Digital Dialogues
Digital Dialogues were MITH’s signature events program for over a decade, held almost every week during academic semesters. Digital Dialogues provided an occasion for discussion, presentation, and intellectual exchange. Explore the full record of Digital Dialogues events, including videos and materials.
2024
- May 07Sensing SfericsElectromagnetic Noise and Environmental SignalJeffrey Moro
- Apr 23Kinship & (Be)LongingConfronting Slavery's Archive through Critical Black DHEllie Palazzolo, Olivia Barnard, Jessica Marie Johnson, Leila K. Blackbird
- Apr 09Sustaining DHEndings, Dependencies, InfrastructureJoey Takeda
- Mar 26WILDWOODBlackDH Adventures in Southside Chicago WorldmakingElizabeth Murice Alexander
2020
- Mar 31
- Mar 24Building a Community Data Curation PracticeDigital Archiving through Partnership and Resource SharingJennifer Garcon
- Mar 10Leonardo Flores
- Mar 03Jina Valentine, Heather Hart
- Feb 25
2019
- Nov 05Jessica H. Lu, Caitlin Pollock
- Oct 29Kimberly Bain
- Oct 22Behind the LineDigitally Rethinking and Restructuring Geopolitical Borders and its SurroundingsSylvia Fernandez
- Oct 15A Colony in Crisis after Five YearsDigital Konbit in PracticeKelsey Corlett-Rivera, Nathan Dize
- Oct 08Difficult HeritageIndigenous Collections in Digital HumanitiesJennifer Guiliano
- Oct 01Setsuko Yokoyama
- Apr 16Digital ContainerizationA History of Information Storage Containers for Programmable MediaKyle Bickoff
- Apr 09Decolonizing DisasterSurviving Surveillance in Post-hurricane Puerto RicoChristina Boyles
- Apr 02
- Mar 26Andrew Ferguson
- Mar 12
- Mar 051968 Archives are Loud AFUsing DH to Transform Narratives About 1968 & "The Archive"Marya McQuirter
- Feb 26The Devil in the DetailsDH for Small Data and Close ReadingHugh Cayless
2018
- Nov 06Nimble Tentsxpmethod, #tornapart, and Other Tensile Approaches to the Fourth EstateAlex Gil
- Oct 30Christy Hyman
- Oct 25How Were So Many Arabic Authors So Prolific?Digital Evidence for the Origins and Development of a Historical Textual TraditionSarah Bowen Savant
- Oct 09
- Oct 02Jim Brown
- Sep 25
- Sep 18EcoDHIntersections of Environmental and Digital Humanities—Digital Dialogue PanelTed Dawson, Amanda Starling Gould, Max Symuleski, libi rose striegl, Craig Dietrich
- Apr 03Dialectical MaterialitiesPennSound, Early Poetry Recordings, and Disc-to-Disk TranslationsChris Mustazza
- Mar 28If We Build It, They Will ComeMapping an Intellectual History of the 20th Century Afro-AtlanticKaiama Glover
- Mar 13
- Feb 27
- Feb 20Persian TwitterA Transforming Social Media LandscapeEmad Khazraee
- Feb 13
2017
- Nov 07Yes, We ScanBuilding Media Conservation and Digitization at the National Museum of African American History and CultureWalter Forsberg
- Oct 31Liberation by DesignInteractive Media & Community-Engaged MakingAlexandrina Agloro
- Oct 24The Bicentennial Frankenstein ProjectStitching the Seams of Textual BodiesElisa Beshero-Bondar
- Oct 10Oscillating Networked PublicsContingent Uses of Black Digital NetworksSarah Florini
- Oct 03Acknowledging History in Order to Disrupt itUnearthing the Segregated History of Library and Information ScienceNicole A. Cooke
- Sep 26Unfixed ResearchOn Letting Others Lead in Arts-Integrative WorkKevin Hamilton
- Apr 11
- Apr 04Joanna Swafford
- Mar 28Spotlighting Hidden HistoriesArchiving Transgender Usenet, 1994-2013Avery Dame
- Mar 14(POSTPONED) Dirty Digital Environmental HumanitiesFrom iPhones to eWasteAmanda Starling Gould
- Feb 28The Price of the TicketRacism, Black Digital Practice, and Racism Battle FatigueAndré Brock
- Feb 15Giving Voice to Ancient TextsDigital Preservation and Access for Endangered Manuscripts from Threatened CommunitiesColumba Stewart
- Feb 07Buffoons, Goons, and Pixelated MinstrelsThe Digital Story That Games TellKishonna L Gray
2016
- Nov 15Looking for the Perfect BeatAfrican American Literary History--Technology and TextureKenton Rambsy, Dana A. Williams
- Nov 08To Organize, Organize, ORGANIZEThe Colored Conventions, Then and NowSarah Patterson, Jim Casey
- Nov 01Conservation and DigitizationA Technologizing of the Book as an ObjectAlberto Campagnolo
- Oct 25Digital ArchivesRadical Acts of Self-PreservationRavon Ruffin
- Oct 18
- Oct 11Catherine Knight Steele
- Oct 04Finding Aids for the UnreadDesign for the Visualization of ReadingPurdom Lindblad
- Apr 26
- Apr 11Track ChangesA Literary History of Word ProcessingMatthew Kirschenbaum
- Mar 29Cultural Memory & Digital MediationThree contrasting projects in Armenia, Australia and South AfricaHarold Short
- Mar 08
- Mar 01Of graphs, maps, and 30,000 MuslimsDigital Humanities & The Premodern Islamic WorldMaxim Romanov
- Feb 23Kim Gallon
- Feb 18Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestley
- Feb 09Making History w/ the Masses RevisitedHistory Unfolded & the Realities of Citizen HistoryElissa Frankle
2015
- Nov 10Murder NetworksA New Materialist Look at ViolenceTrisha Campbell
- Nov 03Richard Freedman
- Oct 27Experimental Models and Art Historical ComputingNetworks in the Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish PrintmakingMatthew Lincoln
- Oct 20
- Oct 13Cheryl Ball
- Oct 06A Woman’s TouchManual Labor, Pink Collar Workers, and Feminist New Media Origin StoriesElizabeth Losh
- Apr 07
- Mar 30Between Document & Digital MapThe Need for the Archive & GIS to Analyze the Nazi Built EnvironmentPaul Jaskot
- Mar 24Performing the Digital EditionTextual Scholarship & the Digital Consumption of Music ScoresRaff Viglianti
- Mar 10Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the AmericasExploring Lobotomy’s Visual CultureMiriam Posner
- Mar 03Kill Time, Make HistoryBuilding Inspector and other HCI Case Studies from NYPL LabsMauricio Giraldo
- Feb 24Strata of SentienceDeep Mapping the Media CityShannon Mattern
2014
- Nov 11Alex Wright
- Nov 04Strange BedfellowsDigital Humanities, Internet Art, and the Weird InternetDarius Kazemi
- Oct 28Andrew Johnston
- Oct 21From Transformative Works to #transformDHDigital Humanities as (Critical) FandomAlexis Lothian
- Oct 14Without InnovationAfrican American Lifeworlds and the Internet of ThingsMarisa Parham
- Oct 07
- Sep 30Alison Booth
- Apr 22
- Apr 15Margo Padilla
- Apr 01Lori Emerson
- Mar 25On Not LookingEthics and Access in the Digital HumanitiesKimberly Christen-Withey
- Feb 25
- Feb 18Heavy Data, Cultural MemoriesLessons from the AIDS Memorial Quilt Digital Experience ProjectAnne Balsamo
2013
- Oct 29Nicole Saylor
- Oct 15
- Oct 03Accessibility in Digital EnvironmentsLanguage, Law, and the Question of InclusionGeorge Williams
- Sep 24Tara McPherson
- Sep 17Documenting Science in the Digital AgeWhat's the Same and What's DifferentChris Prom
- Apr 30
- Apr 23Multilingual Users of TwitterSocial Ties Across Language Borders or How a Story Could Travel the WorldIrene Eleta
- Apr 16Finding Values LeversBuilding Ethics into Emerging TechnologiesKatie Shilton
- Apr 09From the Stacks to the Future of ResearchBuilding a Scalable, Sustainable Digitization Program at the University of MarylandRobin Pike
- Apr 04Making History with the MassesCitizen History and Radical Trust in MuseumsElissa Frankle
- Apr 01Archiving Modern Latin American ArtSites, Students and Collaboration in the Greater Washington AreaAbigail McEwen
- Mar 12Anne Collins Goodyear
- Mar 05Rachel Donahue
- Feb 26Rita Raley
- Feb 20Linking Things on the WebA Pragmatic Examination of Linked DataEd Summers
- Feb 19Jen Golbeck
- Feb 05Digitizing Chinese EnglishmenArchival Silences, Digital Recovery, and Creating a Nineteenth Century "Postcolonial" ArchiveAdeline Koh
2012
- Dec 04
- Nov 27Getting to the StuffDigital Cultural Heritage Collections, Absence, and MemorySheila Brennan
- Nov 13Revising EkphrasisTelling the Sister Arts’ Story Through Topic Modeling and Network AnalysisLisa Marie Antonille Rhody
- Nov 06Space, Time, and the Problem of ScaleDigital Storytelling with NeatlineBethany Nowviskie, David McClure
- Oct 30
- Oct 16Amanda French
- Oct 04Ethan Watrall
- Oct 02Inventing the Medium as a Humanistic Practicefrom deconstruction to meta-constructionJanet Murray
- Sep 25Digital PreservationA Role for Public LibrariesBill Lefurgy
- Sep 21Julia Flanders
- Sep 10Donald Brinkman
- May 08Contextual FuturesThe Meaning, Structure, and Use of Archival DescriptionMark Matienzo
- May 01From Print to DigitalThe Black Gotham Digital ArchiveCarla L. Peterson, Seth Denbo
- Apr 24Enhancing the BibliosphereBringing Historical Libraries to Life at LibraryThingJeremy Dibbell
- Apr 17Jeffrey Schnapp
- Apr 10Jordan Boyd-Graber
- Apr 03Historical Interactive VisualizationCoaxing Data to Tell StoriesBill Ferster
- Mar 27Craig Saper
- Mar 13
- Mar 06Lynn Cazabon
- Feb 29Digital Humanities at ScaleThe HathiTrust Research CenterBeth Plale
- Feb 28Leigh Wilson Smiley
- Feb 21Michael Witmore
- Feb 14Knowledge and Meaning in the Information AgeA Humanist Perspective on WikipediaMelanie Kill
2011
- Dec 06Nancy Proctor
- Nov 29It’s not a game to meARGs, Game Design & Secret Agents in the SchoolroomKari Kraus, Beth Bonsignore, Amanda Visconti, Ann Fraistat
- Nov 15Everything is AnimatedPervasive Media and the Networked SubjectBeth Coleman
- Nov 08
- Nov 01Learning on the JobData Curation by Humanists, Librarians, and the PublicTrevor Muñoz
- Oct 25Networked MacrosolutionsLibrary Peer-Sourced Collaborative ServicesRachel Frick
- Oct 18Practical Strategies for Digital Humanities Development10 Things I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me Before I Began Digital Humanities ResearchJennifer Guiliano
- Oct 11Fred Gibbs
- Oct 04Robert K. Nelson
- Sep 27
- Sep 02Aditi Muralidharan
- May 03Siva Vaidhyanathan
- Apr 26Neil Fraistat, Seth Denbo
- Apr 19Player PianoMechanizing the HumanitiesJames Smith
- Apr 12Communities IncarnateVirtual Intimacies of Body and PlaceMaria Velazquez
- Apr 08Richard Grusin
- Mar 29Teaching Machines to Read MiltonNatural Language Processing Challenges for Literary and Historical TextsTravis Brown
- Mar 15
- Mar 08Mary Flanagan
- Mar 01Stop Being Polite and Start Getting RealProfessional Education for Professional HumanistsTim Carmody
- Feb 22
- Feb 15The Time and Place for Space and TimeInterfaces to distributed cultural heritage collectionsTrevor Owens
2010
- Nov 30Franklin J. Hildy
- Nov 16
- Nov 09Where the Magnet Hits the MetalComputer History on the GroundJason Scott
- Nov 02
- Oct 26Tracking TransienceThe Orwell ProjectHasan Elahi
- Oct 19Wayne Graham, Joe Gilbert
- Oct 12Mapping the Mobile InterfaceGeolocation Meets VisualizationJason Farman
- Sep 21
- Sep 14The iPadThe "Jesus Tablet" and the Resurrection of Consumer SocietyZeynep Tufekci, Nathan Jurgenson
- Apr 27Tool MashingThe Devonshire MS (BL Add 17492) and its NetworksRay Siemens
- Apr 20Performance in Digital PoetryTechnique, Spectacle, and Representation of Cultural IntersectionsMirona Magearu
- Apr 13Doing History in PublicDigital History in the Digital HumanitiesSharon Leon
- Mar 30Nicholas Chen, Kari Kraus
- Mar 23The Design and Use of StoryKitAn Intergenerational Mobile Storytelling AppBeth Bonsignore
- Feb 16
2009
- Dec 15Georgina Goodlander
- Nov 17
- Nov 11From the First Year Through TenureNew Pathways for Humanities in a Digital AgeGreg Crane
- Nov 03Ben Bederson, Nicholas Chen, Matthew Kirschenbaum
- Oct 27The Open Source ProfessorTeaching, Research, and TransparencyMark Sample
- Oct 20If/Then 101Teaching Programming at MarylandDoug Reside
- Oct 13Sayeed Choudhury
- Oct 06A Dictionary, A Database, A Desultory ReaderMetaphors for the Mind in Eighteenth-Century LiteratureBrad Pasanek
- Sep 29Bryan Carter, Zita Nuñes
- Sep 15Rachel Donahue
- May 05Networked ReenactmentsHow Television, Museums, and Universities Tried to Find Audiences in the NinetiesKatie King
- Apr 28Preserving Virtual WorldsA MITH Research UpdateNeil Fraistat, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kari Kraus, Doug Reside
- Apr 21
- Apr 14Andrew Stauffer
- Apr 07How to Play XMLMarkup Technologies as Nomic GameWendell Piez
- Mar 31The Shakespeare Quartos ArchiveA MITH Research UpdateGrant Dickie, Doug Reside
- Mar 24Despina Kakoudaki
- Feb 24Archimedes in BitsTen Years of Work on the Archimedes PalimpsestWilliam Noel
- Feb 17Jean Dryden
- Feb 10Jeremy Boggs
- Feb 03Saracca and NationAfrican Memory and Re-creation in Grenada (Film Screening)Merle Collins
2008
- Dec 02Renaissance Moving PicturesFrom Sidney's Funeral materials to Collaborative, Multimedia NachlebenElizabeth Bearden, Stephanie Clarke-Graham, Elizabeth Martin, Michael Quilligan
- Nov 18The International Children's Digital LibraryNot Just for Children AnymoreAnn Weeks, Ben Bederson
- Nov 04New World OrderingShaping Geospatial Information for Scholarly UseBethany Nowviskie
- Oct 28Matthew Kirschenbaum
- Oct 21Planned ObsolescencePublishing, Technology, and the Future of the AcademyKathleen Fitzpatrick
- Oct 14Zach Whalen
- Oct 07
- Sep 30Tom Scheinfeldt, Dave Lester
- Sep 23
- Sep 16
- Sep 09The MITHological AXEMultimedia Metadata Encoding with the Ajax XML EncoderDoug Reside
- Apr 29
- Apr 22Jonathan Auerbach
- Apr 15
- Apr 08Neil Fraistat, Jim Kuhn, Richard Kuhta, Doug Reside
- Apr 01To Read or Not to ReadA Discussion of the NEA's Latest Report about ReadingSunil Iyengar
- Mar 25The Mandrake VehiclesKinetic Poetry in Physical and Digital FormsOni Buchanan
- Mar 04
- Feb 26Play and PedagogyVideogames and Writing InstructionDouglas Eyman
- Feb 12Chris Apple, Greg Cox, Jarred Young
- Feb 05Marilee Lindemann
2007
- Dec 04Matthew Kirschenbaum, John Murray
- Nov 27Linda Frueh
- Nov 13Stephan Greene, Philip Resnik
- Oct 30
- Oct 23
- Oct 16
- Oct 09From ARPANET to the InternetHow a Military Project Became a World-Wide Cultural Phenomenon, 1970-1995Paul E. Ceruzzi
- Oct 02Simulating LivenessFrom Virtual Vaudeville to Second LifeDavid Saltz
- Sep 25Architecting Cultural SpacesCase Studies of Virtual Representation in the HumanitiesJohn Tolva
- Sep 18Digital Poetry as ScrabbleMaking from Given MaterialsChris Funkhouser
- Sep 11
- Apr 17Angel David Nieves, Merle Collins
- Apr 10
- Apr 03Randy Bass
- Mar 27
- Mar 13
- Mar 06
- Feb 27Xerographers of the MindThe Lost Idea of the PhotocopyLisa Gitelman
- Feb 13Brandon Morse
- Feb 06Jason Nelson
2006
- Dec 05The Digital DocketInformation Retrieval Meets Political ScienceJimmy Lin
- Nov 17A Box, DarklyObfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code AestheticsNick Montfort
- Nov 14
- Nov 08
- Nov 07
- Oct 31
- Oct 25Chuck Henry
- Oct 24Lessons from the MALACH ProjectApplying New Technologies to Improve Intellectual Access to Large Oral History CollectionsDouglas Oard
- Oct 17Beautiful Untrue ThingsThe Digital DilemmaSusan Schreibman
- Oct 10
- Oct 03Everything Old Is New AgainThe Re-emergence of Medieval Polyvocality in Digital Manuscript ArchivesTimothy Stinson
- Sep 26You Can Take It With YouThe Nascent Role for Mobile in the Digital HumanitiesKevin Bertram
- Sep 19“The Business of America”Preservation of Born Digital Business Records from the Dot Com EraDavid Kirsch
- Sep 12David Silver
- Sep 05Visualizing Women's StudiesFacilitating Visual Learning in the Feminist ClassroomKimberlee Staking, Nikki Stewart
- Apr 25Fellows PresentationsDavid Prager Branner and Chip ManekinDavid Prager Branner, Chip Manekin
- Apr 11Patricia Cossard, Michele Mason
- Apr 04Ralph Bauer, Marlene Mayo
- Mar 28Asim Ali, Marc Ruppel
- Mar 07Scott Rettberg
- Feb 28April Householder
- Feb 21Ben Shneiderman
- Feb 14"Mined to Death"Film Screening and DiscussionRegina Harrison
- Feb 07Craig Dietrich
2005
- Dec 06Matthew Kirschenbaum, Carl Stahmer
- Nov 29Michael Cummings
- Nov 15
- Nov 01Roy Rosenzweig
- Oct 25"American Memory" Re-imaginedEnhancing Scholarship through the Multiple Markup of Digitized Historical TextsSusan Garfinkel, Jurretta Jordan Heckscher
- Oct 18PapierCraftA Command System for Interactive PaperChunyuan Liao
- Sep 27
- Sep 13Silvia Mejía Estévez