Program
ACH 2025 Conference Program
The full program for ACH 2025, including links to all sessions, is available in ConfTool. The conference takes place virtually June 11-13th, 2025, from roughly 10am-7pm EST.
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ACH 2025 Program
| Date: Wednesday, 11/June/2025 | ||||
| 10:00am - 11:15am ET / 9:00am - 10:15am CT / 8:00am - 9:15am MT / 7:00am - 8:15am PT | #1A: Keynote: "Civic Jugaad: Reclaiming Digital Innovation for Social Good" with Rahul Bhargava Virtual location: Zoom Webinar: Rahul Bhargava Chair: Jaj Karajgikar Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez Includes a post-keynote conversation in Work Adventure (lobby/center circle/ACH logo). |
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| 11:30am - 12:45pm ET / 10:30am - 11:45am CT / 9:30am - 10:45am MT / 8:30am - 9:45am PT | #2A: ACH Annual General Meeting (AGM) Virtual location: Zoom ACH Annual General Meeting (AGM) ACH's annual member meeting. Open to all conference participants. |
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| 1:00pm - 2:15pm ET / 12:00pm - 1:15pm CT / 11:00am - 12:15pm MT / 10:00am - 11:15am PT | #3A: Panel: Women and Gender Minorities in DH Virtual location: Zoom June 11 Chair: Jennifer Isasi Women and Gender Minorities in DH building community by coming together |
#3B: Creative Submission Interactive Panel: Practicing Data Feminism Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Andrew Janco “Practicing Data Feminism: Methodological Interventions in Historical Gender and Sexuality Studies” |
#3C: Creative Submission Interactive Panel: Stuck on the List Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Rebecca Foote Stuck on the List: Local Approaches to the DH Directory |
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| 2:30pm - 3:45pm ET / 1:30pm - 2:45pm CT / 12:30pm - 1:45pm MT / 11:30am - 12:45 pm PT | #4A: Papers: DH and Data Justice Virtual location: Zoom June 11 Chair: Amanda Regan Chair: Katina L Rogers The Dox We Leave Behind: The Challenges of Preserving Email Mailing Lists The Limits of Stylometry: Marginalized Authors and the Problem of Corpus Size “As Close as Lips and Teeth”: The Rise of Chinese Nationalism in Hong Kong Education |
#4B: Poster Session I Virtual location: Work Adventure Posters I -- Green Chair: Rebecca Foote A: Los Angeles Oil Industry’s Textual Presence in Newspapers, 1892-1930 B: AI-Driven Approaches to Latin Language Modeling C: Computer-Assisted Hermeneutics of Philip K. Dick D: Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research E: Automated (Auto)fiction: Reevaluating Risks and Potentials of AI-Assisted Journaling for Therapeutic Self-Writing and Personal Development F: Shadow Math: Unveiling the Hidden Computer within Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" G: Are All These Trends from ‘Booktok’?: Exploring Applications for Metadata Analysis in Public Library Collection Development H: Navigating Interpretive Spaces Across Models: A Comparative Framework for Computational Hermeneutics I: Mapping Imagined Communities and Conceptual Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals J: Ukrainian Poetry on Social Media during the Russia's Full-Scale Invasion Against Ukraine K: Collaboration in Ancient Geospatial Studies: A Case Study using Plutarch’s Parallel Lives |
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| 4:00pm - 5:15pm ET / 3:00pm - 4:15pm CT / 2:00pm - 3:15pm MT / 1:00pm - 2:15pm PT | #5A: Papers: A/V DH Virtual location: Zoom June 11 Chair: Dot Porter Chair: Liz Grumbach Exploring digital soundscapes and potential in e-DH, community and pedagogy Visual Resistance: Josep Bartolí’s Antifascist Graphic Art as a Digital Humanities Resource Pixel Praxis: Tracing Community-Driven Climate Adaptation in High-Resolution Intelligence Satellite Archives Sound Pedagogy: AVAnnotate and Listening to Learn |
#5B: Creative Submission Papers: Culture and/in DH Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Jake Gibson “I Have a Voice”: Towards the Development of Synthetic Voices for the Passamaquoddy Language Mapping Jazz Bars and African American Cultural Visibility in 20th Century New York |
#5C: Creative Submissions: Networks and Communities Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez Academic Currents in the Fediverse: A network analysis of scholarly communities on Mastodon Embodying care and community in Omori: A Digital Humanities exploration of trauma, gameplay, and collective healing |
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| 5:30pm - 6:45pm ET / 4:30pm - 5:45pm CT / 3:30pm - 4:45pm MT / 2:30pm - 3:45pm PT | #6A: Papers: Collaborations for Community Virtual location: Zoom June 11 Chair: Pamella R. Lach Chair: Rebecca Foote TrayectoriasAfro.org: Building Collaborative Infrastructure for Afrodescendant Histories Teko Yma Ayvu Jere – Intergenerational Digital Oral Ancestral Circles The Foggia Occupator Dataset: Analyzing post-war community and power dynamics through a digital newspaper archive Digitizing New Forest Cemetery in Utica, NY |
#6B: Creative Submission Interactive Panel: DH+BH Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Jake Gibson DH+BH: Critical Engagement with Cultural Heritage at the Intersections of Digital Humanities and Book History |
#6C: Creative Submission Interactive Panel: Affect, Agenda, and Alienation Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez Affect, Agenda, and Alienation: Digital Humanities Approaches to Media Narratives in Health and Crisis |
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| 7:00pm - 8:15 pm ET / 6:00pm - 7:15pm CT / 5:00pm - 6:15pm MT / 4:00pm - 5:15pm PT | #7A: Panel: The Puerto Rican Literature Project Virtual location: Zoom June 11 Chair: Jennifer Isasi The Puerto Rican Literature Project: Reimagining the Archive from the Archipelago and the Diaspora |
#7B: Creative Submissions: Perspectives in Critical DH Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Mel Day From Matzo Balls to Metrics Pixels of the Flesh: The Potential and Pitfalls of Videogames in the Classroom |
#7C: Creative Submissions: Storytelling and Archives Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 1) Chair: Rebecca Foote Scattered in Existence: How the digital visualizes artistic community Hidden Constellations: Mapped and Unmapped Queer Women Space in NYC |
#7D: Panel: Digital Blackness **NEW DAY & TIME** Virtual location: Zoom June 11 - #7D Chair: Pamella R. Lach Digital Blackness: Collective Care, Community & Co-Creation Through the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and Carceral Algorithms |
| Date: Thursday, 12/June/2025 | |||
| 10:00am - 11:15am ET / 9:00am - 10:15am CT / 8:00am - 9:15am MT / 7:00am - 8:15am PT | #8A: Keynote: "Keep Calm; Float On: Data Rescue and You" with Lynda Kellam Virtual location: Zoom Webinar: Lynda Kellam Chair: Liz Grumbach Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez |
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| 11:30am - 12:45pm ET / 10:30am - 11:45am CT / 9:30am - 10:45am MT / 8:30am - 9:45am PT | #9A: Panel: Digital Blackness **MOVED TO SESSION #7D** |
#9B: ACH SIG Meetings Virtual location: WorkAdventure (Day 2) Chair: Samantha Chyatte Chair: Jennifer Sayed All conference attendees are welcome to attend a SIG meeting (DH + AI, Humanities Mapping, and DH in Libraries), whether or not they are members of the SIG. Work adventure meeting locations are listed in the full abstract. |
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| 1:00pm - 2:15pm ET / 12:00pm - 1:15pm CT / 11:00am - 12:15pm MT / 10:00am - 11:15am PT | #10A: Papers: Making Collaboration Visible Virtual location: Zoom June 12 Chair: Dot Porter Chair: Lauren Tilton If It’s Not on GitHub, Did It Even Happen? Making Labor Visible in a DH Project Co-Authorship, Collaboration and Community in Medieval Studies (1930-2025): Insights from the Science of Science What does it take for a visually impaired computer scientist to integrate into a digital humanities research group. Storymapping Chicano Voices in Houston: A Community Archive Without Walls |
#10B: Creative Submission Interactive Panel: Twelve is the New Geriatric Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez Twelve is the New Geriatric: Aging Gracefully in the Digital Humanities |
#10C: Creative Submission Interactive Panel: Feminist Digital Humanities Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Samantha Chyatte Feminist Digital Humanities: Conversations on Theory and Praxis" |
| 2:30pm - 3:45pm ET / 1:30pm - 2:45pm CT / 12:30pm - 1:45pm MT / 11:30am - 12:45 pm PT | #11A: Papers: The Long History of AI Virtual location: Zoom June 12 Chair: Lorena Gauthereau Chair: Jennifer Sayed Humanities and the AI world picture When Matter Redefines Concepts: Rethinking Borders through Christopher Strachey’s Algorithms Reading Between the Lines: Big Tech, AI, and False Promises of Sustainability With, Not Through: Generative Convergence and the Care-Based Practice of Historical Interpretation |
#11B: Poster Session II Virtual location: Workadventure Posters II -- Yellow Chair: Andrew Janco Chair: Connie Dowell L: Bias Embedded and Amplified in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) – A Critical Code Study of LibreTranslate M: Rhetorical Strategies in Web3 Twitter Discourse: Emojis, Jargon, and Sentiment in Memecoin vs. SocialFi N: Computational Approaches to Forced Displacement in Ancient Greek Tragedy O: Genres of the Three-Volume Novel: Work in Progress P: The Ethics of Deepfakes for Cultural Heritage: A Hybrid Exhibition of Reanimated Jonathan Edwards as a Test Case Q: From Myth to Digital Experience: Transmedia Storytelling in Black Myth: Wukong R: Harnessing Medical Digital Humanities: Analyzing COPD Treatment Adherence Through Social Media in Brazil (2020-2024) S: Echoing Climate justice: Exploring Indian Digital Environmental Humanities through Eco-Electronic Literature T: Performance Analysis of Attributes for Handmade Paper Classification Using Information Theory |
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| 4:00pm - 5:15pm ET / 3:00pm - 4:15pm CT / 2:00pm - 3:15pm MT / 1:00pm - 2:15pm PT | #12A: Papers: DH and Libraries Virtual location: Zoom June 12 Chair: Lorena Gauthereau Chair: Katina L Rogers A spatial turn for library collection assessment New Trends in Ottoman Transcription Software: Interventions for Librarians A Collaborative Approach to Teaching and Learning TEI-XML in Academic Libraries How Are Researchers Finding and Using Library-Digitized Collections? Results from a Mixed-Methods Study |
#12B: Creative Submission Papers: Computational Creativity Installations Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Connie Dowell Decoding and Generating Poetry: Demonstrating Maya Angelou's Writing as Activism Memory Maps: Reimagining digital futurities via typewriter poetics |
#12C: Creative Submissions: Game Studies and/in Social Media Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Samantha Chyatte Defamiliarizing literary spatiality: The plot-space as provocation When Voice Fails: Understanding the 2023 Reddit Protests |
| 5:30pm - 6:45pm ET / 4:30pm - 5:45pm CT / 3:30pm - 4:45pm MT / 2:30pm - 3:45pm PT | #13A: Papers: Advocacy and/in the Classroom Virtual location: Zoom June 12 Chair: Liz Grumbach Chair: Katina L Rogers The Data Advocacy for All Toolkit: Critical Data Education for Social Change The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Critical Mapping in the Classroom Computing Missingness: Gender Bias in Mediterranean Migration Data |
#13B: Creative Submissions: Critical Making in DH Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Rebecca Foote Digital Literacy & Crowdsourcing: Tackling Descriptive and Algorithmic Bias through Doing Gen AI and Alternative Assignments for Teaching the US-Sino Relationship History |
#13C: Creative Submissions: Experimental DH Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Pamella R. Lach Generative AI: Admin Life 2.0 Physicalizing a Forest of Growth: Designing A Participatory Data Physicalization of Academic Growth for Student Community Engagement Maphodology: Mapping Outdoor, Field-Based, and Multimodal Research in Digital Humanities |
| 7:00pm - 8:15 pm ET / 6:00pm - 7:15pm CT / 5:00pm - 6:15pm MT / 4:00pm - 5:15pm PT | #14A: Papers: Global and Diasporic DH Virtual location: Zoom June 12 Chair: Jennifer Sayed Chair: Jesse Sadler Adonde: Nuyorican Founders in The Digital Age Diaspora Voices in Translation: Building a Database of 21st-Century Translated Works La justicia mira hacia el pasado. Exhibición digital sobre las demandas de trabajadores de una empresa minera extranjera en Chocó, Colombia Engaging HBCU Students in Collaborative Learning and Community-Based Digital Humanities Projects |
#14B: Creative Submissions: Computational Communities I Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Mel Day Mapping Social Patterns: Critical GIS Applications in the Digital Humanities Curtis Hixon Hall in ArcGIS BEYOND PASSIVE CONSUMPTION: PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CRITICAL AI LITERACY IN INDIAN HUMANITIES & TECHNICAL EDUCATION |
#14C: Creative Submissions: Computational Communities II Virtual location: Work Adventure Creative -- Blue (Day 2) Chair: Liz Grumbach Hand-tying a feminst maker praxis Encoding Memory: Examining the Everyday Use of QR Codes through Quilting |
| Date: Friday, 13/June/2025 | |
| 10:00am - 11:15am ET / 9:00am - 10:15am CT / 8:00am - 9:15am MT / 7:00am - 8:15am PT | #15A: Special Session: "When we are in a position to rebuild..." Virtual location: Zoom June 13 Chair: Amanda Regan “When we are in the position to rebuild…” |
| 11:30am - 12:45pm ET / 10:30am - 11:45am CT / 9:30am - 10:45am MT / 8:30am - 9:45am PT | #16A: Special Session: "What the NEH ODH Has Inspired" Virtual location: Zoom June 13 Chair: Pamella R. Lach What the NEH ODH has Inspired |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm ET / 12:00pm - 1:15pm CT / 11:00am - 12:15pm MT / 10:00am - 11:15am PT | #17A: ACH Special Session: Funding DH: Past, Present, and Future, a Conversation led by Hannah Alpert-Abrams Virtual location: Zoom Webinar: NEH Session Chair: Lauren Tilton Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez |
| 2:30pm - 3:45pm ET / 1:30pm - 2:45pm CT / 12:30pm - 1:45pm MT / 11:30am - 12:45 pm PT | #18A: ACH Town Hall Care Fair Virtual location: WorkAdventure Care Fair -- Pink Chair: Winnie E. Pérez Martínez Chair: Liz Grumbach The ACH Executive Council care fair focuses on advocacy and care for each other in these trying times. We’ll create space for the ACH community to come together in support of each other and our local communities. Specific activities and workshops are listed in the abstract. All activities will occur in the upper right pink quadrant of our Work Adventure virtual world.
#DHMakes @ ACH 2025: DH Craftivism as Resistance |
| 4:00pm - 5:15pm ET / 3:00pm - 4:15pm CT / 2:00pm - 3:15pm MT / 1:00pm - 2:15pm PT | #19A: ACH Town Hall Care Fair Virtual location: WorkAdventure Care Fair -- Pink Chair: Samantha Chyatte Chair: Rebecca Foote The ACH Executive Council care fair focuses on advocacy and care for each other in these trying times. We’ll create space for the ACH community to come together in support of each other and our local communities. Specific activities and workshops are listed in the abstract. All activities will occur in the upper right pink quadrant of our Work Adventure virtual world. |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm ET / 4:30pm - 5:00pm CT / 3:30pm - 4:00pm MT / 2:30pm - 3:00pm PT | #20A: Closing Session/Dance Party Virtual location: WorkAdventure Lobby (Center Circle) Chair: Rebecca Foote Join us in the center "ACH" circle (lobby) for a concluding dance party. |