DHSI-East 2026: Tuesday May 5th to Friday May 8th 2026
Join us in person Tuesday, May 5th to Friday, May 8th 2026, at St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia for DHSI-East. Hosted by St. Francis Xavier University's Digital Humanities Centre. Faculty, staff, students, and all interested welcome.
This is one the keynote lecture for our concurrent DHSI-East workshops, for more information and to register for the workshops see our DHSI-East 2026 website.
This keynote is free and all StFX Faculty, Staff, Students, and the Antigonish community are welcome to attend.
Keynote Lecture: “‘Show Your Work’: Linking, Platforming, and Deplatforming for the Future of Born-Digital Scholarship”
8 May 2026 at 4pm-5pm.
Dr. Susan Brown, University of Guelph
As we absorb the magnitude of detrimental effects--personal, environment, economic, and ethical--of web platforms and black-box technologies, we must consider the implications of digital research infrastructure for the humanities. The minimal computing movement's regard for global economic disparity advocates static web sites over platforms. Enthusiasm for static sites has only grown as the challenges of sustaining born-digital websites have become increasingly evident. As DH increasingly goes static, the FAIR data principles for research data as linked open data are vital to ensuring that sites are Findable and Accessible as well as Interoperable and Reusable. However, the infrastructure that supports FAIR data assumes static or print-legacy data, rather than living knowledge online. From a data feminist standpoint, this talk explores tensions arising within the infrastructural landscape for born-digital scholarship considering labour, ethics, sustainability, and the impacts of openness in a knowledge environment dominated by AI.
This keynote is free and open to the public. Light reception to follow.
