Como comunidad, el Simposio Global de Humanidades Digitales se compromete a apoyar el trabajo en las intersecciones de las humanidades digitales críticas; raza y etnicidad; feminismo, interseccionalidad y género; justicia para personas con discapacidad; acceso y preservación; y marcos anticoloniales y poscoloniales. Abordamos las humanidades desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y damos la bienvenida a investigaciones y proyectos que cruzan fronteras.
Su propuesta será revisada por miembros de la comunidad de humanidades digitales globales. Los organizadores de la conferencia tendrán en cuenta sus comentarios para tomar la decisión final sobre su propuesta. Si su propuesta es seleccionada, el resumen será publicado online en la página web de la conferencia.
Los revisores evaluarán las propuestas en base a cada uno de los siguientes criterios:
- Evaluación general
- El tema principal de la propuesta sería de interés para una gran variedad de asistentes al simposio.
- El marco teórico y/o método utilizado en la propuesta será de interés para los asistentes del simposio.
- La propuesta tiene el potencial para realizar una contribución original y significativa al campo de las humanidades digitales.
- La propuesta demuestra una comunicación clara en su contenido y en un formato accesible para un público interdisciplinario.
- La propuesta demuestra su compromiso con las comunidades que representa y considera las implicaciones éticas de su intervención.
- Relación con los intereses del simposio, generalizados a partir de la convocatoria de propuestas
- El enfoque es global, transnacional, indígena, no centrado en Estados Unidos, sobre culturas fronterizas y migraciones o refleja temas poco representados.
- Esta propuesta mejoraría los objetivos del simposio de centrar culturas, idiomas o regiones que no están tradicionalmente ni históricamente centradas en otras conferencias de humanidades digitales, en particular las que se celebran en Estados Unidos-Canadá y Europa
- La propuesta está relacionada con los intereses de la convocatoria de propuestas con discusiones sobre identidad, equidad o sistemas de poder más amplios, tales como la indigenidad, la migración, estatus migratorio, la poscolonialidad, el género, la sexualidad, la discapacidad, la clase y/o el trabajo.
- La propuesta se relaciona con el interés del simposio en cómo las HD pueden comprender o intervenir en problemas complejos del mundo en general.
Recomendamos echar un vistazo a los ejemplos de la amplia gama de resúmenes aceptados en simposios anteriores (enumerados en “Past Symposia”).
Ejemplos de propuestas aceptadas
Los resúmenes aceptados en simposios anteriores se archivan y pueden consultarse en nuestro sitio web, en el menú “Past Symposia”. Todos los resúmenes se proporcionan como enlaces en el programa de cada simposio.
Por ejemplo, los resúmenes del año pasado están en: https://2025.msuglobaldh.org/abstracts/
A continuación, ofrecemos algunos ejemplos de cada tipo de propuesta. Lo animamos a consultar la programación de simposios anteriores para ver más ejemplos de la amplia gama de resúmenes en inglés y español.
Presentaciones de 15 minutos
Jennifer Ross, (University of Toronto, Canada), “A Geography of Terror and Repression”
(From 2022)
Since the inauguration of the War on Terror in 2001, counterterror rhetoric and policy have grown ever more present in responses to domestic crisis and, increasingly, democratic expression. Following Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 flooding of New Orleans, heavily armed police, military, and paramilitary forces herded “looters,” “insurgents,” and, in one instance, assumed terrorists into an outdoor detention facility modeled after Guantánamo Bay. Paramilitary units also deployed to Puerto Rico in 2017 to secure San Juan’s exclusive Santurce District, guard infrastructure workers, and protect fresh water supplies. More recently, private security contractors have been used to suppress democratic movements for social justice and Native sovereignty. In Standing Rock, North Dakota, contractors and state prosecutors portrayed water protectors as a “pipeline insurgency” to be quashed by paramilitary forces. Just a few years later, contractors snatched up Black Lives Matter protestors in Portland, Oregon and drove them away in unmarked vans.
An act of sousveillance, “A Geography of Terror and Repression” turns the tools of mapping and surveillance against a state deploying draconian tactics in the name of security. This project marshals GIS, a medium steeped in military conquest and Western imperialism, to pinpoint individual eruptions of counterterror state violence against racialized populations. Moreover, the project reveals the interrelation of security tactics and personnel by tracing the movement of contractors from one area of real or perceived crisis to another. Hosted initially on ArcGIS Story Maps to provide a national overview of counterterror state violence, each marker then links to a location-specific digital project utilizing Omeka, Leaflet, or Python to document security tactics and public resistance. By visualizing the continuously expanding purview of contractor deployment, this project ultimately reveals a disturbing trend growing out privatization, the quest to protect white supremacy, and the erosion of civil and human rights in the name of security.
Panel de 60 minutos
Student-Centered Practices in Global Digital Humanities
(From 2025)
Building a Student-Driven Digital Humanities Community at UTSA: A Journey of Collaboration and Innovation
Niloufar Esmaeili (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Our first panelist, the president of the Digital Humanities Student Organization, will speak about the organization’s journey in building a lively, student-driven digital humanities community at UTSA. She will share her experience of reaching out to the Mozilla Foundation, and their significant role in connecting DHSO with other student clubs across the United States. Esmaeili will discuss how DHSO’s regular events have significantly contributed to the development and improvement of students’ projects. Using her own work on “Documenting Gender-Based Violence in Iran” as an example, she will illustrate how participation in these events helped her expand her digital humanities research.
Archiving Literary Voices: Building a Transborder Literary Archive of U.S./Mexico Borderlands Literature
Devon Bradley (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Our second panelist will present writers from the Rio Grande Valley and Northern Mexico who have enriched U.S./Mexico borderlands literature. Using transborder digital humanities methodologies, like textual analysis and critical curation, this research explores what defines borderlands literature and how this understanding changes when considering both sides of the border. Through engaging these questions, this archive seeks to draw attention to and challenge existing inequalities of border cultural heritage access, distribution, preservation, and digitization (Fernández Quintanilla and Álvarez, 2021). Positioning this project and involvement with DHSO as a strategy to advance it from a class assignment to a dissertation chapter.
Curating a Database and Analyzing Gender Violence Against Latina Women in Historical Spanish-Language Newspapers
Jessica Corona (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Our third panelist draws on feminist works like El silencio que la voz de todas quiebra (Candia et al., 1999), Ellas tienen nombre (Ramirez), and the Esther Chávez Cano Collection. Corona curates a database documenting gender-based violence against Latina women in U.S. border cities like El Paso and San Antonio during the early 20th century. Using historical Spanish-language newspapers, she analyzes representations of feminicide and violence, employing a feminist transborder digital humanities methodology to challenge the erasure of these crimes from dominant narratives. Involvement with the Digital Humanities Student Organization has introduced new skills to expand this archival work.
Unveiling Heritage: Mapping Migration and Identity Through Digital and Archival Practices
Elisa Castro (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Our fourth panelist focuses on cultural preservation through transnational digital humanities (DH) and archival practices. Involvement with the DHSO has deepened her understanding of using technology to preserve and share local cultural narratives. Rooted in postcolonial DH, she explores migration and identity through her family’s migration from Viesca, Coahuila, Mexico, to San Antonio, Texas. She is creating the Viesca Coahuila Mapping Project, a digital map chronicling migration narrative, from indigenous movements to contemporary diaspora. The project explores motivations like economic opportunities, political upheavals, and cultural exchanges, highlighting the connection between migration and identity formation.
Latine Queerstories: Testimonios Orales de Migración an in class Digital Project
Emily Rodriguez (University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
Our fifth panelist will emphasize the importance of digitally archiving and preserving Latine queer transborder experiences, which have historically been silenced, through oral testimonies. The Digital Humanities Student Organization (DHSO) promotes the education and use of digital tools which can be used to challenge dominant narratives and foster a deeper understanding of marginalized experiences. Latine Queerstories: Testimonios Orales de Migracion is an innovative project created by graduate students which addresses the urgent need to create spaces for gender, sexual, and (im)migrant identities that have historically been marginalized and silenced, creating a broader understanding of queer Latine sexual and (im)migrant identities.
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Humanidades digitales latinas y decolonialismo
Gabriela Baeza Ventura (University of Houston, USA), Montse Feu (Sam Houston State University, USA), and Paloma Vargas Montes (Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico)
(2024)
Descripción del panel:
Este panel ofrece una visión de las posibilidades que existen cuando se trabajan las humanidades digitales desde una perspectiva latina. Las tres presentaciones muestran el trabajo con archivos latinos en EEUU desde donde se recuperan documentos, voces, vidas. Esta actividad permite documentar la participación de la comunidad latina en la creación de nación.
“Métodos decoloniales y las humanidades digitales latinas,” Gabriela Baeza Ventura, University of Houston
Esta presentación se centra en lo que está en juego en la realización de proyectos de humanidades digitales a través del lente de humanidades digitales latinx con el fin de crear métodos decoloniales que impugnen las narrativas coloniales. Los archivos institucionales se han apropiado del conocimiento, han etiquetado erróneamente y han descontextualizado las historias de la gente de color, perpetuando un trauma generacional que informa la representación de la gente Latinx en los Estados Unidos. Los proyectos digitales realizados por el Centro de humanidades digitales, como el Proyecto de literatura puertorriqueña (PLPR), tiene el potencial de crear una comprensión más inclusiva de la literatura y la historia. Además, la aplicación de herramientas digitales a archivos subrepresentados puede amplificar las complejas voces de historias y lenguas multiétnicas, ejemplificar las tensiones entre comunidades e instituciones formales, recuperar voces ancestrales y ofrecer la oportunidad de reescribir historias marginadas en el discurso nacional.
“Arte gráfico de los periódicos antifascistas en español” Montse Feu, Sam Houston State University
El arte gráfico de los periódicos antifascistas en español de Nueva York, Frente Popular (1936-1939), España Libre (1939-1977) e Ibérica (1953-1974), denunciaron el fascismo español gracias a las noticias de redes de trabajadores en la resistencia. En particular, las ilustraciones recrearon una cultura visual de solidaridad, acción directa y conmemoración. Frente Popular y España Libre mantuvieron una política de publicación abierta al público que permitió a los trabajadores expresar su antifascismo. La acción directa de SHC creó una cultura de solidaridad y de activismo participatorio. Las imágenes examinadas aquí están curadas en el proyecto digital Fighting Fascist Spain – The Exhibits (FFSTE). Con una metodología interdisciplinaria y con el objetivo de la justicia histórica, FFSTE recupera la historia de la organización antifascista estadounidense, Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas, su activismo y la cultura impresa.
“Indigenous Episteme of the Borderlands: el horizonte hermenéutico de sus metadatos” Paloma Vargas Montes, Tecnología de Monterrey
El proyecto Indigenous Episteme of the Borderlands parte del establecimiento de un corpus de documentos del Archivo General de Indias que describen la interacción entre los grupos indígenas y los europeos durante los siglos XVII y XVIII en el sureste de Texas y el noreste de México. Desde una perspectiva metodológica que integra la filología, la hermenéutica y la etnohistoria, el análisis de este corpus textual y sus potenciales visualizaciones plantea la creación de una matriz de metadatos cuyo horizonte hermenéutico abordan el territorio como región cultural, la movilidad de los grupos indígenas como parte de su cosmovisión y las transfiguraciones del imaginario de lo indígena durante el período colonial.
Presentaciones relámpago de 7 minutos
Digital Intersectional Gender Responsive Approach to the Issue of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Global Pandemic
(2024)
Farinaz Basmechi (University of Ottawa, Canada)
COVID-19, as a global crisis, exacerbated women’s situations all over the world, regardless of their geo-political contexts. In my presentation, I will focus on the issue of sexual violence against women (SVAW) in the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways we can utilize digital humanities to highlight and ameliorate the problem with SVAW in the situation of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic, one of the deadliest global crises, mainly caused social and economic vulnerability in the global population. Since the beginning of the pandemic, many scholars have criticized the socio-political orders reigning the globe, concentrating on a global initiative and response to face the impacts of COVID-19. Although the necessity of global response and implementing positive biopolitics are promoted by some scholars, including Benjamin Bratton (2022), many others believe that such a viewpoint cannot protect individual human populations, and more specifically, it is unable to reduce women’s vulnerability in the situation of a crisis. Since gender-based violence (GBV) and sexual violence (SV) are social problems that largely target women, and more intensely marginalized women, during the situation of a global health crisis, a Digital Gender Responsive Intersectional (DGRI) perspective would be the most efficient choice of approach to counter sexual violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic alerted individuals and governments to the possibility of the global outbreak of more viruses in the future. Many women experienced a higher level of social and economic vulnerability during the pandemic, which resulted in a higher rate of GBV and SV against them. Although some approaches aim to decrease the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s lives, many failed to consider the issue of SVAW during the pandemic. The issue of SVAW during COVID-19 can be tackled with the DGRI approach through its focus on the role of digital literacy, education, awareness, supportive community and organization, women and minorities’ empowerment, and SV preventive policies.
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Advances in Open Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Scholarly Information Retrieval in Digital Humanities Research
(2024)
John Adebayo (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA)
Advances in technology continue to redirect humans’ activities on different landscapes; one of the products of these technological innovations is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is applied in the process of the information lifecycle. Concurrently, the increase in the dominance and use of Artificial Intelligence has become a regular conversation in different platforms, including humanistic communities, as it reshapes humans’ engagement with technology. Specifically, while the connection between AI and scholarly activities is multifaceted and enshrined with possibilities, examining some of the challenges associated with its cognitive, responsible, and ethical use for academic purposes is necessary. Therefore, this study explores the implications of using Open AI services for scholarly information retrieval in Digital Humanities. The objective of this study focuses on assessing the use of an Open AI solution, ChatGPT, by information seekers to recommend strategies that enhance cognitive, contextual, and inclusive scholarly information retrieval among researchers in digital humanities.
The study will use a literature-based research approach to explore the historical and theoretical views of information retrieval and different developmental phases in Open AI. Moreover, a comparative analysis among ChatGPT, search engines, and other language models (Bing and Google Bard) will be done. Consequently, the qualitative data will help generate thematic content highlighting some criticisms of using ChatGPT for scholarly information retrieval. While there are different dimensions to evaluating the use of Open AI for academic purposes, the study will focus on the cognitive, moral, legal, and ethical aspects and risks associated with using technological innovation in digital humanity research. While this study serves as the basis for exploring different stages in evaluating AI applications, the findings are expected to enhance collaborative efforts among researchers, developers, and policymakers to address the concerns, improve the transparency of AI models, and ensure responsible and ethical use in digital humanities research endeavors.
Exposición de proyectos
Showcasing Hallyu Tracker: Exploring the possibilities and limitations of Digital Humanities
Natalia Grincheva (LASALLE, University of the Arts Singapore ; University of Melbourne, Australia)
(From 2025)
This Project Showcase will reflect on and share research results of the project on mapping and measuring Hallyu soft power developed as a part of the bigger research Mapping Global Impacts of Hallyu, The Korean Wave, funded by the Korean Foundation in 2024. The project employs Digital Humanities approaches to advance policy-oriented studies on Hallyu, or the Korean Wave, that refers to the current global spread and impact of creative industries products specific to South Korean popular culture on different parts of the world. It aims to explore the Korean Wave as a highly complex global phenomenon that has different layers of manifestations across multiple stages of its existence from production to consumption in transnational contexts. The project employs data-driven and machine learning approaches combined with traditional qualitative research to measure, map, and predict the spread, reach, intensity and impacts of the Korean Wave across different geo-locations to benefit a more informed, strategic, and evidence-based approach to Hallyu national policy and international diplomacy.
The Project Showcase introduce Hallyu Tacker mapping application (please see preliminary visualisation here) to tease out insights on geographic and temporal patterns and trends in the global expansion of Hallyu across different countries around the world. Playing with Hallyu Tracker as a demonstration of the mapping application the session will offer reflections on contributions of the project to the field of Digital Humanities. By demonstrating the power of digital tools and methods to analyze and understand complex cultural phenomena like Hallyu, the Hallyu Tracker will reveal and expose the power, potential as well as limitation of quantification, visualization and mapping of qualitative knowledge. Exploring Hallyu Tacker app as data storytelling tool, my presentation will explore complex relationships of data-driven research creative outputs as a digital creative praxis methodology on the one hand, and as an independent media object projecting its own narratives for target audiences on the other hand.
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“Singing the Song of the Land You Are In” – Digital Humanities and Post-Colonial Study of the Kyrgyz Manas
Anguelina Popova and James Plumtree (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan),
(From 2024)
Anguelina Popova and James Plumtree (American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan)
Since the date of their first known transcription during a Tsarist Russian military reconnaissance in 1856, Kyrgyz oral verse narratives about the legendary hero Manas and their study have been impacted by Russian colonialism, technological limitations, and detrimental comparison with Western and classical literary models. This collected material is often inaccessible, buried in foreign archives or available in publications too expensive for residents of the 146th highest economy in the world. Scholarship, typically in Russian, uses unfamiliar terminology and concepts that judge Manas by remote criteria. Manas is consequently seen in Kyrgyzstan through these Russian-Soviet perspectives, and in the West it is unhelpfully considered as an antiquated a repository of customs and history, as a representation of a ‘people’, something not worthy of being examined, yet something in dire need of saving as it staggers towards extinction.
The Digital Humanities project of the Analysing Kyrgyz Narratives (AKYN) Research Group, based at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) is assisting local performers to show that Manas is currently very alive, rich, and full of individual virtuosity. By recording and making available contemporary performances, conscientiously avoiding previous judgmental assumptions and biases of Western and Russian colonial scholarship, AKYN has, with its preservation, celebration, and broadening access to cultural materials, challenged the cliched view of decline by showing the immense creativity, innovation, and individual artistry present in living Manas narration. The often obscured individual agency, local contexts, and overshadowed Kyrgyz viewpoints are being emphasised, with DH providing an online space for this ongoing cultural creativity to be engaged with, appreciated, and continued.
Presentación de póster
OCR for Coptic Literature: Digitizing an Under-resourced Historical Language Corpus
Lydia Bremer-McCollum and Caroline Schroeder (University of Oklahoma, USA)
(From 2024)
OCR for Coptic Literature: Digitizing an Under-resourced Historical Language Corpus
Lydia Bremer-McCollum and Caroline Schroeder (University of Oklahoma, USA)
The Coptic language is the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language family (a language family that also includes hieroglyphs). Although Coptic literature comes from late antique and medieval Egypt, most Coptic manuscripts now reside in Global North repositories, and almost always in fragments, with pages from the same codex in two, three, or more different archives. Many works have not been published even in print, or if published not in their entirety. Digitization and then reassembly of literary works in the digital realm are processes essential for basic access to the literature, especially since this literature has been inaccessible to the heritage community of origin. As David Smith’s and Ryan Cordell’s working paper, “A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition” argues, developing public infrastructures for historical language OCR is critical for humanities research. Although previous researchers have developed OCR for Coptic, software updates render models obsolete, requiring new development. This situation poses significant challenges for researchers with small teams or without significant engineering and programming support. This poster will outline processes and results of developing OCR for Coptic and will include lessons learned and best practices for other projects working in under-resourced historical languages.
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Translation Networks
(From 2024)
Ali Bolcakan (Presenting) and Christi Merrill (University of Michigan, USA)
Our project, Translation Networks (http://www.translationnetworks.com), is intended for researchers, scholars, students, and educational staff and helps them extend, edit, and create connections between the sources found in the catalogs of archives, libraries, and museums. It combines the functionalities of reference management and diagramming/concept mapping software.
With extensive multilingual support, our software allows users to customize and add, change, and correct critical information and metadata for existing and new records—for example, the name of the translator, the language translated from or into, its relationship to other translations, or to the source it is translated from. Furthermore, our interface allows users to create custom collections, and two-dimensional diagrams/concept maps to visualize work non-linearly.
Our focus from the inception has been on making links between translated materials and their sources across languages since most records do not make this specific information available to users.
We have been working on achieving AA ADA compliance for the site for the past year, specifically focusing on supporting users with low or no vision. Starting in the fall, we will add more robust interpretive frameworks for collection and concept map features. We will also improve the ability to work across even more writing systems.
Our next goal is to tackle the name authority issue for transnational and multilingual research. For example, the city of Istanbul, depending on the language of the source, can be represented as Κωνσταντινούπολις, قسطنطينيه, Պոլիս, קושטה , and so on. Most of the time, old records found in archives and library catalogs will be a) not linked to other related records correctly, if at all; b) would be transliterated and cataloged erroneously or are outdated; and c) missing crucial metadata. Any research project that spans languages and/or time periods will encounter similar issues and will see them extend to the names of contributors, titles, dates, etc.