Spring 2020 DHCI Schedule

Spring leaves and the UNC Greensboro logo advertising the March 5-6 Digital Humanities Colaborative Institute (http://triangledh.org/dhci)

The spring DHC-NC Digital Humanities Collaborative Institute (DHCI) will be held at UNC Greensboro (Greensboro, NC) on March 5 and 6, 2020. The theme of this Institute is “Digital Humanities & Community Engagement.” For more information about the logistics of the event (including parking), see the main Institute page.

Schedule

THURSDAY, MARCH 5 – All events in Moore Humanities Research Administration (MHRA)

9am Registration & Coffee

MHRA Lobby

10am Opening remarks from Interim Dean of University Libraries, Mike Crumpton

Keynote from Lisa R. Withers, the Green Book Project

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11am Re-imagining History with Game Development Technology 

Justin Johnson, William Peace University

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Undergraduate Perspectives on Research in the Digital Humanities

Tristan Kelleher, Jackson Cooksey, Roy Auh, & Sandra Luksic, Duke University

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12pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm The Geography of Slavery in North Carolina: GIS and Digital Archives 

Claire Heckel, UNC Greensboro, & Brian Robinson, CLIR/UNC Greensboro

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Oral Histories of Montagnard Community Members / Honoring and Preserving the Artistry of Indigenous Elders 

Catherine Bush, Elon University & Betsy Renfrew, Montagnard / Southeast Asian Community Disparities Research Network

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2:30pm Speed Networking for Researchers 

Aubrey Turner & Julie Voorhees, UNC Greensboro

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FRIDAY, MARCH 6 – All events in Moore Humanities Research Administration (MHRA)

9am Registration & Coffee

Poster Session:

  • Lowering the Barrier of Entry: Developing an Online Self-Guided Learning Module for Information Technology Skills: Claire Cahoon, UNC-Chapel Hill;
  • The Soul of a People: Developing the Black Charlotte Timeline, Maya Brooks, UNC Greensboro;
  • Black Lives Matter Chicago: Mirroring Entanglements in the Rogue Digital Archive, Ericka Christie, Loyola University Chicago;
  • Greensboro’s Women’s Betterment Association: A Digital Exploration of a Complicated Group of Women, Natalie Branson, UNC Greensboro

MHRA Lobby

10am Lightning Round:

  • Sylvia Miller, Duke University: Publishing Makerspace;
  • Jennida Chase, UNC Greensboro & Hassan Pitts, Filmmaker: Recollection Project;
  • Lynn Harris, East Carolina University: Case Studies in Using Digital Tools to Preserve Coastal Heritage at Risk;
  • John Esposito, UNC Greensboro: Visualizing and Enriching Leadership Concepts Using the Semantic Web
  • Thomas Herron, East Carolina University: Turning Textbook Case Studies into Place Studies;
  • Sarah Maske, UNC Greensboro: Little Archives, Big Stories: Digitizing Temple Emanuel’s Community Archive;
  • Andrew Young, Montagnard / Southeast Asian Community Disparities Research Network: Winning, Losing, and the Influence of Game Design on My Community Work 

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11am Well Crafted NC: Community Engagement, Digital Humanities, and North Carolina Beer

Erin Lawrimore & Richard Cox, UNC Greensboro

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Building Community through Pedagogy & Practice: UNCW Staff, Faculty, and Grad Students Reflect on a Growing DH Initiative

Jennifer Lozano, John Knox, Hayley Swinson, Jess Stallings, UNC Wilmington

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12pm Lunch (provided by the Digital Humanities Initiative at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke) & DHC-NC Town Hall

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1:30pm An Introduction to Text Analysis for the Humanities [Workshop]

Nathan Kelber, JSTOR Labs

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Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook [Presentation & Workshop]

Hannah Jacobs & Beth Fischer, Duke University

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3:00pm Blacks in Agriculture in North Carolina: A Collaborative Course and Interdisciplinary Research Project Between NC A&T and NCCU

Discussion Forum: Charles Denton Johnson, North Carolina Central University & Arwin Smallwood, James Stewart, & Awendela Grantham, NC A&T State University

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