Conference Info
2021 Theme: Social Justice and Online Activism
Date: February 25th and 26th, 2021.
Location: Virtually on Zoom in two half-day sessions
Registration fee: FREE!
Social Media
The Twitter hashtag for the conference will be #CDHC2021.
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Join us on our Slack channel #chesapeakeDH on the DH Slack workspace.
Keynote: Dr. Amanda French
Dr. Amanda French will be keynoting CDHC 2021!
Dr. French is the Community Lead and Data Entry Shift Lead at The COVID Tracking Project.
The COVID Tracking Project is a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Every day, they collect data on COVID-19 testing and patient outcomes from all 50 states, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia. Their dataset is currently in use by national and local news organizations across the United States and by research projects and agencies worldwide. Their data API (which allows sites and apps to import our dataset automatically) receives about two million requests per day. On April 15, they launched the COVID Racial Data Tracker, a partnership between the COVID Tracking Project and the Center for Antiracist Research that collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic within the United States.
Social
Digital Humanities Bingo
Download one or many Digital Humanities-themed bingo cards and play along throughout the sessions!
What counts:
- Words or phrases spoken during presentations by presenters
- Forms of words count (Access/Accessibility)
- The center “DH” is a free space
There are no prizes, only enduring admiration.
Virtual Happy Hour
Join us Thursday, February 26th from 5:15-6:15pm ET for a virtual happy hour for some informal chatting and networking!
Program
All times are in Eastern Standard Time.
Conference Repository
The 2021 Conference recordings and available slides are accessible in our OSF repository! All content is licensed under a CC-By Attribution 4.0 International License.
Day 1: Thursday, February 25, 2021
| Thursday, February 25, 2021 | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Introduction and Keynote Amanda French | ||
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | Lunch Break | ||
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | How I Made This: “Cultural Heritage Data: How to Design a Representative Database” - Lada Zimina and Antonina Puchkovskaia | Panel: “Finding Power & Place for Undergraduate Online DH” - Desiree Dighton, Emma Shaw, Amanda Roberts, and Alexis Colucci | GENDER & DIGITAL COMMUNITY: Individual Presentations “De-“Cypher”-ing the Matrix: A Critique of the Manosphere and Red Pill Ideology” - Luka Dowell “Recovering #SelfCare for Intersectional Feminist Futures: Neoliberalism, Self-Care, and Whiteness in Hashtag Communities” - Shana MacDonald, Brianna I. Wiens “Coding for Trends: Author and Commenter Posting Trends in an Online Community” - Jaime W. Roots |
| 1:30pm - 1:35pm | Break | ||
| 1:35pm - 2:35pm | How I Made This: “None (for student-led activism around racial justice? Focusing on the ARTS 4800 practicum course)” - Greg Chan | Panel: “Huellas Incómodas: A Digital Preservation of the #UAEMex Student-Feminist Movement” - Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, Rosario Rogel-Salazar, Alan Colín, Abraham García, and Verónica Benítez | PANDEMIC, PUBLIC HEALTH & HEALTHY PUBLICS: Individual Presentations “CDC and WHO Twitter Messaging on COVID-19” - Katie Kuiper “Overcoming the Pandemic through Viral Poetry Games: The Phenomenon of COVID-19-Inspired Digital Acrostic Poems in South Korea” - Christina Han “A Study of Hashtags (untitled)” - Shri Vaishali V, Rukmini S |
| 2:35pm - 2:55pm | Break | ||
| 2:55pm - 3:55pm | How I Made This: “Resilient Stillness—A performative tool about Stillness and Togetherness” - Brittney Harris | Panel: “Collecting and Contextualizing the Current Moment of Racial Reckoning” - Laura Brannan, Janine Hubai, Anne Dobberteen, Dr. George D. Oberle, and Alyssa Toby Fahringer | STATE, SECURITY, MEDIATION, & POWER: Individual Presentations “Avoiding the Automation of Inequality: The Need for Secure and Equitable Social Nets” - Donna Schaeffer “Sousveillance: Filling the Legal Gap” - Kelly Wheeler “Digitally mediated inclusive comparison: A Pedagogy” - Sayan Bhattacharyya |
| 3:55pm - 4:00pm | Break | ||
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | How I Made This: “Movable: Narratives of Recovery and Place” - Kristen Lillvis and Paige Justice | How I Made This: “Reframing the Remains: An Infrastructural Remediation of North Carolina” - Margaret Baker | Panel: “The Covid-19 History Project: Undergraduate Research and Public History during a Pandemic” - Danielle Greene, Mary Culler, Madeline Altobelli, Bethany Stewart, Grace Barth, and Andrew Grant |
| 5:00pm - 5:15pm | Break | ||
| 5:15pm - 6:15pm | Virtual Happy Hour |
Day 2: Friday, February 26, 2021
| Friday, February 26, 2021 | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | How I Made This: “Literature in Context: An Open Anthology of Literature in English” - Tonya Howe | TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMIC INEQUALITY: Individual Presentations “Systemic Racism and Its Impact on the Siting of Chemical Dependency Programs in Harlem” - Shawn Hill “Solidarity Online: Digital Dalits and the construction of Counter Public Sphere” - Madhu “Brasileiras não se calam”: harassment, xenophobia and discrimination linked to coloniality in denunciation in cyberspace” - Camila Lamartine Barbosa |
RELIGION, ETHICS, AND TECHNOLOGY: Individual Presentations “The Option for the Poor: A Theological Contribution to Cyber Ethics” - Matthew Shadle “Enslaved by the Church, Sold for the Republic: The Untold Story….”(arcgis project to accompany his research) - Nathan Marvin |
| 1:30pm - 1:35pm | Break | ||
| 1:35pm - 2:35pm | How I Made This: “Feminists Do Media: Instagram Hacking for the Resistance” - Shana MacDonald, Brianna I. Wiens | Panel: “‘Heritage from Below’: Building and Developing The South Asian Canadian Digital Archive (SACDA)” - Satwinder Kaur Bains and Magnus Berg | RHETORIC, NARRATIVE, & THE BODY: Individual Presentations “Click me: multilinear cyberliterature as illness narrative for womxn with hyperandrogenism” - Megan Perram “Iranian women and Baghdad bombing” - Zaina Ujayli “Broletariat: Tik Tok and Hegemonic Masculinity” - Gavin Thibodeau |
| 2:35pm - 2:55pm | Break | ||
| 2:55pm - 3:55pm | How I Made This: “Child Labor Project: Using Historical Photographs to Teach Data in Social Context” - Tom Ewing | How I Made This: “The Roswell Museum Federal Art Center: Exploring the Archive with Scalar” - Sara Woodbury | Panel: “Using Digital Humanities Tools for Archival Description: the Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Initiative at Georgetown University” - Mary Beth Corrigan, Adrian Vaagenes, and Emily Baldoni |
| 3:55pm - 4:00pm | Break | ||
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Lightning Round & Closing Remarks | LIGHTNING TALKS: “The Ubume Challenge: A Digital Environmental Humanities Project” - Sam Risak “Digital Mapping and Public History in Revealing Police Violence and Activism in the Great Plains” - Joel Zapata “Apartheid Heritage(s)” - Cassie Tanks |
Call for Proposals closed
Proposal Submissions
We encourage participation from the broader digital humanities communities, including undergraduate and graduate students, college and university faculty, independent scholars, community members, librarians, archivists, and technologists. Within the larger theme of Social Justice and Online Activism, we encourage submissions within the following areas:
- COVID-19
- Race and Racial Inequities
- Social Media and Mobilization
- Automating Inequality (cf. Automating Inequality; e.g. flaws of fraud detection, decision-support software vis-a-vis inequality)
- Algorithmic Bias (cf. Algorithms of Oppression)
- Bias in AI and Machine Learning
- Digital Archives Power (cf. Archives Power)
- Cybertypes (cf. Nakamura’s Cybertypes)
- Crowdsourcing DH projects
- Hashtag activism
- Inclusive DH pedagogy
- DH for social good
All proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and the Annual Program Committee. Applicants will be notified with a decision by December 31st, 2020.
Proposal Types and Lengths
All proposal abstracts should address 1) the research/pedagogical significance of the project, and 2) the platform or tool used in the project.
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20-minute Individual Presentation: Please provide an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio (75 words).
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1-hour Panel: Panels feature individual presentations organized around a common topic. Please provide a panel rationale of no more than 300 words, with individual presentation abstracts (150-300 words) for up to five participants. Include titles and institutional affiliations for each participant. Only one person should submit abstracts on the panel’s behalf. (note: students should specify their institutional status).
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5-minute Lightning Round: Please submit a 100-word description on a topic you would like to discuss.
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45-minute How I Made This: In these show-and-tell sessions, members of the DH community will introduce you to their projects in a more practically-minded manner, with an opportunity for a robust conversation following. These sessions, which may foreground long-term research projects, small DH initiatives, or pedagogical projects, should be developed with an eye towards helping conference participants get a handle on the kinds of resources available, projects in development, and opportunities for collaboration and community-building. What was your goal or guiding question? What theoretical or contextual approaches framed your work? What tools did you use? What failures did you encounter, and what did you learn from them? What did you find successful? Did you pursue grants, and if so, how did you go about that? How does the project employ collaborators? How did you find institutional support? What is the next step for the project? Session leaders may elect to run a hands-on workshop, but proposals should bear in mind technological and geographical limitations. Sessions should not be organized around traditional papers. Each show-and-tell session is 45 minutes in length, with at least half of the time reserved for discussion or Q&A. Please submit a 150-word description and rationale of and for your proposed workshop, and indicate whether your workshop would be beginner, intermediate, or advanced.
If you have any questions, please contact chesapeakedhconsortium@gmail.com.
Code of Conduct
The Chesapeake DH Consortium seeks to provide a welcoming, professionally engaging, fun, and safe experience and ongoing community for everyone, both in person and online. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Discriminatory language and imagery (including sexual) is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, or any community channel such as the slack channel or mailing list.
Harassment is understood as any behavior that threatens or demeans another person or group, or produces an unsafe environment. It includes offensive verbal comments or non-verbal expressions related to gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religious or political beliefs; sexual or discriminatory images in public spaces (including online); deliberate intimidation, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording; sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, and unwelcome sexual attention.
Concerns about violations of this code of conduct can be directed to the Chesapeake DH Consortium governing body members at chesapeakedhconsortium@gmail.com.