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: Friday, 05/June/2026
8:00amto8:30amWelcome 3
Location: in front of B-2245
8:30amto10:00amPanel 2
Location: B-4225
 
Presentations

Critical Digital Humanities and Immigration Research

Rockwell, Geoffrey Martin; Sawafta, Eleyan; Le, Huong; Alzubaidi, Abdullah; Farinola, Augustine; Khemka, Ayushi; Padilla, Ralph

University of Alberta, Canada

 
8:30amto10:00amSession 3.1
Location: B-4325
Session Chair: Harvey Quamen
 
Presentations

The Data Problem Before Data: Infrastructure and Evidence in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Pafumi, Davide; Woods, Nathan D.; O'Donnell, Daniel Paul

University of Lethbridge, Canada



Pratiques grises and gray areas in DH

Mellet, Margot1,2,3

1: Université de Sherbrooke, Canada; 2: Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le livre au Québec; 3: Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques



Digital Ethnography and/as Digital Humanities

Vigilante, Nic

Cornell University

 
8:30amto10:00amSession 3.2
Location: B-4345
Session Chair: Jason Boyd
 
Presentations

“Paranoid Kisses, Reparative Layers: Queer & Distant Reading Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen”

Huot Wagner, Rose Marie

University of Guelph, Canada



Poetic Meaning Otherwise: On Picturing and Its Remainders in Plath’s Poetics

Chandana O, Lakshmi

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JODHPUR, India



- “Micro-Media and Cultural Renaissance after the Mahsa Amini Uprising: Persian Symbols and Secular-Feminist Resistance in Iranian Visual Protest Media”

MasjeDyan J., Saba

University of Montreal, Canada

 
10:00amto10:30amRefreshment Break 3.1
10:30amto12:00pmSession 3.4
Location: B-4225
 
Presentations

Misnaming in the Machine: Epistemic Injustice, Digital Translation, and the Racialisation of “Indian”

Khemka, Ayushi

University of Alberta, Canada



Sentiment, Translation, and the Untranslatable: Reading Daneshvar’s The Accident Through a Digital Lens

Ramin, Zohreh

University of Tehran, Associate professor, Acadia University, Visiting scholar



Mapping the Untranslatable: Taste, Memory and Sensory Knowledge in Culinary Narratives

Biswas, Srabani

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India

 
10:30amto12:00pmSession 3.5
Location: B-4325
Session Chair: Jason Boyd
 
Presentations

God’s Eye: Untranslatability in the Datafication of the Environment

Medaino-Tardif, Audrey

University of Toronto, Canada



Beyond Policy Labels: The Untranslatable in Global Population Data (1950-2023)

Mei, Ting

University of Alberta, Canada



Smart Cities and the Untranslatable: Surveillance, Datafication, and the Limits of Computational Urbanism

Mazaheri, Parastoo

York University, Canada

 
10:30amto12:00pmSession 3.6
Location: B-4345
 
Presentations

Abstract Rhetorics of Algorithmic Governance: A Bilingual Corpus Study of Canadian AIA

Farinola, Augustine1; Padilla, Ralph2; Abu-Laban, Yasmeen3; Rockwell, Geoffrey4

1: Universtity of Alberta, Canada; 2: Universtity of Alberta, Canada; 3: Universtity of Alberta, Canada; 4: Universtity of Alberta, Canada



Untranslatable Canada: The Canadian Aporetic Condition as a Digital Lexicon of Governance

Bessai, John Wilfred

Independent Scholar, Canada



“You Had to Be There”: Meme Humour and Cultural Untranslatability

., Jyoti

IIT JODHPUR, India

 
12:00pmto1:00pmLunch Break 3
1:00pmto2:00pmSession 3.7
Location: B-4225
 
Presentations

Archives in Exile: Uyghur Collections, Metadata Politics and Diaspora Stewardship

Turin, Mark

The University of British Columbia, Canada



Untranslatability as Epistemic Limit: Decolonial Reflections on What Digital Humanities Cannot Translate

Razavi, Moni

University of Ottawa, Canada

 
1:00pmto2:00pmSession 3.8
Location: B-4325
Session Chair: Kim Martin
 
Presentations

The shapes of data. Tangles between fixed formats and soft embodiments

MK, Lena

Université de Montréal, Canada



Bleeding Femtech

Villareal, Dana

University of Alberta, Canada

 
1:00pmto2:00pmSession 3.9
Location: B-4345
Session Chair: Caroline Winter
 
Presentations

Living After We Die: Data, Personhood, and the Political Economy of AI Resurrection

Song, Gege

University of Alberta, Canada



Can There Be Digital Humanities from an Indic Perspective?

Suresh, Radhika; Chouhan, Rajlaxmi; Pillai, Sajan

Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India

 
2:00pmto3:30pmPanel 3
Location: B-4225
 
Presentations

Digital Humanities Workshops in Canada

Estill, Laura1; Martin, Kim2; Audin, Yann3; Aledavood, Parham3; Vail, Margaret1; Jacob, Arun4

1: St Francis Xavier University; 2: University of Guelph; 3: Université de Montreal; 4: University of Toronto

 
3:30pmto4:00pmRefreshment Break 3.2
4:00pmto5:00pmClosing Keynote
Location: B-4225
Session Chair: Emmanuel Chateau-Dutier
 
Presentations

Translate We Must

xox, Skawennati

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