Digital history & historiography

Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation

14 March 2024 to 16 March 2024

Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation
The C²DH is hosting the Sixth Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History from 14 to 16 March 2024.

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. 

We are looking forward to welcoming you online or in-person in Belval, Luxembourg.

 

14-16 March 2024

University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Maison des Sciences humaines (11, Porte des Sciences, L-4366 Esch-sur-Alzette)

 

Registration for in-person attendance is closed. If you wish to participate online, please send an e-mail to vanessa.napolitano@uni.lu

Programme

Thursday, 14 March 2024

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

Friday, 15 March 2024

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)

Saturday, 16 March 2014

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 End of conference

* will join online

 

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