Digital Humanities Conference: Resources and Visibility in Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Conference: Resources and Visibility in Digital Humanities
Day 1 (Thursday, October 22)

9-9:30 — Welcome and Opening

9:30-10:50 — Panel 1: Chicago History and Spatial Humanities

• Moderator: Jonathan Mekinda, UIC
• Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College
  • “Digital Chicago: A Professional Project from Amateur Makers”
• Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra, UIC
  • Discussion: “Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown Project”
• John Russick, Chicago History Museum
  • “The Digital First Museum”

11-12:30 — Workshop: “Teaching Digital Culture”  with Carly Kocurek, IIT

12:30-1:30 — Lunch Break

1:30-3:15 — Panel 2: Gaming and Transmediation

• Moderator: Kishonna Gray, UIC
• Patrick Jagoda, UChicago
  • “From Gamification to Experimental Games”
• Samantha Bond, UIC
  • “Using Games and Interactive Media to Transform Medicine”
• Judith Pintar, UIUC
  • “Where Wikipedia meets Minecraft: Collaborative game design as transmediated public history”
• David Dubin, UIUC
  • “Games as Works”

3:30-5 — Keynote: Moya Bailey, Northeastern U

• “Humans in the Digital Supply Chain”