{"id":13533,"date":"2026-03-25T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T12:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=13533"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:57:23","slug":"youre-invited-digital-humanities-day-hosted-by-libraries-and-school-of-information-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/25\/youre-invited-digital-humanities-day-hosted-by-libraries-and-school-of-information-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re invited: Digital Humanities Day hosted by Libraries and School of Information Studies on Tuesday, April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You\u2019re invited to join us for Digital Humanities (DH) Day, hosted by Libraries and School of Information Studies, on Tuesday, April 7.&nbsp;The event will run from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM, with a featured talk at 10:30 AM in Stewart Center, Room 202.<br \/><br \/>This half-day conference celebrates creative and critical approaches to digital scholarship. Topics will range from online discourses around AI and disability to reconstructing complex networks of historical diplomacy and bilingual education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>8:30 AM:&nbsp;<\/strong>Welcome and networking, refreshments provided<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>9:00\u201310:00 AM: <\/strong>Student presentations by DH certificate candidates\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Diana Torres Arias,<\/strong> Comparative Literature<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Loizos Bitsikokos,<\/strong> Communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lane Matthew Bradley,<\/strong> Communication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marlene Burtscher,<\/strong> Linguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Priya Makarand Dabak, <\/strong>Curriculum and Instruction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cathy Kerton-Johnson,<\/strong> History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Daeun Kang, <\/strong>Linguistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>EmmaRose Milburn, <\/strong>Anthropology and History<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kostiantyn Moharychev<\/strong>, History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>10:00\u201310:15 AM: <\/strong>Student Q&amp;A<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>10:15\u201310:30 AM: <\/strong>Break<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>10:30\u201311:30 AM: <\/strong>Keynote address by Ryan Cordell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/files\/2026\/03\/ryan-cordell-headshot-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ryan Cordell\" class=\"wp-image-13534\" style=\"width:298px;height:auto\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s keynote speaker, Associate Professor Ryan Cordell (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), will present \u201cAnemoia, AI, and Skeuomorphism: The Material Turn in Digital Humanities.\u201d His talk explores a growing interest in analog and \u201cdead media\u201d practices\u2014such as printing presses, typewriters, and other tactile forms\u2014as a response to today\u2019s increasingly AI-driven digital landscape. Rather than resisting technology, this \u201cmaterial turn\u201d highlights hands-on, creative practices as a way to think critically about digital tools and emphasize human choice, design, and agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you\u2019ll join us for a morning of ideas, discussion, and community!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Ryan Cordell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ryan Cordell is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences and Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Cordell primarily studies circulation and reprinting in nineteenth-century American newspapers, but his interests extend to the influence of computation, digitization, and machine learning on contemporary reading, writing, and research. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English, History, and Computer Science on the <a href=\"https:\/\/viraltexts.org\/\">Viral Texts project,<\/a> which uses robust data mining tools to discover borrowed texts across large-scale archives of nineteenth-century periodicals. Cordell serves as a senior fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School and also directs UIUC\u2019s Skeuomorph Press &amp; BookLab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re invited to join us for Digital Humanities (DH) Day, hosted by Libraries and School of Information Studies, on Tuesday, April 7.&nbsp;The event will run from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM, with a featured talk at 10:30 AM in Stewart Center, Room 202. This half-day conference celebrates creative and critical approaches to digital scholarship. 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