Digital Humanities Showcase

NJIT Digital Humanities Showcase 2021 | April 23, 2021

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

Welcome and Opening Remarks | 11:00-11:10

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

Presentations | 11:10AM-12:00PM

 

Session 1: Methodological Approaches in DH   

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          
Session 2: Recording Networks        

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                             
Digital Poster Session | 12:00PM-12:30PM

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

 

Break 12:30-1:00PM

 

Panel: DH Success Stories in the Time of COVID-19 | 1:00-2:00PM
Organized and co-sponsored by the New Jersey Digital Humanities Consortium (NJDHC)

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.

NJIT Showcase Organizing Committee:
Rosanna Dent (History), Gabrielle Esperdy (Architecture), Andrew Klobucar (Humanities), Burcak Ozludil (ADHC)
NJDHC Panel in collaboration with Mary Balkun and Marta Deyrup (Seton Hall University) and NJDHC Steering Committee members.