Le Carrefour des SHN / DH-Hub

making with/in the public will take place from 14-17 October, 2025, at the University of Ottawa. This gathering brings together scholars, students, activists, and community members to explore how digital tools and intersectional feminist practices can support advocacy, public scholarship, and ethical research.

The event’s theme invites participants to reflect on three interconnected approaches to digital work: making as inquiry, as relational, and as a mode of engaging with/in the public. Through hands-on workshops, roundtables, and keynotes, participants will learn not only how to analyze and create digital media, but also how to build collaborative and caring practices that respond to urgent social issues in public-facing ways.

This year, DHSITE partners with the Digital Feminist Network, a SSHRC-funded collective of feminist digital humanities labs, to co-host their annual summit. Together, we examine how scholars create meaningful public-facing work while navigating the risks of online engagement, including technology-facilitated gender-based violence.