Slides from today’s DHSI keynote on “regional language models and knowledge production”.

Hey, DHSI! Looking forward to seeing you today at 12:00 p.m. for the final lecture of the Institute’s summer programming. Really looking forward to the discussion to follow :)

The MLA AI and Research Working Group's new "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" offers questions and case studies on AI literacy, human-centered expertise, and responsibility and ethics to guide discussion and reflection. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...

At LASA 2026, I presented work from our in-progress edited volume on new forms of migration in LatAm. A Paris highlight was a meeting between my PhD supervisee, Lara Bourdin & her cotutelle co-supervisor, Leonardo Tonus (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle): in person for the first time in 5 years! ✨

Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.

No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT

No Humans-in-the-Loop: The People-less Stories Generated by GPT

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Closing out our Crisis and Care speaker series with Claire Battershill (University of Toronto) on May 14, 4:00–5:30 pm (680 Sherbrooke, Rm 1041). Her talk, “Slow Looking and Close Reading,” reflects on care, collaboration, and craft in humanities research in the age of AI. See you there!

Tuned into the Global DH Symposium today! Very grateful for the livestream available here: www.youtube.com/@GlobalDHSym... Thank you @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social !!! #msuglobaldh

Global Digital Humanites Symposium

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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/

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!

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Well, there goes my afternoon.

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...

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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 …

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