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Aligned Events

DHSI has historically been made up of several affiliated events, all with a different digital humanities focus in mind. DHSI 2026 will focus on the following aligned events:

All events will take place on Université de Montréal’s campus at 3200 Jean-Brillant St., Montreal, QC, Canada. For the detailed timeline of our activities during the two weeks of DHSI, please see here.

Institute Lectures

We have the pleasure of hosting four Institute Lectures during the two weeks of DHSI 2026. See the full list of presenters and abstracts here.

Conference

The DHSI 2026 Conference program is now live here!


The DHSI Conference is a relatively informal, bilingual, and collegial venue for sharing work and ideas, where we encourage presenters to think beyond the traditional conference paper format for their presentations and to invite feedback and engagement from the DHSI community.

For more information, contact DHSI aligned conference and events co-chairs, Moni Razavi and Alayne Moody, at DHSIevents[at]gmail.com.

Le programme du colloque DHSI 2026 est désormais disponible ici !

Le colloque DHSI est un événement relativement informel, bilingue et convivial, destiné au partage de travaux et d’idées, où nous encourageons les intervenant.e.s à sortir du format traditionnel des communications de colloque pour leurs présentations et à solliciter les commentaires et la participation de la communauté DHSI.

Pour plus d’informations, veuillez contacter les responsables du colloque et des événements DHSI, Moni Razavi et Alayne Moody, à l’adresse DHSIevents[at]gmail.com.

Info Session – The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques (cc:DH/HN)

Mondays, June 8 (Room B-0245) & June 15 (Room B-2285)at noon

Led by Laura Estill and Parham Aledavood


This information session is geared towards people who attend dh workshops, people who teach dh workshops, and people who organize dh workshops. Find out how you can earn a Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities, how you can become a partner organization or have your workshops listed, and learn more about the program!

Cette séance d’information s’adresse aux personnes qui participent aux ateliers en humanités numériques (hn), aux personnes qui enseignent les ateliers hn et aux personnes qui organisent les ateliers hn. Découvrez comment vous pouvez obtenir un Certificat canadien en humanités numériques, comment vous pouvez devenir une organisation partenaire ou faire inscrire vos ateliers, et apprenez-en davantage sur le programme!

Lunch DH Talks

Week 1

There will be a series of lunch talk organized by the course DH Leadership. The talks will take place in the main auditorium (B-2285).

  • Monday, June 8: The Future of Digital Humanities & DH Leadership, Elizabeth Losh (Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of English & American Studies, William & Mary)
  • Tuesday, June 9: AI & DH Leadership, Brett Bobley (Advisor, HAVI, Schmidt Sciences Foundation)
  • Wednesday, June 10: Digital Pedagogy & DH Leadership, Ollivier Dyens (Professor, Department of French Language and Literature)
  • Thursday, June 11: DH in Libraries & DH Leadership, Marcela Isuster (Coordinator of the DIgital Scholarship Hub, McGill University Libraries) and Glen Layne-Worthey (Associate Director for Research Support Services, HathiTrust Research Center)

Week 2

Introducing the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit, Christopher Ohge (University of London)

Tuesday, June 16, Online (starting at 12:30 pm; livestream in room B-2285)

The Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC) is a collaborative and cross-institutional initiative focused on understanding and minimising the environmental impact of digital humanities research. It has released a toolkit that helps individuals and organisations make better digital choices and assist scholars in building more sustainable digital humanities projects. After providing some background on the DHCC and the activities that it has been involved with in the universities, libraries, and archives, the talk will introduce the DHCC toolkit by touching upon several areas it covers, including Minimal Computing, Maximal Computing, Grant Writing, Working Practices, and Advocating within your Institution. The toolkit is designed to encourage researchers and administrators to adopt climate-responsible research practices. It aims to empower them to make climate-friendly technological decisions, and to support researchers who lack the practical knowledge about how to devise greener initiatives. As such, it aims to contribute to research training by raising awareness and providing practical tips on planning and management of one’s research infrastructure and data.

DHCC Toolkit: https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/.

Du « Poulet électrique » aux humanités numériques. Intelligence artificielle et informatique des premiers temps (1958-1971) à l’Université de Montréal

[From the “Electric Chicken” to Digital Humanities: Artificial Intelligence and Early Computing (1958–1971) at Université de Montréal]

BILINGUAL EVENT

Lundi 15 juin à 17h00, Salle B-2285

Projection de la vidéo Programmation interactive.
Centre audio-visuel de l’Université de Montréal, 1971. En collaboration avec le Centre de calcul et la Faculté des arts et des sciences, Département d’informatique. Présentateur/Conseiller scientifique: Robert Cléroux.

Rétrospective des travaux de recherche en humanités numériques et en intelligence artificielle au Département d’informatique en 1971 :

  • Contrepoint : musique par ordinateur CDC 1700. [Robert Dupuy]
  • Animation : Exploration in Computer Animated Video. [Animation par ordinateur ; Claude Schnéegans, Serge Poulard, Maxime Renard, Gilles Gheerbrant]
  • Robot adaptatif : apprentissage d’un poulet. [Intelligence artificielle par apprentissage machine ; William Ward Armstrong, Claude Schnéegans]
  • Traduction automatique par ordinateur CDC 6400. [Michel van Caneghem]
  • Simulation en temps réel. [Vol de fusée assisté par ordinateur ; J. Vaucher]
  • Déformation des structures. [Graphisme par ordinateur ; G. Fortin]
  • Génération de l’écriture arabe. [Traitement de texte arabe ; Syed Hyder]

Suivi d’une discussion avec William Ward Armstrong (anciennement professeur du Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle de l’Université de Montréal et professeur retraité du Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta) et Claude Schnéegans (anciennement chef de la section Applications du Centre de calcul et ancien étudiant du Département d’informatique, Université de Montréal).

Monday, June 15 at 5:00 pm, Room B-2285
Screening of Interactive Programming.
The Audiovisual Center of the Université de Montréal, 1971. French, with English subtitles. In collaboration with the Computing Center and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Computer Science. Presenter/Scientific Advisor: Robert Cléroux.

Retrospective of research work in digital humanities and artificial intelligence in the Department of Computer Science in 1971 :

  • Counterpoint: computer music CDC 1700. [Robert Dupuy]
  • Animation: Exploration in Computer Animated Video. [Claude Schnéegans, Serge Poulard, Maxime Renard, Gilles Gheerbrant]
  • Adaptive Robot: Chicken Learning. [Artificial intelligence through machine learning; William Ward Armstrong, Claude Schnéegans]
  • Computer-Based Automatic Translation CDC 6400. [Michel van Caneghem]
  • Real-Time Simulation. [Rocket flight assisted by computer; J. Vaucher]
  • Structural Deformation. [Computer graphics; G. Fortin]
  • Generation of Arabic Script. [Arabic text processing; Syed Hyder]

Followed by a discussion with William Ward Armstrong (formerly professor at Université de Montréal’s Department of Computer Science and retired professor from the Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta) and Claude Schnéegans (formerly head of the Applications section of the Computing Center and former student of the Department of Computer Science, Université de Montréal).

Lunch & Learn Workshop: WikiKnowledge, Co-building a Network for Open Scholarship and Discoverability

Wednesday, June 17 at noon, Room B-2285 [RSVP Required]

Led by Pascale Dangoisse

How can we collectively strengthen the presence of scholarly knowledge in open, public digital spaces? This Lunch & Learn workshop will introduce you to the WikiKnowledge Network, an emerging community of practice inspired by the francophone WikiSavoirs initiative.

The session will bring together faculty, librarians, and professionals from organizations supporting higher education to explore how Wikimedia projects (including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons) can enhance the visibility, accessibility, and impact of scholarly knowledge. Participants will be invited to network, and contribute to a collective brainstorming discussion on the network’s structure, priorities, and future activities. The session will also provide space for sharing current practices, identifying institutional needs, and fostering cross-sector collaborations in support of open science and open education.

DHSI participants will receive a form to RSVP for the event.

#GraphPoem

Friday, June 19 at 2:30 pm, Online

All those connected to DHSI 2026 are invited to be part of the event #GraphPoem by MARGENTO by contributing text files or weblinks to a collectively assembled dataset and/or run a script plotting the latter into a real-time evolving network.

The Graph Poem is an ongoing transnational project harnessing LLMs and combining natural language processing and graph-theory-based approaches to poetry, with academic, DH-literary, and performative outputs.

All #DHSI26 participants that sign up for #GraphPoem will receive an account giving them access to the data and the code on JupyterHub.

#GraphPoem will have two main components viewable to anybody accessing the following online venues at the time of the event: a livestream on Margento’s Facebook page and the user content of a machinic account—@GraphPoem (also on Facebook)—posting text-and-media-nodes selected from the evolving graph by a network analysis algorithm and fed into the livestreamed performance.

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