Texas Digital Humanities Symposium

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.