CDHI Blog
The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative: Introducing Our Strategic Plan
Earlier this summer, we launched our Strategic Plan 2021-24. Learn all about the year-long process and how it helped us to define our strategic priorities, develop a framework for accountability, and inform our work ahead.
Meet our Postdoctoral Fellows! Khanh Vo
The new academic year is just around the corner — what better time to learn about our new team members? Meet Khanh Vo, the JHI-CDHI Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow for 2022-23.
Meet Our Postdoctoral Fellows! Rachel Corbman
Heading into the fall term, learn more about Rachel Corbman, CDHI’s new Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Data.
Meet Our Postdoctoral Fellows! Katie Mackinnon
With the exciting addition of three new postdoctoral fellows this summer, we wanted to get to know a little more about them as we head into the fall term. First up: meet Katie Mackinnon — our new Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Data.
Erotic Film Collection Now Available at U of T’s Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
One of Canada’s largest peepshow and erotic film collections, spanning the entire pre-home video era, is now accessible for research at the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.
Leaky Magic: Dr. Angus Mol on Video Games and History
PhD Candidate Ariana Ellis recaps CDHI Visiting Scholar Lecture from Dr. Angus Mol, 11 March 2022.
CDHI Associate Director wins $449,922 to build counter-archive of diverse refugee experiences
Professor Thy Phu (Arts, Culture, and Media, UTSC and Associate Director, CDHI) has been awarded $449,922 through the SSHRC Race, Gender, and Diversity Initiative Grant competition. The Refugee States partnership will build the capacity of non-profit organizations and peer researchers to create and preserve knowledge that they want and need through the development of workshops on visual and digital storytelling.
My Experience with UTL Technical Skills Outreach Project and The Carpentries
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
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
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...