2011 DIGITAL HUMANITIES FORUM SCHEDULE


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2	FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
3	THATCamp
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5	http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org
6	THATCamp is an "unconference" for technologists and humanists. All participants will convene on the morning of Friday, September 23rd to propose, negotiate, and select sessions. We will then upload the tentative schedule here, and update it as conversations converge and new sessions are established.
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8	LOCATION: WATSON LIBRARY
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10	Room #
11		3 West	302	455	503A	503B
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13	8:30 - 9:00	Sign-in, muffins, and voting
14	9:00 - 10:00	Welcome, introductions, and scheduling
15	10:00 - 11:00	Digital philosophy	R server and other stats approaches	How do Humanities Scholars Make Use of Digitized Materials
16	11:00 - 12:00	Wirting Translators and Styles for Zotero	New technology in Art Museums	What do Libraries need to know to support DH	Politics of Big Data in the Humanities
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18	12:00 - 1:30	Lunch (not provided)
19	1:30 - 2:30		Finding Collaborators in DH / Scholarly Repositories and the Humanities	Teaching and Curriculum Development / Engaging Students	Special Collection Libraries and Digital Projects	Planning a text analysis project
20	2:30 - 3:30		Collecting and Sharing Person, Family and Community History	Technology and Programming Languages for DH Projects	Creating an online Digital Literary Archive / /Design of DH Resources	Managing DH Assets in Real World Applications
21	3:30 - 4:00	Wrap up and evaluation
22	4:00 - 4:30	Break
23	4:30 - 6:30 Plenary session and reception	XML as a tool for domain-specific languages (Michael Sperberg-McQueen) - held at the SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART
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25	6:30 - ??	Dinner (not provided, but participants can coordinate group plans)


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2	SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
3	REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
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5	http://idrh.ku.edu/2011conference
6	a one-day program of panels and poster sessions allowing KU and non-KU faculty and graduate students to explore the theory and practice of knowledge representation, broadly conceived, and to showcase their digital humanities projects and methodologies
7	Schedule is tentative and subject to change - presentation abstracts and bios will be posted soon
8	LOCATION: KANSAS UNION
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11			TRACK 1		TRACK 2
12		Union Lobby (4th floor)	Alderson Auditorium (4th floor)		Jayhawk Room (5th floor)
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14	8:30 - 9:00	Registration and Welcome (light refreshments)
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16	9:00 - 9:30		Employing Geospatial Genealogy to Reveal Residential and Kinship Patterns in a Pre-Holocaust Ukrainian Village	Stephen Egbert (University of Kansas); Karen Roekard (independent scholar)	Sounding it out: modeling orality for large-scale text collection analysis	Tanya Clement (University of Texas)
17	9:30 - 10:00		The Atlanta Map Project: Modeling the History of the City Using Library Resources	Randy Gue, Michael Page, Stewart Varner (Emory University Libraries)	The Graphic Visualization of XML Documents	David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
18	10:00 - 10:30		From Uncertainty to Virtual Reality: Knowledge Representation in Rome Reborn	Phil Stinson (University of Kansas)	Making the most of free, unrestricted texts--a first look at the promise of the Text Creation Partnership	Rebecca Welzenbach (University of Michigan)
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20	10:30 - 11:00	Break
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22	11:00 - 12:00		PLENARY SESSION: THE HERMENEUTICS OF DATA REPRESENTATION	Michael Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies)
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24	12:00 - 1:30	Lunch (not provided)
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27	1:30 - 2:00	POSTER SESSIONS	------>	------>	------>	------>	------>	POSTER SESSIONS (KANSAS UNION LOBBY, 4TH FLOOR, 1:30 - 2:00)
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29	2:00 - 2:30		Lightning Talks
30	2:30 - 3:00		Prosopography and Computer Ontologies: towards a formal representation of the ‘factoid’ model	John Bradley, Michele Pasin (King’s College London)	Viral Venuses: The Potential of Digital Pedagogy in Feminist Classrooms	DaMaris Hill (University of Kansas)		Strategic Visions and Tactical Realities on the Frontlines of Digital Humanities: Russia's Great War and Revolution	Scott Palmer (Western Illinois University) and Jonathan Perkins (University of Kansas)
31	3:00 - 3:30	Break						Where in the World? The uses and possibilities of GIS in media history	Doug Ward (University of Kansas)
32	3:30 - 4:00		Fan Curation on the Internet	Nancy Baym (University of Kansas)	Materiality and Meaning in Digital Poetics	Julianne Buchsbaum (University of Kansas)		Dr. James Naismith: his life and legacy	Becky Schulte, Scott Hanrath, Sarah Thiel (University of Kansas)
33	4:00 - 4:30		Exploring Issues at the Intersection of Humanities and Computing with LADL	Gregory Aist (Iowa State University)	Breaking the Historian’s Code: Finding Patterns of Historical Representation	Ryan Shaw (University of North Carolina)		More than an Amusement: The Artistic Merit of Video Games	Daniel Ireton, Ellen Urton (Kansas State University)
34	4:30 - 4:45		Wrap-up					Great Plains Network: Fostering Communities of Interest	Greg Monaco (Great Plains Network)
35								Digitizing Kansas Sanborn Maps	Sheryl Williams, Wade Garrison (University of Kansas)
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2	THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
3	BootCamp Workshops
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5	a set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital tools and other DH topics
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7	LOCATION: KANSAS UNION
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9	Time	English Room (6th floor)	Parlors (5th floor)	Pine Room (6th floor)	Centennial Room (6th floor)
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11	Note: Workshop rooms tentative and subject to change. For full descriptions see:
12	http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org/bootcamps
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14	8:30 - 9:00		Registration and welcome (pastries and coffee/tea)
15	9:00 - 10:30	Creating Digital Scholarly Editions Using the TEI (9am - 4pm)	Introduction to WordPress (9am - 10:30am)	Introduction to "R" for Humanists (9am - noon)	Integrating Digital Humanities Projects into Undergraduate Curriculum (9am - noon)
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17	10:30 - 12:00		Introduction to Omeka (10:30am - noon)
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19	12:00 - 1:00	Lunch (not provided)
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21	1:00 - 2:30		Introduction to Zotero (1pm - 2:30pm)	Introduction to GIS for Humanists (1pm - 4pm)	Introduction to Project Planning and Management (video session)(1pm - 2:30pm)
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23	2:30 - 4:00		Intro to the jQuery JavaScript Library (2:30pm - 4pm)		Grantwriting strategies for Digital Humanities (video session)(2:30pm - 4pm)


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3	KU DIGITAL HUMANITIES FORUM
4	September 22-24, 2011
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6	Schedule
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8	The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days:
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10	(1) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, BOOTCAMP WORKSHOPS: a set of in-depth, hands on workshops on digital tools and other DH topics. (LOCATION: KANSAS UNION)
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12	(2) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, THATCamp: an "unconference" for technologists and humanists. All participants will convene on the morning of Friday, September 23rd to propose, negotiate, and select sessions. We will then upload the tentative schedule here, and update it as conversations converge and new sessions are established. (LOCATION: WATSON LIBRARY)
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14	(3) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: a one-day program of panels and poster sessions allowing KU and non-KU faculty and graduate students to explore the theory and practice of knowledge representation, broadly conceived, and to showcase their digital humanities projects and methodologies.(LOCATION: KANSAS UNION)
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16	http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org
17	http://idrh.ku.edu