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The 11th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will be an in person event at Michigan State University April 13th, a synchronous virtual event April 14th-15th, & in person at Universidad de Monterrey, México April 17th, 2026.
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The Open Space Discussions are happening! #MSUGlobalDH
Four sessions posted for Session 1 2:40PM-3:20PM: *How will international students/(im)migrants be affected by Trump's new policies? What kind of techology is being used to track these students? *Tour of the Digitization Room *What is the place of DH in English Department? Most research in DH leans toward historical and archival research. *What people with more technical capabilities are preferred in DH projects, while the goal was to collaborate? Why is it trending one way? Session Two Proposals: 3:30-4:30PM *The Digital Engagement Framework 3.0, Is this useful for you? *How to research a topic for an underrepresented and underdocumented community? *How to effectively provide "actually useful," broadly defined technical trainings to humanists who wish to learn? *Cycles of joy and suffering in the lifespan of DH
April 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Radhika Gajjala discusses her overarching questions in most of her research. #MSUGlobalDH
Overarching questions in most of my research How to *practices* translate from and across different spaces of materiality - whether in physical tangible place or digital place/space/platforms/infratructure (but also tangible? In a different way?) In such cross spatial contests and across time and geography - how the (in)visibility of and gendering of the subject come about? So no doubt - you ask - Do I mean material? Or tangible? What are the "grids of legibility through which social realities or subject positions are rendered intelligible" (Ani Dutta).
April 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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@schuyleresprit.bsky.social discussing "Future Proofing the Caribbean Digital" Why Future Proofing?
1) There are Caribbean people in the future
2) The digital provides spaces for play, fugitivity, opacity
3) Code and narrative generate the same space of freedom- imagine communities and possibilities
Why Future Proofing? 1) There are Caribbean people in the future 2) The digital provides spaces for play, fugitivity, opacity 3) Code and narrative generate the same space of freedom- imagine communities and possibilities
April 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Sylvia Fernández-Quintanilla discusses the subject of her 2019 #MSUGlobalDH Keynote about the Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC) project seen at bacartography.org
Slide shows title Borderlands Archives Cartography (BAC) bacartography.org. A picture below of Maira Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández presenting in 2019. Bullets on the other side of slide say: *Started in 2017, as an independent and autonomous digital humanities project *Created as Graduate Students: Maria Álvarez and Sylvia Fernández Puictures of publications and maps are below the bullets.
April 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Larissa Baback discusses the launch of @kcommons.bsky.social. How it launched in beta so people wouldn't panic while things were developed. Also held webinars twice to get as many people on board as possible. #MSUGlobalDH
During Launch *Blog Post about launch and detialing FAQ's *Social Media content highlighting blog post, new features, and links to support guides. The right side of the slide shows an announcement of KC works in a Mastodon post.
April 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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@bonnierussell.bsky.social discusses KC Works and how it started at Columbia University with the MLA, then moved to MSU in 2021. Now people are able to deposit more than txt files, as long as it doesn't exceed 500 GB.
Slide shows Humanities Commons>Knowledge Commons CORE Repository 2016-2024 *CORE was created by the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services' Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and launched in 2016 *Moved from Columbia University Libraries to Michigan State University Libraries in 2021 *Ran on Fedora repository platform with a WordPress front end *Served the MLA community and used a limited number of subject headings derived from the MLA bibliograpy KC Works (2024-present) *Built on InvenioRDM, created as an open source turn-key respository platform headed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 2019 *Invenio provides a number of features out of the box: **Copy+paste for all major citation styles **Collections with a rudimentary editorial workflow ** Feeds to major aggrigrators **Export of deposit metadata to JSON and XML **Deposit restrictions and embargos can be managed the depositor **Supports up to six subject heading taxonomies for categorizing work ***FAST ***Homosaurus
April 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Sunday Adegbenro and James Akinola show how dominant terms when relating to the Luxor hotel on tripadvisor are about logistics and amenities, when very few mention any terms related to Egypt. #MSUGlobalDH
A bar graph on the left side of the slide shows how most people mention logistics related to rooms at the Luxor hotel, but very few mention anything about Egypt. Discusses Baudrillard's hyperreality and cultural emptiness where the visual markers of a theme (e.g., Egypt) are present in the physical space but do not resonate in the narrative discourse of the visitors.
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Shuai Wang discusses developing multilingual LGBTQ+ vocabularies.
Slide has a title: Research Questions *01 Accuracy of MT: How accurate are the terms translated by state-of-the-art MT tools by using customized translated glossaries? *02 Other resources: How much multilingual information can be reused? *03 Workflow: How to construct a semi-automatic workflow for the translation of LGBTQ+ terms and take advantage of multilingual labels from other resources? 04: Evaluation: What evaluation criteria can we define to evaluate the resulting multilingual conceptual model? RQ2: Multilingual info reuse: Community needs for multilingual labels. Manually searching for alternative labels. The reuse of multilingual labels for "almost identical" entities (in the same WCC's And image below shows wikidata feeding into homosaurus and QLIT, among other interactions. RQ3: Workflow How to construct a semi-automatic workflow for translation of LGBTQ+ terms and take advantage of multilingual labels from other resources? A workflow image below shows a key that indicates manual steps, automated steps, progression, optional process, and redo process.
April 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The poster session was a success!

THANKS to everyone who joined us for the first day of the in-person Global DH Symposium!

We will continue our discussions tomorrow :)
#MSUGlobalDH
April 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Alfred Ituen presented a poster about "Screwing Around" in Digital Humanities! Check out this fascinating poster #MSUGlobalDH
April 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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It's time for a cookie break before the (final) Poster Session at the Digital Scholarship Lab!

#MSUGlobalDH
April 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Farinaz Basmechi presents the development of a Global and Non-Oppressive Lab Handbook, in collaboration with Pascale Dangoisse and Monireh Razavi. Here, the slides showcase the values of the Lab Handbook. #MSUGlobalDH
April 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Romain Delaville presents his research on racial bias in facial recognition. Slides shows how he connects systemic racism to scientific racism of the past. #MSUGlobalDH
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Livia Clarete showcases their research in social media misinformation during flooding in Southern Brazil and Uruguay in 2024. Slide shows their methodology in the study.
Methodology 1 - Identifying Fake News: 55 Unique Stories *News & Fact checking agencies *Government reports and announcements > 2 - Data Collection (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) *Fake News Online Keyword Search -417 posts -55 Unique Stories > 3 - Data Analysis *Post Metrics + Content + Comments - Post Content - Metrics -2239 User Comments
April 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Justin Wadland, Yuri Cantrell, and Jonathan Barber discuss the Project Incubator program in lightining talks at #MSUGlobalDH
Projects Supported *16 Total Projects *Project Types: **Digital Exhibits **StoryMaps **Mapping **Text Analysis **DIgital Editions **Linked Open Data Shows picture of Potowatami Star Map by Blaire Morseau and Adventures, Friends and Witnesses by Crystal Van Kooten Results of a survey (8/13 projects responded )How much did Project Incubator help you advance your project *Significantly -3 *Moderately - 3 *Somewhat - 1 *Minimally - 1 Whats the status of your Project Incubator *Completed and Maintaining: 0 *Launched and Continuing to work on it: 4 *Still in Development: 1 *Not actively working on it, but intend to return to it in the future: 2 *Not actively working on it and uncertain about future: 0 *Other: 1 Limitations of the Program: *Time Contraints - Lack of time was a major challenging in continuing projects *Phase Transitions: Some requested more structure during Phase 2 *Extra Training Needs: More hands-on training for specific tools or larger conversations for selecting platforms *Support Gaps: Lack of support from new institution or department for their project *Post-Incubator Sustainability: Desire for continued support, explore funding, & progress check-ins
April 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Xuening Kong showing results of her (freshly minted!) PhD research. Using Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling to address research questions. #MSUGlobalDH
Background information My research: *Chinese migrants to the U.S. - Mexico borderlands in the first half of the 20th century *The Chinese migrants engaged non-state agencies to survive and settle down in a foreign land **An important agency: mission churches *'What's diaspora' (on Miriam-Webster Dictionary) *a: the Jews living outside Israel *b: the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland Includes a sepia toned picture of a large group of asian people in front of a mission Research Questions: *How did the mission churches give impacts on the Chinese migrants' lives? What did the churches do? >topic modeling *How did the Chinese migrants comment on the role(s) of mission churches in their diasporic lives? >sentiment analysis Qualitative Research *The mission churches effectively fostered a harmonious connection between Christianity and Chinese culture for Chinese borderlanders. *Social welfare embraced by religious groups **On the U.S. side: Racial exclusion **On the Mexican side: warfare and instability *English courses, etiquettes and even Chinese culture. **An example: Mother "Fanton" giving English names to Children in San Diego Includes a sepia toned picture of a small group of asian adults and children in front of a doorway.
April 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Emmanouela Schoinoplokaki discusses deaths in migration. Noting that the numbers shown are likely much higher. Focus is on Greece and Mexico. #MSUGlobalDH
Global Map showing numbers of Death During Migration *The Americas: 11,307 *Europe: 1,354 *Mediterranean: 31,491 *Africa: 16,811 *Western Asia: 3,182 *Asia: 9,835 Includes a QR code that provides access to the teams' paper.
April 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Adriana Rodríguez-Alfonso discusses her research on 19th century Spanish magazine depictions of women using topic modeling and word clouds. #MSUGlobalDH
Plain Text Conversion, Data Standardization, Metadata Extraction of Three Spanish Literary Magazines. 48 Issues, 762 texts (txt. files). Includes three pictures of Spanish Literary Magazines. Shows Topic Models and Word Clouds as a result of analysis. Slide says Themes intertwined with female representations. Another example of the topics emerging from the data. Shows Topic 5 and Topic 6 with word clouds, and text underneath - some highlighted words.
April 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social talks about the Open Science Ethos and the importances of the multi-lingual research!
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April 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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First keynote of the Global DH Symposium 2025!

Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor
🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social
🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes

“Everything must change if we want to stay the same.”

#GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025
centerNet Keynote presentation: Minimal lab/Maximal labor, Gimena del Rio Riande
April 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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¡Y eso es todo! El Simposio Virtual trajo ideas y conversaciones increíbles. Gracias a todos los que participaron. ¡Estamos emocionados de continuar estas discusiones en persona en MSU el lunes y martes! #MSUGlobalDH
April 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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And that’s a wrap! The Virtual Symposium brought incredible insights and conversations—thank you to all who joined. We are excited to continue these discussions in person at MSU on Monday and Tuesday! #MSUGlobalDH
April 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Miriam Peña Pimentel, Ernesto Priani Saisó & Menno Van Zaanen (moderated by Michael Sinatra) are discussing how language shapes the Global DH #MSUGlobalDH
April 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Global DH is a powerful reminder that knowledge knows no borders! 🌍✨

With participants from 14 countries (and counting!), we’re building a truly global conversation.

Check out this preliminary Flourish visualization by Kate Topham @tophkat.bsky.social ! #MSUGlobalDH #DH
April 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Simran Bhimjyani is discussing the intersections of DH, Environmental Humanities and Indian Context
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April 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM