2025 ITCH Symposium

 

 

Friday, November 14, 2025

 

9:00 a.m.     Coffee & Pastries

9:30 a.m.     Welcome Remarks

10:00 a.m.    The Address Book Project and JOVRNALISM:

Unlocking Hidden Histories Through Emerging Tech
Robert Hernandez
, Professor of Professional Practice, USC Annenberg School of Journalism
Jinglin Jingan, Immersive Media Artist student, USC School of Cinematic Arts

10:45 a.m.    Experience Pompeii I.14 on Apple Vision Pro

Kai Feng Wu, USC School of Cinematic Arts

11:30 a.m.     Lunch

12:30 p.m.    Reimagining Language and Memory: Immersive AI and the Basque Boarding House of Los Angeles

Iker Otaegui, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA
Jordan Galczynski, HumTech, UCLA

1:15 p.m. Multispecies Ethnography and Virtual Reality in Bhutanese Highland Ecosystems

Brian Young, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, UCLA

2:00 p.m.    Coffee Break

2:15 p.m.    Digital Turf Project

Alex Casteel, Ph.D. Student, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA
Doug Daniels, Emerging Technologies Librarian at the UCLA Library Data Science Center
Connor Lim, Mechanical Engineering student, UCLA

3:00 p.m.   Bunker Hill Refrain

Meredith Reitan, Associate Dean & Adjunct Associate Professor, USC
Andy Rutkowski, Visualization Specialist, USC
Suzanne Noruschat, Southern California Studies Specialist, USC
Mats Borges, Assistant Director, Ahmanson Lab, USC

3:45 p.m.     Roundtable Discussion

Banner image credit: Will Young