{"id":2425,"date":"2018-12-13T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhweek.nycdh.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=2425"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:55:06","slug":"nycdh-kickoff-information-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/nycdh.org\/dhweek\/event\/nycdh-kickoff-information-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"NYCDH Kickoff Event: Information and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following last year\u2019s highly successful event, NYCDH Week 2019 begins on February 4 with a kickoff gathering at\u00a0Lincoln Center Campus (113 W. 60th St., 12th Floor)<\/a>. This year\u2019s theme is\u00a0Information and Democracy<\/strong>. The day-long event features speakers, roundtables, lightning talks and networking sessions.<\/p>\n

Schedule<\/h2>\n

Registration<\/strong>: 10-10:30
\n<\/span>Keynote<\/strong>: 10:30-11:30 – Meredith Broussard
\n<\/span>Panel<\/strong>: 11:30-12:30 – Information, Democracy, Archives and Absence
\n<\/span>Lunch<\/strong>: 12:30-1:30
\n<\/span>Lightning Talks<\/strong>: 1:30-2:15
\n<\/span>Graduate Student Awards and Presentations<\/strong>: 2:15-3:15
\n<\/span>Break<\/strong>: 15 minutes
\n<\/span>Roundtable<\/strong>: 3:30-4:30 – DH in K-12
\n<\/span>Digibar<\/strong><\/a>: 5pm, Empire Hotel Rooftop<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Keynote<\/h2>\n
\"Meredith<\/a>

Meredith Broussard<\/p><\/div>\n

This year\u2019s\u00a0keynote speaker<\/b>\u00a0will be data journalist\u00a0Meredith Broussard<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b>Ms. Broussard is an assistant professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World<\/em><\/a>. Her academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She is also interested in reproducible research issues and is developing methods for preserving innovative digital journalism projects in scholarly archives so that we can read today\u2019s news on tomorrow\u2019s computers.<\/p>\n

Roundtables<\/h2>\n

In addition to our keynote there will be two roundtables at the NYCDH Kickoff Event:<\/p>\n

Information, Democracy, Archives, and Absence<\/h3>\n

This panel offers a historical perspective for our kick-off day\u2019s theme of Information and Democracy. As digitization makes archives more accessible, and as digital humanities methods such as mapping and computational analysis provide new ways of interrogating the relationship between knowledge and power, we ask how scholars are bringing about new insights about the relationship between the social and political challenges of our present and the lost voices of our past. Panelists will build on recent discussions of what Thomas Padilla has called \u201cengaging absence\u201d in the archive to demonstrate how DH enables us to contemplate what we know and how we know it and democratize the production of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Panelists:<\/span><\/p>\n