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“How Did They Do It?: Exploring Multilingual Metadata and the Limits of AI-Augmented Translation in Digital Humanities”

Wednesday, April 22, 2026
noon–1:30 p.m. ET
“How Did They Do It?: Exploring Multilingual Metadata and the Limits of AI-Augmented Translation in Digital Humanities”
DLA Speaker Series

Part of the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiatives Speaker Series:

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Zoe LeBlanc, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She will showcase her research project, Coding DH, studying digital humanists coding practices on GitHub. She will focus specifically on her forthcoming DHQuarterly article "From Translation to Transmogrification: Exploring Multilingual Metadata and the Limits of AI-Augmented Translation in Digital Humanities", which explores how AI-augmented data work poses new possibilities and challenges for multilingual translation, studying global DH communities, and sustainable and transparent infrastructure building in DH.

LeBlanc will walk us through the conceptual and technical components that shaped this project in an accessible manner, demonstrating how her scholarship happens at the intersection of history, tech, and information science.

Hosted by Jennifer Isasi, Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives

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