2025 Digital Humanities Institute

Description

Digital Humanities as a Tool for Resiliency:

Analyzing and Addressing Crises through Innovative Digital Practices

The Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina (DHC-NC) presents the 2025 Digital Humanities Institute (virtual, April 4-5, 2025), hosted by Christian Brothers University and NC State University, with sponsorship from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. This event features plenary speaker Jazmin Miller!

The 2025 institute examines the pivotal intersections of risk, emergency and crisis communication and digital humanities (DH). The theme covers areas including, but not limited to:

• Maps/Mapping and/or GPS/GIS
• Disaster Response
• Storytelling and/or Digital Archives
• Risk Analysis and Communication
• Historical and/or Contemporary
• Data Analysis
• Public History and/or Historical Sites/Trails/etc.
• Public Health and/or History of Science/Health
• Social Justice

Join us for this two-day online event packed with workshops, panel discussions, artist talks, and networking opportunities with experts in the field. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this institute is perfect for anyone interested in exploring the intersection of technology and humanities. It's fully open to the public, so don't miss out on this chance to learn, connect, and grow in the digital humanities community. See you there!

Registration via Eventbrite is free, but required. You will receive an email with information to access the meeting via Zoom.

Full Schedule

Digital Humanities Institute Schedule - Spring 2025

April 4-5, 2025 via Zoom

All times are in Eastern Standard Time.

DAY 1 - FRIDAY

All time slots for Friday include time for Q&A after the presentations.

9:00AM-9:05AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks, Emma Stanley, DHC-NC President

Morning Session 1: Digitally Mediated Curations

9:05AM-10:05AM: Panel - Pressing Forward: Using Instagram to Preserve and Share a Herbarium's Legacy

• Matthew Cicanese, Duke Alumni & Documentary Photographer, [email protected]
• Andrew Griebeler, Assistant Professor, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University, [email protected]
• Erin Heyeck, Graduate Student, Duke University, [email protected]
• Hannah L. Jacobs, Digital Humanities Consultant, Duke University, [email protected]
• Yuchen Chen, Student, Duke University, [email protected]
• Kaylee McKinzie, Student, Duke University, [email protected]
• Nicolas Zepeda, Student, Duke University, [email protected]
• Kathleen Pryer, Professor, Biology, Duke University, [email protected]

10:05AM-11:05AM: Panel - Augmenting Controversy: Developing a Mobile Augmented Reality Tool for Visual Art Curation

• Mitch Ogden, Professor, Department of English, Philosophy, and Communication Studies, University of Wisconsin - Stout, [email protected]
• Addy Lanthier, Student, Professional Communication & Emerging Media Major, Digital Humanities Concentration, University of Wisconsin - Stout, [email protected]
• Cynthia Bland, Professor, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Wisconsin - Stout, [email protected]

11:05AM-11:10AM: Break

Morning Session 2: Art, Education, and AI

11:10AM-11:55AM:

2 Presentations (Formed Panel):

Investigating Human Traits Through AI: Implications of Contemporary Art for Art Education in Turbulent Times

• Borim Song, Professor, Department of Art Education, East Carolina University, [email protected]

The Semester I Decided to Teach AI

• Maureen Johnson, Associate Professor and Writing Program Administrator, Christian Brothers University, [email protected]

11:55AM-12:10PM: Curriculum and Research - Digital Humanities at Christian Brothers University

• James B. Har III and Juliette Paul, Christian Brothers University

12:10PM-1:10PM: Lunch Break

Afternoon Session 1: Digitally Mediated Histories

1:10PM-2:10PM: Panel - King & the Klan: A Visual Experience

• Margaret Baker, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D. Program Graduate, NC State University; incoming Assistant Professor, Communication, Berry College, [email protected]
• Shaun Bennett, Research Librarian for Business, Education, and Immersive Pedagogy, Collections & Research Engagement, NC State University Libraries, [email protected]
• W. Jason Miller, Distinguished Professor, Department of English and CRDM Ph.D. Program, NC State University, [email protected]
• Bee Rinaldi, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Ph.D. candidate, NC State University, [email protected]

2:10PM-2:40PM: Creative Demo - Leveling Up: Video Games, Response-Ability, and Social Justice

• David Williams, Ph.D. candidate in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson University, [email protected]

2:40PM-2:45PM: Break

2:45PM-3:45PM: Panel - Children of the Struggle: Oral Histories as a Roadmap for Survival

• Jay Singley, Circulation Desk and Document Delivery Manager, NCSSM-Morganton, [email protected]
• Leslie D. McKesson, Instructor, Appalachian State University, [email protected]
• David Dry, Instructor of American Studies and Humanities, NCSSM-Morganton, [email protected]

3:45PM-4:15PM: Single Presentation - Fight or Flight: Digital Representations of Racial Violence in North Carolina

• Rhonda Jones, Cultural Heritage Informatics Specialist and Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, [email protected]

Afternoon Session 2: Data and Disasters

4:15PM-4:35PM: Lightning Talk - Beyond the Reports: Unpacking Risk in Public Health Data

• Munira Mutmainna, Assistant Professor, Department of Core Studies, St. John's University, [email protected]

4:35PM-5:05PM: Single Presentation- Psycholinguistic Patterns of Social Media Communication

• Andrew Hampton, Assistant Professor, Christian Brothers University, [email protected]

Special Evening Event: Plenary Speech

5:10PM-6:00PM: Invited Keynote: Jazmin Miller

• Jazmin Miller (M.F.A.) is a filmmaker, theatre director, and artist, who served as the executive director of Carpenter Art Garden in Memphis, TN. Contact: [email protected]

6:00PM: Adjourn, end of day 1
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DAY 2 - SATURDAY

9:00AM-9:05AM: Opening remarks and agenda overview, day 2

Morning Session: Digital Storytelling and Advocacy

Panels (each session includes time for Q&A)

9:05AM-10:05AM: Making Memoirs: Engaging Students in Storytelling through Data, AI, and Digital Humanities

• Kelsey Virginia Dufresne, Postdoctoral Education Researcher, Data Science and AI Academy at North Carolina State University, [email protected]
• Alin Yalcinkaya, Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Research & Analysis, DELTA at North Carolina State University, [email protected]

10:05AM-11:05AM: Sound Bridges: Podcasting and Storytelling as Community Advocacy and Humanities Research

• Sydney Beeman, Lecturer, Film Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected]
• Wilfredo Flores, Assistant Professor, Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected]
• Heather Freeman, Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected]

11:05AM-11:10AM: Break11:10AM-12:10PM: Zines as a Path to Social Justice Issues and Advocacy

• Steve Bookman, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English, Pace University, [email protected]
• Josephine Tome, Student, Pace University, [email protected]

12:10PM-1:10PM: Lunch Break

Afternoon Session 1: Digital Cultures and Memories

Lightning Talks (time after both talks for Q&A)

1:10PM-1:15PM: The Memory Work of Social Movements: Documenting Activism in Archival Spaces

• Ericka Christie, PhD candidate, Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University, [email protected]

1:15PM-1:20PM: From Martial Law to Memes: Digital Culture and Crisis Communication in South Korea

• SaeHim Park, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Xavier University of Louisiana, [email protected]

1:20PM-1:35PM: Q&A for Lightning Talks

Afternoon Session 2: Digital Improv

Workshop (includes time for Q&A)

1:35PM-3:05PM: Technological Improvisation During Disasters: A Digital Repository for Disaster Resilience

• Ragan Glover, Director of the Michigan Research and Discovery Scholars Program, University of Michigan, [email protected]

3:05PM-3:10PM: Break

Afternoon Session 3: Digitally Mediated U.S. Histories

Artist Talks (each includes time for Q&A)

3:10PM-3:40PM: Gormandizer Artist Talk

• Chelsea Brtis, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected]

3:40PM-4:10PM: Magic in the United States (podcast series)

• Heather Freeman, Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, [email protected]

4:10PM-4:15PM: Break

4:15-4:40PM: Single Presentation + Q&A - Poetry ‘Resurrection’ from LLMs

• Vincent A. Cellucci, Ph.D. candidate, Leiden University & TU Delft, [email protected]

Afternoon Session 4: Preservation and Resilience

3 Presentations (Formed Panel, includes time for Q&A)

4:40PM-5:40PM:

Integrating Data Visualization and DNA Analysis for Artifact Preservation

• James B. Harr III, Associate Professor, Department of Literature and Languages, Christian Brothers University, [email protected]

Digitally Mapping Female Survivors of Dalt Massacres: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

• Jyothi Justin, Doctoral Student, Department of English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IITI), India, [email protected]

Border Soundscapes and Lucha Libre: Exploring Cultural Resilience in the Paso del Norte Region

• José Manuel Flores, Assistant Instructor, Department of English, The University of Texas at El Paso, [email protected]

5:40PM-5:50PM: Closing Remarks

5:50PM: Adjourn