Digital Humanities Week events will be held at four locations on the University of Maine Orono campus (see map below). Please refer to the Schedule for specific venue details.
Driving Directions to UMaine
From the South Exit 191 (Formerly Exit 50):
- Coming from the south on I-95, take Kelley Road Exit #191.
- Turn right at end of exit ramp. Drive 1 mile to the traffic light.
- Take left onto Route 2. Drive 2.5 miles to the third set of traffic lights.
- Turn left onto College Avenue.
- Turn right at the University of Maine sign.
From the South Exit 193 (Formerly Exit 51):
- Coming from the south on I-95, take Stillwater Ave Exit #193.
- Turn towards Burger King and the shopping center.
- Turn right at the fourth traffic light by McDonald’s and KFC on College Avenue.
- Take the third left onto Munson Road at the first University of Maine sign.
From the North Exit 193 (Formerly Exit 51):
- Coming from the north on I-95, take Stillwater Ave Exit #193.
- Turn left at the end of the exit ramp.
- Drive 1 mile to the fourth set of traffic lights.
- Turn right onto College Avenue.
- Take the third left onto Munson Road at the first University of Maine sign.
Public transportation
Bus options available from Concord Coach Lines (coming from Boston, Portland, and other Maine coastal cities).
Anne Collins Goodyear (Co-director, Bowdoin Art Museum) is former curator at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. As president of the College Art Association she presided over its first THATCamp in 2013.
Ari Epstein (Terrascope, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT) devises innovative settings for project-based, team-oriented education, from youth radio to exhibition design.
Nicole Starosielski (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU) focuses on the global distribution of digital media, most recently on how transoceanic cables from telegraph to Internet have affected the geopolitics of islands and coasts. Her new media project Surfacing inspired the conference's title.
Andrew Stauffer (Department of English, University of Virginia) is renowned as a digital historian of 19th-century literature and for his leadership of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).
