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
Join in for a lively discussion on Digitising the Colonised Cultural Heritage of Early Christian Egypt with guest speaker Carrie Schroeder
This talk will focus on harnessing digital technologies to enhance access to colonised heritage materials, with a particular emphasis on low-resourced languages. The speaker will examine the technical challenges, collaborative strategies, and labour considerations involved in making these valuable resources more widely available.
The conference will feature keynote addresses, presentations, workshops, and digital tool training in support of undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning.
There will be no charghttps://uwaterloo.ca/digital-pedagogy-institute/e for registration for DPI 2025.
As a CLARIN and DARIAH summer school, Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 is truly international, welcoming applications from all over Europe and beyond! This year they are prepared to sponsor a dozen or more participants from outside Finland with flights and accommodation (see Practicalities for details).
Cross-Cultural Harlem reveals a dynamic of exchange that provokes a rethinking of spaces such as Black Harlem, El Barrio, and Italian Harlem. Cross-cultural encounters among African Americans, West Indians, Puerto Ricans, Jews, and Italians provide a story of multiplicity that challenges the framework of territorial enclaves. Shukla illuminates the historical processes that have shaped the diversity of Harlem, examining the many dimensions of its Blackness—Southern, African, Caribbean, Puerto Rican, and more—as well as how white ethnicities have been constructed.
In Code, Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by theorists including Norbert Wiener, Warren Weaver, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roman Jakobson, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, and Luce Irigaray.
For many commentators, user-friendly generative AI technologies, such as DALL-E and ChatGPT, herald an onslaught of unreal, informatic simulacra. Media theorist Matthew Kirschenbaum, for example, has predicted a “textpocalypse” in which human-authored texts will be lost in a sea of machine-generated facsimiles. But is the situation really so simple and well-defined, such that we can speak of an inhuman informatic that stands opposite the supposed agency, originality, and critical spirit of human readers and writers?
The Rap Lab at UVA presents a listening event to commemorate publication and release of Owning My Masters (Mastered): The Rhetorics of Rhymes & Revolutions by Dr. A.D. Carson, associate professor of Hip Hop & the Global South (University of Virginia), with University of Michigan Press. The event will feature remarks by Carson, a roundtable discussion with Chicago Urban Historian Sherman “Dilla” Thomas, album collaborators, Marcus “Truth” Fitzgerald (producer/emcee) and Blake “Preme” Wallace (producer/emcee), scholar Alonya Castillo, and scholar/D.J.
The ongoing Nakba is a historiographic framework that names the structural condition and protracted temporality of Palestinian expulsion, dispossession, and fragmentation since 1948. This talk examines ongoing Nakba as conceived in critical law scholarship, history, and artistic production to challenge the colonial contours of the international protection of persons.
Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue the Global DH Symposium into its historic tenth year, and its third year as a combination of virtual and in-person events. Digital humanities scholarship continues to be driven by work at the intersections of a range of distinct disciplines and an ethical commitment to preserve and broaden access to cultural materials.