All times listed below are in eastern daylight time (EDT). Click on the link below each day to see the start time listed in several time zones.
The event will be live streamed (per presenter permission) at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh.
Virtual Symposium
Wednesday, April 2 – Friday, April 4, 2025
All times listed below are in eastern daylight time (EDT).
The event will be live streamed (per presenter permission) at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh.
Wednesday, April 2, 3:30-7:45pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Thursday, April 3, 11:30 am-4:30pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Friday, April 4, 8:30am-1:30pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Each virtual day will include Speed Networking. Using breakout rooms, we will have 2 short meet and greet opportunities. This means that groups of 4-6 will be gathered in a breakout room to introduce themselves and answer a question prompt for 7 minutes and then will be reshuffled into another room for 7 minutes with different people.
In-Person Symposium
Monday, April 7 – Tuesday, April 8
Location: Michigan State University, Main Library, USA
8:30am-6:00pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Presentations (Breakfast and Lunch Provided)
6:00pm-7:30pm EDT – Reception (Dinner provided)
8:30am-2:00pm EDT (converted to more time zones)
Presentations (Breakfast and Lunch Provided)
2:00pm-5:00pm EDT – Unconference
Presentations will be live streamed (per presenter permission) at go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh. All presentations will take place in English.
Wednesday, April 2
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3:30 – 4:00 pm – Speed Networking (social activity)
4:00 – 4:30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks (slides)
4:30 – 5:30 pm – Keynote presentation: RedHD: We are still here and growing. The challenges we’ve overcome // RedHD: Aquí y aun creciendo. Los retos que hemos enfrentado Miriam Peña Pimentel and Ernesto Priani Saisó (Moderadora: Jennifer Isasi)
5:30 – 5:40 pm – Break
5:40-6:40 pm – Recuperando historias: Proyectos digitales y colaboración estudiantil en la preservación de la herencia latina en los EEUU – (Moderadora: Gabriela Baeza Ventura)
- Imprimir la historia: los trabajos de impresión y periodismo en la comunidad mexicoamericana de Texas a partir de la Colección Alicia S. Lyons – Andrea Cuevas
- “Archivos de Houston Community Service / Centro Aztlán (HCS)”: Preservación de la historia local – Carolina Suárez Latorre
- “El archivo como huella histórica”: Contextualizando la Historia a través de la exhibición digital – Maribel Bello
6:40 – 6:45 pm – Transition
6:45 – 7:30 pm – Developing a Digital Ethnic Studies Pedagogical Praxis: Recent Applications of DH in Africana Studies, American Indian Studies, and Chicana & Chicano Studies – Olivia Chilcote and Victoria Gonzalez-Rivera (Moderator: Sureshi Jayawardene)
Thursday, April 3
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11:30 am – 12:00 pm – Speed Networking (social activity)
12:00 – 12:15 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks (slides)
12:15 – 1:15 pm – Keynote presentation: Digital Humanities in South Africa (and Beyond): Challenges and Opportunities, Menno Van Zaanen (Moderator: Nabeel Siddiqui)
1:15 – 1:25 pm – Break
1:25 – 2:10 pm – Project Showcase (Concurrent sessions in breakout rooms)
- Room 1 – Zine Bakery: borderless DH research, methods training, and scholarly communication via zines – Amanda Wyatt Visconti (Moderator: Max Evjen)
- Room 2 – Cultural Preservation through Digital Access and Community Building: The Kentucky Hispanic Heritage Project – Taylor Leigh, Ruth Brown, Yanira Paz, Ixchel Collazo (Moderator: Steven Wang) [Recording available]
- Room 3 – Showcasing Hallyu Tracker: Exploring the possibilities and limitations of Digital Humanities – Natalia Grincheva (Moderator: Viola Lasmana) [Recording available]
- Room 4 – From Tiny Use Cases to JVMG Labs: An iterative approach to infrastructure development and training in the Japanese Visual Media Graph project – Martin Roth, Magnus Pfeffer, Zoltan Kacsuk (Moderator: Matt Handelman) [Recording available]
- Room 5 – The Voyant Consortium: Fostering Community, Engagement, and Learning in Digital Humanities – Augustine Farinola (Presenting), Geoffrey Rockwell (Presenting), Ayushi Khemka (Moderator: Devin Higgins) [Recording available]
- Room 6 – Digital Humanities in History Education: The SILB Platform and Agrarian Issues in Portuguese America – Gilson Mateus Pinto Júnior (Moderator: Jen Andrella) [Recording available]
2:10 – 2:20 pm – Break
2:20 – 3:20 pm – Digital Humanities Infrastructure (Moderator: Raffaele Viglianti)
- Reflections on the Development and Implementation of the Digital Humanities Hub at Nelson Mandela University – Johannes Sibeko and Nkazimlo Ngcungca
- Towards Reparative Collecting & Digitization: A Community Symposium and Training Program – Dale Correa
- Sobre la necesidad de contarse: hacia un archivo digital de producciones culturales de la diáspora venezolana – Patricia Valladares
3:20 – 3:30 pm – Break
3:30 – 4:30 pm – Culture and Representation with AI (Moderator: Agarzelim Álvarez Milán)
- Reimagining ‘American Dreams’: AI, History, and the Challenge of Ethical Representation – Jana Keck
- Multilingual handwritten text recognition (HTR) models for large-scale processing of archival documents in low-resourced Arabic-script languages – Merve Tekgürler, Peter Broadwell, Umar Patel
Friday, April 4
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8:30 – 9:00 am – Social Networking Session
9:00 – 9:20 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks (slides)
9:20 – 10:10 am – Text Analysis in Chinese Digital Humanities (Moderator: Heather Ball)
- From Challenges to Solutions: Insights from Our Journey of Developing a Topic Modeling Tool for English and Chinese – Sau Lai YIP and Yuning WANG
- Feeling the Stone: Revisiting Textual Reorganization and Computational Analysis in the Chinese Digital Humanities – Lik Hang Tsui
10:10 – 10:20 am – Break
10:20 – 11:20 am – Intersectional Social Media Analysis (Moderator: Max Evjen)
- Using Web Scraping to Analyze Gendered Language in OnlineCricket Fandom – Kaushiki Chowdhury
- The lexical marks of the ethnic-racial discrimination between Brazilian Black and White people: a Corpus Linguistics study – Rafael Webster
11:20 – 11:30 am – Break
11:30 am – 12:20 pm – Digital Narratives in Indian Digital Humanities (Moderator: Aparna Zambare)
- Electronic Ecologies: A Study on the Representation of Nature in Indian Electronic Literature – Simran Bhimjyani and Shanmugapriya T
- Digital Storytelling as Sense-making Practices in the Sundarban Archipelago – Surojit Kayal
12:20 – 12:30 pm – Transition
12:30 – 1:30 pm – A Discussion Among Keynote Presenters Miriam Peña Pimentel, Ernesto Priani Saisó, and Menno Van Zaanen (Moderator: Michael Sinatra)
Monday, April 7
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8:30 – 9:00 am – Breakfast (provided)
9:00 – 9:15 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks (slides)
9:15 – 10:15 am – centerNet Keynote presentation: Minimal lab/Maximal labor, Gimena del Rio Riande (Moderator: Kristen Mapes)
10:15 – 10:30 am – Break
10:30 – 11:30 am – Student-Centered Practices in Global Digital Humanities (Moderator: Steven Wang)
- Building a Student-Driven Digital Humanities Community at UTSA: A Journey of Collaboration and Innovation – Niloufar Esmaeili
- Archiving Literary Voices: Building a Transborder Literary Archive of U.S./Mexico Borderlands Literature – Devon Bradley
- Curating a Database and Analyzing Gender Violence Against Latina Women in Historical Spanish-Language Newspapers – Jessica Corona
- Unveiling Heritage: Mapping Migration and Identity Through Digital and Archival Practices – Elisa Castro
- Latine Queerstories: Testimonios Orales de Migración an in class Digital Project – Emily Rodriguez
11:30 am – 12:30 pm – Lunch (provided)
12:30 -1:30 pm – Digital Approaches to Liminal Histories (Moderator: Jon Keune)
- Tracing Female Imaginaries of the Nineteenth Century with Digital Methods – Adriana Rodríguez-Alfonso
- Transdisciplinary Approaches to Networks of Forced and Undocumented Migration in Greece and Mexico – Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki (Presenting) and Annie K. Lamar
- Understanding Chinese Diaspora through Churches: Sentimental Analysis of Chinese Migrants’ Oral Interview Transcripts in San Diego and Tucson – Xuening Kong
1:30 – 1:45 pm – Break
1:45 – 2:45 pm – Lightning Talk Presentations (Moderator: Viola Lasmana)
- What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? A Strategic Assessment of a Project Incubator Program – Justin Wadland, Yuri Cantrell, Jonathan Barber
- Disability and the Crisis of Accessibility in the Digital Humanities – Ben Wright
- A Journey of Struggle and Transformation: a digital humanities research project on the course syllabi of RLG1000Y (Method and Theory in the Study of Religion) from 1976-2026 – Albert Yang
- AsteXT: Language Model-Driven Database for Asian American Short Stories – Zhihui Zou (presenting) and Matthew Hayes
- The impact of misinformation spread on social media during the flooding in southern Brazil from April to May 2024 – Livia Clarete
- Does Performing Cuteness Disrupt or Complement Masculinity? Examining Straight Males’ Use of Chiikawa Memes in Digital Spaces – Weiting Du
2:45 – 3:15 pm – Lightning Talk Discussion (Break out groups)
3:15 – 3:30 pm – Break
3:30 – 4:30 pm – Decolonial Digital Humanities Praxis (Moderator: Jesse Draper)
- Digital Humanities Labs as Decolonial Feminist Practice: Developing and Implementing a Global and Non-Oppressive Lab Handbook – Farinaz Basmechi (Presenting), Pascale Dangoisse, Monireh Razavi
- Decolonial Agendas and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in South Africa’s Multilingual Landscape – Uwem Samuel (Presenting) and UMOH ADETOLA ELIZABETH
- Beyond the Glitch: Unraveling the Legacy of Racial Bias in Facial Recognition – Romain Delaville
4:30 – 5:00 pm – Break
5:00 – 6:00 pm – Poster Session
- Integrating FIPPs into Emerging Technologies: A Privacy Policy Perspective – John Adebayo (Presenting) and Olatubosun Akole
- ‘Screwing Around’ Digital Humanities in History – ITUEN ALFRED ITA (Presenting), Adeyemi Abayomi (Presenting), Uwem Samuel (Presenting), UMOH ADETOLA ELIZABETH
- Obatala: Rhetorical Construction of Disability in Yoruba Cosmology and its Afro-Diasporic Traditions – Sunday Adegbenro
- 50 States of Comics: Building an Understanding of Locality in Comic Culture through Wikidata – Julian Chambliss, Brittany Atkins, Ritesh Khandelwal
- Where Is the World For Quebec? Global French as made by authors and magazine issues – Em Ho (Presenting) and Chloé Brault
6:00 – 7:30 pm – Reception Dinner (provided)
Tuesday, April 8
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8:30 – 9:00 am – Breakfast (provided)
9:00 – 9:10 am – Welcome and Opening Remarks (slides)
9:10 – 10:20 am – Project Update Panel: Ethics, Representation, and Counternarratives (Moderator: Kate Topham)
- AI Use in Global Digital Pedagogy: Art Education in the U.S. and South Korea – Borim Song (Presenting in-person) and Eunyang Kim (Presenting virtually)
- A semi-automatic approach for the development of multilingual LGBTQ+ vocabularies – Shuai Wang (Presenting virtually) and Maria Adamidou
- From Colonial Legacies to Hyperreality: Cultural Representation in Global Tourism through Online Reviews – Ayodele James Akinola (Presenting), Sunday Adegbenro (Presenting), Frank Onuh (Presenting), Tunde Ope-Davies
- War Discourse on Social Media: Topic Modeling of Anti-War Ideology in Tweets by Russian and Ukrainian Politicians – Husnain Raza (Presenting), Maria Ivana Lorenzetti, Marco Rospocher
10:20 – 10:30 am – Transition
10:30 – 11:30 am – Building A Modern and Globally Accessible Open-Access Repository: Knowledge Commons Works (Moderator: Max Evjen)
- Designing A Modern and Globally Accessible Open-Access Repository – Larissa Babak, Bonnie Russell, Ian Scott, Stephanie E. Vasko
- Developing a Repository in a Global Ecosystem – Ian Scott
- Creating User-Centered Documentation and Programming to Launch an Open-Access Repository – Larissa Babak
- Empowering Publishing – and Reach – for All – Bonnie Russell
- Relevant User Experience Research Strategies for Repositories – Stephanie E. Vasko
11:30 am – 12:15 pm – Lunch (provided)
12:15 – 1:45 pm – State of Global DH Keynote Panel (Moderator: Gimena del Rio Riande)
- From Memory to Action: Transborder Digital Humanities and Social Justice Across Borders – Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla
- Future Proofing the Caribbean Digital: Institution(al) Building, Information (In)Security, and Sustainable (Infra)Structures – Schuyler Esprit
- Promises of Access, Algorithmic Realities, Machines that Learn and Stochastic Parrots: Subalternity and Digital Humanities – Radhika Gajjala
1:45 – 2:00 pm – Break
2:00 – 5:00 pm – Unconference – Open Space Discussions
