Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
Providing resources and trai­ning in the practices and tools of the digital humanities

Schedule

For full descriptions of workshops, keynote talks, and paper and poster presentations, please see the links on the left side of this page

Friday, September 12

Workshops

Location: Watson Library

Time Watson 455 Watson CIC (3rd Floor)
9:00 - 12:00 Introduction to Visualization Principles of Relational Structures (Isabel Meirelles) Web Data 101: Making the most of data on the web:Harvesting, scraping, cleaning, formatting (Erik Radio)
1:00 - 4:00 Introduction to Complex Network Analysis: Micro, Meso and Macro Perspectives (Michele Coscia) 1:00 - 2:30: A Practical Workshop on Using Social Network Analysis to Study Themes, Concepts and Connections In Textual Collections (Jeff Rydberg-Cox)
2:30 - 4:00: Exploring the 3D Scholarly Toolkit: A Web Application for Publishing and Richly Annotating 3D Environments Online (James Coltrain)
4:30 -6:00 Reception and Keynote talk
Location: Watson 3 West
The Network Inside Out and the New Digital Humanities (Steven Jones)

Saturday, September 13

Papers and Posters

Location: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union (4th floor)

Time Event
8:30 to 9:00 Sign in and Breakfast
9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Talk: Learning from Constraints in Visualizations of Information (Isabel Meirelles)
10:00 to 10:15 Break
10:15 to 12:00

Paper Session #1

  • The New Woman Network: Visualizing the Discursive Development of a Feminist Ideal (Hannah Jacobs, King's College London)
  • Documentary Social Networks and Narrative Structure in Enchanters of Men: Visualizing the Synchronic and Diachronic based on Alison Booth’s Collective Biographies of Women (Rennie Mapp, University of Virginia)
  • Networks In Literary History: The Salons Project (Melanie Conroy, University of Memphis)
12:00 to 1:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00 to 2:00 Poster Session
2:00 to 3:45

Paper Session #2

  • Evolving Social Structures: Networks with People as the Edges (John Hott, University of Virginia)
  • Connecting Digital Humanities Data with the Scholarly 3D Toolkit (James Coltrain, University of Nebraska)
  • Less is More: The Pursuit of Gestalts in Minimalism and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Lauren Kersey, Saint Louis University)
  • The Digital Network as Modern Cultural Community: Electronic Modes of Personal Belonging for International Conjunto Musicians (Erin Bauer, Claremont Graduate University)
3:45 to 4:00 Break
4:00 to 5:00 Keynote Talk: Networks in and of Society (Scott Weingart)