Conference Info
2022 Theme - Digital Pandemic Studies: Public Health and Structural Oppressions
Date: March 3 and March 4, 1-4pm.
Location: Virtually on Zoom in two half-day sessions
Registration: FREE! Please register here for access to the conference.
2022 Conference repository: Coming soon!
Hosted online by Marymount University
Social Media
The Twitter hashtag for the conference will be #CDHC2022.
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Keynote: Kim Gallon
Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University and the Director of COVID Black, a Black health data organization that uses data to tell stories about the Black lived experience to advocate for health equity. The goal of COVID Black is to honor and value each Black life that is lost to COVID-19. To learn more about her research and teaching, follow her on Twitter, @BlackDigitalHum.
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
Friday March 4, 4-5pm
Program
All times are in Eastern Standard Time.
| Thursday March 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Main Room | |
| 1:00-1:55 | Welcome and Keynote | |
| Kim Gallon (Purdue University) | ||
| introduced by Azza AlGhamdi | ||
| Kim Gallon is Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, where she teaches modern African history and the colonial histories of sub-Saharan African countries. Her research focuses on discourses and representations of sexuality and gender in the early 20th century black press. Gallon is also Founder and Executive Director of COVID Black, a Black health data organization that uses data to tell stories about the Black lived experience to advocate for health equity. | ||
| Room 1 | Room 2 | |
| 2:00-2:55 | Text/Narrative - moderated by Keyanne McCray | How I Made This - moderated by Junjie Luo |
| Megan Perram, ““Literary Hypertext for Teaching Illness Narratives” (University of Alberta) | Tom Ewing and Collaborators, “Piedmont Tuberculosis Sanatorium Nurse Training Program: Researching the Lives of African-American Women in Segregated Virginia, 1920-1960” (Virginia Tech) | |
| Arina Melkozernova, “Russian Text Analysis: Preliminary Approaches for Assessing the Impact of COVID 19 on the Indigenous Peoples of Russia” (Arizona State University) | ||
| Sana Asif, “Memory of COVID-19 through memes: A Brief Analysis” (National Institute of Technology, Patna, India) | ||
| 3:00-3:55 | How I Made This - moderated by Keyanne McCray | Ethics, Security, Culture - moderated by Mike Davis |
| Chrissy O’Grady, Adrianna Martinez, and Sean Loughran, “Critical Comparative History in the United States: Major Cities, Ineffectual Medicines and Presidencies in 1918 and 2020” | Jacob Vargis, “COVID-19 and Digitization: Impact of Escalation in Cybercrimes Targeting the Elderly” (Marymount University) | |
| Donna Schaeffer, “Critical Infrastructure in the Context of Culture” (Marymount University) | ||
| Azza AlGhamdi, “Healthcare Cybersecurity Hygiene in the Age of Electronic Medical Records” (Marymount University) |
| Friday March 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Room 1 | |
| 1:00-1:55 | Race, Gender, Inequity - moderated by Azza AlGhamdi | |
| Robert Nelson, “Redlining and Public Health (Boatwright Library) | ||
| Deanna Holroyd, “Right-wing Media Responses to COVID-19 and Blackness” (Ohio State University) | ||
| Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, “Distance Learning and Pandemics: A Historical and Gendered Analysis of Using Digital Modalities” (Tulane University) | ||
| 2:00-2:55 | Visualizing Pandemics - moderated by Sara Woodbury | |
| Tonya Howe, “Covid Data Viz” (Marymount University, Maryland Institute College of Art) | ||
| Molly Nebiolo, “Historical Epidemics: Visualizing Boston’s 1721-22 Smallpox Epidemic 300 Years Later” (Northeastern University) | ||
| Riya Mohan, “Health Disparities in Havana’s Cholera Epidemic” (Duke University) | ||
| 3:00-3:55 | How I Made This - moderated by Tonya Howe | |
| Tom Ewing and Students, “Covid-19 in Virginia: A Data in Social Context Collaborative Project” | ||
| 4:00-5:00 | Happy Hour! |
Conference Repository
The 2022 Conference recordings and available slides will be accessible in our OSF repository! All content is licensed under a CC-By Attribution 4.0 International License.
Register by: Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Day 1: Thursday, March 3, 2022
Day 2: Friday, March 4, 2022
Call for Proposals – EXTENDED TO MONDAY, JANUARY 24th
Please submit proposals online through our form by JANUARY 24TH, 2022. All proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and the Annual Program Committee. Acknowledgement of receipt will be made as applications come in. Applicants will be notified with a decision by January 31, 2022.
Proposal Submissions
The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium (CDHC) invites submissions for its third annual conference: Digital Pandemic Studies: Public Health and Structural Oppressions In the early 2020s we as citizens of the world find ourselves grappling with two pandemics - COVID-19 and its long tail, race and structural oppressions in public life, and all the places where these two intersect. With this in mind, the Chesapeake Digital Humanities Conference invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2022 CDHC on any topic related to the COVID-19 pandemic and/or structural oppressions in public life, and in particular where the two intersect. We welcome original contributions from those researching and working in any field of study from anywhere in the world, especially those pursuing new research or perspectives on the effects of COVID-19 and structural oppressions. This year’s conference will be held virtually on Zoom in two half-day sessions on March 3rd and 4th (1-4pm). There will be no conference registration fee, but all attendees should register to be provided with access. Registration will close on March 2. All details–submission form, registration, schedule, and access information–will be available online at https://chesapeakedh.github.io/. Questions? chesapeakedhconsortium@gmail.com
We encourage participation from the broader digital humanities communities, including undergraduate and graduate students, early career scholars, college and university faculty, independent scholars, community members, librarians, archivists, and technologists. Within the larger theme of Digital Pandemic Studies: Public Health and Structural Oppressions, we encourage submissions on topics including but not limited to the following:
- Structural oppressions (including race, gender, sexuality, disability) and medicine - health equity analyses, historical case studies, etc
- Pandemic and policing - state-mandated vaccination campaigns in past and present, health outcomes for prisoners during COVID, etc
- Privacy and information
- COVID and digital pedagogy
- Intersectional DH and pandemics
- Public health - access, oppression, equity
- (Digital) narrative medicine
- Medical humanities
- Visualizing health and community data
- Metaphors of medicine
- Access - healthcare, Internet, virtual learning spaces and more
- Epidemics, historiography, and popular memory
- COVID dashboards, politics and design
- The long tail of pandemics - past, present, future
Please submit proposals online through our form by JANUARY 24TH, 2022. All proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and the Annual Program Committee. Acknowledgement of receipt will be made as applications come in. Applicants will be notified with a decision by January 31, 2022.
Proposal Types
All proposal abstracts should address 1) the research/pedagogical significance of the project, and, where appropriate, 2) the platform or tool used in the project.
- Individual Presentations. Please provide an abstract of 250 words. Presentations will be organized into themed panels of 1 hour in length, with time for Q&A. Presentations should be approximately 15 minutes in length, maximum.
- Panels. Panels feature individual presentations organized around a common topic. Please provide a panel rationale of no more than 250 words, with individual presentation abstracts of 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). Panels will last one hour each, with time for Q&A.
- Lightning Round. Please submit a 100-word description of a topic you would like to discuss for 3-5 minutes, maximum.
- How I Made This. Please submit an abstract of 250 words. 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. ‘How I Made This’ sessions may foreground long-term research projects, small DH initiatives, or pedagogical projects, and 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. 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 1 hour in length, with at least half of the time reserved for discussion or Q&A.
All proposals will be reviewed by the Steering Committee and the Annual Program Committee.
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.