Graduate Seminar: Introduction to Working with Born-Digital Materials and Web History
February 6 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
CDHI’s Visiting Speaker, Dr. Avery Dame-Griff, will facilitate a special graduate seminar on Thursday, February 6, 2025. This is an in person seminar at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto.
Pre-registration is required. All graduate students and postdoctoral fellows at the University of Toronto are welcomed!
Dr. Dame-Griff’s workshop is Introduction to Working with Born-Digital Materials and Web History.
In this seminar, we’ll explore some of the ways born-digital materials could be integrated into research, as well as the challenges of working with born-digital and web materials.
Avery Dame-Griff is a Lecturer in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Gonzaga University. He founded and serves as primary curator of the Queer Digital History Project, an independent community history project cataloging and archiving pre-2010 LGBTQ spaces online. In 2022, he served as a Public Humanities Fellow for Humanities Washington and is currently part of Humanities Washington’s Speakers’ Bureau.
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Faculty of Information.
Dr. Dame-Griff will also be giving a public talk on the history of the transgender internet on Thursday, February 6 at 4:00 pm. Information and registration is available at this link.