DHARTI

DHARTI2022 Conference: The Digital Divides: Discontents, Debates and Discussions
2022-02-21 09:00 - 2022-02-23 17:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Online Event, India
The theme for the DHARTI2022 conference, held between 21-24 February 2022, was “The Digital Divides: Discontents, Debates and Discussions”. Access the full CFP here.
The following were the keynote speakers for the conference:

21 Feb 2022
7PM (UTC +530)
P. Thirumal
Professor
Department of Communication
University of Hyderabad
Of Technological milieus and Literary telling: A limited reading of the Kannada Digital audio Swapne Saraswathe

22 Feb 2022
7PM (UTC +530)
Anubha Sinha
Senior Researcher
Centre for Internet and Society, India
Open Access in India

23 Feb 2022
7PM (UTC +530)
Aishatu Gwadabe
Peace Technologist and AI Artist
Digital humanities and tech for good: An exploration of Peace Technology

24 Feb 2022
7:30PM (UTC +530)
Paola Ricaurte
Associate Professor
Department of Media and Digital Culture
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City
DH in a global pandemic: responses from the majority world

The conference timeline was as follows:

Conference Timeline:
Dates

Call for Papers
23 August 2021

Deadline for Abstract submissions
12 December 2021

Communication of decisions after peer review
15 January 2021

Last date for registration (participants)
10 Feb 2022

Last date for registration (attendees)
18 Feb 2022

Conference Week
21 Feb – 25 Feb 2022

Workshop: Introduction to R for Humanities
28 Feb – 11 Mar 2022

Workshop: Webscraping using Chrome extension
5 Mar 2022

Access the Conference Schedule here.

DHARTI Speaks! #2 (2021): Beyond Defaults: Multilingual DH Meets Cultural Analytics
2021-01-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Online Event, India
As the second session of the DHARTI Speaks! series, Beyond Defaults: Multilingual DH Meets Cultural Analytics was held on 16 January 2021, at 7:30 PM (IST) / 6:00 AM (PST). The session featured Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University, USA), an academic technology specialist working in Digital Humanities. The talk examined the challenges of working with multilingual and non-English data in Digital Humanities, particularly the limitations created by English-centric tools and approaches. It also considered questions of digital project sustainability, data and corpus maintenance, natural language processing, and the need for more inclusive approaches to multilingual DH and cultural analytics.

DHARTI Speaks! #1 (2020): Electronic Literature as DH: Perspectives from Ghana and India
2020-12-20 20:30 - 21:30 | Online Event, India
As the first session of the DHARTI Speaks! series, Electronic Literature as DH: Perspectives from Ghana and India was held on 20 December 2020, at 8:30 PM (IST) / 3:00 PM (GMT) on Zoom. The session featured Dr. Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang (University of Ghana, Ghana) and Dr. Shanmugapriya T. (then Lancaster University, UK; now IIT Dhanbad), with Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy (University of Leeds) as moderator. The discussion explored Electronic Literature as a field and practice within the Digital Humanities, bringing together perspectives from Ghana and India to consider how digital technologies shape literary production, forms and modes of engagement.

DHARTI Twitter Conference 2020: Innovating for DH in India
2020-01-19 09:00 - 16:30 | X (Twitter) (Online Event), 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

DHAI2018 Conference: DH in India: Contestations, Connections and Collaborations
2018-06-01 08:30 - 2018-06-02 12:00 | IIM Indore and IIT Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
View Call for Papers and Sessions here.
The DHAI2018 conference, DH in India: Contestations, Connections and Collaborations, was held on 1 and 2 June 2018 at IIM Indore and IIT Indore. Jointly organised by the Indian Institute of Management Indore and the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, with support from the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, it was the inaugural conference of the Digital Humanities Alliance of India (DHAI), the organisation that would later become DHARTI.

The conference sought to question dominant assumptions about Digital Humanities and ask what DH might look like when situated within India’s particular technological, institutional, cultural and historical contexts. Its theme, “Contestations, Connections and Collaborations,” emerged partly in response to critiques of the Anglo-American dominance of DH and the need to recognise diverse and locally situated forms of digital humanities practice. The call for papers specifically asked how postcolonial digital practices might diverge from Euro-American methodologies and raised questions about access, digital pedagogy, new knowledge archives, cultural heritage, digital genealogies and the relationship between the digital and social justice in South Asia.
The two-day conference attracted more than 50 national and international delegates from 16 Indian states and five countries, making it an important early gathering for the emerging Indian DH community.
Day 1: 1 June 2018
The conference opened at IIM Indore with a formal inauguration attended by Prof. Paul Arthur, Chair of Digital Humanities and Director of the Global Studies Centre at Edith Cowan University, Australia; Puthiya Purayil Sneha (P. P. Sneha), Digital Humanities Practitioner at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru; Prof. Nirmala Menon, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Indore; Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director of IIM Indore; and Prof. Ashok Thorat, Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune. Prof. Dibyadyuti Roy, then faculty at IIM Indore and Conference Coordinator, welcomed the participants.
The first keynote was delivered by Prof. Paul Arthur (Edith Cowan University, Australia) on “The Tyranny of the Digital: Being Human in the Digital Age.” The day then featured three panel discussions:

Digital Humanities and Social Justice in India
Lived, Perceived and Conceived Digital Spaces and Digital Pedagogies
New Media Literacies and Scholarly Publishing

The day concluded with a keynote by Prof. Chaz Evans on “Fidelities of Context in Global Video Game Production.”
Day 2: 2 June 2018
The second day opened with a keynote by P. P. Sneha (Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru) titled “New Contexts of Humanities Practice in the Digital.” Drawing on her research mapping Digital Humanities initiatives in India and her work on digital cultural archives, Sneha’s keynote examined the growth of digital corpora and their relationship with teaching, learning and humanities practice in India’s emerging digital landscape.
The day’s sessions continued with discussions around:

Digital Infrastructure, Archives and Architecture
Digital Practice and Pedagogy
Making Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities Projects
Reading Digital Humanities

The conference concluded with a roundtable on “Decolonizing Knowledge, Decentralizing Discourse,” moderated by Prof. Dibyadyuti Roy (IIM Indore) and Prof. Nirmala Menon (IIT Indore). The roundtable brought the conference’s broader concerns with situated, postcolonial and locally responsive DH practices into a final collective discussion.
The beginning of DHARTI
The conference also has particular significance in DHARTI’s institutional history. According to DHARTI’s current account, DHARTI came into existence at a town hall meeting on 2 June 2018, held amongst the participants of the inaugural DHAI conference and in the presence of its keynote speakers Prof. Paul Arthur, Prof. Chaz Evans and P. P. Sneha. The organisation continued under the DHAI name initially, with the name Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations (DHARTI) being formalised by its Executive Committee in 2019.
