2026 CSDH/SCHN
Annual Conference
June 3rd to 5th, 2026
University of Montreal
Conference Agenda
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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 16th May 2026, 01:04:44am EDT
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Daily Overview |
| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Welcome 2 |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Session 2.1 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 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 (Panel) Critical Digital Humanities and Immigration Research |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Refreshment Break 2.1 |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 2.4 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 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 Untranslatable Narratives: AI-Assisted Topic Modeling of Bilingual Media Representations in Toronto’s Chinatown Demolitions, 1958–1970 Platformed Racism: Anti-South Asian Immigration Narratives in Canadian Telegram Networks #romanov #fanaccount: Unpacking the Digital Afterlife of the Romanovs |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break 2 |
Posters 1 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) |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 2.7 Interpreting Translation‑Resistant Objects: From Museum Collection to Multi‑Generational Public Engagement Digital Heritage Storytelling Tools, Perceived Impact, and Factors for Implementation in Higher Education: Multidisciplinary Insights Ce que la machine ne sous-titre pas : l'intraduisible culturel dans le monde du Kpop |
Session 2.8 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 AlphaGo's Move 37 and the Possibilities We Cannot See: Should Digital Humanities Reconsider Humans’ Foresight in the Age of AI? |
Session 2.9 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 |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Joined Keynote with INKE Algorithmic Reading and the Politics of Cultural Infrastructure |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Reception |
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