International Symposium on Digital Scholarship Schedule
June 3 Schedule
June 3, 2019 (Monday) at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury
3 – 5 p.m.
Opening Roundtable on Institutional Research Collaboration, Clore Building, Room 101
Chair: Prof. Matthew Davies (Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck)
- Prof. Julian Swann (Pro-Vice Master for Research and Director of the Graduate Research School, Birkbeck)
- Dr. George Hong (Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Fordham)
- Brief project descriptions by Fordham participants
- Questions and Discussion
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Welcome Drinks Reception, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
June 4 Schedule
June 4, 2019 (Tuesday) at Fordham's London Centre, Room 101
9:30 - 9:50 a.m.
Opening Session, Room, 101
Chair: Prof. Matthew Davies (Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck)
- Dr. Jonathan Crystal (Vice Provost, Professor, Fordham University)
- Prof. Julian Swann (Pro-Vice Master for Research and Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School)
9:50 - 11:15 a.m.
Keynote Session
Chair: Lisa Lancia (Director of the Office of International Initiatives, Fordham)
Keynote Speakers:
- Prof. Martin Paul Eve (Professor of Literature, Technology, and Publishing, Birkbeck), “Open Access and the Slow Onset Storm for the Humanities”
- Prof. Maryanne Kowaleski (Joseph Fitzpatrick S.J. Distinguished Professor of History and Medieval Studies, Fordham), ?Giving Credit Where Credit is Due: Acknowledging Collaborative Work in Digital
11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Panel I: Theory, Method, and Ethics
Chair: Prof. Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities, School for Advanced Study, University of London)
- Dr. Sameena Azhar (Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham), ?Decolonizing Notions of Third Gender and Transgender Identities in Digital Sch
- Dr. Silvia Posocco (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck), ?A Reflection on Decolonizing Practices of Thinking and Doing In and Out of the
- Dr. Micki McGee (Sociology, Fordham), “Ethical Dimensions in the Use of Computational Text Analysis: Topic Modeling Autism Parenting Blogs”
- Dr. Alex Taylor (Computer Science, City University of London), ?Tabular Worldings?
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
Lunch (Fordham's London Centre)
2:30 - 4:15 p.m.
Panel II: Teacher Education
Chair: Prof. Maura Mast (Dean, Fordham College at Rose Hill)
- Prof. George Magoulas (Computer Science & Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck), ?Developing Smart Digital Tools for Instructional Design?
- Prof. Alex Poulovassilis (Computer Science & Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck), ?Designing Awareness Tools for Teachers in Exploratory Learning Settings?
- Dr. Su-Je Cho (Graduate School of Education, Fordham), Kate Doyle (Graduate School of Education, Fordham), Prof. George Magoulas (Computer Science & Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck), and Dr. Andrea Cali (Computer Science & Information Systems. Birkbeck), ?Using a Digital Learning Platform to Increase Levels of Evidence-Based Practic
- Dr. Alesia Moldavan (Graduate School of Education, Fordham), Prof. Christine Edwards-Leis (St Mary's University, School of Education, Theology and Leadership), Prof. Alex Poulovassilis (Computer Science & Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck), Prof. George Magoulas (Computer Science & Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck) and Jennifer Murray (St Mary's University, School of Education, Theology and Leadership), ?Using a Digital Learning Platform to Enhance Wellbeing Education for Preservic
4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:45 - 6 p.m.
Panel III: Digital Learning
Chair: Prof. John P. Harrington (Academic Dean, Fordham London Centre)
- Dr. Elizabeth Cornell (Director of Communications, Fordham), ?Teaching Faulkner with Digital Yoknapatawpha?
- Dr. Matt Shaw (Librarian of the Institute of Historical Research, SAS, University of London) and Kristyna Strnadova (Library Intern, IHR), ?Libraries, Small-scale Data Curation, and the Digital Humanities: Lessons Lear
- Tierney Gleason (Digital Librarian, Fordham), “Small DH: Teaching Data Curation and Visualization in the Humanities”
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Dinner (The Peasant Restaurant, 240 St. John Street, Clerkenwell)
June 5 Schedule
June 5, 2019 (Wednesday) at Fordham's London Centre, 2 Eyre Street Hill
9 - 10:45 a.m.
Panel IV: Digital Urban Studies
Chair: Prof. Eva Badowska (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Associate Vice President, Arts and Sciences, Fordham)
- Prof. Jacqueline Reich (Communication and Media Studies, Fordham), ?Oral History and the (Digital) Archive: The Bronx Italian American History Ini
- Prof. Daniela Treveri Gennari (School of Arts: Technology, Design, and Environment, Oxford-Brookes) and Dr. Silvia Dibeltulo (Communication, Media and Culture, Oxford-Brookes), “CineRicordi: Co-creating a Digital Archive to Map Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy”
- Dr. Gregory Donovan (Communication and Media Studies, Fordham), ?Keeping Place in ?Smart? Cities: Situating the Settlement House as a Means of
- Dr. Melissa Butcher (Geography, Environment and Development Studies, Birkbeck), ?Creating Hackney as Home: Youth Perspectives on Gentrification in London?
10:45 - 11 a.m.
Coffee Break
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Panel V: Digital Editions, Databases, and Linked Data
Chair: Prof. Vanessa Harding (History, Classics, and Archaeology, Birkbeck)
- Dr. Simon T. Parsons (History, Kings College London), “The Siege of Antioch Project: Editorial Challenges”
- Dr. Nicholas L. Paul (History, Fordham University), ?The Siege of Antioch Project: Digital Approaches?
- Prof. Maryanne Kowaleski (History and Medieval Studies, Fordham), ?Prosopography and Database Design in the Medieval Londoners Project?
- Katherina Fostano (Visual Resources Coordinator, Art History and Music, Fordham), ?Linked Data and Digital Prosopography?
- Dr. Philip Carter and Jonathan Blaney (IHR Digital, SAS, University of London), ?Print, Data, Network, Photograph: Recreating Women Student Ties at the Univers
1 - 2 p.m.
Lunch
2 - 4 p.m.
Panel VI: Digital Mapping
Chair: Prof. Catherine Clarke (Chair in the History of People, Place and Community, Institute of Historical Research, University of London)
- Prof. Anthony Bale (Executive Dean of the School of Arts, Birkbeck), "Digital Mapping in the Pilgrims Libraries Project"
- Patrick DeBrosse (Ph.D. Student, History, Fordham), ?Space, Place, and Story in the Siege of Antioch Project"
- Prof. Matthew Davies (Executive Dean School of Social Sciences, History, and Philosophy, Birkbeck), ?The Layers of London Project?
- Dr. Gregory Acevedo (Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham), ?Maps and Legends: Revisiting Charles Booth?s Classifications of London Poverty
- Prof. Fiona Candlin (Art History, Birkbeck), Prof. Alex Poulovassilis (Computer Science & Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck), and Dr. Andrea Ballatore (Geography, Environment, and Development Studies, Birkbeck), ?Designing a Knowledge Base to Research the History and Geography of the UK Mus
4 - 4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Round Table Discussion: Institutional Collaborations Going Forward
Chair: Dr. George Hong (Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Fordham)
- (Communications and Media Studies, and Co-Coordinator of the Strategic Research Consortium on Digital Scholarship, Fordham)
- (Communications and Media Studies, and Interim Co-Coordinator of the Strategic Research Consortium on Digital Scholarship, Fordham)
- Prof. Anthony Bale (Executive Dean, School of Arts and Professor of Medieval Studies, Birkbeck)
- Prof. Matthew Davies (Executive Dean, School of Social Sciences, History, and Philosophy, Birkbeck)
- Dr. Micki McGee (Sociology and Anthropology, and Co-Coordinator of Digital Scholarship Committee, Fordham)
- Prof. Jane Winters (Professor of Digital Humanities, School for Advanced Study, University of London)
6 p.m.
Closing Remarks
- Dr. Ellen Fahey-Smith (Associate Vice President, Office of the Provost at Fordham)
- Prof. Julian Swann (Pro-Vice Master for Research and Director of the Graduate Research School, Birkbeck)
6:15 - 8 p.m.