iSchool to present research at the Digital Humanities 2025 conference

iSchool faculty, staff, and students will present their research at DH2025, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), which will take place on July 14–18 in Lisbon, Portugal. The digital humanities (DH) conference is the largest event of the international DH community and unites scholars from across the globe. The theme of this year's conference is "Building Access and Accessibility, Open Science to all Citizens."

iSchool participation includes:

PhD student Owen Monroe is presenting his short paper, "Networking Nature: Early Victorian Science and Politics in the Mass Press." He is also presenting a poster co-authored with Assistant Professor Zoe LeBlanc titled "Programming Pedagogies: Exploring GitHub as a Platform for Coding Training in DH."

PhD student Sarah Griebel is lead author, with PhD student Daniel Evans; Digital Humanities Specialist Ryan Dubnicek; Associate Director for Research Support Services at the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Glen Layne-Worthey; and Professor and HTRC Co-Director J. Stephen Downie, of the short paper, "Strictly Speaking: Character Attribution in Literary Dialogue with Language Models."

Downie and Adjunct Research Professor David Bainbridge are presenting a poster titled "Bootstrapping Corpora Building of Low-Resourced Language Texts Using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," co-authored with colleagues from the Universities of Waikato and Massey, both in New Zealand.

Tanmoy Debnath (MSIM ‘25) is lead author of the poster, "Datafying 75 Years of Book Reviews from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books," joined by co-authors Professor and Director of the Center for Children's Books (CCB) Sara Schwebel; CCB Assistant Director Suzan Alteri; Layne-Worthey; and Rebekah Fitzsimmons, visiting iSchool Research Fellow from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Debnath is also a co-author on the paper, "Mapping the Margins: The Creation of a Dataset for Automated Peritext Detection in Digital Collections," presented by Ana Lučić (MSLIS ’09, PhD '17), staff research scientist at the Grainger College of Engineering's Applied Research Institute.

Layne-Worthey is leading an all-day pre-conference mini-workshop, "Libraries & the Digital Humanities: Histories, Perspectives, Prospects."