7:30am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee

9:00am – 9:15am Introduction: How We Will Work Today and Who We Are

9:15am – 10:00am Student Roundtable
Speakers:
Rosie Buchanan, Student, Yale University
Ricki Cohen, Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Gavriella Levy Haskell, Student, Smith College
Sarah Hastings, Student, Mount Holyoke College
Erin Maher, Student, Yale University
Dr. Sarah McCallum, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Affiliate, Harvard University
Courtney Sato, Student, Yale University

Undergraduate and Graduate students from Harvard, Yale, and the the Five College Consortium will introduce their Digital Humanities experience in a moderated interactive question and answer format. Questions include: 1) Research: What is your research area and what are you trying to accomplish? 2) Technology: What types of tools are you using? 3) Community: Who are you working with on campus (or beyond)? What are their roles? 4) Goals: Why Digital Humanities, why you?

10:00am - 10:30am Think Tank

What are the compelling issues raised in the student roundtable? Small group break-outs will formulate discussion points and questions to be used throughout the day.

10:30am – 10:45am Break

10:45am – 11:15am Undergraduate Digital Humanities, Three Ways: Classroom, Workshop, Fellowship
Speaker: Jeffrey Moro, Five College Post-Baccalaureate Resident in Digital Humanities

While numerous models exist for integrating undergraduate students into larger, faculty-driven digital humanities research projects, fewer articulate ways to help students conceptualize, build, and sustain digital projects of their own. How might institutions—particularly liberal arts colleges—create spaces and promote collaborations for undergraduate work? In this talk, I break down three approaches Five College Digital Humanities uses to support student-driven digital projects: classroom outreach, intensive workshops, and funded fellowships. In particular, I discuss my experiences leading a workshop for students starting independent digital work, and the successes and challenges of moving undergrads from idea to action.

11:15am -12:00pm Digital Literacy in Research Teaching and Learning
Speaker: Odile Harter, Research Librarian, Harvard College Library

How might research librarians lay the groundwork for student digital projects? Digital scholarship collaborations often place librarians in the role of technologist: this is an important component of librarians' participation in the digital humanities, but research teaching and learning librarians can play an equally important role by incorporating digital literacy into some of the softer skills they excel in. I will discuss several Harvard initiatives (the Digital Futures consortium, the popular Data Scientist Training for Librarians course, and the Search & Discovery Initiative) in the context of research librarians' roles in fostering conversations, connecting students to resources, and teaching information literacy.

12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch

1:15pm – 2:00pm Student Posters
Students will set up informal posters for participant browsing. This is an opportunity to ask questions of the students and to discuss issues related to specific projects.

2:00pm – 2:45pm Digital Humanities and Its Amplifications
Speaker: Marisa Parham, Director Five College Digital Humanities, Associate Professor of English, Amherst College

How do digital humanities projects transform how we think about the objects and methods of the humanities in general? How might we take digital humanities initiatives as opportunities to enhance our understanding of the relationship between academic scholarship and broader structures of labor and creative making? And what kinds of new conceptual and material configurations are made possible by our commitment to such initiatives?

3:00pm – 3:30pm Putting it Together: Bit by Bit, Making the Connections
Speakers:
Trip Kirkpatrick, Senior Instructional Technologist, Yale University
Elisa Lanzi, Director of Digital Strategies & Services, Smith College
Ann Whiteside, Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Services, Harvard University

Digital scholarship is a collaborative process that requires a support system from knowledge creation to dissemination. Various entities across campus are involved in delivering digital scholarship, including scholars, technologists, librarians, as well as a supporting technical infrastructure. We will discuss the roles of organizations and people across campus that become involved in digital humanities. In what ways do each of these roles support digital humanities? How does involvement in digital humanities on the part of individuals shift traditional roles and how can we develop our skills to meet the needs of digital scholarship?

3:30pm End