This past week, over 100 students, scholars, librarians, and museum professionals visited the Elihu Burritt Library for the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference.
The conference featured a wide variety of presentations, workshops, and discussions related to the preservation and study of history using digital tools, including:
- Methods for recreating historical sites using virtual reality, mapping, and 3D reconstructions.
- Preserving historic radio programs
- Teaching with Open Educational Resources and Artificial Intelligence tools
- Collecting and teaching about oral histories
- Text analysis methods
- Digital religious studies
- Community outreach with digital tools
A wide range of educational institutions participated in the conference, including Yale, Brown, Wesleyan, Northeastern, UConn, Mt. Holyoke, CUNY, NYU, and Villanova, as well as Central Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, Eastern Connecticut State University, Manchester Community College, and Quinebaug Community College. International presenters also participated from the University of Toronto and the University of Genoa.
CTDH is also excited to highlight the extraordinary public humanities work being done outside of higher education, and we were privileged to feature presentations from the Bushnell Center, the Queens Public Library, the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, the Connecticut League of Museums, the Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance, the Roxbury Latin School, and the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office.
The conference’s keynote speaker was Roopika Risam, a professor at Dartmouth and coeditor of Reviews in Digital Humanities. Her talk, “Knowledge at Scale: Data, Power, and the Work of the Humanities”, provided an overview of the history of Data and the role of the digital humanities in preserving and using data.
To keep up with news about the next Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, contact Brian Matzke at bmatzke@ccsu.edu and request to be added to our listserv.
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