CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Thursday, September 19
7:00 -8:00 p.m. Conference Keynote
325 TCH | Leonardo Flores, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Appalachian State University |
Friday September 20
8:30-9:10 a.m. Conference Check-in
325 Trevor Colbourn Hallway (TCH) |
9:10-9:30 a.m. Conference Welcome
325 TCH | Bruce Janz, Co-Director, Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida Jeffrey Moore, Dean, University of Central Florida College of Arts and Humanities Rachel Vacek, Associate Dean for Digital Strategies, Impact, & Visibility, University of Central Florida Libraries Alexander Cartwright, President, University of Central Florida |
9:45 a.m-10:45 a.m. Concurrent Track 1 in Trevor Colbourn Hall
325 TCH | Panel: Visual Arts, Inclusivity, and Authenticity in the Age of A.I. Chair: Mia Tignor, Dean of Learning Resources, Indian River State College “Digital Artists Online and their Response to Generative AI” Alissa Burch, MFA Student, Emerging Media (Studio Track) Program, University of Central Florida “Generative Representation of Racialized Faces: Imagining People with Text-to-Image AI” Alia Hall, Ph.D. Student, Texts and Technology, University of Central Florida. “Does It Live Up to the Hype? Lessons from Practice-Based Design Research Using AI Tools for Activist Game Design” Daniel J. King, Independent Scholar, University of Central Florida Texts and Technology Alumnus |
208 TCH | Panel: The question of humanity in the Age of A.I. Chair: Hélène Huet, European Studies Librarian and Associate Chair, University of Florida “Where Does Artificial Intimacy Lead – Falling Love with The DAN Chatbot of ChatGPT” Yingzi (Kathryn) Kong, Ph.D. Student, University of Central Florida “The Humanity of Rhetoric” Nicole Riggs, Graduate Student, North Carolina State University |
351 TCH | Panel: The Challenges of Creating Meaningful Metadata: The Protocols and Procedures of PRINT Chair: Amy Larner Giroux, Associate Director, Center for Humanities & Digital Research, University of Central Florida “(re)Creating Early Modern Transatlantic Networks of Communication,” Casey Wolf, University of Central Florida “Thematic Descriptive Protocols: Creating Standardized Keywords across Repositories,” Pauline Rivera, University of Central Florida “Linking PRINT’s People and Places to the Wider World through LOD,” Joshua Benedict, University of Central Florida “Enhancing PRINT’s Metadata Pipeline with the Zooniverse Crowdsourcing Platform,” Amy Larner Giroux, Associate Director, Center for Humanities & Digital Research, University of Central Florida |
151 TCH | Panel: AI & Language Chair: Michelle Carrigan, Associate Professor of History, Indian River State College “Revitalizing Ladino: Harnessing AI to Preserve an Endangered Language” Shai Cohen, Lecturer, University of Miami “New Historicism, Distant Reading, and Database Research” Mark L. Kamrath, Professor of English, University of Central Florida “Using Exploratory Programming to Study the Impacts of Templates on Professional Writing at an Indie Video Game Hosting Platform” Matthew Bryan, Senior Lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric & PhD Student, Texts and Technology, University of Central Florida |
101 TCH | “Graffiti as a Catalyst: Unveiling Social Discontent and Political Expression,” Annabelle Conroy, Lecturer, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs, University of Central Florida “Pinta la Isla Initiative: Aesthetci Response to Neoliberal Capitalism in Buenos Aires Argentina, 21st Century,. Yovanna Pineda, Associate Professor of History, University of Central Florida Film Directoras: Collective Film Production and Shared Authorship in Columbia, Elizabeth (Lisa) Danker Kritzer, Associate Professor of Film & Mass Media, University of Central Florida “The Horror of Hunger: Cuba’s Digital Art of Resistance,” Karina Lissette Cespedes, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Central Florida |
203 TCH | Workshop: “AVAnnotate: Innovations in Digital Exhibit Curation and Audiovisual Artifact Preservation” Samantha Turner, PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin Trent Wintermeier, PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin |
11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. Concurrent Track 2 in Trevor Colbourn Hall
325 TCH | Panel: Accessibility in the age of AI Chair: Bruce Janz, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Central Florida “AI Transmediation and Graphic Storytelling: Separating Form from Narrative” Aaron Rodriguez, Digital Humanities Librarian, Florida State University “Scoring for Success: A Collaborative Initiative to Elevate Arts Education in Northeast Florida” Dr. Karthikeyan Umapathy, Professor & Co-Director of FL-DSSG, School of Computing, University of North Florida |
208 TCH | Panel: Interactive Narratives Chair: J.D. Applen, Professor, Department of English, University of Central Florida “Enhancing Tutorial Documents: The Role of Interactivity in Technical Communication” Sara Raffel, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Central Florida “InterTwine[ing] Interactive (AI) Fiction” Ricky Finch, Ph.D. Student, University of Central Florida “Analyzing the Monstrous Enemy's Folkloric Roots in Early Japanese Video Games as a Prototype for Designing Contemporary Interactive Narratives” Ryu Ryan Yamamoto, Graduate Research Associate, University of Central Florida |
151 TCH | Panel: Using VR and AR to Create Immersive Experiences that Document Local History and Culture Chair: Rebecca McNulty, Instructional designer, University of Central Florida Center for Distributed Learning Susan Swiatosz, Head of Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Florida Beryl White-Bing, Virtual Learning Librarian, University of North Florida Kevin Pfeil, School of Computing, University of North Florida |
351 TCH | Panel: Visualizing Religious Networks with the PRINT project Chair: Brook Miller, Applications Developer, Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida
“Creating research interfaces to render meaningful networks from complex information”
“The Small Worlds of Swarthmoor: A Network Analysis of the Abraham Quaker Manuscripts” Maggie Woods, Public History Graduate Student, University of Central Florida Designing a Flexible Geospatial Mapping Platform:Challenges, Key Values, Tools and Processes |
101 TCH | Panel: Connections in Arts and Digital Humanities for Environmental Justice in Northern Florida Kailan Sindelar, Assistant Professor of Technical Writing, University of North Florida Tru Leverette Hall, Professor of English, University of North Florida Maureen E. McCluskey, Instructor of English, University of North Florida |
203 TCH | Ray Caputo, Professor of Practice, Mass Communications, Bethune-Cookman University |
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch at the UCF Bookstore Mall or UCF Student Union
UCF Bookstore Mall | Foxtail Cafe, Chick-fil-A, Dominos Pizza |
UCF Student Union | Bento Sushi, Huey Magoos, Knightstop, Panda Express, Purple Ocean Superfood Bar, Qdoba, Starbucks, Steak n’ Shake, Which Wich |
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Concurrent Track 3 at John C. Hitt Library
223 UCF Library
| Roundtable: “Digital Humanities Pedagogy in the Age of AI” Anastasia Salter, Professor of English, University of Central Florida Mel Stanfill, Associate Professor of English, University of Central Florida Emily Johnson, Assistant Professor of English, University of Central Florida John Murray, Associate Professor of Games and Interactive Media, University of Central Florida |
170 UCF Library | Panel: Johnson’s Dictionary Online: Iterative Design and Collaborative Implementation Chair: John Venecek, Associate Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries “Creating Automatons: Implementing Computer Vision and other Algorithms for Imagery” Amy Larner Giroux, Associate Director, Center for Humanities & Digital Research, University of Central Florida “Tabular Impertinence: Database Design and Redesign” Brook Miller, Applications Developer, Center for Humanities and Digital Research, University of Central Florida “A Transfiguration of Form: Representing and Modifying Structured Data with Stylesheet Transformations” Will Dorner, XML Developer/Analyst, Independent Scholar. “Using ElasticSearch in EEBO and ECCO to Identify Johnson’s Quotation Sources” Beth Rapp Young, Associate Professor of English, University of Central Florida |
175 UCF Library | Panel: Computation Tools & Cultural Research Chair: Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries “Experiential Learning in the Age of AI: The Data-Driven Humanities Research Group” Eleni Bozia, Associate Professor, University of Florida, and the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group “Artificial Ingredients: Newspaper Recipes & AI” Sarah Tew, Project Coordinator, US Caribbean and Florida Digital Newspaper Project, University of Florida Libraries Melissa Jerome, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Latin American & Caribbean Collection, University of Florida Libraries “Using Computational Methods to Critique Computational Methods in Cultural Production” Anna Muenchrath, Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology |
511 UCF Library | Panel: Digital Humanities and Preserving the Past Chair: Sai Deng, Metadata Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries “Building the Revista Tierra Digital Archive as an International Faculty-Student Collaboration” Clayton McCarl, Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities, University of North Florida, Damiana Leyva-Loría, doctoral candidate in Educational Systems and Environments, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and Peri Manwell, undergraduate senior majoring in Art History and Spanish, University of North Florida. “‘Not on my Black Beach!’: Digital Storytelling of Environmental and Racial Injustice on South Florida’s Black Beaches” Robert Henry, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus “The Digital Library of the Caribbean: A DH Project and Data Source for DH Projects” M. Stephanie Chancy, Caribbean Partnerships Librarian, Director of Operations dLOC, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida |
320 UCF Library | Workshop: “Defining Authenticity: Native American Speeches and Large Language Models” Christopher Brown, Director, Institutional Evaluation and Adjunct Professor of English, Valencia College |
2:45- 3:45 p.m. Concurrent Track 4 in John C. Hitt Library
223 UCF Library | Roundtable: “Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking in the Age of AI” Anne Pfister,Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of North Florida Susie Mabry, University of North Florida Interdisciplinary Studies Alex Kledzik, University of North Florida alum |
170 UCF Library | Panel: “AI in the Classroom: Human-Centric, Goal-Oriented, and Collaborative Learning for All” Gabriel Volz, graduate student, University of North Florida, “Digitalization and Annotation of 3D Objects in the Language Classroom” Bianca Thomas, undergraduate student, University of North Florida, “Reevaluation of the Spanish Golden Age Literary Canon through Virtual Reality and a multimedia adaptation of a 17th-century play” . María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of North Florida, "Unveiling the Ezpeleta Affair: Using AI to explore Cervantes's World" |
175 UCF Library | Roundtable: “Toward a Generative Digital Reciprocity: Data, Archive, and Knowledge Creation in a Contested Digital Landscape” Julian Chambliss, Professor of English & Val Berryman Curator of History, MSU Museum, Michigan State University Scot French, Associate Professor of History & Director of Public History, University of Central Florida Clarissa West White, University Archivist & Assistant Professor, Bethune-Cookman University |
320 UCF Library | Workshop: “Immersive Scholarship Support @ FSU Libraries: A 5-year retrospective and call for collaboration” Matthew Hunter, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Florida State University |
511 UCF Library | Workshop: ”GNV #BizHis: Uncovering Nearby Business History In Gainesville, Florida” Sean Adams, Hyatt and CiCi Brown Professor of History, University of Florida Paula de la Cruz-Fernandez, University of Florida, with Corrine Talham, Emma Zuercher, and Ana Rocha |
4:00- 5:00 p.m. Track 5 in John C. Hitt Library
223 UCF Library | Forum: “An Analysis of the State of Digital Humanities in Florida” Chair: Marina Morgan, Head of Technical Services, Florida Southern College Hélène Huet, European Studies Librarian and Associate Chair, University of Florida Mia Tignor, Dean of Learning Resources, Indian River State College |
5:15 - 6:30 p.m. Closing Remarks and Reception in Trevor Colbourn Hall
325 TCH | Mia Tignor, Dean of Learning Resources, Indian River State College |