Global Digital Humanites Symposium

Tuned into the Global DH Symposium today! Very grateful for the livestream available here: www.youtube.com/@GlobalDHSym...

Thank you @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social !!!

#msuglobaldh

I’m very happy to invite you to the next talk in our Crisis and Care speaker series! In “Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning,” Carolyn Fornoff will examine how activists and artists in Latin America remember murdered land defenders and resist the erasure of lives lost to extractive violence.

Hey MTL! Our 3rd Crisis and Care speaker is Julia Alekseyeva on 03/19 at 4:30pm. Julia’s talk examines how Soviet avant-garde filmmaker Dziga Vertov conceived documentary cinema as a tool for transforming perception and consciousness, modelling what she calls a form of revolutionary phenomenology.

At ACLA this week, I’ll be speaking on “From Residue to Renewal: Transmedia Storytelling and the Afterlives of Extraction,” as part of the panel “Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time.” Come talk rot, residue, and renewal with us. 🍂#ACLA #Transmedia #EnvironmentalHumanities

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

@mmvty.bsky.social

Delighted to participate in the 3rd Intl Symposium on Humanities and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University 🇭🇰

My talk,“Regional GPTs, Linguistic Pluralism, and the Reconfiguration of Global AI Power,” probes how locally grounded AI is reshaping language and knowledge. Spoiler: AI is never neutral.

Montréal-based folks: join us for our second Crisis and Care speaker: Anette Schwarz “The Politics of Care: Empathy as Intervention.” 02/19/2026, 4:00–5:30 PM
A conversation on care, empathy, and intervention drawing on Medical Humanities and German critical thought. All welcome. @mcgill.ca

Montreal-based Folks, Our department is launching a five-speaker series this semester titled Crisis and Care. We’re delighted to welcome our first speaker, Elisa Brilli (@utoronto.ca) on January 14th.

Please share widely; we hope to see many of you there ✨

I remember meeting Laleh years ago when I was a student in London. Very excited to see this!

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

I am wearing a blue shirt and standing next to a table display of the books I've translated in whole or in part (in the case of anthologies): Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto, Slow Down by Kōhei Saitō, Hotel Lucky Seven by Kōtarō Isaka, Trinity Trinity Trinity and Sunrise by Erika Kobayashi, Animals Brag about Their Bottoms by Maki Saitō, Unusual Fragments, and The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories *phew

I am perched on a small, high chair, talking to Cecily Raynor, who is also perched. I am wearing a blue shirt and gray pants, while Cecily is in a nice black dress with a sliver necklace. There's a wall of bookshelves behind us, as we are at Argo Bookshop in Montréal

A really lovely night celebrating the release of Dilemmas of Working Women at @argobookshop.bsky.social with a reading (in Japanese as well as English 😅) and a great discussion with @cecilyraynor.bsky.social (who also took the pic of me with my translated babies)!

Thanks to everyone who came out 🥰

Hey Montreal Book Lovers,

Tomorrow at 7pm at @argobookshop.bsky.social, I'll be sitting down with the talented @brianbergstrom.bsky.social to talk about his translation of The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto.

Join us! You won't regret it :)

Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!

Somewhere in the historical centre. I wish I had written down where!

Hi Blue Skyers, Sharing this awesome CFP for a conference at Tulane this December entitled, "Moving Media in the Americas." Submission deadline is July 15th. Have a look and please share widely!

Possibly one of the beautiful bookstores I've seen.
Guadalajara, México 📚☁️📚

Dear Friends in San Francisco for LASA 2025,
Our panel, Brazilian Literature In Motion II, is happening tonight at 5:15 PM PST—hope you can join us! I'll be presenting virtually but am very much with you in spirit. Since my talk is pre-recorded, I took the opportunity to add a couple of slides here.

Spring looks good on you, McGill 🌸

📸: Louis Alson

For the last two days, my office was at @modernlanguage.bsky.social 🙌

Delighted to have discussed the 2026 convention program with insightful and sharp colleagues on the MLA Program Committee.

Now that it’s official, I’m delighted to share that I’ve been appointed Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures for a three-year term beginning June 1st 🥳 It’s quite a time to be taking this on. Advice and wisdom from fellow Chairs in the Humanities are warmly welcome!

Amidst a US Brain Drain, the Parties Pledge Little for Universities | The Tyee We could be attracting American talent, prof says. Instead, institutions face cuts.

With quotes from me on how the federal government can and should improve university funding. thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

That yellow is magnificent on you 💛

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Farewell to Jonathan Sterne We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

Binding Media | Stanford University Press Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/