Texas Digital Humanities Symposium

A Virtual Experience for 2025

Join us for the second annual Texas Digital Humanities Symposium! The Baylor Libraries and the Baylor Digital Humanities Initiative are pleased to host this fully virtual event, taking place via Zoom from September 9-11, 2025. Symposium registration is now open! The Symposium is free and open to anyone.

About the Symposium

Embark on a dynamic exploration of Digital Humanities at the second annual Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, hosted virtually by Baylor University from September 9-11, 2025. This year, we invite you to connect with scholars and practitioners from across Texas and beyond in a fully virtual environment.

This three-day symposium offers a unique opportunity to engage in stimulating discussions, share innovative research, and explore the latest trends in digital humanities. Each day will feature two 2.5-hour blocks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, designed to accommodate diverse schedules and ensure a focused and engaging experience.

2025 Symposium Detailed Schedule

The full 2025 symposium schedule is live!

Symposium Schedule (PDF)

Keynote Address

Dr. Heidi J. Hornik, Professor and Chair of the Art & Art History Department, Baylor University, will speak on "Visualizing & Mapping Art History: Digital Humanities Manifested in the Arts."  Dr. Hornik is a distinguished scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History. Her research increasingly incorporates digital methodologies, exploring the intersections of art, theology, and technology. She is an affiliated faculty member with Baylor's Digital Humanities initiative and has been recognized for her innovative teaching and scholarship, including being named the 2025 Cornelia Marschall Smith Professor of the Year at Baylor.

Featured Events & Presentations

• Workshop
  • An AI Toolkit for Textual Analysis – dive into practical AI applications for your research.
• Community Roundtable
  • Join a vital discussion on the creation of a regional Digital Humanities community.
• Panel Session
  • Gain insights into Funding DH Projects.

Conference Expectations and Attendee Code of Conduct

Attendees are expected to engage in professional, ethical, and respectful interactions throughout the conference. Treat all attendees, speakers, organizers, and staff with respect and consideration, regardless of background, identity, or views.

In the event that an attendee displays disruptive or harmful behavior, organizers reserve the right to mute (first offense) or eject (subsequent offense) the person from the Zoom session without warning.

If a presentation doesn’t start within the first 5 minutes, the conference will move on to the next presenter/presentation. If the no-show presenter is in the final slot of a panel, the panel will end early.

Questions?

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact dh@baylor.edu.

September 5-6, 2024

An in-person experience at the Baylor University Libraries

The Baylor Libraries and the Baylor Digital Humanities Initiative are excited to host the inaugural Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, coming September 5-6, 2024.

Registration and our call for proposals for this event are both closed. Thank you for your interest and submissions!

Symposium Agenda

Brief Agenda

Detailed Agenda

About the Symposium

Embark on a transformative journey into the realm of Digital Humanities at the Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, hosted by Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This two-day symposium offers a fee-free experience, complemented by accommodation support for presenters, and meals sponsored by DH-related vendors.

Day 1 unveils the latest DH tools and resources through engaging presentations by commercial vendors, focusing on text data mining, mapping, and data visualization needs. On Day 2, Texas researchers take the stage to illuminate their DH research and the impact of DH on our respective institutions.

Our Keynote Speaker

Close Listening, Annotation, and other Basic Humanities Methods that Make AI Stupid

Dr. Tanya E. Clement, Associate Director for Digital Humanities, University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Clement will discuss her own work with audiovisual archives in literary study as an invitation for scholars to consider possible research questions within Digital Humanities that comment on the "So What?" of computational analysis in the humanities. It is essential for humanities scholars to better understand the limits and potentials of computational analysis for interpretive analysis, because these methods point to the limits and potentials of AI and scholarly research more generally.

Tanya E. Clement is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the intersection of textual studies, sound studies, and infrastructure studies with practices in academic research, research libraries, and the creation of research tools and resources in digital humanities (DH). She leads High Performance Sound Technologies for Access and Scholarship (HiPSTAS) to encourage the discoverability and use of audiovisual cultural heritage collections. AV-Annotate, a HiPSTAS project, is currently being funded by a Mellon foundation grant. Her current book project Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives, will be published by MIT Press in August 2024.