Friday, May 20th, 2022 |
Time: 8:45AM-5:30PM
Location: Digital Arts & Humanities Commons (DAHC), Music 1410
Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85645581204
Schedule:
8:45-9:15AM Coffee & Pastries
9:15AM Welcome: Patricia Fumerton, EMC Director
9:30-10:45AM Keynote: Ben Jackson (University of Sussex), “Virtual Reality Puppet Shows of Old Bailey Trials: A Case Study of a Component in a Macroscope”
Introduction: Jeremy Douglass
10:45-11:00AM Break
11:00AM-12:30PM Panel: Religion, Race, & Gender in the Digital Archive
Moderator: Kristen McCants Forbes
Henry Coburn, “Numinous Spaces”
Shaun Nowicki, “’It must be told‘: Fabulative Historiography and the Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!“
Jessica Dubrovner, “Feminist-Centered Neo-Pagan Religion and the Influence of Witchcraft in Archives”
12:30-1:45PM Lunch (Catered by South Coast Deli)
1:45-2:30PM Lightning Round: Women’s Work in the Digital Archive
Moderator: E. Cook
Olivia Henderson, “Mapping Mary Wroth’s Urania“
Alia Amaya, Title Forthcoming
Ladann Kiassat, “Women and Pre-Industrial Medicine in England 1500 to 1750”
2:30-2:45PM Break
2:45-4:00PM Keynote: Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), “Hearing Voices and Writing Lives: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century London”
Introduction: Alan Liu
4:00-4:30PM Open Discussion: Reflections on Digital Culture from Below
4:30-5:30PM Wine & Cheese Reception
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Many thanks to the EMC’s sponsors for their kind and generous support for this event: UCSB English Department, Early Modern Center, History Department, Graduate Center for Literary Research, HFA, and Academic Senate.