CSDH/SCHN Congress 2025: Reframing Togetherness

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities hosted papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, at George Brown College as part of the 2025 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities from May 30 to June 1.

This year’s meeting critically engaged with the Congress 2025 theme of “Reframing Togetherness.” Togetherness and community are fraught concepts, and we welcomed a variety of projects that think carefully about creative and ethical ways of attending to difference and togetherness within communities and across disciplines. Digital humanities work offers new possibilities for fostering critical forms of difference from ‘traditional’ humanities, and this year we explored the implications of such DH work.

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Plenaries

Dr. Cheryl Thompson standing in front of her plenary presentation.

MOBA and the Digital Archive: From Concept to Platform and the Strategies for Building a Community – Cheryl Thompson

Dr. Cheryl Thompson is an Academic, Public Speaker, and Director, Research and Creative Strategy of Mapping Ontario’s Black Archives (MOBA), an Ontario Early Researcher Award, and Social Science Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project. MOBA is reimagining Black archives in the province of Ontario by making Black archival collections accessible and searchable via an open access online platform. She is also Director of Black Creative Lab, an incubator for the curation of public exhibits, speaker events, and YouTube content. She is the author of Uncle: Race, Nostalgia, and the Politics of Loyalty (2021), and Beauty in a Box: Detangling the Roots of Canada’s Black Beauty Culture (2019). Her third book, Canada and the Blackface Atlantic: Performing Slavery, Conflict, and Freedom, 1812-1897, was published in April 2025. Dr. Thompson is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Black Expressive Culture and Creativity and an Associate Professor, and in 2021, Dr. Thompson was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists for her contributions to Black Canadian studies.

Switchable Anatomie of Thought – Margot Mellet

Margot Mellet is an assistant professor and coordinator of the graduate publishing programs at the Université de Sherbrooke. Her current research focuses on digital culture and publishing, alternatives writing practices in literature, and processes of knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences. Combining research and publishing practices, she is involved in a number of publishing communities : co-editor of the bilingual journal Imaginations: journal of cross-cultural image studies, director of the journal Sens public, and director of the ‘De code et de plomb’ collection at the Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre.

Awards

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2025 Award for Outstanding Achievement

Dr. Michael Eberle Sinatra, Université de Montréal

2025 Ian Lancashire Award for Student Promise

Yann Audin, Université de Montréal

Conference Program