Digital Religion at AHA 2015
In just a few days, historians (including yours truly) will be gathering in midtown Manhattan for the American Historical Association's Annual Meeting, as well as the Winter Meetings of the American Catholic Historical Association and the American Society of Church History. When it comes to the digital humanities, there's much to discover: the AHA program and smartphone app are doing a good job of making visible the digital content stream, and Davidson College postdoctoral fellow Anelise Shrout published a useful summary of all digital history panels on her website last week.
With today's post, I wanted to draw attention to digital history events that may be of particular interest to scholars of religion. (No surprise, RiAH contributors are well-represented here!) I'm hoping to see many of you at the AHA's Reception for History Bloggers and #Twitterstorians on Friday night, and I'm looking forward to continuing conversations at AHA that many of us have been having on this blog about the potential for digital histories of religion.
Digital Religion at AHA/ACHA/ASCH 2015
Saturday, January 3
Saturday, January 3
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Madison Suite 5 (Sheraton New York, Fifth Floor)
Chair:
Kyle B. Roberts, Loyola University Chicago
The Jesuit Libraries and Provenance Project: Digital Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Catholic Print Culture
Kyle B. Roberts, Loyola University Chicago
Digital Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Catholic Print Culture
Evan Thompson, Loyola University Chicago
Comment:
Kyle B. Roberts, Loyola University Chicago
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Lenox Ballroom (Sheraton New York, Second Floor)
Chair:
Alessio Assonitis, The Medici Archive Project
Jewish History and Culture in the BIA Digital Archive: Problems and Solutions
Piergabriele Mancuso, Medici Archive Project
Researching Women Patrons, Collectors, and Artists in the Medici Digital Archive (BIA)
Sheila ffolliott, George Mason University
Medici Grand Duchesses and their Pharmacies
Sheila Barker, Medici Archive Project
The Construction of a New Research Program at Medici Archive Project: France and the Medici
Joanna Milstein, Medici Archive Project
Saturday, January 3, 2015: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Gramercy Suite A (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Clay Risen, New York Times
Rewiring the Historian’s Craft
Sara Georgini, Boston University
On Writing in Public
Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College
The Immanent Frame, Secularism Studies, and Interstitial Spaces
Jonathan VanAntwerpen, The Henry Luce Foundation
Comment:
Clay Risen, New York Times
Sunday, January 4
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
New York Hilton, Harlem Suite
Chair: John Fea, Messiah College
The American Converts Database: The Database as an Expression of Scholarship on Religious History
Erin Bartram, University of Connecticut
The Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
Kyle B. Roberts, Loyola University Chicago
Placing Pluralism: Digital Scholarship, Public History, and the Mapping of Chicago’s Religious Diversity
Christopher Cantwell, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Comment: John Fea, Messiah College
Can DH Answer Our Questions? Using Digital Humanities to Address the Concerns of Feminist Historians
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Concourse A (New York Hilton, Concourse Level)
Chair:
Monica L. Mercado, Bryn Mawr College
Mapping the Community: ArchGIS and the History of Religious Experience
Kathryn Falvo, Pennsylvania State University
Survival and Surveillance: Recovering Narratives of Black Female Criminality during the Civil War
Tamika Richeson, University of Virginia
Her Hat Was in the Ring: Women, History, Politics, and Digital Humanities in the Twenty-First Century
Wendy E. Chmielewski, Swarthmore College Peace Collection
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
New York Hilton, Harlem Suite
Chair: Jeanne-Nicole Saint-Laurent, Marquette University
Information Revolutions Past and Present: How Digital Humanities Can and Can’t Transform Scholarship on the History of Christianity in Late Antiquity
David Michelson, Vanderbilt University
The Social Network: Digitizing and Mapping Evidence for Greco-Roman Voluntary Associations
Sarah Bond, University of Iowa
Linked Open Data and the Promise of Syriac Prosopography
Daniel L. Schwartz, Texas A&M University at College Station
Comment: J. Edward Walters, Princeton Theological Seminary
Monday, January 5
Monday, January 5, 2015: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
New York Hilton, Harlem Suite
Chair: Brett Carroll, California State University, Stanislaus
Houses of Worship in the Twin Cities: Using Spatial Mapping to Gauge Interaction among Immigrant Religious Groups, 1849-1924
Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Social Networks in Colonial Philadelphia: Using GIS to Map Religious Ties onto Geographic Space
Marie Basile McDaniel, Southern Connecticut State University
Mapping Boston’s Religions from the Revolution to 1800
Lincoln Mullen, George Mason University
Harlem Is Heaven: Utopic Space in the Kingdom of Father Divine
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
Comment: Christopher Cantwell, University of Missouri–Kansas City
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Staying in New York through the end of the conference? In the city but not going to AHA? I'd also like to encourage readers to register for THATCamp AHA, which will be held downtown at The New School on Tuesday, January 6. As one of the co-organizers of the day, I can promise it'll be well worth your time. We've scheduled three workshops on topics from social media to social justice -- led by Rice University historian Caleb McDaniel and the team behind The New School's recently-launched Humanities Action Lab -- and in the next few days, registrants will be submitting their session proposals. THATCamp AHA is free, and open to all interested digital humanities folks in the area (AHA registration isn't required). Read more and register at the THATCamp AHA website, here.
What panels are you looking forward to next weekend? Will you be sharing a digital project at the Poster Sessions, the Digital Drop-In Room, or during the Lightning Rounds? Let us know in the comments.
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