SDH/SEMI 2009
Printable ProgramThe 2009 conference of the Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs will be held in the MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, Ottawa, May 25-27. SDH-SEMI meets annually at the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities, along with close to a hundred other Canadian academic societies. Our programme will feature a keynote address by Michael Best, this year’s recipient of the SDH-SEMI award.
| Monday 25 May / Lundi 25 Mai | CO-SPONSORS | |||||
| 8:30-8:45 | President's Welcome | |||||
| 8:45-10:00 | Plenary Session | 2009 Recipient of the SDH/SEMI Award for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities | ||||
| MacOdrum Library, Room 402 | Chair: Geoffrey Rockwell | Recipient & Speaker: Michael Best | ||||
| 10:00-10:30 | break/pause | |||||
| 10:30-12:00 | Chair: Stéfan Sinclair | Session 2.1 | ||||
| Room 360K | Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak | A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities | ||||
| Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Lynne Siemens, Geoffrey Rockwell | The Academic Capacity of Humanities Computing in Canada | |||||
| Kirsten Uszkalo | What was she Thinking: Ways of Thinking / Ways of Working in a DH Context | |||||
| 10:30-12:00 | Chair: Jon Saklofske | Session 2.2 | ACCUTE | |||
| Room 402 | Karl Jirgens | Neurophysiology, Digital Humanities and the Text Visualized | ||||
| Jodey Castricano | Testing the Limits: Immersive Environments, Quantum Theory, Indigenous Philosophy and Synchronicity | |||||
| Rodica Ieta | Texts: Mechanisms of Understanding | |||||
| 12:00-2:00 | lunch break/pause | |||||
| 2:00-3:30 | Chair: Keith Lawson | Session 3.1 | ||||
| Room 402 | Mark Vincent Olsen, Russell Horton | PAIR: Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations | ||||
| Stéfan Sinclair, Geoffrey Rockwell | Hermeneuti.ca: The Dialogue between Tools and Interpretation | |||||
| 2:00-3:30 | Chair: Stephane Levesque | Session 3.2 | ||||
| Room 360K | Ineke Hardy | An electronic edition of medieval texts: mouvance in action | ||||
| Stan Ruecker, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Milena Radzikowska | Text as image: visualization components of text analysis tools | |||||
| 3:30-3:45 | break/pause | |||||
| 3:45-5:00 | Chair: Rodica Ieta | Session 4 | ||||
| Room 402 | Susan Brown, Blair Nonnecke, Stan Ruecker, Claire Warwick |
Studying Orlandoʼs Interfaces | ||||
| Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, Peter Organisciak, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair | Mashing Texts: Exploring New Possibilities in Rapid Research Document Management | |||||
| Lisa Given, Stan Ruecker, Martina King, Moyra Lang, Myah Slade | User Information for the Design of Visual Interfaces for Health Information and the Management of Complex Health Regimes | |||||
| Tuesday 26 May / Mardi 26 Mai | CO-SPONSORS | |||||
| 8:45-10:00 | Chair: Kirsten Uszkalo | Session 5.1 | ||||
| Room 360K | Alejandro Giacometti, Mariana Paredes, Stan Ruecker, Ruxandra Comanaru | Tell Me What Those Blogs Are About: Comparing Corpus-based Automatic Keyword Generation for Blog Posts and Folksonomy Tagging | ||||
| Carolyn Guertin | Rethinking Authorship and Text: Narrative as Global Practice | |||||
| Martina King | Visual Communication: A Study of Library Virtual Reference Icons Online | |||||
| 8:45-10:00 | Chair: Alicia Colson | Session 5.2 - Panel | ||||
| Room 402 | Kevin Kee, John Bonnett, Steve High, Stacey Zembrzycki | The sound, the morph, and the ludic fury: New objects to support analysis and expression in history and the digital humanities | ||||
| 10:00-10:15 | break/pause | |||||
| 10:15-11:45 | Chair: Kevin Kee | Session 6.1 | ||||
| Room 360K | Keith Lawson | Studentsʼ use of social networking sites for academic purposes | ||||
| Paul Dyck | Expanding Textualities in the Undergraduate Classroom: A Course on the “Digital Word” | |||||
| Stephane Levesque, Clare Leaper | Learning to think like historians: Lessons from high school students using the Virtual Historian | |||||
| 10:15-11:45 | Chair: Serina Patterson | Session 6.2 | ||||
| Room 402 | Ray Siemens, Lynne Siemens | Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Digital Humanities Community: A ʻViralʼ Experiment in the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium | ||||
| Alejandro Giacometti, John Simpson, Chris Lepine, Stan Ruecker: | Small Groups Interacting Online | |||||
| Lynne Siemens, Richard Cunningham, Wendy Duff, Claire Warwick | “More minds are brought to bear on a problem”: Methods of Interaction and Collaboration within Digital Humanities Research Teams | |||||
| 12:00-2:00 | break/pause | |||||
| 2:00-3:30 | Chair: Stan Ruecker | Poster Session | ||||
| Room 402 | Jean Danis, Jean Guy Meunier, Nicolas Payette | Computer Assisted Annotation Strategy: the Emerging Interpretation Process | ||||
| Serina Patterson | Medieval Games Online: Representing Medieval Games in a Social, Interactive Environment | |||||
| Brett Hirsch | Digital Renaissance Editions | |||||
| Ray Siemens | What are the Digital Humanities? | |||||
| 3:30-3:45 | break/pause | |||||
| 3:45-5:00 | Chair: Brent Nelson | Session 8 - Panel | ||||
| Room 402 | Stan Ruecker, Geoffrey Rockwell, Peter Organisciak, Jean Guy Meunier, Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Alan Galey, Aimee Morrison, Ray Siemens | Graduate Education in the Digital Humanities | ||||
| Wednesday 27 May / Mercredi 27 Mai | CO-SPONSORS | |||||
| 8:45-10:00 | Chair: Christian Vandendorpe | Session 9 - Panel | ||||
| Claire Warwick, Alan Galey, Richard Cunningham, Ray Siemens, Stan Ruecker | Implementing the New Knowledge Environment | |||||
| 10:00 - 10:15 | break/pause | |||||
| 10:15-11:30 | Chair: Paul Dyck | Session 10.1 | ||||
| Room 402 | Kirsten Uszkalo, Stan Ruecker | Conjuring and Transmogrifying: A Review of Two Digital Tools in the Context of Studying Early Modern Witchcraft Trials | ||||
| Dominic Forest, Vincent Audette-Chapdelaine | Enjeux et défis de lʼextraction et de lʼorganisation automatiques dʼinformations à partir de textes théoriques en sciences humaines | |||||
| Brett Hirsch, Ray Siemens | Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn) and Professional Reading Environment (PReE), Past, Present, Future: A Study in Academic Process | |||||
| 10:15-11:30 | Chair: Lynne Siemens | Session 10.2 | ||||
| Room 360K | Andrew Keenan, Joyce Mo-Yeen Yu | That Game is for Girls: Examining Internet-Based Video Games for Girls Aged 8-13 | ||||
| Alicia Colson | Donʼt make snap decisions about what you are ʻseeingʼ: How digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield rock highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes | |||||
| Andrew Green is unable to attend. | ||||||
| 12:00-2:00 | lunch break/pause | |||||
| 2:00-3:30 | Chair: Richard Cunningham | Session 11 - Panel | ||||
| Room 402 | Christian Vandendorpe, Richard Cunningham and Alan Galey, Jon Saklofske | The History and Future of Reading | ||||
| 3:30-3:45 | break/pause | |||||
| 3:45-5:30 | Presiding: Ray Siemens and Christian Vandendorpe | Annual General Meeting | ||||