Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue the Global DH Symposium into its historic tenth year. Founded in 2016 at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, the Global Digital Humanities Symposium began as a forum showcasing DH projects at MSU in conversation with external keynote speakers working in the intersections of the digital humanities and global issues. Guided by our values, the event has cultivated a worldwide community of participants that continues to expand each year.
Digital Humanities has been a key site for interrogating narratives about disruption, connection, virtuality, surveillance, algorithmic bias, data and resistance, the digital divide, and digital accountabilities. However, DH work has historically centered perspectives that are white, male, cisgender, heterosexual, English-Speaking, and Globally North. As the world continues to undergo multiple and constant catastrophes, centering narratives and conversations outside those bounds are as urgent as ever.
We are a community that works at the intersections of critical DH: race and ethnicity; feminism, intersectionality, and gender; and anti-colonial and postcolonial frameworks. We uplift scholarship that crosses physical and disciplinary borders and that supports widespread DH infrastructure. Our use of the term ‘global’ considers both its limitations and possibilities: understanding the problems, frictions, inequalities, and injustices that globalization brings while acknowledging the potential of a networked world made possible by digital technologies. We are committed to creating a conference centered on digital humanities work with social justice and global engagement indispensable to their core.
2025 Planning Committee
Listed in alphabetical order by surname
- Heather F. BALL, St. John’s University, USA
- Jesse DRAPER, H-Net, USA
- Max EVJEN, Michigan State University, USA
- Viola LASMANA, California State University Long Beach, USA
- Kristen MAPES , Michigan State University, USA (Co-Chair)
- Kate TOPHAM, University of Michigan, USA (Co-Chair)
- Steven WANG, Lawrence Technological University, USA
2025 Advisory Committee
Listed in alphabetical order by surname
- Airen E. ADETIMIRIN, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Ayodele James AKINOLA, Michigan Technological University, USA
- Agarzelim ALVAREZ-MILÁN, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), México
- Jen ANDRELLA, Knox College, USA
- Devin HIGGINS, Michigan State University, USA
- Jennifer ISASI, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Arun JACOB, University of Toronto, Canada
- Jon KEUNE, Michigan State University, USA
- Ayo OSISANWO, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Husnain RAZA, University of Verona, Italy
- Merve TEKGÜRLER, Stanford University, USA
- Aparna ZAMBARE, Central Michigan University, USA
