2026 CSDH/SCHN
Annual Conference
June 3rd to 5th, 2026
University of Montreal
Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 8:30am - 9:00am |
Welcome 1 |
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Opening Keynote
Open Humanities Futures: Accountability, Plurality, and Public Knowledge in AI-Mediated Scholarship |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Refreshment Break 1.1 |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 1.1 No Element is Neutral: Challenging the TEI’s <foreign> element Éditer la décision dans l'*Anthologia Graeca* : rendre la philologie classique calculable Loss and Editorial Mediation in the 3D Edition: Translating Stone to Screen in the Visionary Cross Project |
Session 1.2 "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 Untranslatable Lived Experience: Persona‑Driven RAG for Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Immigration Systems |
Session 1.3 From Dead Worlds to Free Shards : Private Servers as a Methodology for MMO Preservation From Mods to Memories: Teaching Game History and Culture through the Paratextual Archive « Traduire » une expérience vidéoludique au sein de son environnement grâce à la littérature: le Collectif Obèle et la transécriture |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break 1 |
Mentorship Lunch Details to come |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 1.4 Transitions of Leadership: Succession and Continuity in the Digital Humanities Designing Scholarly Digital Resources for Longterm Sustainability: The Case of Digital Donne. Preserving the Untranslatable Features of Digital Online Projects |
Session 1.5 Cartographier la paraphrase dans le roman des Lumières L'aplatissement vectoriel comme révélateur de l'intraduisible |
Session 1.6 Open, Social, Synthetic?: Mapping the New Conditions of Scholarship Repenser les environnements d'écriture en SHS : Stylo comme paradigme alternatif en libre accès When TAM Meets CAT: A Comparative Study of AI Anxiety and Resilience Among UAlberta Faculty |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Refreshment Break 1.2 |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Session 1.7 (Panel) The Web of Language: Celebrating the Work of Ian Lancashire (1942-2025) |
Session 1.8 (Panel) Digital Humanities Workshops in Canada |
Session 1.9 Nothing is untranslatable; everything is untranslatable: examining translation, multilinguality, and algospeak in the creator economy What Remains Untranslatable: A Phenomenological Account of Digital Connection and Presence “You Had to Be There”: Meme Humour and Cultural Untranslatability |
| 5:00pm - 6:15pm |
CSDH/SCHN Annual General Meeting |
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| 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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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Welcome 3 |
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| 8:30am - 10:00am |
Session 3.1 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 |
Session 3.2 “Paranoid Kisses, Reparative Layers: Queer & Distant Reading Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen” Poetic Meaning Otherwise: On Picturing and Its Remainders in Plath’s Poetics - “Micro-Media and Cultural Renaissance after the Mahsa Amini Uprising: Persian Symbols and Secular-Feminist Resistance in Iranian Visual Protest Media” |
Session 3.3 Consent Without Comprehension: Digital Surveillance, Untranslatable Ethics, and New Immigrant Data Vulnerability Peut-on traduire l’évolution idéologique ? ChatGPT-4 et l’intraduisible dans les discours politiques Risk, Algorithms, and the Technoscientific Governance of International Students in Canada |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Refreshment Break 3.1 |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 3.4 Misnaming in the Machine: Epistemic Injustice, Digital Translation, and the Racialisation of “Indian” Sentiment, Translation, and the Untranslatable: Reading Daneshvar’s The Accident Through a Digital Lens Mapping the Untranslatable: Taste, Memory and Sensory Knowledge in Culinary Narratives |
Session 3.5 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 |
Session 3.6 Réglementation de l'intelligence artificielle au Canada : imaginaires, valeurs et traductions perdues dans les documents législatifs Abstract Rhetorics of Algorithmic Governance: A Bilingual Corpus Study of Canadian AIA Untranslatable Canada: The Canadian Aporetic Condition as a Digital Lexicon of Governance |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch Break 3 |
Posters 2 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 Verifying Authorship Using Coulthard Tuples: A Computational Prototype Constellation Word2Vec Viewer in Voyant Présentation des projets du Collectif Obèle |
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| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
Session 3.7 Archives in Exile: Uyghur Collections, Metadata Politics and Diaspora Stewardship Untranslatability as Epistemic Limit: Decolonial Reflections on What Digital Humanities Cannot Translate Can There Be Digital Humanities from an Indic Perspective? |
Session 3.8 The shapes of data. Tangles between fixed formats and soft embodiments Bleeding Femtech |
Session 3.9 What Cannot Be Translated: Comment Sections and the Distortion of the Digital Public Sphere Living After We Die: Data, Personhood, and the Political Economy of AI Resurrection License to Lead: Transforming Students into Open Education Experts |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Refreshment Break 3.2 |
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| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Closing Keynote [Title forthcoming] |
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