Digital Humanities Abu Dhabi

Speakers

Confirmed speakers and working titles include:

• Alicia Fornes, Computer Vision Center, Autonomous University of Barcelona — 
  “Computer Vision for Historical Document Image Analysis”
• Andreas Witt, Mannheim/Cologne — “Why Use the TEI Framework for Linguistic Annotation?”
• Azza Abouzeid, NYU Abu Dhabi
• Beth Russell, NYU Abu Dhabi and Zach Coble, NYU New York — “Library Support for Digital Humanities in a Global Context”
• Carlos Guedes, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Sound as Heritage: Introducing the Sounds of Sir Bani Yas Website and Installation”
• Colleen Morgan, York U and Robert Carter, UCL Qatar — “Archaeology and Digital Engagement in the Origins of Doha and Qatar Project“
• Clifford Siskin, NYU New York —“Era(s) of Computation: The ‘Rear-View Mirror’ Problem”
• David Joseph Wrisley, NYU Abu Dhabi and AU Beirut —“Rethinking Medieval Epic Digitally: Variance, Orality, Alignment, Visualization”
• Debra Levine, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Staging Archival Affinities and Recombinant Performance in Scalar”
• Elie Dannaoui, Balamand U — “How might competency-based education ​(CBE) ​Present a Potential Solution to Concerns About Digital Humanities Pedagogy?​”
• Gioele Barabucci, DiXiT, Cologne — “Not A Single Bit in Common: Issues in Collating Digital Transcriptions of Ibn Rušd’s writings in Multiple Languages (Arabic, Hebrew and Latin)”
• Ginny Danielson, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Introducing the Arabic Collections Online (ACO)”
• Glenn Roe, Australian National U — “Early Modern Text Technologies: Identifying Commonplace Practices in ECCO”
• Godfried Toussaint, NYU Abu Dhabi  — “Fully Automatic Algorithmic Generation of Musical Rhythms and its Applications”
• Hilde De Weerdt, Leiden — “Developing a Digital Infrastructure for Chinese and other East Asian Languages”
• Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Vienna Academy of Sciences — “Texts, Tree Rings and Networks. Digital Approaches Towards Social, Environmental and Narrative Dynamics Across Ancient and Medieval Afro-Eurasia”
• Kimon Keramidas, NYU New York — “Digital Media, Social Engagement, and a More Public Humanities”
• Laila Familiar, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Teaching Arabic Using a Corpus Approach to Fiction”
• Laura Mandell, Texas A&M — “The Fate of Reading–Distant, Surface, and Deep–in the Era of Dirty OCR”
• Lorna Hughes, Glasgow — “Beyond digital collections: the role of cultural heritage in an emerging critical framework for the digital humanities”
• Lynne Siemens, U Victoria
• Marina Hassapopoulou, NYU New York — “Analysis Beyond Analytics: Expanding the Digital Humanities through Cinema and Media Studies”
• Mario Hawat, AU Beirut — “Beirut Publishes: Macroanalysis of a Century of Lebanese Publishing”
• Mark Muehlhaeusler, AU Cairo — “Representing Library Collections Beyond the Catalogue”
• Maxim Romanov, U Leipzig — “Algorithmic Analysis of the [Premodern] Arabic Biographical Tradition”
• Michael Nashed, Bibliotheca Alexandrina — “Digital Libraries in Arabic Countries: Digitization Workflows”
• Miguel Escobar Varela, National U of Singapore — “The Contemporary Wayang Archive: Javanese Theatre as Data”
• Muhamed al-Khalil, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Computer-Assisted Simplification of Arabic Works of Fiction for Early Learners: Challenges, Responses, and the SAMER Project Experience”
• Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Computational Processing of Arabic for Digital Humanistic Research”
• Padmini Murray, Shrishti Institute —“Digital Humanities is Dead: Long Live Digital Humanities”
• Ray Siemens, U Victoria — “A View of Social Knowledge, Localised and at Scale”
• Robert Parthesius, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Digital Heritage Experiments: New Spaces on Old Sites”
• Sana Odeh, NYU New York
• Sean Pue, Michigan State — “Textual Encoding of Hindi/Urdu Poetry for Cross-lingual Analysis”
• Shamoon Zamir and Özge Calafato, NYU Abu Dhabi — “Akkasah: Collecting Photography from the Middle East and North Africa”
• Till Grallert, Orient Institut Beirut — “Open Arabic Periodical Editions: An Attempt to Unite Gray Online Libraries, Social Editing, and Scholarly Rigour”