Texas Digital Humanities Symposium (Sept. 2024)
Save the Date: September 5-6, 2024
The Baylor Libraries and the Baylor Digital Humanities Initiative are excited to host the inaugural Texas Digital Humanities Symposium, coming September 5-6, 2024.
The Call for Proposals opens on February 20 with a March 27 deadline. Notifications will be sent out in April.
Digital Humanities Unveiled: A Practical Exploration
Topics covered at the Texas DH Symposium will address a range of digital humanities-related issues, including:
DH Content: Diverse Perspectives
Whether you’re an artist, historian, librarian, or data enthusiast, DH content awaits your exploration. Share and discover a full breadth of content, spanning text, maps, art, and multimedia. Dive into rich corpora and explore visualizations that bridge past and present.
DH Tools: Practical Empowerment
Join us as we work together to demystify the DH toolbox. Tools are our allies; they help us collect, explore, analyze, and visualize human expression. From data insights to interactive storytelling, these tools empower understanding.
Teaching and Classroom Integration: Real-World Impact
DH isn’t just theory—it’s practical. Let’s reimagine education and engage students with interactive projects and critical thinking. Share and explore methods, examples, and ideas for integrating DH into teaching.
Research Challenges: Navigating the Unknown
DH research has its hurdles: funding, interdisciplinary collaboration, and tenure value, just to name a few. Join us so that we can all work together to see how DH transcends boundaries and reshapes scholarship.
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
Dr. Tanya Clement, (University of Texas at Austin) Associate Director for Digital Humanities and spearheads the Initiative for Digital Humanities (IDH) associated with their Humanities Institute.
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.
Questions?
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact dh@baylor.edu