Welcome to a research day focused on Digital humanities! During the day, two keynotes and a range of shorter talks by affiliated researchers will be presented. The purpose of this day is to discuss digital humanities as a research field and how it will develop in the future.
09.00–09.15 Coffee
09.15–09.30 Opening remarks from Stefan Gelfgren
09.30–10.30 HUMLAB TALK
Keynote speaker: Andreas Fickers
’Inside the Trading Zone: Thinkering at C²DH digital history Lab’
10.30–10.45 Coffee
10.45–12.00 Short presentations by affiliated researchers
Pelle Snickars: “DH & Media Studies”
Daniel Kjellander: “Constraints in Lexical Blending: why Blends make a strong case for a Cognitive Linguistics Perspective”
Gavin Feller: “Mormon Media”
Annika Egan Sjölander: “Communication for sustainability in the Anthropocene”
Jesper Enbom: “Political Surveillance with Consent? Voter Data Collection and Microtargeting in Swedish Political Parties”
Moa Sandström: “Decolonising Sámi Artivism”
Satish Patel: “Multi-modal dissemination of DH research”
12.00–13.00 Lunch
13.00–14.00 HUMLAB TALK
Keynote speaker: Virginia Dignum
“AI@Umu and beyond"
14:00–15.00 Short presentations by affiliated researchers
Philip Buckland: “Databases and stuff”
Eavan O'Dochartaigh “Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic”
Johan Jarlbrink: “Hard drive archaeology”
Per Sandström: “Building bridges between knowledge systems and over highways towards connected landscapes”
Ben Martin: “The ‘Culture’ of International Society: Using Digital Text Analysis for the Intellectual History of Cultural Diplomacy”
15.00–15.30 Coffee
15.30-17.00 HUMLAB HITS
“Digital Humanities – then, now and in the future”
Panel discussion with the Humlab Scientific Advisory Board