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!

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...

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

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

Amigues de CDMX, aparten la fecha para la presentación de Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across de Americas el 26 de marzo en la FFyL de la UNAM con @epriani.bsky.social @jonathangp.bsky.social y Miriam Peña Pimentel. Espero verles y reconectar con todes!

From your friends at #ReviewsInDH: "We firmly believe that the integrity of knowledge production depends on a commitment to championing a broad range of perspectives, voices, and stories, and we will continue to honor our commitment."

Coming in November from @sunypress.bsky.social: PRIETA IS DREAMING by feminist writer, theorist, & icon Gloria Anzaldúa (!!)—a collection of 19 stories, 14 previously unpub’d. Huge thanks to @stuartbernstein.bsky.social & the incredible editors. Can’t wait to share this wonderful work w/ all of you!

🌍 Join us @mcgill.ca on March 17th for the Annual Conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of International Development! 🌱Many presentations are directly related to Latin America. "LAND AT THE CENTRE – Perspectives on Land and Development"

Nos vemos el 28 de febrero. ¡Hasta pronto!

In his new book, "A Resonant Ecology," Max Ritts "demonstrates how digital technologies allow industry to sonically map new shipping lanes + facilitate new ways of experiencing sound—premised not on listening, but on #sound’s exploitable status as a data resource." #ecoacoustics #academicsky #music

Some seriously awesome programming for McGill Libraries' Love Data Week! Great work @marceswisdom.bsky.social et al. Full program can be found here: libraryguides.mcgill.ca/LoveDataWeek...

Can't believe this is finally happening! 😱

Dear Montreal-based DH Friends, Our first event of 2025 is here! Join us this Friday, from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM at McGill Library's Research Commons (in Redpath Library) for the DH Showcase. Please feel free to DM me if you have questions.

Our last pub day of 2024! We’re thrilled to share: 📚The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times by Nicolás Campisi 📚Nature on Paper: Documenting Science in Prussia, 1770-1850 by Anne Greenwood MacKinney

Dear CDSHers who attended our conference last summer, I am coediting our special conference issue of Digital Studies with the impeccable Harvey Quamen. Please consider submitting your work! csdh-schn.org/digital-stud...

New Book! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650725...

Hey #AcademicSky, I'm part of the conference committee for @csdhschn.bsky.social for a second year. If you could kindly share our CFP for Congress 2025, that would be great. csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...

Thrilled to be a part of this book! Congratulations to the co-editors ⚡⚡🎉

Worried about the future of your favorite websites, digital art, or data? You can do something about it. SUCHO is partnering with @ach.bsky.social & @webrecorder.net to host a DIY archiving workshop 11/25 at 1 Eastern / 10 Pacific: www.sucho.org/diy-archiving

We're hiring in my department! Please share widely. Position: Assistant Professor of Latine and/or Latin American Studies Application review starts on December 15. More information in the ad, but happy to answer any questions here also. utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

#Bluesky officially passes 20M users 🦋

Excited to announce that I’ll be co-teaching 'Transmedia Digital Storytelling' this summer at ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara in Mexico. ITESO's summer program offers courses in Spanish, Nahuatl, bilingual options (ES/EN), & English. Send us your students!

Hey BlueSky! It looks like I've gained a bunch of new followers. Welcome to my little slice of the Internet 🌞 I plan to post about my research on LatAm cultural production, dh, environmental humanities, multilingualism & sometimes about my two small humans, our cat & MTL. Feel free to say hello!

Gave a talk this week at Universität Leipzig on multilingual approaches in Digital Humanities. It felt timely and essential to dive into conversations on language, diversity, and the transformative, field-shifting work of some of my DH colleagues. Happy to share slides with interested parties.

Friday 10/18 at 1pm: DM me for the Zoom link. This talk will be of interest to those working on Multilingual DH, minority languages (in this case, Basque), DH program building and Global DH. Talk will be in English, but let's be honest, we all secretly want to learn Basque!

Join us next week for Viral Books at UdeM. We will discuss "Pandemic in Narration: COVID-19 Narratives in Latin America." This series is a component of the SSHRC-Funded project "Pandemics and Planetary Health Narratives," by PI Heike Härting.

Amig@s, estudiantes y colegas que se encuentran en Montreal. ¡Nos vemos esta tarde a las cinco en @Concordia para nuestra Masterclass Antirracista con Velia Vidal!

Happy to announce the MLA’s new “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship”: www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov.... It represents 2 years of work by our MLA Committee on Information Technology to revise the previous, narrower “Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media.”

This was really fun and, hopefully, informative. Thank you to everyone who participated! Get the full resource here and share with your friends - www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bjcpr...

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Hello Blue Skyers "Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities" is currently available for pre-order! My contribution is in spectacular company, as you'll see. The book has been skillfully edited by @gabrielh.bsky.social, Anouk Lang, and @sjappleford.bsky.social Thanks for the shares!

We have the pleasure of welcoming @poppe.bsky.social to McGill to give a talk on April 10th. Please see the poster below. See you there! -- Tenemos el placer de dar la bienvenida a Nicolas Poppe en McGill para dar una charla el 10 de abril. Vean el póster adjunto. ¡Nos vemos allí!

Hey Montreal-based folks🖐️ 🌿Join us today, March 19th at 4pm, for a conversation with impeccable eco-critic, Patrícia Vieira, from the University of Coimbra. She'll be discussing her ongoing project on the Amazon region! Event details below🌿

Attending the ACLA? Today at 2pm is the second iteration of our seminar "Shifting Paradigms: Cultural Responses to Changing Migration Patterns in Latin America" co-chaired by Lara Bourdin. Looking forward to seeing you there!