CDHI Associate Director wins $449,922 to build counter-archive of diverse refugee experiences

May 10, 2022 | CDHI Blog, News

A new collaborative partnership responds to an urgent need to increase capacity for refugees to document and narrate their experiences on their own terms. Professor Thy Phu (Arts, Culture, and Media, UTSC and Associate Director, CDHI) has been awarded $449,922...

My Experience with UTL Technical Skills Outreach Project and The Carpentries

Apr 27, 2022 | CDHI Blog

By Sarah Park My first experience with a university community for technical skills was at UBC’s R Study Group. While I was working at UBC as an undergraduate student employee, my supervisor told me about this group where I could learn the programming language R. The...

The Global History Classroom: An Experiment in Collaborative, Intercultural Digital Humanities Education

Apr 26, 2022 | CDHI Blog

By Elisa Tersigni                     International education can be a transformative experience for students, giving them a broader perspective and increasing cultural...

The Role Communities Play in Fostering Technical Skills

Apr 26, 2022 | CDHI Blog

By Meaghan Carthy The opportunity to learn computational/data literacy or library skills can be exceedingly difficult to come by, especially for those who face barriers in knowing where to start or find and/or finding an inclusive and welcoming community to foster...

Digital Humanities and Teaching Technical Skills to Novice Learners with The Carpentries 

Apr 25, 2022 | CDHI Blog

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,...

Power, Inequality, and DH: A Re-Cap of the CDHI’s Fifth Lightning Lunch (2021-2022)

Feb 12, 2022 | CDHI Blog

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...