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Monday, May 20, 2024

BREAKFAST 8 - 9am, Bruno's (Upstairs Reed)

Session 1: (M 5/20) 9 - 10:30am

Panel: Building Games, Reed 114

Chair: Melinda Cohoon

• Kart Racing at the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Game Jams as Scholarly Inquiry in the History Classroom

  R. C. Miessler (Gettysburg College) and Greg Lord (Northeastern University)

• Community Devs: How an Appalachian Non-profit Supports Indie Game Makers

  Heather Cole (MonRiverGames and West Virginia University)

• Cyber-Play: Interactive Digital Storytelling

  Sara Cantwell (SUNY Potsdam)

Keynote Panel Part 1: (M 5/20) 10:45am - 12:15pm, McGarvey Commons

Chairs: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, Lauren Liebe, Joel Hunt

• Embracing the Glitch

  Amanda Licastro (Swarthmore College)

• Designing and Building a VR Game for Primary Source Literacy

  Jasmine Clark (Temple University)

• Quantifying Kissinger

  Micki Kaufman (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)

LUNCH 12:15 - 1:15pm, Bruno's (Upstairs Reed)

Session 2: (M 5/20) 1:15 - 2:45pm

Panel A: Digital Communities, Reed 114

Chair: Joel Hunt

• I Have NoSleep, and I Must Read: Re-Mediation and Hybrid Genres on Reddit’s r/NoSleep

  Caden Holbrook (University of Louisville)

• Being an ‘ICHINA’ Online – Everyday Discursive (Re)production of Internet-Mediated Chinese National Identity in the Era of Consumerism and Fandom

  Zhiwei Wang (University of Edinburgh)

• Digital Iran Reloaded: Iranian Gamers vs the Islamic Republic of Iran

  Melinda Cohoon (University of Washington)

Panel B: Forms of Practice, Reed 113

Chair: Maria Doyle

• Wilderness Walk: Computational Literary Approaches to the Digital Environmental Humanities

  Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington)

• From Data to Discovery: Unraveling language patterns with Corpus Linguistics

  Massimo Verzella (Penn State Behrend)

• Professionalization and Play: Digital Portfolio Design on Substack

  Maureen Gallagher (University of Pittsburgh)

Session 3: (M 5/20) 3 - 4:30pm

Workshop: Reed 114

Chair: Chandni Naidu

• Art + Data Workshop

  Chelsea Gunn and Liz Monk (University of Pittsburgh)

SNACKS (Upstairs Reed)

Session 4: (M 5/20) 4:45 - 6:15pm

Panel A: Digital Art and Virtual Modeling, Reed 112

Chair: Amanda Licastro

• Temporal Weaving: Environmentalist Discourse, and Generative Cinematic Deconstruction in The Chautauqua County Almanac

  Tommy Hartung (Penn State Behrend)

• Art from the Archives: Engaging Creativity With Historic Textual Descriptions of Art Works

  Jacob Gordon (Pennsylvania State University)

• Making Space: Building Virtual Museums and Imagining Audiences in the Humanities Classroom

  Mariah Kupfner (Penn State Harrisburg)

Panel B: Location-based Storytelling: Green Book Cleveland and Queer Cleveland, Reed 113

Chair: Chandni Naidu

• Location-based Storytelling with WordPress: Green Book Cleveland and Queer Cleveland

  J. Mark Souther, Erin J. Bell, Riley Habyl, Elena Solá, and Bali White (Cleveland State University)

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

BREAKFAST 8 - 9am, Bruno's (Upstairs Reed)

Session 5: (T 5/21) 9 - 10:30am

Panel: Games/Simulations about the Human Body, Reed 114

Chair: Melinda Cohoon

• Shaping sympathetic classroom communities: Interactive games about mental health

  Kristine Kelly (Case Western Reserve University)

• Medical Humanities: Surgery Simulations

  Stephanie Kinzinger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

• Overdose: A Game in Development

  Nathan Hammer (Penn State Behrend)

Keynote Part 2: (T 5/21) 10:45am - 12:15pm, McGarvey Commons

Chair: Lauren Liebe

Following the structured orientation to their projects in Monday’s keynote panel, Licastro, Clark, and Kaufman lead discussion of participants' experiences of their projects.

LUNCH 12:15 - 1:15pm, Bruno's (Upstairs Reed)

Session 6: (T 5/21) 1:15 - 2:45pm

Panel: Linguistic Analyses: Exploratory Methods, Reed 112

Chair: Manoj Singh Rana

• Language Games : What Artificial Languages can Teach Us

  Patrick Juola (Duquesne University)

• Gaming Multilinguality with Student Teams: The Unfolding Story of Tower of Babel: HathiTrust Edition

  Ali Bolcakan & Christi Merrill (University of Michigan)

• Kvasir's Algorithm: Developing an Algorithmic Model of Old Norse dróttkvætt Meters for Machine-Assisted Scansion

  Jasper Sachsenmeier (Penn State Behrend)

Workshop: Reed 114

Chair: Owen Hitt

• Launching a 3D Printing Initiative

  Dr. Mark Gallimore and Tyler Kron-Piatek (Canisius University)

Session 7: (T 5/21) 3 - 4:30pm

Panel A: Retro Games, Reed 112

Chair: Melinda Cohoon

• MUD, Metroid, and Mortal Kombat: Pedagogical Approaches to Video Game History

  Lauren Liebe (Penn State Behrend)

• Preserving Play: A Tale of Two SimCities

  Daniel Johnson (University of Notre Dame)

• Anything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Video Games as Archives in the Humanities Classroom

  R.C. Miessler and Bill O’Hara (Gettysburg College)

Panel B: Multilingual DH: Problems and Creative Possibilities, Reed 113

Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar

• Developing StoryWorlds ITK (Indigenous Traditional Knowledge)

  Dmitriy Babichenko (University of Pittsburgh)

• Challenges in Exploratory Data Analysis: Space in Spanish-Language Literature Workshop

  Jennifer Isasi and Joshua Ortiz Baco (Pennsylvania State University & University of Tennessee)

• The Chilean Parlamentos: Using XML to Create a Translation-to-Public Workflow

  Pilar Herr, Bill Campbell, and Sean DiLeonardi (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)

SNACKS (Upstairs Reed)

Session 8: (T 5/21) 4:45 - 6:15pm

Panel: AI in DH / Education, Reed 114

Chair: Manoj Singh Rana

• Generative AI in Digital Humanities Education

  Natasha Johnson (Carnegie Mellon University)

• There Will Be Doughnuts: Playing with Generative AI Tools to Build Community

  Katherine Furlong and Kate Tuley (Bucknell University)

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

BREAKFAST 8 - 9am, Bruno's (Upstairs Reed)

Session 9: (W 5/22) 9 - 10:30am

Panel A: Digital Archives, Reed 112

Chair: Lauren Liebe

• Playing Well with Others: Creating Sustainable Digital Projects through Collaborative Exploration

  Linda Ballinger, Binky Lush, Dominique Luster, and Forough Yazdanpanah (Penn State University Libraries)

• Discovery Research and Digital Archives in Teaching Renaissance Drama

  Maria Doyle (University of West Georgia)

• Locke Anthology 2.0

  Zach Schleger (Penn State Behrend)

Panel B: Game Analysis: Games as Literary / Cultural Objects, Reed 114

Chair: Zach Whalen

• The Universe Peoples: Interrogating Mediated Communication of a Symptomatic Deep Ecology via OReilly’s Everything

  Jerald Lim (University of Utah)

• Teaching Ancient Chinese History Through Playing NationWar: Chronicles

  Shu Wan (University at Buffalo)

• Playing with/in Generative Narratives: Mapping Figures and Figura in Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch

  Justin Carpenter (University of Utah)

Session 10: (W 5/22) 10:45am - 12:15pm

Panel A: Food Processing in DH, Reed 112

Chair: Elisa Beshero-Bondar

• German cursive and the promise of AI: Transcribing culinary manuscripts and having fun recreating old recipes

  Jason A. Reuscher (Penn State Libraries)

• Preserving Palates, Cultivating Connections: Bridging Cultural, Culinary Heritages and Digital Pedagogies

  Teresa Lobalsamo and Dellannia Segreti (University of Toronto Mississauga)

Panel B: Games in Literature, Reed 114

Chair: Kris Kelly

• Black Ludology: Theorizing Play in Black Literature

  Austin Anderson (Howard University)

• Virtual Reality in Narratives and Narratives as Virtual Reality in a LitRPG: Immersiveness and the Augmented Human in Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One

  Manoj Singh Rana and Dr. Arnapurna Rath (Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar)

• Environmental Ethics through a Game of Non-mastery in the novel 'The Overstory.'

  Sayan Bhattacharyya (Yale University)

Concluding Discussion and LUNCH 12:15 - 1:15pm: Bruno's