June 2nd, 9:30am – 3:00pm. Severance, Great Hall
Join us for the second annual Day of DH @ Carleton College – a FREE one-day regional conference where those engaged in digital scholarship in the upper midwest can share their work, forge connections with other DH practitioners, and learn new concepts and skills.
Event Schedule
9:30 am – Breakfast and Mingle!
10:00 am – Lightning Round Talks
11:00 am – Poster Sessions
12:00 pm – Lunch
12:15 pm – Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Kim
1:30 pm- 3:00 pm – Hands-on Break-Out Sessions
Keynote Speech, 12:15 pm
Disrupting DH and Dissident DH Pedagogies
Dorothy Kim, Vassar College
My talk will address the place of learning, pedagogy, community, and activism in the digital humanities. Building a truly communal space for the digital humanities requires that we all approach that space with a commitment to: 1) creating open and non-hierarchical dialogues; 2) championing non-traditional work that might not otherwise be recognized through conventional scholarly channels; 3) amplifying marginalized voices; 4) advocating for students and learners; and 5) sharing generously to support the work of our peers. In Disrupting the Digital Humanities, my co-editor and I wrote that our aim in gathering this material is to construct something that uses all of the talk about what the digital humanities is and isn’t as a jumping off point for a much deeper inquiry about disciplinarity, the future of higher education, and what it is to be radically and diversely human in the digital age.
Lightning Round Sessions
The morning is devoted to lightning round presentations and a digital poster session highlighting the current projects of the participants.
Mapping Prejudice
Empowering Emerging Artists through Web-based Portfolios
Digital Modeling, Interactive Visualization, and the Oratorical Performance Spaces of Ancient Greece
Assassins’ Creed and Sid Meier’s Civilization in the Classroom
Updating an Academic E-Journal: Moving the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art to WordPress
Mapping Masks and Their Histories in a Nigerian Town
John Thabiti Willis, Carleton College
Mapping Masks and Their Histories in a Nigerian Town maps the distribution of masquerades in a Nigerian town known as Otta. This projects offers an innovative approach to the history of key aspects of West African politics and socieity: the masquerade traditions through which townspeople, indigenous inhabitants and immigrants, men and women, political leaders and religious ones vied with one another for power and status.
Historical Recipes + Digital Collaborations
Emily Beck, Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine, UMN
Lois Hendrickson,Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine UMN
A daylong symposium, Historical Recipes + Digital Collaborations, introduced scholars to recipes from food and medicines, to textile dyes and invisible ink. Speakers sparked new ideas about using recipes in public spaces, teaching, and scholarship, including Katie Rawson’s (Emory) keynote on digitized, transcribed, and marked-up recipes. Afternoon sessions connected recipe scholarship and digital humanities with a focus on exhibit-building platform Omeka. Using a small data set from the Wangensteen’s digitized manuscript recipe collection, participants workshoped ideas of how recipes can be integrated in the digital humanities in order to create dynamic spaces for interdisciplinary and collaborative research and for public presentation.
Digital Commentary on Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
Austin Mason, Carleton College
Poster Children and Permissions: the Saga of a Digital Dissertation
Witness to the Revolution: The Boston Massacre in 3D
Martin Hoffmann ’19, Carleton College
Serena Zabin, Austin Mason, and the students of HIST 212 and HIST 291: Boston Massacre 3D Game Dev
Witness to the Revolution is a serious, first-person, three-dimensional game created by Carleton students as a partnership with the Boston Old State House. The game asks the player to find witnesses to a shooting of civilians by soldiers on the streets of Boston during the night of March 5, 1770. Because eyewitnesses report such different stories, and because both soldiers and Bostonians had a vested interest in blaming the other for the deaths, the actual events of that night have never been clear. As players collect depositions and assess their trustworthiness, they build up the elements of a replay of the actual shooting. At the end of the game, the player has a chance to witness the version of the violent confrontation that their investigations suggest. The Old State House, the primary museum about the Boston Massacre, plans to use the completed game as a part of its permanent exhibition.
Break-out Sessions
In the afternoon, participants will break up for 90 minute hands-on sessions devoted to specific aspects of DH pedagogy and practice: Digital Storytelling, Network Analysis and Topic Modeling.
Immigrant Stories: New Tools for Digital Storytelling
Elizabeth Venditto, University of Minnesota
This workshop will introduce participants to Immigrant Stories, a digital storytelling and archiving project, and the project’s story-making website, immigrantstories.umn.edu. The website helps anyone make and share a digital story about a personal or family immigration experience, even if they have no previous audiovisual experience. The website includes writing prompts, training videos, free access to video editing software, and a click-through donation form. Participants will also learn about how they might adapt the project’s digital storytelling tools, training, and online archiving model for their own work.
Got Networks? I Can Help: Network Analysis 101
Rebecca Wingo, Macalester College
In this hands-on workshop, we will learn the basics of network analysis for data visualization and I will briefly demonstrate how I’ve used networks in my own research. Following that, we will generate our own network–live and in person! Participants will organize their data, get a brief introduction into cleaning up their data, and then generate their network. There will be plenty of time to explore and play with our network analysis software, Gephi, and to answer all your burning questions about network analysis and why it’s so cool.
Introduction to Topic Modeling
Eric Alexander, Carleton College
In recent years, the practice of probabilistic topic modeling has grown in popularity for those working in digital text analysis. Topic modeling allows researchers to learn about large collections of documents by extracting sets of words (“topics”) that tend to appear in most of the same documents. These topics can then be used to summarize the documents, cluster them together, or compare them in a variety of different ways. However, the algorithms make certain assumptions about the data that are worth considering before interpreting the models’ results. In this workshop, we will go through a high-level explanation of the practice of topic modeling, try our hand at some of the most common out-of-the-box tools available for creating such models, and see some examples of what kinds of new analysis they afford us.