The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH), in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), and the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo, invites you to the Sixth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History.
The main themes of our conference this year are epistemology and ethics. Speakers will explore the ethical and epistemological implications of digital knowledge production in the humanities and beyond. The conference program includes a keynote by Harald Kümmerle (DIJ, Tokyo), a roundtable with experts of digital history, as well as workshops on digital publication and pedagogy.
Registration for in-person attendance is closed. If you wish to participate online, please send an e-mail to vanessa.napolitano@uni.lu
Programme
13.00
I. Workshops (on-site only!)
Frédéric Clavert & Elisabeth Guérard
Embedded epistemic virtue in a multi-layered article (Journal of Digital History)
Location: DH LAB
Katie Blizzard & Cathy Moran-Hajo & Christopher Ohge & Serenity Sutherland
Building Community through Digital Pedagogy and Project Infrastructure: The Case of eLaboratories
Location: Black Box
16.30
Break
17.00
II. Welcome statement by Andreas Fickers
Location: Black Box
17.15
III. Keynote
Harald Kümmerle
Epistemological challenges of doing research in/on Japan in the age of Digital Humanities
Location: Black Box
18.30
IV. Reception
in front of the Back Box
*will join online
09.00
I. Opening round table: Navigating Paradoxes in Digital Humanities
Moderator: Valérie Schafer
Location: Black Box
Simon Dumas Primbault, Maciej Maryl, Ian Milligan, Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Arjun Sanyal, Jane Winters
10.30
II. Coffee break
11.00
III. Ethics of Data and the Virtue of Transparency
Chair: Gabor Toth
Location: Black Box
Avantika Tewari
Compulsive Self-Tracking: A Study of Menstrual Apps
Daniela Linkevicius
Behind the Statistics’: Unpacking Controversies on Ethnoracial Data and Authority in the Portuguese Census
Clodomir Santana & Michał Bojanowski & Demival Vasques Filho & Agata Błoch
Unveiling the Critical Nexus of Data Preprocessing and Transparent Documentation for Result Quality and Reproducibility
12.30
IV. Lunch
Location: in front of the Black Box
13.30
V. Epistemic Virtues and Vices of Digital Research Practices
Chair: Jana Keck
Location: Black Box
Nicole M. Mueller
Epistemic Potentials and Pitfalls of Scalability
Arjun Sanyal & Enrico Natale
Towards a novel ecology of Digital Humanities scholarship from the Global South: Rethinking the social informatics of digital cultural heritage
Moritz Feichtinger
Quick and Dirty – Tentativeness as Virtue and Vice
15.00
VI. Coffee break
15.30
VII. Situated Knowledge Practices in Digital Humanities
Chair: Andreas Fickers
Location: Black Box
Cindarella Petz
False securities: The epistemological ‚virtue‘ of transparency and emerging uncertainties in scholarship
Francis Harvey
Towards pragmatic situationist approaches in DH
17.00
Free time
19.00
VIII. Speakers’ dinner
Location: My Caffé (6, Rue de la Fonte, Esch-sur-Alzette/Belval)
*will join online
09.00
I. Data Colonialism and Infrastructural / Economic Inequalities in DH
Chair: Harald Kümmerle
Location: Black Box
Till Grallert*
We need to talk about Arabic! A practical critique of the hostility towards the second most common human writing system built into our quotidian digital infrastructures
Julian Weideman
‘Uploaders’ in the Global South? Middle East and North Africa-Based Contributors to the Database of Religious History
Ian Milligan
Epistemic Virtues and the Shaping of Canadian Digital Humanities: The Role of a Federal Funding Agency
10.30
II. Coffee break
11.00
III. Belval Campus Tour
limited to 25 persons, registration requires (first come, first served)
12.30
IV. Lunch
Location: in front of the Black Box
12.30
End of conference
*will join online
