Digital History Events
Thursday
Getting Started in Digital History Workshop
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
Salon B (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Reception for History Bloggers and Twitterstorians
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 5:30 PM-6:30 PM
Room 313/314 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
Sponsored by MapStory.
Saturday
Open Forum: Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 12:30 PM-1:30 PM
Room M302 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Marquis Level)
Digital History Sessions
Thursday
Crisis at the National Archives: A Discussion of Issues and Options
AHA Session 18
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Inman Room (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta Conference Center Level)
Digital History, Slave Databases, and Mapping
AHA Session 27
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
“AskHistorians”: Outreach and Its Challenges in an Online Space
AHA Session 34
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Documentary Editors Engage the 21st Century
AHA Session 40
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Crystal Ballroom C (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)
Digital Historical and Cultural Collections and Exhibits: Ethics, Creation, Dissemination, and Funding
AHA Session 54
Thursday, January 7, 2016: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Salon C (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Friday
Digital Projects Lightning Round
AHA Session 56
Friday, January 8, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Indigenous Counter-Mapping: The Use of GIS, Geovisualizations, and Historical Maps to Reconstruct Indigenous Perspectives and Histories
AHA Session 63
Friday, January 8, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room A703 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Digital Pedagogy in and out of the Classroom: Lightning Round
AHA Session 83
Friday, January 8, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Journals as Intellectual History: A New Historiography through Digital Mapping
AHA Session 96
Friday, January 8, 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Crystal Ballroom C (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)
The New Tools of the Trade: How You Can and Why You Should Become a Documentary Filmmaker or Digital Historian
AHA Session 113
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 213 (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)
Historia Ludens: Games and Play in the Practice of History
AHA Session 126
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Migrations, Databases, and Big Data
AHA Session 135
Friday, January 8, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room A601 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Saturday
When We Were British: Mapping British Influence on Early America for the K–12 Classroom
AHA Session 140
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Crystal Ballroom A (Hilton Atlanta, First Floor)
Podcasting History: A Roundtable Discussion
AHA Session 161
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Regency Ballroom V (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Learning History through Avatars: Simulations and Role-Play in the College Classroom, Part 1: Roundtable Showcase: Developing and Using Avatars in the 21st-Century Classroom
AHA Session 164
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Grand Hall D (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 2)
Poster Session # 1
AHA Session 167
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Galleria Exhibit Hall (Hilton Atlanta, Exhibit Level)
Collaborative Work on Databases and Digital Preservation Projects: Saving, Linking, and Making Sense of Archival Materials in the Digital Age
AHA Session 189
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Regency Ballroom V (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Learning History through Avatars: Simulations and Role-Play in the College Classroom, Part 2: Practicum on Developing and Implementing Character-Driven Learning Simulations in History Classes
AHA Session 192
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Grand Hall D (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 2)
Poster Session #2
AHA Session 195
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 11:45 AM-2:15 PM
Galleria Exhibit Hall (Hilton Atlanta, Exhibit Level)
- Maps and Texts of the Barbary Wars
- Commonwealth Slavery: Digital Studies in the History of Slavery at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Digital Drop-In
AHA Session 197
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room 315 (Hilton Atlanta, Third Floor)
Digital Publishing Initiatives: Training Humanities Scholars
AHA Session 199
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room A704 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Web Archiving: From Practice to Theory
AHA Session 202
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Regency Ballroom V (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Teaching History through Archives
AHA Session 212
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Poster Session #3
AHA Session 223
Saturday, January 9, 2016: 2:30 PM-5:00 PM
Galleria Exhibit Hall (Hilton Atlanta, Exhibit Level)
- The Historical Map as Geodatabase: Creating a Geographic Information System (GIS) from a Data-Rich 17th-Century Map
- Dietary Advice Past and Present: The Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection
- Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: Crowdsourcing and Social Network Analysis
Sunday
Digital History and Digital Preservation Projects: Challenges and Opportunities
AHA Session 249
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Shift Ctrl: Computing and New Media beyond the US and Europe
AHA Session 264
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Regency Ballroom VI (Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Lower Level 1)
Marking Text for Digital History: From Microhistory to Big Data with the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
AHA Session 274
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Room A706 (Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atrium Level)
Social, Cultural, and Economic Histories of Ships Connected to the Transatlantic Slave Trade
AHA Session 279
Sunday, January 10, 2016: 11:00 AM-1:00 PM
Grand Ballroom A (Hilton Atlanta, Second Floor)