DHARTI Twitter Conference 2020: Innovating for DH in India

The DHARTI Twitter Conference 2020 was organised by the Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI) on 19 January 2020. With the theme, “Innovating for DH in India,” the conference was conducted entirely on Twitter through the hashtag #DHARTITwitterConf. It was India’s first Digital Humanities Twitter conference.

The conference provided a platform for conversations around the possibilities and challenges of developing Digital Humanities in India, with particular attention to locally situated research, teaching and practice.

Schedule (All times are in IST):

9:00 AM: Introduction

9:05 AM: Keynote: “What is DH and Why Are So Many People Teaching It?”
Brian Croxall (@briancroxall)
Assistant Research Professor of Digital Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, Brigham Young University

and

Diane Jakacki (@DianeJakacki)
Digital Scholarship Coordinator and Associated Faculty in Comparative Humanities, Bucknell University

9:50 AM: Opening Remarks
Nirmala Menon (@NMenon05), President, DHARTI, IIT Indore
Dibyadyuti Roy (@dibsroy86), Vice President, DHARTI, IIM Indore

10:00 AM: Let’s Spin Some Yarn: South Asian Migrant Histories interwoven in Digitally Domestic Hashtag Publics
Radhika Gajjala (@cyberdivalivesl), Bowling Green State University

10:20 AM: Multilingual DH
Quinn Dombrowski (@quinnanya), Stanford University

11:00 AM: Digitising our vote
Shashikala Assella (@ShashiAssella), Department of English, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

11:20 AM: Role of Spatial and Temporal Visualization in Digital Humanities: A Case Study
Navreet Kaur (@navreet2601), JIRICO, OP Jindal Global University

11:40 AM: Young Adults and Digital Cultures: A Study of Online Affinity Spaces
Zahra Rizvi (@zaaraofthesea), Dept. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

12:00 PM: Literary Histories, Digital Futures
Swati Moitra (@swatiatrest), Gurudas College, University of Calcutta

12:20 PM: Geospatial Digital Humanities in the History Classroom
Swati Chawla (@ChawlaSwati), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, OP Jindal Global University

12:40 PM: Indian Community Cookbooks
Muskaan Pal, Ananya Pujary and Khushi Gupta (@CookbooksIndian), FLAME University

01:00 PM: “Doing” Digital Humanities: Feminist Digital Activism as Pedagogical Practice
Riddhima Sharma (@riddhima_rs), Bowling Green State University

1:40 PM: Cripping the DH Space
Subhradeep Chatterjee (@subhradeepch), Jadavpur University

2:00 PM: Digital Humanities Pedagogy for Whom?
Kush Patel (@kshpatel), Avani Institute of Design, Calicut, Kerala

2:20 PM: Indian Classrooms and Digital Humanities
Ankita Mathur (@1810ankita), Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts

2:40 PM: Interrogating the Ethics of Archival Practices in the Indian Subcontinent
Tamalika Roy (@tamalikar_), Jadavpur University

3:00 PM: How the Digital Culture is Shaping Today’s Development Practice?
Anuj Ghanekar (@AnujMetta), Urban Health and Climate Resilience Centre of Excellence

3:20 PM: Visual communication through Digital Comics
Debanjana Nayek (@debanjana_nayek), Presidency University

3:40 PM: Keynote: Challenging Applied Humanities: Boosting Social Innovation in and for India
Eveline Wandl-Vogt (@caissarl), Austrian Academy of Sciences

4:20 PM: Closing remarks
Maya Dodd (@mayadodd), Member, DHARTI Executive, FLAME University