University Libraries, the Hudson Strode Program, the departments of religious studies and history and the Summersell Center for the Study of the South are hosting a three-day Digital Humanities Conference Oct. 4-6 at Hotel Capstone.
Inspired by scholars and students, Digitorium was created four years ago by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center located within the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library to bring students, faculty and scholars together to discuss the wide range of digital methods used and shared by researchers, graduate students and practitioners from the humanities and the social sciences.
A wide range of topics and workshops relating to digital humanities and scholarship will be presented by national and international speakers during the conference.
Speakers include Dr. Sarah Ketchley from the University of Washington and Dr. Bryan Carter from the University of Arizona.
Ketchley is a lecturer in the department of near eastern languages and civilization. Her current research and teaching interests include the history of the ‘Golden Age’ of Egyptology at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. She has taught introductory-level courses in digital humanities for undergraduate and graduate students.
In 2012, Ketchley co-founded Newbook Digital Texts, an innovative digital humanities publishing house re-imagining and restructuring traditional academic research, publication and education.
Carter is the director of the Center for Digital Humanities and an associate professor in Africana studies. He specializes in African American literature of the 20th century with a primary focus on the Harlem Renaissance.
He has published numerous articles on his doctoral project, Harlem Renaissance, an immersive representation of a portion of Harlem, New York, as it existed during the 1920s Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance.
For additional information about the conference including a complete list of topics and presenters, please refer to the Digitorium website.