DHU7 Schedule
Friday, February 24, 2023
1:00-2:00
2:00-3:00
Writing Center, Braithwaite Center, Room 101A
Hands-on Workshop
Jesse Vincent, Brigham Young University
Lauryn Wilde, Brigham Young University
WordCruncher: Text Research and Analysis in the Humanities
3:15-4:15
Panel 1, Yankee Meadows Room, Hunter Alumni Center
Moderator: Jeremy Browne
Brian Croxall, Brigham Young University, “Good Grief! Encoding, Quantifying, and Analyzing *Peanuts* in the Classroom”
Ryan Siemers, Southern Utah University, “Zooming Lit: Adaptations for Teaching Introduction to Literature in a Digital Environment”
Megan McOmber Wight, Brigham Young University, “The Temperature of the Essayist: A Language Analysis using AI”
Panel 2, Vermillion Cliffs Room, Hunter Alumni Center
Moderator: Joy McMurrin
Brett Stanfield,Utah Tech University, “Cataloguing Nature’s Data: Exploring the Process of Remediation and Digital Rhetoric through the Digitization of Artworks by Harry Bertoia and Jimmie Jones”
Tessa Scheuer, University of Utah, “Project ECO SLC: Exploring the Intersection of Digital Education and the Environment”
Eliana Massey, University of Utah, “Cultivating a Climate of Hope: Digital Tools for Climate-Centered Community Engagement”
Saturday, February 25, 2023
8:30-9:30
Registration, Charles Hunter Room
9:30-10:30
Panel 3, Yankee Meadows Room
Moderator: Matt Nickerson
Grant Madsen, Brigham Young University, “Presidential Morality: a Digital History Approach”
Ashton Reeder, University of Utah, “The Case Against Dataveillance”
10:45-11:45
Panel 4, Yankee Meadows Room
Publishing Dorothy Wordsworth
Paul Westover, Brigham Young University
Lavender Earnest, Brigham Young University
Emily Stephens Kasper, Brigham Young University
Panel 5, Vermillion Cliffs Room
Moderator: Rebekah Cummings
Jeff Turner, University of Utah, “Mapping Religious Migration in American History”
Eliza McKinney, University of Utah, “Community Archives: How Digital Tools Expand Access to Marginalized Histories”
Kaylee Alexander, University of Utah, “The US Cemetery Audit: Examining Inequality in American Deathscapes”
12:00-1:00
Lunch, Charles Hunter Room
1:00-2:00
Keynote: Marika Cifor: “Going Viral: Mobilizing AIDS Archives in Digital Cultures”
Whiting Room, Hunter Alumni Center
2:15-3:15
Panel 6, Yankee Meadows Room
Moderator: Keri Holt
Makenna Allred, Brigham Young University, “Montaigne and Machine Learning: Understanding the Role Machine Learning Plays in Deepening Our Understanding of Translation”
Jesse Vincent and Lauryn Wilde, Brigham Young University, “Sentence by Sentence: A Bilingual Resource for Language Learners”
Spencer Stewart, Independent Scholar, “Quantifying Cultural Drift: Using Diachronic Word Embeddings to Study History”
Panel 7, Vermillion Cliffs Room
Moderator: Joy McMurrin
Dylan Hansen, Brigham Young University, “Semantic Overflow of Powerful Feelings: Digital Humanities Approaches to William Wordsworth's The Prelude”
Jeremy Browne, Brigham Young University, “Who Sells to Whom: A Digital Collection of Advertisements in Anti-Polygamy Standard and Woman's Exponent, 1880-1883”
3:30-4:30
Panel 8, Yankee Meadows Room
Moderator: Randy Jasmine
The Stories Told about Southern Utah: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Research the Region
Utah Tech University
Jenny Chamberlain, Karen Kidd, Adell Kirkman, Emily Mildenhall, Autumn Nuzman, Brett Stanfield, Madi Wawrzyniak, and Theda Wrede (professor)