This Symposium is co-organized by Alison Booth, Rennie Mapp, and Jack Chen, under the auspices of the Institute for Humanities and Global Cultures’ Reading Lab.

Morning Sessions in Wilson Hall 142

9:00–9:30 am:

Refreshments and Coffee

9:30 am–9:45 am:

Welcoming Remarks by Jack W. Chen, Director of IHGC

9:45 am–10:30 am:

First Session - Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois: “Reading the /”

10:45 am–11:30 am:

What is digital humanities? What is it doing—what does it do—in the classroom? Please join Rachel Retica, Seanna Viechweg, and Brandon Walsh for a reading group on digital pedagogy as a part of the Scholars’ Lab’s fall programming. Topics will broadly include digital humanities teaching and labor, interpretation and the role it plays in digital pedagogy, and culturally responsive digital pedagogy. Readings will be shared in advance to those registered.

What is digital humanities? What is it doing—what does it do—in the classroom? Please join Rachel Retica, Seanna Viechweg, and Brandon Walsh for a reading group on digital pedagogy as a part of the Scholars’ Lab’s fall programming. Topics will broadly include digital humanities teaching and labor, interpretation and the role it plays in digital pedagogy, and culturally responsive digital pedagogy. Readings will be shared in advance to those registered.

What is digital humanities? What is it doing—what does it do—in the classroom? Please join Rachel Retica, Seanna Viechweg, and Brandon Walsh for a reading group on digital pedagogy as a part of the Scholars’ Lab’s fall programming. Topics will broadly include digital humanities teaching and labor, interpretation and the role it plays in digital pedagogy, and culturally responsive digital pedagogy. Readings will be shared in advance to those registered.

Loren Lee, our 2024-2025 Digital Humanities Fellow, will share progress on her fellowship project, a digital edition of La Vie de sainte Marie l’Égyptienne.

UVA English Assistant Professor Dana Little examines social media’s underlying algorithmic architecture and its impact on social discourse. We will review the role of artificial intelligence in “AI-guided” online narratives focusing specifically on the concept of “factions.”

In this talk, members of the 2022-2023 Praxis Program cohort (Malcolm Cammeron, Caroline Carter, Winnie E. Pérez Martínez, and Samantha Stephens) and Brandon Walsh discuss their recent publication in the Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy entitled “A Way In: Digital Pedagogy Training with Low-tech, Speculative Workshops.” Students new to digital humanities often feel pressure to attain a degree of expertise before they can meaningfully contribute to the field.