April 6-7, 2018
Emory University Woodruff Library
Atlanta, GA
All symposium panels will be held in the Woodruff Library Jones Room
9:00am Coffee and Pastries
9:30am Opening Remarks
10am Archives Panel
Ellen Ambrosone and Neel Agrawal
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
Gil Ben-Herut and Jon Keune
The Connected Bhakti Bibliographies Database (CBBD): Challenges and Prospects
Guneeta Singh Bhalla
The 1947 Partition Archive: Crowdsourced Oral Histories
Poushali Bhadury
Navigating the Digital: The Changing Landscape of State and Public Library Collections in Kolkata
12:00pm – 1:30pm Break
1:30 – 2:30pm Text Panel
Andrew Ollett
Modes of Philological Production
Nicole Merkel-Hilf
Naval Kishore Press – digital: From hidden treasure to Open Access
2:30 – 2:50pm Coffee Break and Demo
Andrew Ollett (SARIT)
2:50pm – 4:30pm Demos
Charles Li and Tim Bellefleur
Visualizing Variation in Sanskrit Texts
Yigal Bronner
PANDiT Project
5:30pm Participant Reception
9:00am Coffee and Pastries
9:30am – 11:30am Media Panel
Anandi Silva Knuppel
Knowledge and Media: What can we learn from multimedia work?
Sumathi Ramaswamy
The Unbearable Lightness of Image Travel
James Nye, Susan Huntington, Bridget Madden
Monuments and Metadata: Interlinking a Photo Collection for Research and Teaching
Nicole Ranganath
The Promise & Complexities of Engaging in Digital Scholarship through University and Community Partnerships
11:30am – 1:00pm Break
1:00pm –2:30pm Pedagogy Panel
Rahul Gairola
Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of South Asian Digital Humanities
Constance Kassor
Making Sense of Space and Time with Digital Tools in the Classroom
Mark McLaughlin
Hindu Temples in the Classroom using Virtual Reality
2:45pm – 3:15pm Coffee and Demo
Mark McLaughlin (Google Cardboard and Hindu Temples)
3:15pm – 4:45pm
Open Access Publishing Roundtable
Amardeep Singh
The Kiplings and India
Nicole Merkel-Hilf
CrossAsia-eBooks: Making research visible
Sarah McKee
Digital Monograph Initiatives at Emory
Andrew Ollett
Language of the Snakes for Luminos
Melanie Kowalski (Copyright & Scholarly Communications Librarian)
4:45pm – 5:00pm Closing Remarks
5:00pm Adjourn