Wednesday, 11 June 2025
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: Inaugural Session
- Welcome Address: Prof. V. Ravi (HoD, HSS)
- Gist of the Conference: Dr. Gigy J. Alex (Conference Convener)
- Inauguration and Inaugural Address: Prof. Dipanker Banerjee (Vice-Chancellor, IIST)
- Felicitation: Prof. Kuruvilla Joseph (Registrar & Dean Academics, IIST)
- Address by the Guest of Honour: Prof. Nirmala Menon (Professor & Convener JPN-COEH, IIT Indore)
- Vote of Thanks: Dr. Babitha Justin (Conference Convener)
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM: Refreshment Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Plenary I
"Open Science and Multilingual Scholarly Publishing in the Age of AI"
Prof. Nirmala Menon (Professor & Convener JPN-COEH, IIT Indore)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Paper Presentations: Session I
Digital Memory--- Click here for Abstracts
Possibilities of Historicising Digital Ephemera: Reimagining the Repertoire in Like Air, I'll Rise
Aisik Maiti (MA Student, IIT Bombay)
Vulnerable Archives: Recipes, Reels, and Vernacular Memory on Instagram
Dr. Anjitha Gopi & Dr. Ritu Varghese (VIT-AP University, Andhra Pradesh)
Inhabitants of Separate Algorithmic Universes: The Move Away from Collectivity and the Precarity of Limitlessness in an Unbordered Digital World
Priyam Moonka (Research Scholar, IIT Madras)
Curated Absences, Mediated Memories: Prosthetic Memory and the Memory Ecology of Indian Momfluencers on Instagram
Dr. Vrinda Varma (Assistant Professor, NIT Calicut)
DH and Films--- Click here for Abstracts
Unpacking Disability Tales: A 'Special' Lens on Multi-faceted Experiences of Disability in Netflix
Anjana KS (Research Scholar, IIT Roorkee)
Screening Code: Algorithmic Aesthetics, Film Cultures, and the Emergent Grammar of Digital Humanities
Arathi Anil (Research Scholar, University of Exeter)
Decentring Cultural Essentialist Canons in Film Criticism: Letterboxd's Role in Developing an Inclusive Digital Cultural Archive
Rik Bhattacharyya (MA Student, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College)
Digital Intrusion: Exploring Surveillance and Privacy in Thiruttu Payale 2 and Irumbu Thirai
Pooja R (Research Scholar, SRMIST, Chennai)
Digital Storytelling--- Click here for Abstracts
Down the Meme-ory Lane: Memes as Digital Cultural Artifacts
Akanksha Varma (Teaching Associate, IIT Gandhinagar)
Simulated Truths: AI as a Post-Truth Agent in Technosocieties
Maria Joseph (Research Scholar, EFLU)
Reels, Rituals, and Routes: Digital Storytelling and Women's Experiential Travel in Kerala
Dr. Anupa Rose Babu (Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College)
User Interface and Discussion of Societal issues in Korean Manhwa No Home
Meenaloshini Priya D (MA Student, IIT Madras)
LLMs and AI--- Click here for Abstracts
LLMs as Untrustworthy Co-Authors: Rethinking Authorship and Interpretation in Digital Humanities
Aman Abbas (Research Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia)
Structural Bias in Credit Scoring: A Causal Framework for Measuring and Mitigating Gender Discrimination
Navya SD & Sreekanth D (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram)
AI Companionship, Emotional Labor, and Digital Alienation
Rashi Mishra (Scholar, JNU)
Crossing Cultures, Rewriting Narratives: A Comparative Study of Generative AI in Literary Adaptation
Sreeparvathy Hari (MA Student, Central University of Kerala)
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM: Plenary II
"Memory in the Time of Artificial Intelligence"
Dr. Avishek Parui (Associate Professor, IIT Madras)
4:45 PM: Refreshment
7:45 PM - 8:30 PM: Dinner
8:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Networking Session
An opportunity to connect with fellow attendees, speakers, and researchers in an informal setting.
Thursday, 12 June 2025
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM: Workshop Session
"Messy Data, Meaningful Questions: A Hands-on Introduction to OpenRefine"
Dr. Vinayak Das Gupta (Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Refreshment Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM: Paper Presentations: Session II
GIS and DH Tools--- Click here for Abstracts
"Cartographies of Courage: Fictional Threads, Real Lives": Towards Creating a Spatial Archive of the Female Survivors of Dalit Massacres in India
Jyothi Justin (Research Scholar, IIT Indore)
Remapping Postcolonial Kerala: A GIS and Literary Cartography Approach to Litanies of Dutch Battery
Vinitha John & Dr. Ridhima Tewari (IIT Dharwad)
Digital Materiality, and the Generative Model of Evolution: Analysing the Speculative Models of AI-driven Stem Cell Therapy 'Somite.ai.'
Reshma Sanil & Minna Jose (Research Scholar, IIT Roorkee)
Proto-Ecocritical Reading of 18th-Century British Fiction through Voyant Tools: Tracing Nature and Industrial Consciousness
Raj Nandani (Independent Researcher)
Digital Aesthetics and Performances--- Click here for Abstracts
Aspirations of an ‘Aesthetic’: Centrality of Visual Culture as Identity on Social Media Platforms
Rashmi Jha (Research Scholar, BHU)
From Stage to Feed: Digital Mediation of Live Music Performances
Vithita Jha (Research Scholar, VIT Vellore)
From Emulation to Encroachment: Positioning Yasushi Inoue’s Life of a Counterfeiter as a Narrative Prequel to the Ghibli-Inspired AI Reproduction
Cibi T R & Dr. M. Ashitha Varghese (Bharathiar University)
Learners, connoisseurs and the online archive: The case of Carnatic music
Dr. Saroja Ganapathy & Pranav Premkumar (Manipal Academy of Higher Education)
Games and Gamification--- Click here for Abstracts
EXAMINE DADA: Interactive Fiction Gamification as an Exploration into Autonomy, Absurdity, and the Avant-Garde
Taanvi Dande (BA Student, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)
Knitting Video Game Literatures with 'Twine'- Reading Hypertextual Narratives in Interactive Fiction
Gowri Chandran (MA Student, Hindu College, University of Delhi)
Echoes of Conscience: Moral Dilemmas and Narrative Immersion in Digital Games
Elika Mary Reji (Research Scholar, University of Kerala)
Between Code and Choice: Questioning Free Will in Algorithmic Storytelling
Anoop Krishnan (BA Student, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Plenary III
"Humanistic Inquiries in/of Algorithmic Systems: From Digital Humanities to Critical AI Studies"
Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy (Associate Professor, University of Leeds)
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM: Paper Presentations: Session III
Digital Identity--- Click here for Abstracts
Homo Digitus, the new Homo Sapien? : AI Avatars and Emerging Social Risks
Adithi S R (MA Student, IIT Madras)
Cyborg Identity and Algorithmic Labor in the Digital World: A Posthumanist Inquiry
Aleena S Raj (MA Student, EFLU)
Replicant Realities: Biopolitics, Algorithmic Surveillance, and Digital Identity in Blade Runner 2049
Jenelin J (Research Scholar, SRMIST, Chennai)
Folk, Religion and Digital--- Click here for Abstracts
Cultural Memory and Digital Reimagination: A Study of Folk Influence in Vijay Tendulkar's works through the lens of Digital Humanities
A. Gowsalya Devi (Research Scholar, Poompuhar College)
Deity in Digital: Sanskritization and Erasure of Folkloric Ritual of Kuttichathan
Swetha Mary Kurien (Research Scholar, NIT Tiruchirapalli)
Reimagining biblical narratives: A Reading of selected stories in The Chosen and Bible
Dr. Nithya Mariam John (Assistant Professor, BCM College)
Panel Discussion - Eye Tracking Technology and Films--- Click here for Abstracts
Eye-Tracking the Gaze: A Digital Humanities Approach to Film Spectatorship
Dr. Gayathri G. R (FACTS-H Lab at IIIT Kottayam)
Eye Tracking Technology in Film Studies: Technical Methodologies and Analytical Frameworks
Dr. Ebin Deni Raj (FACTS-H Lab at IIIT Kottayam)
Gazing Across Borders: Mapping Cultural Spectatorship in Indian Cinema through Eye Tracking
Dr. Josit Mariya (FACTS-H Lab at IIIT Kottayam)
Intersections of DH and Culture--- Click here for Abstracts
Reconceptualizing Vernacular Memory: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of North-East Indian Folklore on Social Media
Jiya Sarkar & Waquar Ahmad (Research Scholar, NIT Raipur)
Trapped in the Feed: How Algorithmic Echo Chambers Reinforce Gender Ideologies
Riddhima Seth (Research Scholar, University of Delhi)
Digital Threads of Tradition: Archiving the Oral and Visual Folklore of Himachal Pradesh
Rijul Singh (Research Scholar, BHU)
Default Feminized Voices, Entrenched Biases – Exploring the Ethical Implications of Gendered AI in Human-Technology Interaction
Rudransh Kantharia (MA Student, IIT Madras)
Smiling Through the Fire: Feminine Irony, Meme Affect, and the Algorithmic Limits of AI Representation in Global Digital Cultures
Shaona Kundu (Independent Researcher)
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM: Refreshment Break
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Plenary IV
"Dislocated Cinema?: On 'Spectatorial Excess' and Its Digital Transformations"
Dr. Vipin K Kadavath (Assistant Professor, Banaras Hindu University)
7:45 PM - 8:30 PM: Dinner
Friday, 13 June 2025
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Paper Presentations: Session IV
Gender and the Digital --- Click here for Abstracts
Graphing the "Third": Analysing Non-Normative Gender Manifestations in Data
Tinka Dubey (Research Scholar, IIT Delhi)
Digital Discourse and Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: A Study of Fear and Resistance in Digital Spaces by Indian Women Influencers
Sabeela Rasheed (Research Scholar, IIT Jodhpur)
Trans-Affective Mediation and Queer Digital Histories: Archiving as DH Practice
Dr. Anu Kuriakose (Assistant Professor, NIT Tiruchirappalli)
Dis/Connected: Access, Inequality, and the Gendered Architectures of the Digital Divide
Mahera Imam (Research Scholar, Bharathidasan University)
Critical AI Studies--- Click here for Abstracts
Framing the Algorithm: Ethics, Trust, and the Language of Legitimacy in AI
Bhavani Singh (Assistant Professor, IILM University Greater Noida)
Stranger in a Strange Land: The Curious Case of 'Grokking' in India
Cheeru Padma (Research Scholar, Pondicherry University)
You've got a friend in me: An investigation into present day Human-AI relationality
Saachi Singh (MA Student, University of Delhi)
Experiencing "Hauntology" in Generated Re-creation
Sourav Ghosh (Research Scholar, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad)
Digital Pedagogy--- Click here for Abstracts
Teaching Writing Skills in the Digital Age: Exploring the Challenges faced by English Language Teachers in Indian Higher Education
Atheena Herbert (Research Scholar, Christ University Bangalore)
Textbooks as Platforms for Developing Critical Digital Literacy: Possibilities and Missing Links
Diksha Kukreja (University of Delhi)
Code Like a Girl: Designing with AI in an Undergraduate Class on the Digital Humanities
Dr. Swati Chawla (Associate Professor, O.P. Jindal Global University)
Bridging Technical And Creative Thinking: The Power Of Digital Poetry In Engineering
Dr. J Mariyam Nancy (Assistant Professor, Jeppiaar Institute of Technology)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM: Refreshment Break
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM: Plenary V
"Mourning Jamlo: The Code/Spaces of Death in the (Indian) Pandemic"
Dr. Tonisha Guin (Assistant Professor, IIT Jodhpur)
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: Lunch Break
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM: Roundtable Discussion
"Early Career Voices in DH: Anxieties and Futures"
A dynamic dialogue led by five emerging scholars to open the floor for a candid and inclusive conversation on the challenges and possibilities of doing DH today
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Valedictory Session
- Welcome Address: Prof. V. Ravi (HoD, HSS)
- Report Presentation: Dr. Babitha Justin
- Feedback: Participants
- Glimpses of the Conference: Video Presentation
- Vote of Thanks: Dr. Gigy J Alex