Friday, September 21st
All Network Detroit 2018 activities in Room 91 of Manoogian Hall unless otherwise noted
8:30-9:00
Conference registration; Coffee & snacks
9:00-9:10: Introductory remarks
Daren Hubbard
Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President, Computing and Information Technology, Wayne State University
9:15-10:00: Panel discussion
Digital Preservation Planning in the Metro Detroit Community
Alexandrea Penn, Wayne State University
Laura Kennedy, Wayne State University
Margaret Waligora, Wayne State University
10:00-10:15: Break
10:15-11:15: Short presentations
Queer Intersections: Archives and Visualizations as Activism
Cody Mejeur, Michigan State University
Driverless Activism: Hands-Free Digital Humanities and AI
Kim Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University
Kitchen Activism: Digitally Representing Detroit’s Global Cuisine
Kim Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University
11:15-11:25: Break
11:25-12:15: Lightning Talks
Exploring Thoreau’s Botanical Community
Jodi Coalter, Wayne State University
Mapping Senufo: Visualizing Silences in Archives
Caitlin Glosser, Emory University
Building a JSTOR Community of Digital Humanities Scholars
Rachel Foshag, JSTOR
Scott Pontasch, JSTOR
Tracking Change at the Detroit Health Department via the Internet Archive 1998 – 2018
Alex Hill, Detroit Health Department
12:15-1:15 [Room TBD]
Lunch and learn presentation from ProQuest on geoparsing and rhyme scheme analysis.
1:15-2:15: Keynote address
Digital Infrastructures and Communities in Resistance
Dhanashree Thorat, University of Kansas
2:20-3:00: Short presentations
Reclaiming Community: Generative Digital Projects and the Black Community
Julian Chambliss, Michigan State University
Digital Rhetorical Theory and Identity Curation: Catching the Golden State Killer
Charles Woods, Illinois State University
3:00-3:15: Break
3:15-4:00: Panel discussion
College-Wide Course-Based-Research-Experience Intervention as a Pathway towards Inclusive Excellence
Melinda Weinstein, Lawrence Technological University
Lior Shamir, Lawrence Technological University
Xamaka Lathem, Lawrence Technological University
4:05-5:05: Short presentations
Archives, Memory, and Community Engagement: Socio-Digital Strategies for Activism in Archival Work
Arjun Sabharwal, University of Toledo
Practical Advice For Grad Students: Lessons from Network Detroit and Detroit ’67
Nathan Kelber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
5:10
Closing remarks; dine-around
