Lightning Lunch: DH and the Body

DH@UofT’s first Lightning Lunch of 2025–26, DH and the Body, reflects on the ways human bodies are implicated in digital humanities work. From data analysis to the study of born-digital content, DH research often obscures the material and embodied practices that make digital scholarship possible.

This session asks how material artifacts—and the experiences of encountering them—transform through digitization. What losses or opportunities might this process engender? It also turns attention to the often-invisible labour behind digitization and archival production: who brings data to our screens, and is digitization itself a form of creation?

Bringing a scholar and a librarian into conversation, this Lightning Lunch foregrounds embodied practices across research, digitization, and preservation.

Speakers:

Sylvia Fernández (Assistant Professor of Public and Digital Humanities, Interdisciplinary School for Engagement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio)

Steve Marks (Digital Preservation Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries)

This event is virtual, and advance registration is required.