Artificial Intelligence in Open, Social Scholarship

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) invites you to join us for an afternoon symposium exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and open scholarship, with a special focus on Canadian and Brazilian contexts.

Date: 21 January 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST
Location: Digital Scholarship Commons (Mearns Centre / McPherson Library A308), University of Victoria

Schedule:

1:00 – 1:05 PM
Opening Remarks
Ray Siemens (U Victoria)

1:05 – 1:35 PM
Keynote Address
Bernardo Jose de Moraes Bueno (Pontifical Catholic U, Rio Grande do Sul [PUCRS])
How Digital Are the Humanities, Anyway? Answer: Somewhere Between Moodle Customization and AI Panic

1:35 – 2:35 PM
Panel 1: Longer Explorations
(~10 minute presentations, Q&A to follow)

Alan Colín-Arce (ETCL, U Victoria)
Multilingual Community Building on the Humanities and Social Sciences Commons

Maria Christina Da Silva Firmino Cervera (U Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará (UNIFESSPA))
Informational Gestures in Academic Summaries: Linguistic Taxonomy for Multilingual AI Translation

Faraz Forghan Parast (ETCL, U Victoria)
The Generative Turn: AI and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Production

Luciano Frizzera (U Guelph)
NERve-racking Challenges on Web-based XML Text Editors

[Independent viewing] Brittany Amell, Alan Colín-Arce, Graham Jensen, Ray Siemens, and the INKE Partnership (U Victoria)
Engaging Platforms in Open Scholarship [https://doi.org/10.25547/WWBG-XN58]

2:45 – 3:30 PM
Panel 2: Lightning Talks
(~5 minute presentations, Q&A to follow)

Leonardo Colato, Bernardo Bueno, Franco Guglielmoni (PUCRS Digital Humanities Lab)
Translating and Onboarding the HSS Commons into Brazilian Portuguese

Tahmineh Farnoud (ETCL, U Victoria)
AI as a Political Actor: Critical AI Literacy, Social Media, and Contemporary Protest Movements

Rich McCue (DSC, U Victoria)
Automating the Mundane, Not the Mind – Strategies for Principled AI Integration in Research from the UVic Libraries Digital Scholarship Commons

Franco Guglielmoni, Bernardo Bueno, Leonardo Colato (PUCRS Digital Humanities Lab)
Timeline of Japanese Literature in Brazil: 1908-2024

Laura Baumvol (UBC)
Producing Knowledge, Publishing Research: Language and Disciplinary Communities in Brazil

Graham Jensen (Digital Research Alliance of Canada)
HSS-AI at the Digital Research Alliance of Canada

3:45 – 5:00 PM
Reception, U Club

We look forward to seeing you there for an engaging discussion on the future of digital humanities and AI.