Friday, May 1, 2020, 11 AM–4 PM EDT on Zoom.
11:00: Opening Remarks, Daniel Gorman Jr., University of Rochester
11:10 – 1:00: Digital Places
Moderator: Alexander Zawacki, University of Rochester
- Sarah Thompson (Rochester Institute of Technology), “Reconstruction à l’identique: Restoration, Authenticity, and Digital Models in French Gothic Patrimony”
- Jason Tercha (Binghamton University), “Mapping the Social Effects of Antebellum Railroad Development in Northern Virginia”
- Stephen Jacobs (Rochester Institute of Technology), “Mordechi Marches to Manchuria: Building mordechi.org.”
1:00 – 1:30: Lunch Break
1:30 – 3:00: Digital Spaces
Moderator: Madeline Ullrich, University of Rochester
- Suchismata Dutta (University of Miami), “Schools in Community Conversations: Digital Analytics and the Formation of Hybrid Communities”
- James Rankine (University of Rochester), “Messy Data, Neat Maps”
- Sanaa Khan (University of California, San Diego), “Beyond Bodies: Critical Race Perspectives on Digital Embodiments”
3:00 – 4:00: Keynote Lecture
Moderator: Erin Francisco, University of Rochester
Henry B. Lovejoy, Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder, “Follow the Drums: Mapping Yorùbá Migrations to Cuba, Brazil and Sierra Leone during the Abolition of the Slave Trade”