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For the past 30 years, Brown University Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship has served as an innovative hub for research and teaching in digital humanities (DH) and scholarly communication across disciplines. Join staff, faculty, and student stakeholders for a two-day symposium celebrating the center’s work in digital projects, training and critical DH pedagogy, and born-digital publications. The program highlights Brown Library’s leadership in the field and looks to the future

The symposium will showcase the exciting work our center and our students have been doing as we look to the future of the field.

Registration Required

Register for Day One – Thursday, May 1, 2025

Register for Day Two – Friday, May 2, 20205

Keynote

The keynote address, “Dark Fibers, Missing Datasets, and the Politics of Occult Information,” will be delivered by alumna Jacqueline Wernimont A.M.’05 Ph.D.’09, Associate Professor of the Arts & Sciences, Distinguished Chair of Digital Humanities and Social Engagement at Dartmouth College and the former Co-Director of HASTAC.

Program

Thursday, May 1

• 3:30 p.m. – Arrivals
• 4 p.m. – Symposium Opening Welcome and Introductions
  • Joseph S. Meisel, Joukowsky Family University Librarian
  • Francis J. Doyle III, Provost
  • Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
• 4:30 p.m. – Keynote address from Jacqueline Wernimont A.M.’05 Ph.D.’09: “Dark Fibers, Missing Datasets, and the Politics of Occult Information” and Q&A
• 5:30 p.m. – Reception and Conversation on Widening the Impact of CDS
  • Renée Ater, Visiting Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • John Bodel, W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Professor of History
  • James Egan, Professor of English
  • Lukas Rieppel, Associate Professor of History
  • Massimo Riva, Professor and Interim Chair of Italian Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, Coordinator of the Virtual Humanities Lab, Affiliated Professor of Modern Culture and Media
  • Patsy Lewis, Professor of Africana Studies (Research)
  • James N. Green, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Director of the Brazil Initiative
  • Shana Weinberg, Associate Director, Public Humanities, Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
  • Allen H. Renear, Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Friday, May 2

• 8:30 a.m. – Arrivals, coffee
• 9 a.m. – Welcome from President Christina H. Paxson
• 9:15 to 10 a.m. – History of Digital Scholarship at Brown
  • John Cayley, Professor of Literary Arts
  • Steve Lubar, George L. Littlefield Professor of American History, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Professor of American Studies
  • Moderator: Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
• 10 to 10:15 a.m. – Break
• 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. – Launching the Stolen Relations Project
  • Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
  • Linford Fisher, Associate Professor of History
  • Lorén Spears, Executive Director of the Tomaquag Museum and enrolled Narragansett Tribal Nation citizen
  • Paula Peters, journalist, educator and activist. Member of the Wampanoag tribe
  • Moderator: Rae Gould (Nipmuc), Executive Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Brown University
• 11:15 to 11:30 a.m. – Break
• 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Training and Critical DH Pedagogy with Students Past and Present
  • Cosette Bruhns Alonso, Assistant Editor, Brown University Digital Publications
  • Warren Harding, Assistant Professor of English, SUNY, Binghamton
  • Talya Housman, digital historian, museum educator, and library professional
  • Maggie Masselli, Graduate Student in History of Art and Architecture
  • Moderator: Nora Dimmock, Deputy University Librarian
• 12:30 p.m. – Lunch with a Viewing Party of the New Frameworks to Preserve Born-Computational Art Project
  • Cody Carvel, Digital Scholarship Technologist
  • Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
  • Patrick Rashleigh, Head of Digital Scholarship Technology Services
  • Khanh Vo, Digital Humanities Specialist
  • Hilary Wang, Digital Archivist
• 2 to 3 p.m – Born-Digital Publications: New Scholarly Forms, New Models for Collaboration
  • Eric Brandt, Director, University of Virginia Press
  • Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History, Professor of Italian Studies, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
  • Donald J. Waters, Senior Scholar, Coalition for Networked Information and Vice President, Engineering Information Foundation
  • Nadine Zimmerli, Editor in Chief, University of Virginia Press
  • Moderator: Kevin McLaughlin, George Hazard Crooker University Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study, Dean Emeritus of the Faculty
• 3 to 3:15 p.m. – Break
• 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. – Diversifying Digital Publishing: Cross-Organizational Support for Scholars & Librarians
  • Sara Jo Cohen, Editorial Director, University of Michigan Press
  • Marco Robinson, Associate Professor of History and Assistant Director of the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice, Prairie View A & M University
  • La Tanya Rogers, Interim Dean, School of Humanities & Behavioral Social Sciences, Fisk University
  • Charles Watkinson, Associate University Librarian for Publishing and Director, University of Michigan Press
  • Moderator: Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications
• 4:15 p.m. – Closing Remarks and Toast
  • Tara Nummedal, John Nickoll Provost’s Professor of History, Faculty Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship
  • Ashley Champagne, Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship