Presentations

Mapping Canadian Immigration Discourse on YouTube: A Corpus-Based Study

SMSociety 2026 — Social Media & Society, Canada

Computational analysis of 150,000 YouTube comments on Canadian immigration policy videos, applying BERTopic and sentiment classifiers.

Philosophy in the Age of AI: Methodological Challenges for Humanists

CPSA 2026 Roundtable, Canada

Roundtable contribution examining methodological and epistemological challenges that AI tools pose for humanities and social science researchers.

Computational Ethics in African Digital Humanities

CSDH/SCHN 2026, Canada

Submitted peer-reviewed paper.

Voyant Tools Localisation: Lessons from Yoruba and Igbo

CSDH/SCHN 2026, Canada

Submitted peer-reviewed paper on translating and localising Voyant's interface and documentation for West African languages.

Ethical Auditing of LLM-Based Immigration Chatbots

CSDH/SCHN 2026, Canada

Submitted peer-reviewed paper.

StoryChain: Collaborative Storytelling as a Site of Ethical Reasoning

CSDH/SCHN 2026, Canada

Submitted peer-reviewed paper.

Playing the System on Repeat: Algorithmic Bias in Canadian Immigration Processing

CGSA Annual Conference 2026, Canada

Examines how automated decision-support systems in IRCC processing encode and amplify existing socio-economic and racial biases.

Voyant in an African Language: An AI-Driven, Reproducible Workflow for Translating Digital Humanities Tools for Underrepresented Languages

Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

With: Geoffrey Rockwell

Presents a reproducible AI-driven workflow for adapting Voyant Tools to Yoruba and other underrepresented African languages, demonstrating minimal computing approaches to multilingual DH tool develop…

Bridging Divides: IMRAG — A RAG Chatbot for Canadian Immigration Research

Global Migration Institute Lightning Talk, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Lightning talk presenting IMRAG's design, ethical architecture, and preliminary user-testing results at the University of Alberta's Global Migration Institute.

Africanpedia: Towards a Computational Atlas of African Knowledge Traditions

DHASA/DH2025, Cape Town, South Africa

Introduced Africanpedia, a Wikipedia-style platform augmented with NLP tools for cataloguing and analysing African indigenous knowledge systems.

Session Chair: Emerging Perspectives in African Philosophy

WCPA/CSPAE Annual Conference, Canada

Chaired session on emerging perspectives in African philosophy at the World Congress of Philosophy in the Americas.

AI as Mediator, Not Source: Rethinking the Role of LLMs in Humanities Research

AI4IA (Artificial Intelligence for Interdisciplinary Applications) Conference, Online/Canada

Argues that LLMs in humanities research should function as interpretive mediators rather than epistemic authorities, with case studies from immigration discourse analysis.

Train the Trainer Hackathon: Voyant Tools for Multilingual Corpora

Voyant Consortium Hackathon, Online

Facilitated two-day hackathon training participants from African and Latin American universities on Voyant Tools text analysis.

AI-Driven Textual Analysis to Decode Canadian Immigration Social Media Discourse

CSDH/SCHN 2025, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Peer-reviewed paper presentation at the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities annual conference.

Narratives in the Cloud: Computational Approaches to African Oral Literature

SDH 2025 — Semaine des humanités numériques, Montreal, QC

Presentation exploring machine-learning assisted analysis of African oral narrative corpora.

The Voyant Consortium: Fostering Community, Engagement, and Learning in Digital Humanities

Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (virtual)

With: Geoffrey Rockwell

Outlines the Voyant Consortium's mission to build a sustainable DH community around Voyant Tools and Spyral Notebooks, including pedagogical and research applications.

Computational Approaches to Yoruba Oral Literature

DHANI Conference, Nigeria / Online

Applies corpus-based methods to a dataset of Yoruba àló (folktale) transcriptions to surface genre conventions and ethical motifs.

Text Analysis as Democratic Practice: Open Tools for Global Scholars

DH Unbound 2023, Online

Makes the case for free, open-source text analysis tools as instruments of epistemic equity, with Voyant Tools as case study.

Postphenomenology and Digital Tools in Philosophical Research

DHANI Conference, Nigeria / Online

Explores postphenomenological frameworks for understanding the mediating role of DH tools in philosophical inquiry.

AI Ethics and the African Philosophical Tradition

DH Unbound 2022, Online

Paper examining whether African relational ethics (Ubuntu, Ẹbí) can enrich mainstream AI ethics frameworks dominated by individualist liberal principles.

Digital Humanities Scholarship and the African Context

DHANI Conference, Nigeria / Online

Peer-reviewed presentation on situating digital humanities methods within African academic and cultural contexts.

Digital Humanities Scholarship in Africa: Prospects and Challenges

DH 2020 — Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), Ottawa, Canada

A lightning talk examining the state of digital humanities scholarship in Africa, identifying key challenges (infrastructure, language diversity, institutional support) and prospects for growth.