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“Computer Vision for Historical Document Image Analysis”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”
