2026 CSDH/SCHN
Annual Conference
June 3rd to 5th, 2026
University of Montreal
Conference Agenda
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Location: B-4325 Université de Montréal Jean-Brillant Building, 4th floor 3200, Jean-Brillant Street Montreal Access map |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 1.2 Location: B-4325 Chair: Harvey Quamen "AI-powered research assistants" and the invisible transformations of research practices "I Know a Fair Bit": Building an LLM Chatbot to Investigate Historical Brewing Texts Nothing is untranslatable; everything is untranslatable: examining translation, multilinguality, and algospeak in the creator economy |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 1.5 Location: B-4325 Chair: Michael Sinatra Cartographier la paraphrase dans le roman des Lumières L'aplatissement vectoriel comme révélateur de l'intraduisible |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
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 |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
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 |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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 |
| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Session 3.1 Location: B-4325 Chair: Harvey Quamen The Data Problem Before Data: Infrastructure and Evidence in the Oxford English Dictionary. Pratiques grises and gray areas in DH Digital Ethnography and/as Digital Humanities |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 3.5 Location: B-4325 Chair: Jason Boyd God’s Eye: Untranslatability in the Datafication of the Environment Beyond Policy Labels: The Untranslatable in Global Population Data (1950-2023) Smart Cities and the Untranslatable: Surveillance, Datafication, and the Limits of Computational Urbanism |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Session 3.8 Location: B-4325 Chair: Kim Martin The shapes of data. Tangles between fixed formats and soft embodiments Bleeding Femtech |
