Keystone DH: Conference Schedule

Wednesday June 22

Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30am
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Registration (with coffee and light breakfast)

Wednesday 9:30 - 10am
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Opening Remarks

Wednesday 10 - 11:30am: Long Papers (Session 1)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. Augmenting the Historic House Museum: The Impact of Community Partnership and Augmented Reality on Visitor Experience at Riversdale House - Quint Gregory, Nicole Riesenberger, and Caroline Paganussi (abstract; slides)
  2. Augmented Reality Collaboration: The Augmented Palimpsest Project - Tamara O’Callaghan and Andrea R. Harbin (abstract; slides)
  3. Augmented Reality as a Platform for Collaboration - Robert Fletcher (abstract)

Wednesday 10 - 11:30am: Long Papers (Session 2)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  1. Tag-Team Teaching a DH-Inflected Diversity Course - Linda Troost and Charles Hannon (abstract)
  2. Effects of Task Complexity on ESL Students’ Argumentative Writing: Using DocuScope as a Tool for Analyzing Students’ Writing - Maria Pia Gomez-Laich (abstract)
  3. Student Videos: Teaching the Mechanics - Mark Gallimore (abstract)

Wednesday 11:30am - 1:30pm

  • Lunch Break

Wednesday 1:30 - 3pm: Panel Presentation (Session 3)
Location: Hillman Library, Room 272

Wednesday 1:30 - 3pm: Long Papers (Session 4)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. “What Does It Matter Where One Lives?”: Spatial Mapping and Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence - Meredith Goldsmith (abstract)
  2. German POWs in the Soviet Gulag: Mapping Their Experiences, 1941-1956 - Susan Grunewald (abstract)
  3. Translation analysis with TEI: Robert Southey’s Amadis of Gaul - Stacey Triplette and Elisa Beshero-Bondar (abstract; slides)

Wednesday 1:30 - 3pm: Workshop (Session 5)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  • Curating the Digital: Collaboration and Transformation - Stefanie Dennis Hunker, Jolie Sheffer, and Carol Singer (abstract) - Workshop Materials

Wednesday 3pm - 5pm: Tours
Initial Meet-Up Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library
Advance sign-up sheets will be available at the Information Desk, but do not hesitate to come by at 3pm to see if there are still spaces left on the tours.

  • University of Pittsburgh Special Collections
  • Carnegie Public Library Special Collections
  • The Nationality Rooms at the Cathedral of Learning

You may also feel free to take a short walk and visit the Carnegie Museum of Art and/or the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, both of which are located just across Schenley Plaza from Hillman Library. The ticket entrance is no more than a 5-minute walk away (map to entrance here). Regular adult admission is $19.95. Student admission (with ID) is $11.95. However, if you enter after 3pm, admission is half price!

Also close by is the world-renowned Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, which is no more than a 10-minute walk away (map to entrance here). Regular adult admission is $15.00. There is no student admission rate.

Wednesday 5pm: Keynote (followed by a reception)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Roopika Risam, “Only Collaborate! Postcolonial Imperatives for Community in the Digital Humanities”

Thursday June 23

Thursday 8:30 - 9am
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Morning Coffee

Thursday 9 - 10:30am: Long Papers (Session 6)
Location: Hillman Library, Room 272

  1. Gender and Centrality in the Digital Humanities - Scott B. Weingart, Nickoal Eichmann, Jeana Jorgensen (abstract; slides)
  2. Toward a Theory of Time for the Digital Humanities - Tim Gorichanaz (abstract)
  3. A Guerrilla Theory for the Digital Humanities - Matt Applegate (abstract; slides)

Thursday 9 - 10:30am: Long Papers (Session 7)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  1. The Ethics of Networked Pedagogies: Examining the Collaborative Learning Practices of Online Gaming Communities - Matthew Kelly (abstract)
  2. Exploring the Adoption of STEM Praxis in the Digital Humanities - Sarah C. Stanley and Matthew E. Hunter (abstract; slides)
  3. Mobile Media Storytelling in the Cultural Heritage Sector - Chelsea Gunn and Aisling Quigley (abstract)

Thursday 9 - 10:30am: Short Papers (Session 8)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. Interacting with In Mrs. Goldberg’s Kitchen - Adam Hochstetter (abstract; slides)
  2. Competitors or Corroborators?: A Comparative Digital Analysis of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel - Chris D. Jimenez (abstract)
  3. Authority Cascades for Linked Open Data - David Newbury (abstract; slides)
  4. Computer-Aided Rhetorical Analysis with Supercomputing - Suguru Ishizaki (abstract)
  5. Allá y Aquí: American and Mexican News Perceptions of Ciudad Juarez - Roberto Vargas (abstract)

Thursday 10:30 - 11am
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Coffee Break

Thursday 11 - 12:30pm: Project Showcases (Session 9a)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. Taking Livingstone Online across Disciplines, Institutions, and Continents - Adrian Wisnicki and Ashanka Kumari (abstract)
  2. Mapping the Imagined South: GIS Mapping of Contemporary Southern Cookbooks - Carrie Tippen, Lisa Cuyler, Kaitlyn Shirey, Tessa Webber, and Rachel Geffrey (abstract; slides)
  3. The Luther Works Visualization Project - Chuck Steel (abstract)
  4. Broken Books - Debra T. Cashion (abstract; slides)
  5. A Digital and Naturalistic Landscape of Thomas Hardy’s Wessex - Erica Y. Hayes (abstract; slides; project website)
  6. Text Annotation Modules and 19th-Century Literature - Todd Bryant and Sarah Kersh (abstract; slides)

Thursday 11 - 12:30pm: Project Showcases (Session 9b)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  1. Exploring Place in the French of Italy - Heather Hill (abstract; slides)
  2. Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Project Showcase - Jessica Otis (abstract)
  3. Ticha: The Story of an International, Community-Engaged Digital Humanities Project - Laurie Allen, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, George Aaron Broadwell, Mike Zarafoneti, and Michel R. Oudijk (abstract; slides)
  4. PA Digital and the DPLA: Collaborating on Collections as a Community - Patricia Hswe (abstract; slides)
  5. The Restoration of Nell Nelson - Rob Spadafore and Rebecca Parker (abstract)

Thursday 12:30 - 2pm

  • Lunch Break

Thursday 2 - 3:30pm: Long Papers (Session 10)
Location: Hillman Library, Room 272

  1. Analyzing Ethos: Developing Digital Tools for Argument Analysis in the Humanities - James Wynn and Rick Costa (abstract)
  2. Mediating Native Languages in the Navajo Verb Generator Project - Nabil Kashyap (abstract)
  3. Tracing the Influence of “The Right to Privacy” - Susan Tanner (abstract)

Thursday 2 - 3:30pm: Long Papers (Session 11)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. When Literature Refuses to Act its Age: Large-Scale Stylochronometry among the Weird Genres - Matthew Lavin (abstract)
  2. What Made the Front Page in the 19th Century?: Computationally Classifying Genre in “Viral Texts” - Jonathan D. Fitzgerald (abstract; slides)
  3. Representing the Un/der-represented: Using Data Visualization to Explore Diversity and Inclusion for Academic Library Collections - Bobby L. Smiley (abstract)

Thursday 2 - 3:30pm: Workshop (Session 12)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  • TEI for Historical Manuscripts and Letters: A Beginner’s Workshop on Transcription, Metadata, Paleography and Code - Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Lisa Wilson, and Amy Gates (abstract; slides) - Workshop Materials)

Thursday 3:30 - 4pm
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Coffee Break

Thursday 4 - 6pm: Tours
Initial Meet-Up Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library
Advance sign-up sheets will be available at the Information Desk, but do not hesitate to come by at 3pm to see if there are still spaces left on the tours.

  • University of Pittsburgh Archives & High Density Storage
  • A Snapshot of DH at Pitt and CMU (with a tour of Digital Scholarship Services / Visual Media Workshop)
  • The Nationality Rooms at the Cathedral of Learning

You may also feel free to take a short walk and visit the Carnegie Museum of Art and/or the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, both of which are located just across Schenley Plaza from Hillman Library. The ticket entrance is no more than a 5-minute walk away (map to entrance here). Regular adult admission is $19.95. Student admission (with ID) is $11.95. However, if you enter after 3pm, admission is half price!

Also close by is the world-renowned Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, which is no more than a 10-minute walk away (map to entrance here). Regular adult admission is $15.00. There is no student admission rate.

Thursday 6:30pm-??: Casual Group Dinners
Initial Meet-Up Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library
Advance sign-up sheets are available in the DSC!

Friday June 24

Friday 8:30 - 9am
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Morning Coffee

Friday 9 - 10:30am: Long Papers (Session 13)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. Taking Flight: Expanding a Crowdsourcing Program in Support of New Research - Mark Anderson (abstract; slides)
  2. On the Diversity of Digital Decay - Robert Sieczkiewicz (abstract)
  3. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Metadata - Tom Lombardi (abstract; slides)

Friday 9 - 10:30am: Long Papers (Session 14)
Location: Hillman Library, Room 272

  1. Using IIIF for Small Projects - David Newbury (abstract; slides)
  2. Adaptive Forms: Conditional Logic and Advanced Survey Engines - Mark Gallimore (abstract)

Friday 9 - 10:30am: Long Papers (Session 15)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  1. Digital Text Encoding of 18th-Century French Novels Reveals Modern Misconceptions About Narrative Structure - Benjamin H. Baker (abstract)
  2. Topic Modeling Communities of Discourse in Doctoral Dissertations - Benjamin Miller (abstract)
  3. Emily Dickinson: Fascicle 16 - Nicole Lottig, Brooke Stewart, and Brooke Lawrence (abstract; project website)

Friday 10:30 - 11am
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  • Coffee Break

Friday 11am - 12:30pm: Long Papers (Session 16)
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons, Hillman Library

  1. Towards Collaborative, Accessible Journal Publishing - Hal Hinderliter (abstract)
  2. Toward a Taxonomy of Collaboration - Jacob Heil (abstract)
  3. What Might an Archive “Know”?: Annotation through Recursion in Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive - Mary Erica Zimmer, Molly O’Donnell, and Elisa Beshero-Bondar (abstract; slides)

Friday 11am - 12:30pm: Long Papers (Session 17)
Location: Amy Knapp Room, Hillman Library

  1. Git Started! - Rebecca Parker (abstract; slides)
  2. Building and Managing a Digital English Studio: Collaborative Aspects - Stuart Selber, Daniel Tripp, and Leslie Mateer (abstract; slides)
  3. R for Humanists: A Git Repository and Tutorial Approach - Tassie Gniady and Grace Thomas (abstract)