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The 2026 Annual Global DH Symposium was a success! We welcomed over 400 attendees ranging from: 🌎 19 countries and 20 states 🏫 67 MSU 🏫 >125 UDEM 💻 158 virtual Save the date for the 2027 Annual Global DH Symposium from May 10-15 in-person at MSU and the University of Guelph & virtual! #MSUDH #DH

Teresa Lobalsamo and Dellannia Segreti discuss Sustaining Community Archives through Student Research and Generative AI. Foodways is a pedagogical tool both for lecture content and assessment. Students visit the Italian Canadian restaurants, interview workers, and post on the website. #MSUDH #DH

The DH Applications in Pedagogy is up next. Our first speaker is Noelia Verdún on digital multimodal participatory cartography on school materials for secondary education. Teacher knowledge and pedagogical-didactic problematizations regarding “generative AI”. #MSUDH #DH

Yoli Bergstrom-Lynch shares the Lady Plays the Blues Project: Recovering the Hidden Legacies of Black Women Blues Guitarists through Digital Black Feminist Praxis. One of her points: the gendering of guitarists and women daring to break the bias and face the consequences. #MSUDH #DH

Celeste Viedma has now spoken about digital archives through a PLACTED archive network, a proposal against the fragmentation of documentary heritage. She shares a quote that inspires her further in this work sharing that the archives aim to reconnect instead of unify. #MSUGlobalDH #DH

Nilofar Ismaeli's network graph about the Women, Life, Freedom communications over X in Iran and outside Iran. #MSUGlobalDH #DH. Discusses #MahsaAmini protests. Every node is a person, is a story, a deliberate act of protest in digital.

Next up: Digital Passages: Mapping a Feminist Cold War Counter-Narrative, a panel presentation from Ashley Todd-Diaz, Christina T. Gibson, Hong Li, and Songyao Chen. Here's the storymap link associate with the presentation: arcg.is/0mOHrL1 #MSUGlobalDH #DH

Digital Passages

Mapping a Feminist Cold War Counter-Narrative

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Rayvon Fouché adapts Gardner's development of new technologies to include Innovation trigger; Peak of anger, disappointment, and hype exhaustion; Trough of resignation; Slope of transformation/transition; Plateau of acceptance, sadness, loss, leaving, and refusal. #msuglobaldh #dh

Rayvon Fouché discusses the concept of Hip Hop as he is framing his discussion. #msuglobaldh #dh

Coming up: Keynote from Rayvon Fouché "From Bars to Bytes: AI ,Authenticity, and Hip Hop" Starts by discussing the DISCO network (www.disconetwork.org) #msuglobaldh #dh

DISCO Network

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TODAY is the first day of #msuglobaldh 2026 In Person Michigan State University Main Library, Green Room (4th Floor, West)! Keynote from Rayvon Fuché today! Posters and Reception at @msumuseum.bsky.social! Going to be a wonderful day!

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If you can't join us in person at MSU today, join us on the livestream over Youtube! go.cal.msu.edu/globaldh #msuglobaldh #dh

📢‼️ DH Students & Faculty! The 11th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium kicks off in just TWO WEEKS from April 13-17! Didn’t register? You can still find the symposium through the livestream on the Global Digital Humanities YouTube channel! Livestream: m.youtube.com/channel/UCIX...

Registration for #msuglobaldh 2026 closes THIS FRIDAY March 27. Join us for amazing keynotes, awesome #dh presentations and posters from around the globe and in person days at MSU and at UDEM! Register today! app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec...

Hello Global DH Community! A friendly reminder that registration is open. Please register by Friday, 27 March 2026, and join us for a robust, three-part experience of this year's Symposium. Register here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/register/eve... Browse our program here: msuglobaldh.org

We would also love to invite you to host/join a Watch Party, even if you are not presenting at the Symposium. This is a fantastic way to still participate and network! If you are interested, please fill out this form by Monday, 23 March 2026: bit.ly/3NsnLmb More information at msuglobaldh.org

Global DH Symposium 2026 Watch Party Registration

The Global DH Symposium is a gathering place for a global community. In that mindset, the Symposium encourages organizers in gathering their communities to participate in the Symposium through watch p...

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Thank you @zooniverse.bsky.social team for making sure that the “force of nature” (@jimccasey1.bsky.social) #DouglassDay is possible despite server overload issues. 8,000+ participants is so amazing!

Douglass was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century! Here he is in images with others. We love seeing this for #DouglassDay! @douglassday.bsky.social!

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Images of Frederick Douglass on display in the 360 room of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Main Library at MSU! #DouglassDay

#DouglassDay transcribing...this resolution still feels apt in 2026!

Live from Oklahoma! #douglassday

Images of Frederick Douglass on display in the 360 room of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Main Library at MSU! #DouglassDay

Khadijah, A young volunteer helping bring Douglass Day to life. She’s 14 already dreaming about college and giving back to her community.This is what early access& representation look like @douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social #DouglassDay #AllRightsForAll #FutureLeaders #blackexcellence

The fourteenth amendment is such a critically important topic for #DouglassDay this year.

Big news for #DouglassDay! We officially unveiled a stunning new gallery of Black History materials in Newberry Digital Collections at our event! From our stacks to your screen—check out the new gallery today: 📍 publications.newberry.org/gallery/?g=2...

@douglassday.bsky.social Reporting from Mary Church Terrell Main Library at Oberlin #DouglassDay

Happy #DouglassDay from Montana State University!

Happy Douglass Day! It was a great time participating in the national transcribe-a-thon with a bunch of my students at the Trinity #Douglassday events. Loved the @douglassday.bsky.social playlist and seeing the amazing cake from a local baker!

If you’re looking for Spotify alternatives, at Tisch Library, we’re streaming our own playlist from the music online database. #DouglassDay

Our #DouglassDay cake by Elisa's Cake by the #Pound is gorgeous and delicious!