Rebooting Resilience: Navigating Crisis, Creativity, and Connection in the Digital Humanities
Chair: Jones, Mason

Creativity in the Time of Covid-19: Digital Accessibility, Disability Studies, & Health Humanities

Phillips, Natalie; Cho, Soohyun; Logsdon, Sydney; Tong, Quynh; Avequin, Marine; Liliensiek, Natalie; Rudolfi, Gracie; Sluder, K; Inman, Lorraine; Seitz, Natalie; Abbasov, Carina

Digital Humanities & Literary Cognition Lab, Michigan State University

This paper uses a digital archive of pandemic art and stories, Creativity in the Time of Covid-19, to discuss how to make accessibility a radical priority in national exhibitions. We illuminate how this DH collaboration connects medical humanities and disability studies—two fields that rarely speak—around the role of mental health.


Reinventing Approaches to Learning and Accessibility in Digital Humanities: Teaching the Winter School ‘Skills in Digital methods’ before, during, and after the 2020 health crisis

Viola, Lorella; Takats, Sean

University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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This presentation explores the dynamic journey of teaching digital humanities for history graduate students at the University of Luxembourg before, during, and after the Covid crisis. Through the impact of Covid we made improvements to DH education that we would not have tried otherwise and which remain useful post-pandemic.


Title: The Art of Failure: Resistance Mapping as an Experiment in Reinvention

Sperrazza, Whitney (1); Tinker, Blair (2); Walker, Rebekah (1)

1: Rochester Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2: University of Rochester

What happens when a digital humanities project fails? In this presentation we take our collaborative project, Resistance Mapping, as a case study for reframing "failure" in terms of "reinvention."