Digital Humanities Showcase

2021 Digital Humanities Showcase organized by Digital Humanities at NJIT (DH@NJIT), in collaboration with the New Jersey Digital Humanities Consortium (NJDHC), will take place virtually on April 23, 2021 at 11:00am – 2:00pm. 

The program will include panels and a digital poster session followed by a NJDHC sponsored on DH “successes” in the context of COVID-19.

The event is free, but needs registration. Please register here.

Program

Burcak Ozludil, NJIT
Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research, NJIT

Chair: Andrew Klobucar

• Johannah Rodgers, “Engineering Language: Teaching Machines to Read and Write in the U.S. and Britain 1826 – 1976,” Independent Artist and Scholar 
• Laura Morreale, “Documenting Digital Projects with the DDP,” Independent Scholar
• Louis I. Hamilton, Margarita Vinnikov, Burcak Ozludil, “Virtual and Diffusion Analysis of the Edicole Sacre (Street Shrines) of Rome: Individual and Communal Practices,” New Jersey Institute of Technology          

Chair: Gabrielle Esperdy                         

• Anders Koed Madsen, “When the city breaks the bubble: Mapping political infrastructure in the digitized city,” Aalborg University Copenhagen/MIT
• Carol S Johnson, “Lost and Found: Publishing Court Records Online,” New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Corey D Clawson, “Modeling Queer Cultural Flows Using Archivepelago, a Neo4j Database,” Federated Department of History at Rutgers-Newark, NJIT, Department of African American & African Studies at Rutgers-Newark                             

Chair: Rosanna Dent

Live discussion with poster presenters, 15-minute sessions in breakout rooms. Please view the posters/videos before the Live Poster Session here.

• “EVERY_01: A Morality Play,” Louis Wells, NJIT
• “Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads”; “V[R]ignettes: A Microstory Series,” Mez Breeze and Team
• “Science Curriculum Discovery from Textbooks,” Gabriel Dutra, Ji Hoon Kim, Peiyu Guo, Kayla Rockhill, Minjoon Kouh, Drew University
• “Critical Digital Pedagogy and Latin American History,” Lance C. Thurner, Federated Department of History, RU Newark
• “Edicole Sacre di Roma: Tracking Human Interaction with Roman Street Shrines,” Noah Roselli, Xavier Reyes, Meredith Westrich, Louis Hamilton, NJIT
• “PrisonPandemic Project,” Keramet Reiter, Naomi Sugie, Kristin Turney, Joanne DeCaro, Gabe Rosales, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI
• “Reconstructing and Deconstructing Rome’s Grottapinta Shrine,” Elizabeth Kowalchuk, Mary Riccio, Louis Hamilton, NJIT
• “The Annotated Patent History Digital Archive,” Elizabeth Petrick, Rice University and Alison Lefkovitz, NJIT
• “The Digital Humanities Lab,” Noah Bergam, Justin Li, Julian Lee, The Pingry School

Chair: Francesca Giannetti

• Rebekah Rutkoff, "Computer Love/Pandemic Screen," Department of Humanities, NJIT
• Julie Malsbury, “Successful Adoption of Trauma Informed Feedback into the Digital Classroom,” Rowan University
• Sheridan Leigh, "Pivoting with Postcards: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Breathe a Second Life into Digitized Collections," Seton Hall University

The event is free and open to the public. Please register here.

The event is a part of the Honors College Colloquium Series.