Digital Humanities at Michigan State University is proud to continue the Global DH Symposium into its eleventh 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.
2026 Planning Committee
Listed in alphabetical order by surname
- Heather F. BALL, St. John’s University, USA
- Kurt Lester BENZE HINOJOSA, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), México
- Annabel CASTRO MEAGHER, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), México
- Max EVJEN, Michigan State University, USA
- Sruthin GADDAM, Michigan State University, USA
- Jennifer ISASI, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Mac JACKSON, University of Michigan, USA
- Viola LASMANA, California State University Long Beach, USA
- Kristen MAPES , Michigan State University, USA (Co-Chair)
- Christine PEFFER, H-Net / Michigan State University, USA
- Kate TOPHAM, University of Michigan, USA (Co-Chair)
- Steven WANG, Lawrence Technological University, USA
International Host Liaisons
- Virginia BON PEREIRA, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), México
- Juan Manuel GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), México
2026 Advisory Committee
Listed in alphabetical order by surname
- Sunday ADEGBENRO, University of Kansas, USA
- Ayodele James AKINOLA, Michigan Technological University, USA
- Agarzelim ALVAREZ-MILÁN, Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), México
- Jen ANDRELLA, Knox College, USA
- Simran BHIMYJANI, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, India
- Liangyu FU, University of Michigan, USA
- Arun JACOB, University of Toronto, Canada
- Jon KEUNE, Michigan State University, USA
- Gillian MACDONALD, Michigan State University, USA
- Husnain RAZA, University of Verona, Italy
- Merve TEKGÜRLER, Stanford University, USA
- Aparna ZAMBARE, Central Michigan University, USA