Conference Report: DH 2017

This year I kept notes about the Digital Humanities 2017 conference at McGill. See DH 2017 Conference Report. My conference report also covers the New Scholars Symposium that took place before.

The NSS is supported by CHCI and centerNet. KIAS provided administrative support and the ACH provided coffee and snacks on the day of. We were lucky to have so many groups supporting the NSS which in turn supports new scholars to come to the conference and to articulate their issues in an unconference format.

DH 2017 itself was a rich feast of ideas. There was too much going on to summarize in a paragraph, but here are two highlights:

  • We had an opening keynote in French from Marin Dacos. He talked about the “Unexpected Reader” that one gets when publications are open.
  • We had a great closing keynote by Elizabeth Guffey on “The Upside-Down Politics of Access in the Digital Age” that asked about access for disabled people in the digital realm.

The participants of the New Scholars Symposium identified the following as topics to watch and think about:

  • AI and Machine Learning
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Building Twitterbots
  • Training Opportunities
  • Pedagogy
  • Digital Collections and Copyright
  • Diverse Voices