THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2018
Evening Plenary, 7:30 p.m.
Room 300, Levis Faculty Center (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana)
Welcome: Provost Andreas Cangellaris
Introduction and Q&A: Antoinette Burton, IPRH
“The Future of the Public University in the Age of Big Data”
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University
- Trevor Muñoz, Interim Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the U of Maryland Libraries, U of Maryland
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor of American Cultures, U of Michigan
Moderator: Lisa Lee, Art History, University of Illinois-Chicago
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2018
Panel Sessions, 8:45 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
IPRH Lecture Hall, Levis Faculty Center (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)
8:45 a.m.: Welcome
9:00 a.m.: The Art and Design of Data Knowledge
Moderator and Q&A: Kevin Hamilton, School of Art + Design (Illinois)
Catherine D’Ignazio/kanarinka, Assistant Professor of Civic Media and Data Visualization at Emerson College, (and a Faculty Director at the Engagement Lab and a research affiliate at the MIT Center for Civic Media & MIT Media Lab) — Data Feminism
Erik Loyer, Creative Director of The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture and Founder and Director of Opertoon — What You See Is Not What You Get: The Virtues of Delaying Design
Respondent: Nekita Thomas, School of Art + Design (Illinois)
10:30 a.m.: Along and Against the Algorithmic Grain
Moderator and Q&A: Antoinette Burton, History and IPRH
Matthew Jones, Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University — Learning to Love Black Boxes: From AI to Machine Learning and Back Again
Safiya Noble, Assistant Professor, School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California — A Social Framework for Understanding Algorithmic-Determination
Respondent: Ned O’Gorman, Communication (Illinois)
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.: The Political and Economic Lives of Big Data
Moderator and Q&A: Anita Say Chan, Media and Cinema Studies (Illinois)
Liz Losh, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, William and Mary — #
Virginia Eubanks, Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY — Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Respondent: Karrie Kalahalios, Computer Science (Illinois)
3:00 p.m.: The Place of Data in Humanistic Inquiry
Moderator and Q&A: Ted Underwood, English and the School of Information Sciences (Illinois)
Richard So, Assistant Professor of English and Cultural Analytics, McGill University — The Geometry of Whiteness: Bridging the Gap between Critical Race Studies and Cultural Analytics
Jo Guldi, Assistant Professor of History, Southern Methodist University — From Critical Thinking to Critical Search: Working between microhistory and macrohistory with big data
Respondent: Clare Crowston, History (Illinois)
4:30 p.m.: Round Up: Big Data @Home: Histories for the Present and the Future
Moderator: Kevin Hamilton, School of Art + Design (Illinois)