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Digital Frontiers is a conference and community that explores creativity and collaboration across disciplinary boundaries in the arena of public humanities and cultural memory. Established in 2012 to respond to the need for an affordable, high-quality conference that addressed the emerging field of digital humanities from a variety of perspectives, Digital Frontiers is a truly interdisciplinary experience. The conference brings together scholars and students, librarians and archivists, genealogists and public historians to share their experience of using digital resources in the humanities.
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Exploring Aesthetic Communities with Text Mining and Data Visualization: The Program Era Project and the Iowa Writers' Workshop
(2018-10-04)How can Digital Humanities methods be used to explore the history of and artistic output of aesthetic communities and creative institutions like the Iowa Writers’ Workshop? The Program Era Project is an initiative at the ... -
Overcoming the Curse of Knowledge with Cross-disciplinary Collaboration
(2018-10-04)Community building in digital humanities (DH) is an undertaking which presents well-documented challenges. Inclusion and collaboration have been held as an ideal, as evidenced in Marin Dacos’ “Manifesto for the Digital ... -
Collaborative Intelligence: Building a Community of Practice in Digital Scholarship at Connecticut College
(2018-10-04)One of the strengths of small liberal arts colleges is the potential for rich faculty-student collaborative research at the undergraduate level. Digital scholarship affords LACs significant opportunities to leverage these ... -
Revising the Textbook(s): Open Access, Open Pedagogy, Open Communities
(2018-10-04)Digital approaches to humanities have helped researchers re-examine and re-articulate our pedagogical goals and classroom practices, especially in higher education. As our world becomes immersed in the digital, educators ... -
Forms of Equivalence: Bertillonnage and the History of Information Management
(2018-10-04)Late in the nineteenth-century, the French civil servant and anthropologist, Alphonse Bertillon, developed a system of criminal identification that sought to classify human beings on individual standardized cards, each ... -
A Future Hopeful and Strange: Making, Speculative Design, and Defamiliarizing the Present
(2018-10-04)This presentation for the 2018 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference is part a panel session, "Building Supportive Communities: Methods and Perspectives on Promoting Inclusivity, Intersectionality, and Interdisciplinarity ... -
Remaking Space: A Geo-spatial Visualization of the Irwinville Farms Community
(2018-10-04)During the Great Depression, the Irwinville Farms Project was a poster project for a government program established to help young farmers in the U.S. Specifically, families with limited income in Irwin and surrounding ... -
Indigenous Computational Bodies and Settler-Colonial Violence
(2018-10-04)The making-visible onscreen of women’s experiences has been a central concern of Indigenous digital media. Likewise, recent Indigenous rights movements have called attention to how the cultural disjuncture of women’s bodies ... -
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(2018-10-04)This presentation for the 2018 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference is part a panel session, "Building Supportive Communities: Methods and Perspectives on Promoting Inclusivity, Intersectionality, and Interdisciplinarity ... -
Community in the Making: Intersectionality and Interdisciplinary Participation in the University Makerspace
(2018-10-04)This presentation for the 2018 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference is part a panel session, "Building Supportive Communities: Methods and Perspectives on Promoting Inclusivity, Intersectionality, and Interdisciplinarity ... -
Sunny Side Up: How GLAM Wiki Saved My Bacon
(2018-10-04)Hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon is daunting, especially when you have no experience or knowledge of how to interact on the world’s fifth most visited website. The key to finding success in developing a Wikipedia program ... -
Feminist Use of Digital Humanities: Grad Student Approaches and Perspectives
(2018-10-04)This panel showcases graduate student, feminist digital humanities projects. Panelists will present their project, highlighting their specifically feminist uses of DH tools/approaches. The panel will open to conversation, ... -
Dipping Vats and Goat Roping: Voices from Small Places
(2018-10-04)Initiated in 2014, The Voices from Small Places project combines four different methodologies to document and preserve community history, each of which may be customized to meet the needs of the community and to best tell ... -
Digitally Reviving a Numismatic Collection: Pedagogy and Scholarship
(2018-10-05)In the past decade, several digital projects aimed at digitizing, mapping, linking, and studying material culture from the ancient world have sprung up. Many of these can be viewed at The Digital Classicist Wiki, but several ... -
Digital Community Engagement at a Regional University
(2018-10-04)At a regional, masters-comprehensive university located in a county characteristic of the rust belt’s declining industries and falling populations, significant creativity is needed for a digital humanities center to develop ... -
Resilience through Podcasts, Video and Digital Media
(2018-10-04)Digital Humanities is communication through the condition of modern existence and at the University of Kansas we are striving for a multidisciplinary approach to illustrate the experiences of people. This panel consist ... -
Data Feminism: Community, Allyship, and Action in the Digital Humanities
(2018-10-04)What is the role of the digital humanities in the charged political climate of 2018, and how can digital humanists ally themselves with the activists, organizers, and others who are working to support those most threatened ...
