2026 CSDH/SCHN
Annual Conference
June 3rd to 5th, 2026
University of Montreal
Conference Agenda
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Opening Keynote: Opening Keynote
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9:00am - 10:00am
Open Humanities Futures: Accountability, Plurality, and Public Knowledge in AI-Mediated Scholarship Université de Montréal, Canada This plenary talk examines the future of open scholarship in the age of AI, arguing that openness must be understood not simply as access to research outputs, but as a broader commitment to public accountability, infrastructural justice, and epistemic plurality. Beginning from the perspective of digital humanities in Quebec, the talk emphasizes that knowledge is always shaped by its material and technical conditions: archives, metadata, platforms, interfaces, corpora, standards, and tools do not merely transmit scholarship, but actively structure what can be seen, asked, and interpreted. This insight is especially urgent in a context where scholarly communication is increasingly mediated by commercial platforms, proprietary infrastructures, and AI systems. The talk situates open scholarship within debates on open access, open social scholarship, and “open humanities.” Drawing on the INKE partnership and related work, it argues that openness in the humanities must include participation, reuse, public engagement, sustainability, multilingualism, and contestation. Humanities scholarship requires infrastructures that support not only dissemination, but also interpretation, collaboration, accessibility, and long-term stewardship. It must be reinvented as a public, critical, multilingual, and accountable project: one capable of shaping AI-mediated knowledge infrastructures rather than merely adapting to them. | ||
