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Update to the Website
by Tina Sang 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Dear all, Thank you for your patience and understanding. We have moved our website to the URL below. https://csdh-schn.ca/ We apologise once again for the inconvenience. Best, Tina Sang CSDH Communications Officer

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Kim Martin acclaimed as VP-English
by Paul Barrett 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Hello everyone, I'm pleased to announce that Kim Martin has been acclaimed as our CSDH/SCHN VP-English. Thank you, Kim, for agreeing to serve in this role. We're thrilled to have you! All best, Paul Barrett

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CFP for edited collection on The 'Death' of the Essay in the Age of AI
by Elisa Tersigni 09 Jul '25

09 Jul '25

Dear colleagues, We are excited to be sharing our CFP for an edited collection, The Last Word: The 'Death' of the Essay in the Age of AI. We welcome proposals for essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives responding to the changing concept of 'the essay' in the context of generative AI. A link to the full CFP is available at this link<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M_rfrG_cT8XBQKBp0aVedy8chJ5cwSb3LLOA5EG…>. Due to the timeliness of this topic, we are asking for abstracts of up to 300 words to be submitted to us by August 15. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us at nathan.murray(a)algomau.ca and elisa.tersigni(a)utoronto.ca with questions or suggestions. We look forward to reading your contributions! Best wishes, Elisa Tersigni and Nathan Murray (With apologies for cross-posting!)

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Election results
by Paul Barrett 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Dear CSDH / SCHN community, I'm pleased to announce the results of our election: Member-at-large: Chelsea Miya Student representative: Parham Aledavood, June Yao. The results have been published via Election Runner. Harvey Quamen has been acclaimed to the position of President, Vera Zoricic to the position of VP EDID, and Rebecca Dowson to the position of Treasurer. Rebecca will work alongside Jason Boyd for one year. We would like to thank all of the excellent candidates who put their name forward for these positions. We are very lucky to have such a vibrant and engaged community. Thank you to our outgoing members, especially to our outgoing President, Barbara Bordalejo, for her excellent work! Thank you, Barbara, for your leadership during difficult times for our society!! As a reminder, nominations for the position of VP English are open until Monday July 14th. Best, Paul Barrett Secretary, CSDH / SCHN

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VP Englsh nominations
by Paul Barrett 28 Jun '25

28 Jun '25

Hello everyone, I'm sorry for another email, but there was an error in my last email. Kim Martin has not been acclaimed as the VP English. That position is open for nominations now that Harvey Quamen has taken on the role of President. Please email me by Monday July 14 if you would like to be nominated as a candidate for VP English. Apologies for the confusion. All best, Paul Paul Barrett Associate Professor School of English and Theatre Studies University of Guelph MacKinnon 447

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CSDH / SCHN Executive Election
by Paul Barrett 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

Dear CSDH / SCHN members, You should have just received an invitation to vote in the CSDH / SCHN Executive elections. The email contains your Voter ID and Voter Key. You can also access the election a the following link: https://vote.electionrunner.com/election/N1gSj The election closes in one week, so please take the time to vote. The following positions have been acclaimed because there was only one nominee: President - Harvey Quamen Harvey Quamen (he/him) is Professor of English and Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, where he also serves as the Academic Director of the Digital Scholarship Centre. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College, London, and has participated in several large collaborative research teams, including Editing Modernism in Canada, the Canadian Writers Research Collaboratory, and the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Project. His research interests include “big data” humanities, including text mining, network analysis, database construction, and data visualization. Recent publications include “Codework: The Pedagogy of DH Programming” in What We Teach When We Teach DH and “Stylometry without Words: Analyzing John Milton’s Grammatical Style” in a volume of Renaissance and Reformation dedicated to “Digital Approaches to John Milton,” which he co-edited. Vice President - Kim Martin Kim Martin (she/her) is an Associate Professor of History and Culture & Technology Studies at the University of Guelph. She is passionate about community and works hard to support graduate students and postdocs as Associate Director of THINC Lab. She is the Research Board Chair of Linked Infrastructure for Networked Cultural Scholarship (LINCS), sits on the Mathematical Humanists advisory board, and is a member of Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), centerNet, and the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities (CC::DH). Her research interests include serendipity in digital environments, linked open data, diversity in makerspaces, and interdisciplinarity. She recently edited a collection on Linked Data for Reviews in DH with Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and has an upcoming paper with Sarah Roger, titled “People as Infrastructure: Visibility, Sustainability, and Labour in the Collaborative Creation of Linked Open Data”, in Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor, part of the Debates in the Digital Humanities Series. Vice President, EDID - Vera Zoricic Vera Zoricic: I view my role with CSDH in a light that emphasizes advocacy and interconnectedness within the broader academic community. Diversity within the Digital Humanities community is well-established and requires consistent care and attention. As a potential EDID Vice-President or student representative for CSDH, I prioritize this and seek to improve experiences for our equity-seeking members. My experience as Co-President of the Tri-University Graduate Student Association, where I actively promoted events through social media and participated in discussions on graduate student well-being, has prepared me well for a role within CSDH. My background in Digital Humanities, demonstrated through my engagement with the University of Waterloo Library to acquire digital archives and my use of digital research platforms, has equipped me to connect with a broad audience within the university community. As a potential EDID Vice-President or student representative, I am committed to fostering a more inclusive CSDH by amplifying marginalized voices, facilitating community, and supporting structural change. --- Congratulations, Harvey, Kim, and Vera and thank you for agreeing to serve on the executive! The following positions are up for election: Member at Large: 2 candidates for 1 position: Chelsea Miya is an Assistant Professor in the Culture and Technology Studies program and the School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph where her research focuses on questions of ethics, gender, and sustainability in the context of data cultures and digital design. She is a Research Affiliate of the SpokenWeb Network and a member of Strategies for Intersectional Gender Justice, Networked Action, and Liberation (SIGNAL). She has held Postdoctoral Fellowships at McMaster University’s Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship and the University of Alberta’s Digital Initiatives. You can read her article, “Platitudes: The Carbon Weight of the Post-Platform Scholarly Web,” co-authored with Geoffrey Rockwell, in the upcoming special issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing on publishing and climate change. John Bessai is an independent scholar and media practitioner whose interdisciplinary work explores the intersections of public storytelling, digital media, and cultural policy. With a background in documentary filmmaking and a PhD in Canadian Studies from Trent University, his research focuses on the role of art as a public service and the evolving landscape of public media in Canada. His current work engages the National Film Board of Canada (NFBC), interactive documentary, and the Canadian aporetic condition to investigate how digital storytelling contributes to democratic discourse and cultural memory. He brings a strong commitment to bridging scholarly inquiry with creative practice in the digital humanities. More about his research and media work can be found at www.johnbessai.com<http://www.johnbessai.com/> Student Representative: 6 nominees for 2 positions: William Bouchard is a first-year Ph.D. student in Digital Humanities at the Université de Montréal. He has an interest in ancient languages and the intersection of classical studies and technology. In his research, he explores how programming and digital tools can support the study of classical texts. Alongside his academic work, he directs theatre, teaches ancient languages, and creates content to make the ancient world accessible to a broader audience. He is interested in contributing to the CSDH community by representing student perspectives, especially from francophone universities, and supporting engagement across disciplines. A K M Iftekhar Khalid is a second-year Ph.D. student in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) at the University of Lethbridge (UofL), housed in the Department of English and Humanities Innovative Lab (HIL). He is committed to fostering a vibrant cultural community grounded in the principles of cultural awareness and inclusivity. His research examines the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the English language to preserve linguistic diversity and cultural heritage in a rapidly evolving world. Parham Aledavood<https://llm.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/doctorantes-doctorants/parh…> <https://llm.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/doctorantes-doctorants/parh…> is a doctoral candidate in Literature and Digital Humanities at the Université de Montréal. His doctoral research is supported by a grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). Bringing together postcolonial theory, planetary studies, and digital humanities, his current research focuses on a computational analysis of trauma and genre in contemporary novels of migration. He is the recipient of multiple academic awards, including the 2024 Ian Lancashire Award<https://csdh-schn.org/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2024-ian-lancashire-awar…>. As of September 2024, he is the associate director of Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). June Yao is a Master’s student in Digital Humanities at the University of Alberta, where she will begin her PhD in media and cultural studies this fall. Her research lies at the intersection of game studies and literary narratology, with a particular focus on how digital platforms can represent passive resistance movements such as “lying flat” and “quiet quitting.” She is currently developing Lying Flat, a Unity-based game that simulates the existential struggles of young people facing economic and ideological pressures in contemporary China. The project integrates narrative design, social media data, and AI-driven discourse analysis to create an interactive experience grounded in real-world cultural tensions. Augustine Farinola is currently a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Alberta under the supervision of Prof Geoffrey Rockwell. He has over 10 years experience in conducting UX/UI research, software development, and recently in developing AI driven applications. His research work focuses on the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) , Experimental Philosophy, Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms and its integration with Digital Humanities (DH) Tools. As a member of F2D2 Research Team<https://fd2d.org/> , Amii AICARP<https://www.amii.ca/research-talent/talent-development>, and Bridging Divide Lab at UofA<https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/bridgingdividesuofa/home>, he is currently working on leveraging machine learning to address societal challenges, particularly in medicine and cognitive sciences. He is a member of His most recent DH publications include Hermeneutical postphenomenology: Computational tools and the lure of objectivity. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. 38(3): 1078-1087, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqac074 and Towards a Yoruba Indigenous Model of Communication for Software Development in Digital Humanities. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 16(2): 153-165, (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2022.0288. Some of his DH projects include Philosophy of AI Gallery<https://www.philosophyofartificialintelligence.com/>, Africanpedia<https://www.africanpedia.com/>, PhiLos-DH<https://www.thephilosophyonline.com/>, Mindscape<https://mindscape-ai-ethics-games.vercel.app/> (AI Ethics Game) and Paint-Me-Black.<http://paint-me-black./> Davide Pafumi is currently a PhD student in English at the University of Lethbridge. I have experience with committee work in several organisations: Acting Chair of the Union of Lethbridge Graduate Assistants (ULGA), ex-officio member of the Graduate Student Association (GSA), executive member of the board of Digital Medievalist Post-Graduate Committee and member of the Advisory Board of the International Courtly Literature Society (North American Branch). Abhik Hasnain is currently a second-year student in the MA in Digital Humanities program at the University of Alberta. I've been an active member of the departmental student organizations both during undergrad and grad school. So far, I've organized four student conferences and moderated three discussion panels. I believe, if given the opportunity, I can contribute meaningfully to the CSDH team. ------- Best, Paul Barrett CSDH/SCHN Secretary

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WARNING: Website Down
by Tina Sang 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Dear all, Our website is currently experiencing a malware attack. For your safety and security, please avoid the webpage while we work on a solution. We apologise for the inconvenience and will update you on the website status as soon as possible. Regards, Tina Sang CSDH Communications Officer

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Two more days for CSDH/SCHN nominations
by Paul Barrett 19 Jun '25

19 Jun '25

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that tomorrow is the final day to nominate yourself for positions on the Executive. We are looking for people to fill the following roles: -President -Member at Large -Student Representative (2 positions) -EDID Vice President -Deputy Treasurer (to work alongside our present treasurer in 25-26 and become Treasure for 26 - 29) Best, Paul

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Fw: Application for Student Bursary
by Khalid, A K M Iftekhar 15 Jun '25

15 Jun '25

Dear Professor, Good morning! I hope you are doing well. I am intruding on your busy schedule to remind you of the Student Bursary. My Interac email is khalidfac(a)yahoo.com. Kindly find a time for me. That will be very helpful for me. I always remember your generosity and hospitality during our meetings. Sincerely, Khalid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A K M Iftekhar Khalid, MA in English PhD Student, Cultural Social and Political Thought Research Assistant, Humanities Innovation Lab<https://www.humanitiesinnovationlab.ca/>, Department of English University of Lethbridge 4401 University Dr W, Lethbridge AB, T1K3M4, Canada ________________________________ From: Khalid, A K M Iftekhar Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2025 7:34 PM To: Jason Boyd <jason.boyd(a)torontomu.ca> Subject: Application for Student Bursary Dear Professor Jason Boyd, I hope you are doing well. I am happy that I had the opportunity to meet you at the Congress 2025. The Congress had been a success under your strong leadership. I think everybody discerns your powerful contributions to the CSDH and the Congress. Thank you so much! Finally, I was able to submit my application for a student bursary. Please check whether I need to submit any more documents. With best regards, Sincerely, Khalid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A K M Iftekhar Khalid, MA in English PhD Student, Cultural Social and Political Thought Research Assistant, Humanities Innovation Lab<https://www.humanitiesinnovationlab.ca/>, Department of English University of Lethbridge 4401 University Dr W, Lethbridge AB, T1K3M4, Canada

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DHSI 2026 Course Proposal
by Parham Aledavood 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

[Le français suit] Greetings, With the first Montréal edition of DHSI wrapped up successfully, we’re excited to announce that the call for course proposals for DHSI 2026 is now open! As in previous years, the program will feature both core offerings (repeated annually) and a selection of community-proposed courses, which rotate from year to year. We warmly invite proposals for new community offerings (in English or in French), especially from members of the DHSI community. We will release the full list of course offerings for DHSI 2026 in early fall. If you’re interested in teaching at DHSI 2026, please fill out the following form by June 20, 2025: https://forms.gle/jQfGKBZR4W8phhBN8. We ask that you also send your CV to: DHSImontreal(a)gmail.com<mailto:[email protected]>. We are especially interested in: * Single-instructor courses with a highly interactive format * Offerings that rely on hardware or software readily accessible to participants (e.g., laptops, open-source tools) * Proposals from individuals who have previously participated in DHSI (as instructors or students) Your proposal should include: * A proposed course title * A one-paragraph description of the course and its intended audience * A short note explaining how the course fits within the DHSI curriculum (e.g., “Consider this course in complement with…”) * A day-by-day overview of the 5-day course (about half a page) * Your CV (to be sent by email) If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch at DHSImontreal(a)gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you and continuing to grow this dynamic community of learners and instructors in Montréal. Warm regards, Parham Parham Aledavood Associate Director / Directeur adjoint Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)<http://dhsi.org/> [Image] Chères et chers collègues, La première édition montréalaise de DHSI s’est achevée avec succès, et nous sommes ravis d’annoncer que l’appel à propositions de cours pour le DHSI 2026 est maintenant ouvert ! Comme les années précédentes, le programme comportera à la fois des offres de base (répétées annuellement) et une sélection de cours proposés par la communauté, qui alternent d’année en année. Nous invitons chaleureusement les propositions pour de nouvelles offres communautaires (en anglais ou en français), particulièrement de la part des membres de la communauté DHSI. Nous publierons la liste complète des offres de cours pour le DHSI 2026 au début de l’automne. Si vous êtes intéressé(e) à enseigner au DHSI 2026, veuillez remplir le formulaire suivant avant le 20 juin 2025 : https://forms.gle/jQfGKBZR4W8phhBN8. Nous vous demandons également d'envoyer votre CV à : DHSImontreal(a)gmail.com<mailto:[email protected]>. Nous sommes particulièrement intéressés par : * Les cours à instructeur.rice unique avec un format hautement interactif * Les offres qui s’appuient sur du matériel ou des logiciels facilement accessibles aux participant.e.s (par ex., ordinateurs portables, outils open source) * Les propositions d’individus qui ont déjà participé au DHSI (comme instructeur.rice ou étudiant.e) Votre proposition devrait inclure : * Un titre de cours proposé * Une description d’un paragraphe du cours et de son public cible * Une courte note expliquant comment le cours s’intègre dans le curriculum du DHSI (par ex., « Considérez ce cours en complément avec… ») * Un aperçu jour par jour du cours de 5 jours (environ une demi-page) * Votre CV (à envoyer par courriel) Si vous avez des questions, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter à DHSImontreal(a)gmail.com. Nous avons hâte de vous entendre et de continuer à faire grandir cette communauté dynamique d’apprenant.e.s et d’instructeur.rice.s à Montréal. Au plaisir, Parham Parham Aledavood Associate Director / Directeur adjoint Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI)<http://dhsi.org/> [Image]

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