2016 - Machines Made of Words Technology, Progress and the Humanities

Practicing Resurrection: Wendell Berry, the Humanities and the Problematics of Electric Wire and Screens

Annette Sisson PhD, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

3:00 PM

Can Machines Be Exemplary Persons?

Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

Sounding Off in the Humanities

Eric Detweiler, Middle Tennessee State University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

Engaging "Smart" Machines: AI, VR & the Humanities

Eric Detweiler, Middle Tennessee State University
Joel Overall, Belmont University
Kevin S. Trowbridge, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

Film Screening and Discussion: Sunspring

Barbara Doyle, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

Poetry Workshop Led by Neil Aitken

Neil Aitken, Boxcar Poetry Review

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 5008

3:00 PM

Beauty, Loss and the Intangible: Charles Babbage's Unfinished Machines

Neil Aitken, Boxcar Poetry Review

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

7:00 PM

The End of Literature? Not on Our Watch

Margaret Renkl

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

"The Door's Open, But the Ride Ain't Free." How Open Access Initiatives Are Democratizing the Humanities

Peggy Glahn, Reveal Digital

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

The Future of Libraries in the Digital Age

Sue Maszaros, Belmont University
Jenny Mills, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

No Books Upon Your Shelf: An Examination of Digital Textbooks and the Online Learning Environment

Cynthia Cox, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

3:00 PM

An Ethical Digital Humanities: Small Scale Approaches to Inclusive DH Projects

Amy Earhart, Texas A&M University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

7:00 PM

"Ain't It Wonderful...How Much People Can Mean to Each Other?": Technology in the Service of the Humanities

Andy Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

Digital Huamnities Q&A Panel with Amy Earhart and Andy Jewell

Amy Earhart, Texas A&M University
Andy Jewell, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

Shakespeare: From on Stage to Online

Marcia McDonald, Belmont University
Jayme Yeo, Belmont University
Joel Overall, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

The Great Growling Engine of Change: Viewing the Evolution of Technology Through Literature

Alyssa Wynans, Belmont University
Grace Miller, Belmont University
Aleks Kojadinovic, Belmont University
Hannah McIntosh, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

3:00 PM

What It Means to Read (and to Teach) in the 21st Century: Digital Social Reading and Participatory Culture

Carl S. Blyth, University of Texas at Austin

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

7:00 PM

Why Things Matter: Being Posthuman in the Humanities

Jason Lovvorn, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-and Her Monsters

David Curtis, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

"In the Beginning: Dramatic Readings Followed by Discussion of Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robets)"

Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

12:30 PM

Prosthetic America: Ideas of Embodiment Amidst Crises of Representation from the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Peter Kuryla, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

"Where No Man Has Gone Before"...Yet

Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

3:00 PM

Technology, Ethics and the Quest to Build a Better Human

Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

7:00 PM

Magic [&/Is/Vs.] Technology

Melanie Walton, Belmont University
Topher Lutz, Belmont University
Samm Willard, Belmont University
Millie Marshall, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

10:00 AM

Language: 'The Universal and Biologically Specific' Technology

Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

11:00 AM

There's Not an App for That: Wellness, Writing and Walking in the Digital Age

Holly Huddleston, Belmont University
Bonnie Smith Whitehouse, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

1:00 PM

Socrates Bound: The Irreplaceable Centrality of Dialogue in Education (Or: the Lamentations of a Professor of Online Classes)

Clancy Smith, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 4094

2:00 PM

Digital Composing Workshop

Joel Overall, Belmont University

Janet Ayers Academic Center, JAAC 1038

2:00 PM

2016 Sandra Hutchins Humanities Symposium Writing Competition Reading and Celebration of Winning Entries

Gary McDowell
Susan Finch, Belmont University

Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094

4:00 PM

Symposium Wrap-Up: Reflecting on Technology and the Humanities

Belmont University

Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094

10:00 AM