Frontiers in Digital History – Schedule

April 3–4, 2009
George Mason University

Friday, April 3

1:00

• Room 163 – Opening Remarks
  • Shawn Martin, University of Pennsylvania

1:30-2:15

• Room 161 – “‘Czech It Out:’ Using Blogs and Wikis in a Historic Preservation Course.”
  • Jillian Hinegardner, Ursuline College.
• Room 162 – “Citizen Historians: Children of the Lodz Ghetto.”
  • David Klevan, United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum
• Room 163 – “Virtual Soweto: Digital History, Social Justice, & the 'Archive' in South Africa's Black Townships.”
  • Angel Nieves, Hamilton College
• Room 460 – “Braddock Heritage.”
  • Lee Ann Ghajar, George Mason University.

2:30-3:15

• Room 161 – “New Frontiers in Teaching the Cold War: 1989.”
  • Katherine Gustin, George Mason University
• Room 162 – “The Petition Archives.”
  • Will Riley, George Mason University
• Room 163 – “Teaching the Civil War with Technology.”
  • James R. Beeghley, Waynesburg University
  • Sarah Beeghley, St. Joseph School
• Room 460 – “To Share or Not to Share: Digital History and Copyright.”
  • Jenny Reeder, George Mason University

3:30-4:45

• Room 163 – “The History Engine: Aggregating, Teaching, and Visualizing the American Past.”
  • Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
  • T. Lloyd Benson, Furman University
  • Scott Nesbit, University of Virginia

Saturday, April 4

9:00 - 9:45

• Room 161 – “The Devil in the Details: Reconstructing Chicago's White City.”
  • Lisa Snyder, University of California-Los Angeles
• Room 162 – “Online Digital Archives as Transplanted Homelands: Minorities and the Archival Paradigm in the Digital Era.”
  • Amalia S. Levi, University of Maryland.
• Room 163 – “Basic Digital History Skills for Historians.”
  • Amanda French, New York University
• Room 460 – “Mapping Disease in Eighteenth-Century London: GIS Solutions.”
  • Stuart Basten, University of Oxford

10:00 - 10:45

• Room 161 – “Playing History: Let's Build an Open Collaborative Repository of Historical Games.”
  • Trevor Owens, George Mason University
• Room 162 – “Advancing Digital History Tools and Scholarship in the Classroom.”
  • Bill Ferster, University of Virginia
• Room 163 – “Mobile Historical Landscapes: Exposing and Crowdsourcing Historical Landmarks.”
  • Dave Lester, George Mason University.
• Room 460 – “Building Digital History Tools Through Curated Video/Newsreel and Full-Text Advice Literature.”
  • Shanna Wagger and Stephanie Garrett, Alexander Street Press

11:00 - 12:15

• Room 163 – “Teaching History with Digital Media: A Roundtable Discussion.”
  • Jeremy Boggs, George Mason University
  • Jeff McClurken, The University of Mary Washington
  • Josh Sternfeld, University of California-Los Angeles

12:15 - 2:00 :: Lunch

2:00 - 2:45

• Room 161 – “Interlinking Who, What, Where, When, Why, and Howe We Teach into a Giant EduGraph.”
  • Patrick Murray-John, The University of Mary Washington
• Room 162 – “Beyond Thucydides: An Interactive Exploration of the Peloponnesian War.”
  • Amanda Morton, The Ohio State University
• Room 163 – “Australian Digital History.”
  • Paul Arthur, Curtin University of Technology/Rutgers University
• Room 460 – “The JAHC 10 Years Out: Where Have We Been and Where are We Going?.”
  • Deborah Andersen, University of Albany

3:00 - 3:45

• Room 161 – “Exploring Knoxville's African-American History: Using Wi-Fi to Situate Events in the Context of a City.”
  • Sarah Lowe, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
• Room 162 – “Digital Durham: New Tools for Visualizing the Past.”
  • Trudi Abel, Duke University
• Room 163 – “A digital montage/installation.”
  • David Staley, The Ohio State University.
• Room 460 – “Mapping Our Archives.”
  • Tim Sherratt, National Archives of Australia.

4:00 - 5:15

• Room 163 – “Digital Scholarship 2.0: A Conversation on the State of the Field.”
  • Susan Garfinkel, Judy Graves, and Jurretta J. Heckscher, Library of Congress

5:15

• Room 163 – Closing Remarks