By Elizabeth Parke It was in 2016, as the newly hired University of Toronto, Digital Humanities Network – Council for Library and Information Resources (CLIR) postdoctoral fellow that I first learned about The Carpentries. The Carpentries: Data, Software,...
By Tia Sager At the core of critical digital humanities approaches are the ever-present and increasingly pressing issues of power and inequality. Critical DH research seeks to expose these dynamics and to consider ways in which the digital realm creates (and...
By Tracy O’Brien The fifth CDHI Lightning Lunch of the 2021–22 year took digital humanities research “beyond the human” to discuss how technology affects the non-human world and how the non-human world shapes technology. Rather than centering the human in these...
By Ian Turner As the phrase suggests, the ‘spatial turn’ in Digital Humanities implies both a reflexive turn-about onto past practice as well as a turn-towards a different kind of future for critically minded research. The three speakers at the...
By Danielle Taschereau Mamers Reading can be a solitary activity—an interior conversation between reader and author. Often this conversation unfolds as marginalia. While I typically read with a notebook next to me, much of my thoughts and reactions to what I read are...
The CDHI’s vision is to forge a new paradigm of digital humanities scholarship at that emphasizes the issues of power, social justice, and critical theory. We are connecting and supporting a large and active network of critical digital humanities researchers across U...