The theme of this Institute is “Digital Humanities and the Environment.” From the natural environment to pedagogical environments, this year’s institute will meditate on DH’s impact with its surroundings. What are important considerations for ensuring DH work minimizes harm to the environment? How can we teach practitioners to consider the environmental impact of their DH work? How is industry incorporating the environment into DH products and solutions? Sessions include: Digital Botany: Getting Back to Our Roots, Aaron Kampe (UNC Charlotte); Exploring the Educational Environment Through Data Visualization, Borim Song (East Carolina University), Kyungeun Lim (Northern Arizona University); Accessing the Archives: American Children’s Environmental Writing For Everyone, Karen Kilcup, Jessica Cory, Mary Miller, Rene Marzuk (UNC Greensboro); Creating the Siloam School Virtual Tour, Angel Johnston and Lauren Wallace (The Charlotte Museum of History); Removing the Gatekeeper: Using DH Tools To Minimize the Impact of Faculty Bias on the Student Learning Environment, Keaton Johanson (California State University, Fresno); Game Design as Environmental Activism, Chelsea Brtis (UNC Charlotte); An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC, Cole Wicker (Duke University); Notes From The Silicon Age: An Interactive Exploration on the Meaning(s) of Nature, Noel Castro Fernandez (UNC Chapel Hill); Digital Museums and Missing Narratives: Intentionality and Critical Historiography, Sean Loughran, Chrissy O’Grady, Adrianna Martinez (SUNY New Paltz); Roots of Resistance: A Digital/Physical Exhibition, Anne Parsons (UNC Greensboro); Summoning AI Art: Using Machine Learning To Foster Creativity in the Classroom, Daniel Hutchinson (Belmont Abbey College); Ecological Disturbance & Recovery: Re-Imagining Accessibility In Tech-Mediated Classrooms, Ashlyn Walden (UNC Charlotte); Digital Exploration of Spatial Environments: Physical, Conceptual, Virtual, Hannah Jacobs, Paul Jaskot, Augustus Wendell (Duke University); Using Historical Satellite Imagery in Latin American Environmental History, Frederico Freitas (North Carolina State University); “It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done”: How We Can Implement Equitable and Inclusive Practices Into Our Encoding Standards to Meet the Needs of our Changing Social and Cultural Environments, Heather Ball (St. John’s University) and Kathryn Simpson (University of Glasgow); Environments of DH: How our Work is in and of the World, Amanda Starling Gould, PhD (Duke University).
