Transborder Digital Humanities Speaker Series
November 7, 2025
I am delighted to be a part of the Transborder DH Speaker Series this Fall, where I will speak about the work of our entire Global DH Symposium team and consider concepts in global DH writ large. Thanks to the Transborder DH for the invitation! Find the full lineup and registration information here. I will also share my slides and the recording after the event on this page for future reference.
What is Global Digital Humanities? Reflecting on Opportunities and Challenges
This presentation will share the framework and theoretical underpinnings of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium as well as a behind-the-scenes look into how the event operates as a form of digital humanities praxis. The Symposium engages a community of scholars from across geographies, institutions, and disciplines to build scholarship across the work of global DH.
Conferences are critical infrastructure for the facilitation, curation, and creation of knowledge, and yet the labor behind them can often be unacknowledged as scholarly in and of itself. We posit that the planning of conferences is a form of digital humanities praxis in and of itself. We seek to create a “zone of contact,” as envisioned by Elika Ortega. This presentation will share examples of the range of global DH work that we have had the privilege to support through the years and engage with questions about what it means to work in the area of “global DH” as such.