schedule

Panel: Building Games, Reed 114

Chair: Melinda Cohoon

• Kart Racing at the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Game Jams as Scholarly Inquiry in the History Classroom

  R. C. Miessler (Gettysburg College) and Greg Lord (Northeastern University)

• Community Devs: How an Appalachian Non-profit Supports Indie Game Makers

  Heather Cole (MonRiverGames and West Virginia University)

• Cyber-Play: Interactive Digital Storytelling

  Sara Cantwell (SUNY Potsdam)

• Embracing the Glitch

  Amanda Licastro (Swarthmore College)

• Designing and Building a VR Game for Primary Source Literacy

  Jasmine Clark (Temple University)

• Quantifying Kissinger

  Micki Kaufman (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

Panel A: Digital Communities, Reed 114

Chair: Joel Hunt

• I Have NoSleep, and I Must Read: Re-Mediation and Hybrid Genres on Reddit’s r/NoSleep

  Caden Holbrook (University of Louisville)

• Being an ‘ICHINA’ Online – Everyday Discursive (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity in the Era of Consumerism and Fandom

  Zhiwei Wang (University of Edinburgh)

• Digital Iran Reloaded: Iranian Gamers vs the Islamic Republic of Iran

  Melinda Cohoon (University of Washington)

Panel B: Forms of Practice, Reed 113

Chair: Maria Doyle

• Wilderness Walk: Computational Literary Approaches to the Digital Environmental Humanities

  Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington)

• From Data to Discovery: Unraveling language patterns with Corpus Linguistics

  Massimo Verzella (Penn State Behrend)

• Professionalization and Play: Digital Portfolio Design on Substack

  Maureen Gallagher (University of Pittsburgh)

Workshop: Reed 114

Chair: Chandni Naidu

• Art + Data Workshop

  Chelsea Gunn and Liz Monk (University of Pittsburgh)

Panel A: Digital Art and Virtual Modeling, Reed 112

Chair: Amanda Licastro

• Temporal Weaving: Environmentalist Discourse, and Generative Cinematic Deconstruction in The Chautauqua County Almanac

  Tommy Hartung (Penn State Behrend)

• Art from the Archives: Engaging Creativity With Historic Textual Descriptions of Art Works

  Jacob Gordon (Pennsylvania State University)

• Making Space: Building Virtual Museums and Imagining Audiences in the Humanities Classroom

  Mariah Kupfner (Penn State Harrisburg)

Panel B: Location-based Storytelling: Green Book Cleveland and Queer Cleveland, Reed 113

Chair: Chandni Naidu

• Location-based Storytelling with WordPress: Green Book Cleveland and Queer Cleveland

  J. Mark Souther, Erin J. Bell, Riley Habyl, Elena Solá, and Bali White (Cleveland State University)

Panel: Games/Simulations about the Human Body, Reed 114

Chair: Melinda Cohoon

• Shaping sympathetic classroom communities: Interactive games about mental health

  Kristine Kelly (Case Western Reserve University)

• Medical Humanities: Surgery Simulations

  Stephanie Kinzinger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Overdose: A Game in Development

  Nathan Hammer (Penn State Behrend)

Following the structured orientation to their projects in Monday’s keynote panel, Licastro, Clark, and Kaufman lead discussion of participants' experiences of their projects.

Panel: Linguistic Analyses: Exploratory Methods, Reed 112

Chair: Manoj Singh Rana

• Language Games : What Artificial Languages can Teach Us

  Patrick Juola (Duquesne University)

• Gaming Multilinguality with Student Teams: The Unfolding Story of Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition

  Ali Bolcakan & Christi Merrill (University of Michigan)

• Kvasir's Algorithm: Developing an Algorithmic Model of Old Norse dróttkvætt Meters for Machine-Assisted Scansion

  Jasper Sachsenmeier (Penn State Behrend)

Workshop: Reed 114

Chair: Owen Hitt

• Launching a 3D Printing Initiative

  Dr. Mark Gallimore and Tyler Kron-Piatek (Canisius University)

Panel A: Retro Games, Reed 112

Chair: Melinda Cohoon

• MUD, Metroid, and Mortal Kombat: Pedagogical Approaches to Video Game History

  Lauren Liebe (Penn State Behrend)

• Preserving Play: A Tale of Two SimCities

  Daniel Johnson (University of Notre Dame)

• Anything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Video Games as Archives in the Humanities Classroom

  R.C. Miessler and Bill O’Hara (Gettysburg College)

Panel B: Multilingual DH: Problems and Creative Possibilities, Reed 113

Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar

• Developing StoryWorlds ITK (Indigenous Traditional Knowledge)

  Dmitriy Babichenko (University of Pittsburgh)

• Challenges in Exploratory Data Analysis: Space in Spanish-Language Literature Workshop

  Jennifer Isasi and Joshua Ortiz Baco (Pennsylvania State University & University of Tennessee)

• The Chilean Parlamentos: Using XML to Create a Translation-to-Public Workflow

  Pilar Herr, Bill Campbell, and Sean DiLeonardi (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)

Panel: AI in DH / Education, Reed 114

Chair: Manoj Singh Rana

• Generative AI in Digital Humanities Education

  Natasha Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University)

• There Will Be Doughnuts: Playing with Generative AI Tools to Build Community

  Katherine Furlong and Kate Tuley (Bucknell University)

Panel A: Digital Archives, Reed 112

Chair: Lauren Liebe

• Playing Well with Others: Creating Sustainable Digital Projects through Collaborative Exploration

  Linda Ballinger, Binky Lush, Dominique Luster, and Forough Yazdanpanah (Penn State University Libraries)

• Discovery Research and Digital Archives in Teaching Renaissance Drama

  Maria Doyle (University of West Georgia)

• Locke Anthology 2.0

  Zach Schleger (Penn State Behrend)

Panel B: Game Analysis: Games as Literary / Cultural Objects, Reed 114

Chair: Zach Whalen

• The Universe Peoples: Interrogating Mediated Communication of a Symptomatic Deep Ecology via OReilly’s Everything

  Jerald Lim (University of Utah)

• Teaching Ancient Chinese History Through Playing NationWar: Chronicles

  Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)

• Playing with/in Generative Narratives: Mapping Figures and Figura in Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch

  Justin Carpenter (University of Utah)

Panel A: Food Processing in DH, Reed 112

Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar

• German cursive and the promise of AI: Transcribing culinary manuscripts and having fun recreating old recipes

  Jason A. Reuscher (Penn State Libraries)

• Preserving Palates, Cultivating Connections: Bridging Cultural, Culinary Heritages and Digital Pedagogies

  Teresa Lobalsamo and Dellannia Segreti (University of Toronto Mississauga)

Panel B: Games in Literature, Reed 114

Chair: Kris Kelly

• Black Ludology: Theorizing Play in Black Literature

  Austin Anderson (Howard University)

• Virtual Reality in Narratives and Narratives as Virtual Reality in a LitRPG: Immersiveness and the Augmented Human in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

  Manoj Singh Rana and Dr. Arnapurna Rath (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)

• Environmental Ethics through a Game of Non-mastery in the novel 'The Overstory.'

  Sayan Bhattacharyya (Yale University)