{"id":17015,"date":"2026-04-09T20:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/?p=17015"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:19:34","slug":"forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/04\/30CDS10BUDP_email-size-1024x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/04\/30CDS10BUDP_email-size-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/04\/30CDS10BUDP_email-size-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2026\/04\/30CDS10BUDP_email-size.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A symposium co-organized by Brown University Digital Publications and the Center for Digital Scholarship on Friday, May 1, 2026.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one-day symposium, held both in-person and virtually, focuses on future directions in the field of digital scholarship, including community-engaged research, uses of AI in the field, the rapidly evolving landscape of multimodal publishing, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keynote speaker: Brett Bobley<\/strong>, advisor for Schmidt Sciences\u2019 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute grant program and former founding director of the NEH Office of Digital Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Free and open to the public. <a href=\"https:\/\/events.brown.edu\/library\/event\/328468-forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship-people\"><strong>Registration required<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Schedule<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8:30 a.m. &#8211; Arrivals<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8:45 a.m. &#8211; Welcome and Introduction&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9:15 a.m. &#8211; <strong>Keynote Address<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brett Bobley<\/strong>, Advisor for Schmidt Sciences and former Director of the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10:15 a.m. &#8211; Break<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">10:30&nbsp;a.m. &#8211; <strong>Multimodal Publishing: Innovation and Impact<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sarah McKee, Project Manager, Amplifying Humanistic Scholarship, American Council of Learned Societies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tara Nummedal, Professor and Chair of History, Brown University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Leah VanWey, Dean of the Faculty, Brown University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Victoria-Lola Leon Guerrero, Director of the University of Guam Press<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Chair:<\/strong> Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">12 p.m. &#8211; <strong>Lunch<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 p.m. &#8211; <strong>Community-Centered Research I: Our Priorities and Concerns (Case Studies)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kim Gallon, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kimberley Toney, Coordinating Curator for Native American and Indigenous Materials for the John Carter Brown Library and Brown University Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Running Wolf (Northern Cheyenne and Lakota), Co-Founder and Lead Architect of First Languages AI Reality at Mila\/IndigiGenius and former AI startup executive<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Co-Chairs:<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Patrick Rashleigh, Head of Digital Scholarship Technology Services, Brown University Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tarika Sankar, Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2 p.m. &#8211; Break<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2:15 p.m. &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>Community-Centered Research II: Your Priorities and Concerns (audience breakouts)&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3:15&nbsp;p.m. &#8211; Break<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3:25 p.m. &#8211; <strong>Future Directions for Digital Scholarship&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Participants<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Eliza Bettinger, Director of Digital Scholarship Services, Cornell University Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meaghan J. Brown, Associate Director of Digital Asset Management, John Carter Brown Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lynda Kellam, Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data &amp; Digital Scholarship, University of Pennsylvania Libraries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nirmala Menon, Professor of English, Indian Institute of Technology Indore and Chair of the newly established Jay Prakash Narayan National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cecilia Smith, Director of Digital Scholarship, University of Chicago Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Co-Chairs:<\/strong> \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ashley Champagne, Director of Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications, Brown University Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4:45 p.m. &#8211; <strong>Closing Remarks<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speakers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ashley Champagne, Director of Center for Digital Scholarship, Brown University Library<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allison Levy, Director of Brown University Digital Publications, Brown University Library<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5 p.m. &#8211; <strong>Reception<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A symposium co-organized by Brown University Digital Publications and the Center for Digital Scholarship on Friday, May 1, 2026. This one-day symposium, held both in-person and virtually, focuses on future directions in the field of digital scholarship, including community-engaged research, uses of AI in the field, the rapidly evolving landscape of multimodal publishing, and more. <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/forging-the-future-of-digital-scholarship\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Forging the Future of Digital Scholarship: People, Projects, Priorities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,5,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-publications-digital-humanities","category-exhibits-events","category-home-page"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17023,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions\/17023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}