2026 CSDH/SCHN
Annual Conference
June 3rd to 5th, 2026
University of Montreal
Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 9th Sept 2026, 07:21:34am EDT
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Welcome 2 Location: in front of B-2245 |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Session 2.1 Location: B-4225 Chair: Jason Boyd Digitizing Materiality: Affordances and Limitations of DH for Tactile Books Reading the Unreadable: Optical Character Recognition of Early Modern Print Semantics of Empire: Machine Translation, Artificial Intelligence, and the Case of Ottoman Turkish |
Session 2.2 Location: B-4325 Cartographier l’invisible : l’intraduisible des trajectoires d’artistes femmes impressionnistes canadiennes Mapping the Sources of Robinson Crusoe: Spatial Patterns in Early Modern Travel Literature GIS and Community Archival Access: Geospatial Translation and Integration of Historical Cartographic and Photographic Records |
Session 2.3 Location: B-4345 Réglementation de l'intelligence artificielle au Canada : imaginaires, valeurs et traductions perdues dans les documents législatifs Untranslatable Lived Experience: Persona‑Driven RAG for Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Immigration Systems |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Refreshment Break 2.1 Location: in front of B-2245 |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 2.4 Location: B-4225 Chair: Jennifer Roberts-Smith Honouring Nurse Jollie via Archiving and Translation: The Nurse Jollie Autograph Book Project Playful Translation, the Digital Archive and a Lexicon to Reimagine Post-Secondary Theatre Training in Canada Le projet Anthologia Graeca : 11 ans d’éditorialisation |
Session 2.5 Location: B-4325 Chair: Harvey Quamen Theorizing the Distant Reading Methodological Pipeline The Parody of Reading at Scale Fluency Is Not Understanding: Untranslatability, LLMs, and the Limits of Scale |
Session 2.6 Location: B-4345 Chair: James K. S. Wong Untranslatable Narratives: AI-Assisted Topic Modeling of Bilingual Media Representations in Toronto’s Chinatown Demolitions, 1958–1970 #romanov #fanaccount: Unpacking the Digital Afterlife of the Romanovs Platformed Racism: Anti-South Asian Immigration Narratives in Canadian Telegram Networks |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break 2 |
Posters 1 Location: in front of B-2245 Making AI Legible: Visual workflows for Critical Reflexivity and Ethical LLM Use in the Social Sciences and Humanities From Narrative Data to Lived Experience: Visualizing Illness in Digital Humanities Prototyping a Digital Archive for Kerala Mural Paintings A Digital Exhibition of Hugh Thomson's Illustrations for Pride and Prejudice Material Remainders: What Digitization Cannot Carry (with Participant-Printed Xylography Surrogates) |
Posters 2 Location: in front of B-2245 Information session: The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques Seeking Server Space: Using Alliance Infrastructure to Support Digital Humanities Development IEML-RS, un système de recommandation transparent pour la recherche informationnelle exploratoire Constellation Word2Vec Viewer in Voyant Présentation des projets du Collectif Obèle |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 2.7 Location: B-4225 Interpreting Translation‑Resistant Objects: From Museum Collection to Multi‑Generational Public Engagement Ce que la machine ne sous-titre pas : l'intraduisible culturel dans le monde du Kpop Consent Without Comprehension: Digital Surveillance, Untranslatable Ethics, and New Immigrant Data Vulnerability |
Session 2.8 Location: B-4325 Chair: Jason Boyd Recursion between Matter and Form in Search Algorithms From Black Boxes to Glass Boxes: Auditable Voyant Workflows (with Bounded LLM Assistance) for Evidence-Based Distant Reading Risk, Algorithms, and the Technoscientific Governance of International Students in Canada |
Session 2.9 Location: B-4345 Chair: Merve Tekgürler The Mississippi; Not the Ganges or the Jamuna: Understanding the Artificial Intelligence in the Context of Postcolonial Theory Unlearning the Archive: Digital Humanities and Postcolonial Identity in al-Risala The Untranslatable Parampara : Pedagogical Frictions in the Digitization of Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Refreshment Break 2.2 Location: in front of B-2245 |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Joined Keynote with INKE Location: B-2245 Chair: Faraz Forghan Parast Algorithmic Reading and the Politics of Cultural Infrastructure |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Reception 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. |
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