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University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada

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Sunday, 5 June 2016 [DHSI Registration, Meetings, Workshops]

9:00 to 4:00
Early Class Meeting: [Foundations] DH For Department Chairs and Deans Cadboro Commons, McKenzie/Sinclair Room; adjacent to registration) -->
Intended for university administrators who seek an understanding of the Digital Humanities that is both broad and deep, this offering establishes a cohort that [1] meets as a group for two dedicated sessions before the first day of DHSI (Sunday 7 June) and one dedicated session midweek (Wednesday 10 June) to survey and discuss pragmatic DH basics and chief administrative issues related to supporting DH and those who practice it at their institution, [2] allows those enrolled to audit (as a non-participatory observer, able to go from class to class) any and all of the DHSI courses, and [3] individually engages in consultation and targeted discussion with the instructors and others in the group outside of course time over during the institute.

Further details are available from instructors. Registration materials will be available in the classroom.
12:30 to 6:00 DHSI Registration (NEW LOCATION: MacLaurin Building, Room A100) Craigdarroch Building)
See the University of Victoria @ Google Maps -->
After registration, many will wander to Cadboro Bay and the pub at Smuggler's Cove OR the other direction to Shelbourne Plaza and Maude Hunter's Pub.
1:00 to 4:00 3-hour Workshops
4:00 to 5:00
Workshop: Twitter Basics Cadboro Commons, Campus View Room; adjacent to registration) -->
An informal introduction to community building and engagement with Twitter, for those new to social media. Bring your smartphone/tablet/laptop/etc and pop on by! ancourtn@indiana.edu and KornPublic@comcast.net or Twitter, @JennyKorn and @englishlitlib.)

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Monday, 6 June 2016

Your hosts for the week are Ray Siemens and Dan Sondheim.
7:45 to 8:15 Last-minute Registration (MacLaurin Building, Room A100)
8:30 to 10:00 Welcome, Orientation, and Instructor Overview (MacLaurin A144)
10:15 to Noon Classes in Session
12:15 to 1:15 Lunch break / Unconference Coordination Session (MacLaurin A144)

Undergraduate Meet-up, Brown-Bag (details TBA)
1:30 to 4:00 Classes in Session
4:10 to 5:00 Institute Panel: Perspectives on DH (or, #myDHis ...)
Jason Boyd (Ryerson U): "At Play in the Digital Humanities." Abstract: This presentation will move from discussion of the Texting Wilde Project and designing playful interfaces for it to a more general reflection on the place of play in DH, informed by work in games studies, gameful design, speculative computing, and queer theory.

Liz Grumbach (Texas A&M U): "Modding the Academy: eMOP, ARC, and Emerging (Digital) Humanities Paradigms." Abstract: As “research staff” at the Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture (IDHMC) at Texas A&M University, my digital humanities is about collaboration, project development, and finding effective methods for facilitating research in an academic field that still privileges traditional humanities research methodologies over emerging forms of scholarly communication and knowledge production. I will briefly describe two interdisciplinary projects run out of the IDHMC (the Early Modern OCR Project and the Advanced Research Consortium) to facilitate further discussion of how emerging digital methodologies can remodel our perceptions of how and where scholarly research is produced.

Claudia von Vacano (UC Berkeley): "Data Science in the Service of Humanity at Berkeley." Abstract: The Division of Arts and Humanities at Berkeley is building an infrastructure to buttress digital humanities in conversation with data science. This includes critical analysis of a data science initiative. In this short talk, Digital Humanities (DH) at Berkeley Director Claudia von Vacano discusses radical organizational change within a strongly-established institution. Claudia argues that it is incumbent upon us to bring greater diversity to data science thinking in order to prevent data science from becoming a monolithic enterprise across universities. Now more than ever artists and humanists need to ensure that data science is at the service of humanity in its various expressions. Claudia discusses the specific organizational structures at Berkeley that are supporting this ambitious endeavor.

Amardeep Singh (Lehigh U): TBA. TBA

Lisa Goddard (U Victoria): “On the Same Page: Models for Library-DH Collaboration.” Abstract: DH researchers increasingly find themselves in need of research supports that extend beyond the services offered in traditional humanities departments. These might include server space, programming expertise, database management, metadata support, and digital preservation services. Libraries need access to faculty and student subject expertise to enrich online collections and exhibits, and to improve discovery and research interfaces. There is an enormous amount of complementarity in our needs and interests, but new approaches are necessary to help us bridge dissimilar governance and funding models. This presentation will draw on our experience at UVic Libraries to propose models that can foster closer collaboration for the mutual benefit of the library and its DH partners.


Co-Chairs: Constance Crompton (UBC Okanagan) and Matt Huculak (U Victoria)
(MacLaurin A144)
5:00 to 6:00 Light Reception
(Felicitas, Student Union Building)
University Club)

Poster Session Presenters:
  • "Spar: Public and Digital Humanities in Southwest Washington State", Rachel Arteaga (U Washington)
  • "Local Knowledge: small boat losses on La PÈrouse's 1786 expedition in Lituya Bay, re-interpreted with moon and tidal data", Paula Johanson (U Victoria)
  • "Where Heidegger and Doctorow Intersect in the Creative Commons Licensing of Pirate Cinema", Paula Johanson (U Victoria)
  • "Myths on Maps", Lauren Mayes & Laurel Bowman (U Victoria)
  • "Toward a Better Digital Edition: The History of the Han, a digital-literary combined edition", Scott McGinnis
  • "Embedding the teaching of digital humanities at the University of Warwick", David Beck (U Warwick)
  • "Searching for the Past: Borrowed Methods for Uncovering Historical Consciousness, as Expressed Online", Shawn Anctil (Carleton U)
  • "From Chronology to Network: Representing Gay Liberation", Jessica Bonney, Sarah Lane, Raymon Sandhu, & Travis White (U British Columbia, Okanagan)
  • "TEI Encoding: Not-so Micro Problems with Macro Solutions", Travis White (U British Columbia, Okanagan)
  • "Collaborative, Speculative, Possible Technologically-Enhanced Mobile Libraries, Or How Davidson College Students Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Library", Caitlin Christian-Lamb (Davidson C)
  • "'Digital Immateriality:' Locating Surrounding Myths in Pedagogical Settings", Farrah Abdel-Latif & Abigel Lemak (U Toronto)
  • "Ikenga Shrines and Iron Horses: A Reader's Guide to Achebe's Things Fall Apart Using Scalar", Cathy Kroll (Sonoma State U)
  • "Novel Analysis Program (NAP)", Tracey Elhajj (U Victoria)
  • "Deciphering The Dynamiter: A Study in Authorship Attribution", Mingyuan Chen, Carlos Fonseca Grigsby, Anouk Lang, Laura Mcaleese, Alba MorollÛn DÌaz-Faes, Elizabeth Nicholas, & Robyn Pritzker (U Edinburgh)
  • "Northeastern Universityís Digital Scholarship Group: An Introduction", Jim McGrath (Northeastern U)
  • "Capital Talks", Stephanie Gamble (U Kansas)
  • "Schooling Donald Allen: Re-Locating Mid-Century American Poetry Networks", Lisa Chinn, Brian Croxall, & Rebecca Koeser (Emory U)
  • "Curio: A Research Platform for Citizen Science", Edith Law (U Waterloo)
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    Tuesday, 7 June 2016

    9:00 to Noon Classes in Session
    12:15 to 1:15 Lunch break / Unconference schedule grid here)

    Special Session: DH + CC = !!! : Powering up DH research with Compute Canada (Clearihue A015, Lab) -->
    1:30 to 4:00 Classes in Session
    4:15 to 5:30 DHSI Colloquium MacLaurin A144)
  • Chair: John Barber (Washington State U, Vancouver)
  • "Analyzing E-Lit", Dene Grigar (Washington State U, Vancouver)
  • "Speaking in code-mixing: the language of bilinguals", Jose Manuel Medrano (U California, Riverside)
  • "Water through a net: long-term preservation of the digital humanities on the web", Corey Davis (U Victoria)
  • "Expertise and Imposter Syndrome: The Reluctant Digital Humanist", Julia Panko (Weber State U)
  • "Panopticon or Panacea? Googledocs, word processing, and Collaborative Real-time Editing", Mark Perry & Taylor Morphett (Simon Fraser U)
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    Wednesday, 8 June 2016

    9:00 to Noon Classes in Session
    12:15 to 1:15 Lunch break / Unconference schedule grid here) -->
    1:30 to 4:00 Classes in Session
    4:15 to 5:30 DHSI Colloquium MacLaurin A144)
  • Chair: Diane Jakacki (Bucknell U)
  • "Social Knowledge Creation and Big Data", Matthew Hiebert (U Victoria) & William Bowen (U Toronto, Scarborough)
  • "Digital Ironies: Using DH Tools to Examine the Surveillance Society", Josefa Lago-Grana & Renee Houston (U Puget Sound)
  • "Recovering the First World War Illustrated Gift-Book in a Digital Environment", Nick Milne-Walasek (U Ottawa)
  • "Linking the Middle Ages: Applying Linked Open Data to the Field of Medieval Studies", Ece Turnator (U Texas, Austin)
  • "The Autobiographical Writing of Infinite Jest Reading Group Blogs", Philip Miletic (U Waterloo)
    • --> MacLaurin A144) : Open-Source Research: P.R. or Peer Review?
    Michael Ullyot (U Calgary), Chair and Respondent
    MacLaurin A144
    Methodological openness is a key feature of many DH projects. We think, write, and analyze data in open forums, using social networks as intellectual networks. What impacts are these research methods having on DH and on humanities research more broadly? Is this openness just public relations, or is it building a new peer-review model?

    Speakers include:
  • "Who Are We Kidding? 'Blind' Reviews In An Age Of Openness," André de Avillez (Penn State U)
  • "For the Love of DH? Making Online Research Count," Andie Silva (Wayne State U)
  • Chair and Respondent, Michael Ullyot (U Calgary)
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    Thursday, 9 June 2016

    9:00 to Noon Classes in Session
    12:15 to 1:15 Lunch break / Unconference schedule grid here) -->
    1:30 to 4:00 Classes in Session
    4:15 to 5:30
    DHSI Colloquium, including
    Electronic Literature Affiliated Event: Alan Sondheim, "Language, Accident, and the Virtual"
    (MacLaurin Building, Room A100)

    Abstract: This talk engages concepts of blankness, geography, gamespace in virtual worlds, and what I term edgespace - the limits of the gamespace, where language occurs and seethes. I argue that the phenomenology of the real comes into play when living spaces are abandoned, where broken geographies are signs of a future already present. I present instances of digital language production in such spaces, working through virtual worlds such as Second Life and the Macgrid, as well as self-contained Open Sim software that can be run on most computers.

    The edgespace is always uneasy, tottering, catastrophic; it is the space of the unalloyed digital, where things no longer operate within a classical or modernist tradition. Increasingly, this space characterizes our current place in the world, with its fractured media histories and environments of scorched earth, environmental depredation, and slaughter. We can work through and within such spaces, developing (as perhaps Occupy did) new forms of production, resistance, and digital culture.

    5:30 to ~6:15
    Performance: Vibrant Lives (Jessica Rajko, Eileen Standley, Jacque Wernimont, Stjepan Rajko)
    (Just outside MacLaurin Building, Room A100)

    Critically commenting on this use of personal data, Vibrant Lives is an interactive installation that gives audiences a real-time sense of their own voluminous “data shed” (the data that we share as a part of everyday life). In this, Vibrant Lives troubles boundaries erected by ideas of disembodied, abstracted, “immaterial” metadata and people. By juxtaposing the different ways that we engage with technologies of communication and preservation, we ask our audiences to consider interplays of value, valuation, technology, information, and material/matter. Rather than exploring more traditional audio/visual methods for sharing data information, this work offers haptic (touch-based) feedback to elicit a more visceral understanding of what it means to “shed data.”

    MacLaurin A144)
  • Chair: Mary Galvin (University College Cork)
  • "First Year English as a DH Course", Nicholas van Orden (U Alberta)
  • "Collaborative Reading in The Readers' Thoreau", Paul Schacht (SUNY Geneseo)
  • "Radio Nouspace", John Barber (Washington State U, Vancouver)
  • "The 19 Voyages of Henry James", Shawna Ross (Arizona State U)
  • "Archive as Network: a project conducted in the John Ringling Library Special Collections", Margaret Konkol (New C of Florida)
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    Friday, 10 June 2016 [DHSI; ELO and INKE Opening]

    8:00 to 9:30 Electronic Literature Organization + INKE Registration (MacLaurin Building, Room A100)
    9:00 to 9:30 ELO Welcome
    9:30 to Noon DHSI Classes in Session
    ELO Featured Session A
    12:15 to 1:15 Electronic Literature Organization + INKE Registration (MacLaurin Building, Room A100)

    DHSI Lunch Reception / Course E-Exhibits (MacLaurin A100)
    ELO Gallery Exhibit Opens
    1:30 to 3:00 INKE Welcome
    Joint Institute Lecture, ELO, INKE, and DHSI
    Jon Saklofske (Acadia U): “Prototyping Resistance: Wargame Narrative and Inclusive Feminist Discourse.”
    Panel Discussants: Stephanie Boluk (Pratt Institute), Diane Jakacki (Bucknell U), Elizabeth Losh (UC San Diego), and Anastasia Salter (U Central Florida)
    Co-Chairs: Dene Grigar (Washington State U, Vancouver), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), Ray Siemens (U Victoria)
    (MacLaurin A144)
    Abstract: Can a feminist war game exist? War, traditionally the sole purview of men, is an essential site for asking critical questions about masculinist systems and mediated representations, especially since subjects, objects and agents are all instruments within the ideological narratives that frame the brutal history of armed conflict. Simply including female “warrior” characters in a war game, for example, continues to normalize the mechanism of war while extending its “inclusiveness” to groups that have traditionally been marginalized and victimized by it. However, prototyping complex intersections between mechanisms of war, digital game narrativities, and inclusive feminist values suggests that feminist discourses can be used to denaturalize and reframe narratives of war in spaces of programmed play.

    3:15 to 4:45 ELO Concurrent Session 1: 1.1 Best Practices for Archiving E-Lit; 1.2 Medium & Meaning; 1.3 A Critical Look at E-Lit; 1.4 Literary Games; 1.5 eLit and the (Next) Future of Cinema; 1.6 Authors & Texts
    ELO Action Session 1 MacLaurin A144) -->
    5:00 to 6:00 Joint Reception: ELO, INKE, and DHSI (University Club)
    DHSI Colloquium Poster Session
    ELO New Scholars Poster Session
    7:30 to 9:00 ELO Readings and Performances

    Saturday, 11 June 2016 [ELO + INKE + Suggested Outings!]

    8:00 to Noon Electronic Literature Organization + INKE Registration (MacLaurin Building, Room A100)
    8:30 to 10:00 ELO Lightning Round
    ELO Gallery Exhibit Opens (10:00)
    INKE Session 1
    10:30 to Noon ELO Concurrent Session 2: 2.1 Literary Interventions; 2.2 E-Lit in Global Contexts; 2.3 Theoretical Underpinnings; 2.4 E-Lit in Time and Space; 2.5 Understanding Bots
    ELO Action Session 2
    INKE Session 2
    12:15 to 1:15 Lunch
    ELO Artists' Talks
    1:30 to 3:00 ELO Concurrent Session 3: 3.1 E-Lit Pedagogy in Global Setting; 3.2 The Art of Computational Media; 3.3 Present Future Past; 3.4 Beyond Collaborative Horizons; 3.5 E-Loops, Reshuffling Reading And Writing In Electronic Literature Works; 3.6 Metaphorical Perspectives; 3.6 Embracing Bots
    ELO Workshops (to 3.30)
    INKE Session 3
    3:30 to 5:00 ELO Featured Session B
    INKE Session 4
    6:00 to 9:00 ELO Informal Banquet (University Club)
    (INKE participants are invited to hang out with our ELO pals, too!)
    9:00 to Midnight ELO Screenings
    All day
    Suggested Outings    		 Some ideas, for those who'd like to explore the area!
    Suggested Outing 1, Botanical Beach (self-organised; car needed)
    A self-guided visit to the wet, wild west coast tidal shelf (and historically-significant former research site) at Botanical Beach; we recommend departing early (around 8.00 am) to catch low tide for a better view of the wonderful undersea life! Consider bringing a packed lunch to nibble-on while looking at the crashing waves when there, and then have an afternoon drink enjoying the view from the deck of the Port Renfrew Hotel.

    Suggested Outing 2, Butchart Gardens (self-organised)
    A shorter journey to the resplendently beautiful Butchart Gardens and, if you like, followed by (ahem) a few minutes at the nearby Church and State Winery, in the Saanich Penninsula. About an hour there by public bus from UVic, or 30 minutes by car.

    Suggested Outing 3, Saltspring Island (self-organised; a full day, car/bus + ferry combo)
    Why not take a day to explore and celebrate the funky, laid back, Canadian gulf island lifestyle on Saltspring Island. Ferry departs regularly from the Schwartz Bay ferry terminal, which is about one hour by bus / 30 minutes by car from UVic. You may decide to stay on forever ....

    Suggested Outing 4, Paddling Victoria's Inner Harbour (self-organised)
    A shorter time, seeing Victoria's beautiful city centre from the waterways that initially inspired its foundation. A great choice is the day is sunny and warm. Canoes, kayaks, and paddle boards are readily rented from Ocean River Adventures and conveniently launched from right behind the store. Very chill.

    And more!
    Self-organised High Tea at the Empress Hotel, scooter rentals, visit to the Royal BC Museum, darts at Christies Carriage House, a hangry breakfast at a local diner, whale watching, kayaking, brew pub sampling (at Spinnaker's, Swans, Moon Under Water, and beyond!), paddle-boarding, a tour of used bookstores,and more have also been suggested!

    Sunday, 12 June 2016 [ELO + DHSI Registration, Workshops]

    8:30 to 10:00 ELO Town Hall Meeting
    ELO Gallery Exhibit Opens (10:00)
    10:30 to Noon ELO Concurrent Session 4: 4.1 Narratives and Narrativity; 4.2 Historical & Critical Perspectives; 4.3 Emergent Media; 4.4 Narrative and Poetic Experiences; 4.5 The E-Literary Object; 4.6 Next Narrative
    ELO Action Session 3
    12:15 to 1:30 Lunch
    ELO Artists' Talks
    12.30 to 6:00 DHSI Registration (NEW LOCATION: MacLaurin Building, Room A100)
    After registration, many will wander to Cadboro Bay and the pub at Smuggler's Cove OR the other direction to Shelbourne Plaza and Maude Hunter's Pub.
    1:00 to 4:00 DHSI 3-hour Workshops
    1:30 to 3:00 ELO Concurrent Session 5: 5.1 Subversive Texts; 5.2 Experiments in #NetProv & Participatory
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