Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions on that day or at that location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

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Date: Thursday, 04/June/2026
8:00amto8:30amWelcome 2
Location: in front of B-2245
8:30amto10:00amSession 2.1
Location: B-4225
Session Chair: Jason Boyd
 
Presentations

Digitizing Materiality: Affordances and Limitations of DH for Tactile Books

Forget, Ellen

University of Alberta, Canada



Reading the Unreadable: Optical Character Recognition of Early Modern Print

Polay, Jacob

University of Saskatchewan, Canada



Semantics of Empire: Machine Translation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Case of Ottoman Turkish

Tekgürler, Merve

Stanford University, United States of America

 
8:30amto10:00amSession 2.2
Location: B-4325
 
Presentations

Cartographier l’invisible : l’intraduisible des trajectoires d’artistes femmes impressionnistes canadiennes

de Oliveira Savoi, Camila1,2

1: Université de Montréal, Canada; 2: École des hautes études en sciences sociales



Mapping the Sources of Robinson Crusoe: Spatial Patterns in Early Modern Travel Literature

McKnight, Jocelyn Lily1,2; Pafumi, Davide1,2; Lew, Dana1

1: University of Lethbridge, Canada; 2: Humanities Innovation Lab



GIS and Community Archival Access: Geospatial Translation and Integration of Historical Cartographic and Photographic Records

Shahidi Marnani, Pouyan

Indiana University Bloomington

 
8:30amto10:00amSession 2.3
Location: B-4345
 
Presentations

Réglementation de l'intelligence artificielle au Canada : imaginaires, valeurs et traductions perdues dans les documents législatifs

Costa, Matheus; Dore-Caillouette, Blaise

Université de Montréal, Canada



Untranslatable Lived Experience: Persona‑Driven RAG for Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Immigration Systems

Farinola, Augustine1; Dasoju, Shreya2; Nguyen, Sean3

1: Universtity of Alberta, Canada; 2: Toronto Metropolitan University; 3: Toronto Metropolitan University

 
10:00amto10:30amRefreshment Break 2.1
Location: in front of B-2245
10:30amto12:00pmSession 2.4
Location: B-4225
Session Chair: Jennifer Roberts-Smith
 
Presentations

Honouring Nurse Jollie via Archiving and Translation: The Nurse Jollie Autograph Book Project

Obbard, Kiera; Obbard, Martyn

University of Waterloo, Canada



Playful Translation, the Digital Archive and a Lexicon to Reimagine Post-Secondary Theatre Training in Canada

Nolette, Nicole1; Hinchliffe, Alice2; Brown, Susan2; Roberts-Smith, Jennifer3

1: University of Waterloo; 2: University of Guelph; 3: Brock University



Le projet Anthologia Graeca : 11 ans d’éditorialisation

Bouchard, William; Verstraete, Mathilde; Vitali-Rosati, Marcello

Université de Montréal, Canada

 
10:30amto12:00pmSession 2.5
Location: B-4325
Session Chair: Harvey Quamen
 
Presentations

Theorizing the Distant Reading Methodological Pipeline

Audin, Yann

Université de Montréal, Canada



The Parody of Reading at Scale

Pafumi, Davide1,2

1: Humanities Innovation Lab; 2: University of Lethbridge, Canada



Fluency Is Not Understanding: Untranslatability, LLMs, and the Limits of Scale

Baer-Tsarfati, Lisa

AskHistorians

 
10:30amto12:00pmSession 2.6
Location: B-4345
Session Chair: James K. S. Wong
 
Presentations

Untranslatable Narratives: AI-Assisted Topic Modeling of Bilingual Media Representations in Toronto’s Chinatown Demolitions, 1958–1970

Wong, James K. S.

York University, Canada



#romanov #fanaccount: Unpacking the Digital Afterlife of the Romanovs

Thompson, Althea

Concordia University, Canada



Platformed Racism: Anti-South Asian Immigration Narratives in Canadian Telegram Networks

Khemka, Ayushi1; Nascimento, Leonardo1,2; Abu-Laban, Yasmeen1; Rockwell, Geoffrey1

1: University of Alberta, Canada; 2: LABHDUFBA (UFBA Digital Humanities Lab)

 
12:00pmto1:30pmLunch Break 2
12:00pmto1:30pmPosters 1
Location: in front of B-2245
 
Presentations

Making AI Legible: Visual workflows for Critical Reflexivity and Ethical LLM Use in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Rousseau, Madison1; Hasnain, Abhik1; Arawjo, Ian2; Rockwell, Geoffrey1; Abdalla, Mohamed1

1: University of Alberta; 2: Université de Montréal



From Narrative Data to Lived Experience: Visualizing Illness in Digital Humanities

Clarete, Livia

Upgrade, United States of America



Prototyping a Digital Archive for Kerala Mural Paintings

Suresh, Radhika; Chouhan, Rajlaxmi; Pillai, Sajan

Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India



A Digital Exhibition of Hugh Thomson's Illustrations for Pride and Prejudice

Winter, Caroline

University of Victoria, Canada



Material Remainders: What Digitization Cannot Carry (with Participant-Printed Xylography Surrogates)

Eldridge, Lee

Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

 
12:00pmto1:30pmPosters 2
Location: in front of B-2245
 
Presentations

Information session: The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques

Estill, Laura

St Francis Xavier University, Canada



Seeking Server Space: Using Alliance Infrastructure to Support Digital Humanities Development

Takeda, Joey; Gardener, Andrew; Dowson, Rebecca

Simon Fraser University, Canada



IEML-RS, un système de recommandation transparent pour la recherche informationnelle exploratoire

Schneider, Alexia; Vitali-Rosati, Marcello; Lévy, Pierre

Université de Montréal, Canada



Constellation Word2Vec Viewer in Voyant

Chartier, Ryan; Rockwell, Geoffrey

University of Alberta, Canada



Présentation des projets du Collectif Obèle

Tremblay-Gaudette, Gabriel

Laboratoire NT2, Canada

 
1:30pmto3:00pmSession 2.7
Location: B-4225
 
Presentations

Interpreting Translation‑Resistant Objects: From Museum Collection to Multi‑Generational Public Engagement

Shahidi Marnani, Pouyan1; Sagharichi, Negar2,3

1: Indiana University Bloomington; 2: Tavakoli Archives (Toronto, Ontario); 3: University of Toronto



Ce que la machine ne sous-titre pas : l'intraduisible culturel dans le monde du Kpop

Gobeil-Roberge, Émilie

Université Laval, Canada



Consent Without Comprehension: Digital Surveillance, Untranslatable Ethics, and New Immigrant Data Vulnerability

Soleimani Esfahaninejad, Fatemeh

York University, Canada

 
1:30pmto3:00pmSession 2.8
Location: B-4325
Session Chair: Jason Boyd
 
Presentations

Recursion between Matter and Form in Search Algorithms

Ferretti, Giulia

Université de Montréal, Canada



From Black Boxes to Glass Boxes: Auditable Voyant Workflows (with Bounded LLM Assistance) for Evidence-Based Distant Reading

Farinola, Augustine1; Bradley, John2; Rockwell, Geoffrey3

1: University of Alberta, Canada; 2: Kings College London; 3: University of Alberta, Canada



Risk, Algorithms, and the Technoscientific Governance of International Students in Canada

Sawafta, Eleyan

University of Alberta, Canada

 
1:30pmto3:00pmSession 2.9
Location: B-4345
Session Chair: Merve Tekgürler
 
Presentations

The Mississippi; Not the Ganges or the Jamuna: Understanding the Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Postcolonial Theory

Khalid, A K M Iftekhar

University of Lethbridge, Canada



Unlearning the Archive: Digital Humanities and Postcolonial Identity in al-Risala

Mohamed, Eid

Qatar University, Qatar



The Untranslatable Parampara : Pedagogical Frictions in the Digitization of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS)

INUKONDA, PRITHVI RAJ

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JODHPUR, REPUBLIC OF INDIA

 
3:30pmto4:00pmRefreshment Break 2.2
Location: in front of B-2245
4:00pmto5:00pmJoined Keynote with INKE
Location: B-2245
Session Chair: Faraz Forghan Parast
 
Presentations

Algorithmic Reading and the Politics of Cultural Infrastructure

Barnett, Tully

Flinders University

 
5:00pmto7:00pmReception

The reception will take place in an area of the cafeteria adjacent to the refreshment break space. We will guide you there after the plenary session.