DHU7 Schedule

Friday, February 24, 2023


1:00-2:00

Registration, Charles Hunter Room, Hunter Alumni Center


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)