peter Bajcsy, Associate Director for Data Analytics, I-CHASS, and Research
Scientist, NCSA, University of Illinois
(http://isda.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lpapers/index.html)
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Sean
Takats, Director of Research Projects, Center for History and New Media, George Mason
University
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Panel discussions (2:30-4:30):
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Part 1 (2:30-3:30):
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What projects have worked, and what accounts for their success? Why have historians
been slow to adopt the tools of digital scholarship compared to their colleagues in other
humanities disciplines, such as literary studies? What are the lessons for historians from
literary scholars?
Moderator: John Unsworth
Panelists: Craig Koslofsky, Josh Greenberg, Mark Kornbluh, Sean Takata, Amy
Friedlander, Scot French
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Part 2 (3:30-4:30):
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What is the role for libraries in creating and supporting the cyberinfrastructure for
humanities research? What do researchers need from libraries to enable digital humanities
scholarship? (short-term, medium-term, and long-range)
Moderator: Chuck Henry
Panelists: Deanna Raineri, Sarah Shreeves, Kevin Franklin, Betsy Kruger,
Scott Walter, Beth Sandore, John Randolph, Max Edelson
- Wrap up (4:30-4:45):
Chuck Henry
Panelists, Presenters, Moderators:
- Chuck Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources (chenry@clir.org)
- Amy Friedlander, Director of Programs, Council on Library and Information Resources (AFriedlander@clir.org)
- Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign (ptk@illinois.edu)
- Antoinette Burton, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Chatherine C. and Bruce A.
Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (aburton@uiuc.edu)
- Peter Bajcsy, Associate Director for Data Analytics, Illinois Center for Computing in
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS), Research Scientist, National Center for
Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (bajcsy@illinois.edu)
- S. Max Edelson, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (edelson@illinois.edu)
- Bill Ferster, Director of Technology, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of
Virginia (bferster@virginia.edu)
- Kevin Franklin, Executive Director, Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts and
Social Sciences (I-CHASS), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (kevinf@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
- Janelle Jenstad, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Victoria (jenstad@uvic.ca)
- Mark Kornbluh, Director, MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences
Online, Professor of History and Computer Science, Michigan State University (Mark.Kornbluh@matrix.msu.edu)
- Craig Koslofsky, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana
Champaign (koslof@illinois.edu)
- Betsy Kruger, Head, Digital Content Creation, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (betsyk@illinois.edu)
- Ruth Mostern, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities, Social Science and the Arts,
University of California Merced (rmostern@ucmerced.edu)
- Deanna Raineri, Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Associate Director,
Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (raineri@illinois.edu)
- John Randolph, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (jwr@illinois.edu)
- Beth Sandore, Professor of Library Administration and Associate University Librarian for
Information Technology Policy and Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (sandore@illinois.edu)
- Sarah Shreeves, Associate Professor of Library Administration and Coordinator, Illinois Digital
Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (sshreeve@illinois.edu)
- Sean Takats, Director of Research Projects, Center for History and New Media, and Assistant
Professor of History, George Mason University (stakats@gmu.edu)
- William G. Thomas, III, John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of
History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln (wthomas4@unl.edu)
- John Unsworth, Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Director, Illinois
Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (unsworth@illinois.edu)
- Scott Walter, Professor of Library Administration and Associate University Librarian for
Services, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (swalter@illinois.edu)
Organizers:
- Ray Fouche, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (rfouche@illinois.edu)
- Clare Crowston, Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (crowston@illinois.edu)
- Mary Stuart, History, Philosophy and Newspaper Librarian, Professor of Library Administration,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (m-stuart@illinois.edu)
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