StFX Digital Humanities Centre

A warm congratulations to Dr. Michael Sinatra for winning the CSDH/SCHN Outstanding Contribution Award for Computing in the Arts and Humanities 2025!

Hope everyone is having a great first day of DHSI in Montreal!

And if you are at a Canadian institution offering (non-curricular) digital humanities workshops and want to be on this calendar/list, be in touch!

We had a great time at DHSI-East last week. Sad you missed it?

Check out the upcoming DH workshops at McMaster (ON), Dalhousie (NS), Montreal (QC)--the big DHSI!, and offered online by the Alliance.

Upcoming workshops: ccdhhn.ca/upcoming-dh-...

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Thank you so much @stfx-dh.bsky.social for hosting DHSI-East. I’m headed home with much more sustainable plans for a challenging project. It can definitely be a static site with Endings Project search! It was inspiring to learn with digital humanists for four days… I’ll be back. <🦞>

Poster with a lovely blue-green background: Gaelic Song and Digital Archives workshop. In white box a map of Nova Scotia with gaelic words including Céilidh, Seinn, Alba Nuadh, Séist, Faclan. Text: Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Index Tobair an Dualchais. The location info (now changed) and registration (now closed)

Today and tomorrow we are happy to host "Gaelic Song and Digital Archives" at @stfx-university.bsky.social ,organized by Heather Sparling (CBU) and Chelsey MacPherson (Dal)!

Thinking about linked open data, @rism.bsky.social , music encoding, Gaelic digital resources, and music data!

This afternoon! We look forward to seeing you there.

Poster for talk: “Reflections on Ethics and Justice in Metadata in the Age of AI” Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University Wednesday, May 7th, 4-5pm Reception to follow EVERYONE WELCOME dhsi-east.stfx.ca Image in corner: a line-drawing (white on Xaverian blue background) of a computer screen with a lobster in pointy brackets—just trust me, it’s a really cool logo Text in corner: DHSI East Keynote Talk (Yes, open to all!) @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

Join us tomorrow for "Reflections on Ethics and Justice in Metadata in the Age of AI" by Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin

Weds 4-5pm Barrick Auditorium, Mulroney Hall, at @stfx-university.bsky.social

Free and open to all!
Light reception to follow

Abstract & details
www.stfx.ca/events/dhsi-...

Image: a line-drawing (white on Xaverian blue background) of a computer screen with a lobster in pointy brackets—just trust me, it’s a really cool logo Text: DHSI East URL: dhsi-east.stfx.ca Attn @stfx-university.bsky.social @facultyofartsstfx.bsky.social

The first day of DHSI-East is going swimmingly! We are pleased to welcome participants from across Canada and beyond into our two workshops!
www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Themed Issue on Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Questions in the call for Issue 27 on Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

JITP has a themed issue on minimalist digital humanities pedagogy on the way and is seeking submissions from brilliant scholars (like yourself!)

The deadline for submissions is June 15

Details here: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

After our Gaelic Song and Digital Archives Workshop, come to a Céilidh! www.stfx.ca/events/gaeli...

DHSI East Keynote Talk poster: Reflections on Ethics and Justice in the Age of AI, Dr. Stacey Allison-Cassin, Assistant Professor, @dalhousieu @dalhousie @dallibraries Wednesday 7 May 4-5pm, Reception to follow, Everyone welcome dhsi-east.stfx.ca. @facultyofartsstfx

Save the date! 7 May, 4-5pm
DHSI-East keynote: Dr. Stacy Allison-Cassin, “Reflections on Ethics and Justice in Metadata in the Age of AI”

Location: Marjorie Desmond Hall (Coady 110) at @stfx-university.bsky.social
All welcome

www.stfx.ca/events/dhsi-...

How do you bring together feminist praxis and making? I'm co-leading a #DHatGuelph workshop on feminist making with @antimony27.bsky.social where we'll weave together feminism and data with creative activities. Let’s make, resist, and reimagine together!

Reg: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...

One workshop running a waitlist (Digital Sustainability & Preservation in Archives) and another with only a few spaces (Intro to Databases for Humanists) for this year's DHSI-East!

Workshops taking place at @stfx-university.bsky.social 5-8 May 2025

More information: www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

For more details (including travel grants) and to register, visit: www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

Poster to advertise DHSI-East 2025: Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data led by Dr Jon Bath May 5th-8th 9-4 at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia

Poster to advertise DHSI-East 2025: Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects led by Dr Constance Crompton and Meghan Landry May 5th-8th 9-4 at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish Nova Scotia

Early bird registration and travel grant deadline (15 Mar) approaching for DHSI-East!

Two four-day workshops to choose from: 1. Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data

www.stfx.ca/events/dhsi-...

and 2. Digital Sustainability & Preservation in Archives Projects

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Logo: Digital Humanities Course Registry Text with a world map peeking through: Put yourself on the map!

Do you have a Digital Humanities (by any name) program at the BA, MA, PhD level? Add your program to the Digital Humanities Course Registry!

For Canada: be in touch w/me (email/dm) or sign up at website

For the rest of the world: find your national moderator

dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu

The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age Cambridge Core - Global History - The Transformation of Historical Research in the Digital Age

This book is really good, especially on this point: 'A focus on Digital History can make the rest of the historical profession think that "we are not digital historians", as they fire up their web browsers and research over the Internet. We are all digital now.' 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

I’m so excited to go to DHSI-EAST and learn about digital sustainability. This four migration project year is sooo much. A sustainability plan instead of disaster mitigation is the way we need to go!

A photo of two women.

A graphic featuring details of the research project: This research project is a feminist historical case study on women in the Antigonish Movement and connected cooperative movements in Nova Scotia. The Antigonish movement combined adult education and economic development to support people in communities to change their social and economic realities through cooperative action and learning.

A quote from Dr. Robin Neustaeter: With its connection to StFX, this study is an excellent opportunity for StFX students to build knowledge and critically think about the university where they are doing their degree. It offers a unique perspective, shifting the gaze away from the men to women, and away from the ivory tower to the communities and people in communities.

A quote from Sophie Gallant: I am so inspired by everything these women accomplished by defying the societal expectations of the early-mid 1900s and creating social and economic change.

RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: What Can the Women Do: Women and the Antigonish and Cooperatives Movement.

This project is a feminist historical case study on women in the Antigonish Movement & connected cooperative movements in Nova Scotia.

Prin. Investigator: Dr. Robin Neustaeter
Student RA: Sophie Gallant

🎉Congratulations to Margaret Vail, StFX Librarian, on her SSHRC Connection grant to support DHSI-East (5-8 May), which will offer two workshops:
1. Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects
2. Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data

www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

Registration for DHSI 2025 is now open!

dhsi.org/2025/01/27/r...

Feminist Digital Humanities

Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....

Poster for a lecture on plague medievalism showing a plague doctor in Assassin's Creed II, an advertisement for the Netflix show The Decameron showing all ten characters in a group, and a terrifying Grand Inquisitor, dressed incorrectly as an archbishop, surrounded by hordes of hairless white rats, from the video game Plague Tale: Innocence.

This week!
I'm excited to give my annual "Gatto Chair" lecture at St. Francis Xavier University, this time on:
"Playing with Plague: The Black Death and Medieval Culture in Modern Media"
(aka "I'm f***ing sick and tired of plague doctors everywhere")
#plague #histmed #medhist #medievalsky

Featuring a keynote by Stacy Allison-Cassin, "Reflections on Ethics and Justice in Metadata in the Age of AI"

And, for the first time ever, with an aligned event on 9-10 May: "Explore the World of Gaelic Song and Digital Archives!"

For details, and to register, visit: www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

DHSI-East logo: blue background with white text: "DHSI East" with url: dhsi-east.stfx.ca Plain line drawing of a computer screen with a lobster in pointy brackets

Registration now open for DHSI-East!
5-8 May 2025 at StFX

2 workshops!
"Digital Sustainability and Preservation in Digital Archives Projects" - Constance Crompton & Meghan Landry
"Introduction to Databases for Humanist Data" - Jon Bath

Travel bursaries available

www.stfx.ca/research/dig...

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13th annual Conference of the Early Modern All are welcome to this free conference hosted by the Early Modern Studies Society featuring the work of undergraduates, guest speakers and panel discussions.

StFX DHC affiliated researcher and former postdoc, Dr. Jacqueline Wylde, to offer the alumni keynote at theKing's College Conference of the Early Modern this weekend!

"Old Songs, New Voices: Hearing the Early Moderns and Ourselves"

ukings.ca/events/13th-...

The English edition of Programming Historian seeks proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2025!

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Submissions Close: 31 January 2025 (extended deadline)

programminghistorian.org/posts/en-cal...