DHC 2024

Programme

Sponsored by Gale

Wednesday — 4th September 2024

09:30 - 11:00

Registration Reception

11:00 - 12:30

Introduction and Plenary 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
The Digital Humanities From Afar Melissa Terras University of Edinburgh

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Bar

13:30 - 15:00

Session 1 High Tor 2 Chair: Sophie Whittle	Session 2 High Tor 3 Chair: Seth Mehl	Session 3 High Tor 4 Chair: Joshua Stutter
Annotating Sequential Event Interactions in Virtual Reality-Mediated Embodiment Corpora Abdulrahman A. A. Alsayed University of St Andrews	Detecting affect and emotion in heritage reviews Andrea Kocsis University of Edinburgh and Northeastern University London	Towards a digital skills infrastructure for UK-based music researchers: A report on a pilot project Eamonn Bell, Annaliese Micallef Grimaud University of Durham
“The effect of a thing”: Nature and the Environment in Percy Bysshe Shelley and Algernon Charles Swinburne Gyuri Kang, John Walsh Indiana University	Digital Humanities and the Shaping of Local Identities: A Proposal for Exploration Krzysztof Wasilewski, Igor Walczak Koszalin University of Technology	Towards a European and UK Digital Humanities Infrastructure Lisa Otty, Giota Alevizou DARIAH-UK
The Oxford Corpus of Historical English: developing a new digital resource for research into the English language Kate Wild Oxford University Press	Materialities and memories of the Spanish Civil War: an approach to Bilbao’s Iron Belt through digital humanities Tania González Cantera University of Girona

15:00 - 15:30

Tea Break Bar

15:30 - 17:00

Session 4 High Tor 2 Chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird	Session 5 High Tor 3 Chair: Isabella Magni	Session 6 High Tor 4 Chair: Kate Simpson
Exploring the information-seeking behaviours of dance researchers to enhance the development of online resources Bethany Johnstone University College London	Continental European Books in Early Modern England, 1500-1640: A New Approach Using Bibliographic Data Science Fred Schurink University of Manchester	Cataloguing resources in one unified system – The case of the Text+ registry Tobias Gradl, Daniela Schulz University of Bamberg and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
Data ethics, digital archives, and fast scholarship: digital provenance and early modern letters Elizabeth Williamson University of Exeter	The Role of Context: Narrative Construction of Historical Photo Archives in Digital Humanities Jingyi Zeng, Li Niu Nankai University and Renmin University of China	Archaeology and Digital Humanities: A Leading Role in Reshaping Society Gianluca Foschi Newcastle University
Contentious descriptions and bias in published photographic heritage collections: a digital humanities approach Fred Truyen KU Leuven	Unlocking Historical Insights: A Web-Based Platform for Advanced Text Analysis with Ontology and Knowledge Graphs Lilin Yu University of Edinburgh	Degrowing the Digital Humanities: Towards Sustainable Approaches (Lessons from Machine Translation and Online Interpreting) Ernesto Priego, Jonathan Evans City University of London and University of Glasgow

17:30 - 19:00

Drinks Reception Bar

Thursday — 5th September 2024

09:30 - 11:00

Plenary 2 High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
“Content" as infrastructure: reflections on Jisc's support for the Digital Humanities Paola Marchionni, Peter Findlay Jisc

11:00 - 11:30

Tea Break Bar

11:30 - 13:00

Session 7 High Tor 2 Chair: James Chetwood	Session 8 High Tor 3 Chair: Catherine Wong	Session 9 High Tor 4 Chair: Jamie McLaughlin
Working with the Sloane Herbarium: Data Analysis, Processing, and Modelling as Method Brad Scott Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum London	Access Responsibility: Promoting Access in Digital Infrastructure Michael Dale Stokes, Jessica Stokes Michigan State University	Technology-Driven Motivational Tools and Their Impact on Audience Intrinsic Motivation in Intangible Cultural Heritage Projects Zhi Ye, Zheyuan Zhang King’s College London and Imperial College London
Handling Abbreviations: HTR, TEI, and Evolving Hands James Cummings Newcastle University	Data (Co)Creation: Ethics and Challenges of Computational Tools in Narrative Analysis Manoj Singh Rana Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar	Creating user-centred digital collection platforms: Balancing user needs and institutional practices Han Jiang University of Leicester
Ansund: Using Machine Learning to Develop a New, Exhaustive, Open Access Corpus of Old English Mark Faulkner, Elisabetta Magnanti Trinity College Dublin and University of Vienna	Literature in Digital Age: Pry as a Paradigm for Electronic Literature Yolanda De Gregorio University of Cádiz	Authority in the age of AI: A trajectory of shifting perceptions on encyclopedic value and transformation Giota Alevizou King’s College London

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch Bar

14:00 - 15:30

Session 10 High Tor 2 Chair: Valeria Vitale	Session 11 High Tor 3 Chair: JuEunhae Knox	Session 12 High Tor 4 Chair: Guy Solomon
Mapping Immigration in Film: A Quantitative and Digital Analysis of American Immigration Onscreen from 1990-2021 Mark Goldbach University of Glasgow	Virtual Spaces and Immersive Storytelling in Charity Fundraising Chris Birchall, Simon Popple University of Leeds	Technologies of Recovery: Using digital tools to understand colonial collections in British museums with equity, humanity and honesty Kate Simpson University of Sheffield
Spatial narratives: the construction of collective memory in the context of digital humanities Yishuo Qiao, Jingyi Zeng Nankai University	Advancing Global Art History through A New Research Model: A Case Study of the V&A Chinese Export Watercolours Jin Gao University College London	Leveraging large language models for post-OCR correction of 19th century British newspapers Alan Thomas University of Sheffield
Digital Lookbook for an ancient kingdom : Building a Digital Database of human figures depicted on Koguryo Murals KyungHee Yi Independent scholar, Copenhagen, Denmark		Two tales of a city: a digital investigation of Cantopop lyrics in pre-handover Hong Kong Catherine Wong, Charles Lam University of Sheffield and University of Leeds

15:30 - 16:00

Tea Break Bar

16:00 - 17:30

Plenary 3 and Close High Tor 2 Chair: Michael Pidd
Building Bridges and the Ties that Bind: Bringing us together but respecting our differences Simon Mahony UCL

19:00 - 23:00

Conference Dinner Inox Dine

Programme

Sponsored by Gale

University of Edinburgh

University of St Andrews

University of Edinburgh and Northeastern University London

University of Durham

Indiana University

Koszalin University of Technology

DARIAH-UK

Oxford University Press

University of Girona

University College London

University of Manchester

University of Bamberg and Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

University of Exeter

Nankai University and Renmin University of China

Newcastle University

KU Leuven

University of Edinburgh

City University of London and University of Glasgow

Jisc

Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum London

Michigan State University

King’s College London and Imperial College London

Newcastle University

Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar

University of Leicester

Trinity College Dublin and University of Vienna

University of Cádiz

King’s College London

University of Glasgow

University of Leeds

University of Sheffield

Nankai University

University College London

University of Sheffield

Independent scholar, Copenhagen, Denmark

University of Sheffield and University of Leeds

UCL