DHSI-East 2025 will take place at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia with an aligned event on 9-10 May. Faculty, staff, students, and all interested are welcome.

There will be two concurrent workshops this year: 

"Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects,” led by Dr. Constance Crompton (Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities, University of Ottawa) and Meghan Landry (ACENET); and

 "Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data,” led by Dr. Jon Bath (Associate Professor of Art and Art History, University of Saskatchewan).

Dr. Stacey Allison-Cassin (Dalhousie University), will offer the keynote talk: “Reflections on Ethics and Justice in Metadata in the Age of AI.”

They also invite you to join their aligned event, “Explore the World of Gaelic Song and Digital Archives!”, organized by Dr. Heather Sparling (Cape Breton University), which will take place on 9-10 May.

Travel grants are available to subsidize the cost of attendance at DHSI-East for student participants (undergraduate and graduate); BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) participants;  and under-employed participants (those in precarious positions and/or underwaged positions).