CDHI Praxis Workshop: Instascholar: Social Media Strategies for Academics on Instagram

Can you start building an effective, growing social media presence that could eventually reach millions? Scholars can and should play an active role in combatting bias and disinformation campaigns in social media. Yet, we often shy from using Instagram, one of the world’s largest social media platforms where audiences are hungry for quality, reliable content. […]

CDHI Visiting Speaker Series: Kimberly Christen on Indigenous Data and Archives

CDHI is pleased to host Dr. Kimberly Christen as the fourth and final speaker in our Winter 2022 Visiting Speaker Series. Dr. Christen is a Professor in and Director of the Digital Technology and Culture Program and the Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation at Washington State University. Dr. Christen's talk is […]

CDHI Praxis Workshop: Media Training for Humanities Researchers

This workshop is designed to help University of Toronto Humanities researchers understand the benefits of engaging with the media, learn what makes a story a good fit for media coverage, and the different tactics they can use to get attention for their research. We'll also cover tips and tricks for interviews, including how to prepare, […]

CDHI Emerging Scholar Showcase

Join CDHI's emerging scholars as they present their latest research in virtual lightning talks. The Emerging Scholar Showcase is an opportunity for CDHI's postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate fellows working in critical digital humanities to share their research with the University of Toronto community. View and download the event program. The event is virtual via zoom. […]

Critical DH on Social (Day of DH)

Over the course of Day of DH, the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at University of Toronto will be posting social media and blog content to showcase a range of research in the area of critical DH--digital humanities bringing together the humanities' critique of power and historical perspectives for socially transformative research.

Critical Infrastructure (Fall 2022 CDHI Lightning Lunch Series)

Please join us on September 20, 2022 for University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) first Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on "Critical Infrastructure". Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme in current critical digital humanities scholarship. Prof. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, […]

Digital Drop-In: Website Development

Topic: Website Development Guest Expert: Matthew Lefaive (Digital Humanities Developer) Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86122951329

Public Scholarship and Knowledge Mobilization (Fall 2022 CDHI Lightning Lunch Series)

Please join us on October 11, 2022 for University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) second Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on "Public Scholarship and Knowledge Mobilization." Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme in current critical digital humanities scholarship. […]

CDHI Praxis Workshop: Visualizing Relationships

Join us on October 24, 2022 for the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative's (CDHI's) first praxis workshop of the 2022-2023 academic year on "Visualizing Relationships: A Friendly Introduction to Working with Networks using Gephi." A network is a way of specifying relationships among a collection of entities or actors. Networks come up in a variety of […]

Digital Drop-In: Gephi

Topic: Gephi Guest Expert: Kelly Schultz, Data Visualization Librarian Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87698587068

CDHI Visiting Speaker Series: Elaine Treharne on Digital Manuscript Studies

Elaine Treharne is Senior Associate Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education, Roberta Bowman Denning Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford University, where she teaches Manuscript and Archival Studies, and Early British Literatures. She co-directs Stanford Manuscript Sciences, and she is currently working on the fourth edition of Old and Middle English: An Anthology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) […]

Digital Pets (Fall 2022 CDHI Lightning Lunch Series)

Please join us on Tuesday, November 15 at 12pm for University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative’s (CDHI’s) third Lightning Lunch of the 2022-2023 academic year featuring a discussion on “Digital Pets.” Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme in current critical digital humanities scholarship. Dr. […]

CDHI Praxis Workshop: Media Training for Humanities Researchers

Join us on November 21, 2022 for the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative’s (CDHI’s) second praxis workshop of the 2022-2023 academic year on “Media Training for Humanities Researchers." This workshop is designed to help humanities researchers understand the benefits of engaging with the media, learn what makes a story a good fit for media coverage, and […]

Digital Drop-In: Media Engagement

Topic: Media Engagement Guest Experts: Josslyn Johnstone & Sean Bettam (Comms & Media Relations Specialists) Zoom Link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83156754777

Praxis Workshop: Intro to SPARQL with WikiData Query Service

Join us on Monday, January 23 at 2 pm for a CDHI praxis workshop on "Intro to SPARQL with WikiData Query Service." In this workshop you will learn to understand the basics of linked data and how it differs from unstructured and structured data. The workshop will consist of demonstrations, group activities, and interactive exercises […]

CDHI Visting Speaker Series: Connie Crompton on Sex and Gender in TEI and RDF

CDHI is pleased to welcome Dr. Connie Crompton as the second guest in our 2022-23 Visiting Speaker Series. Dr. Crompton is a Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa. She is the Vice-President (English) of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, Director […]

Digital Drop-In: SPARQL with Wikidata Query Service

Virtual (Zoom)

Please join us for the first Digital Drop-In of 2023 on Thursday, February 9th (1:00-2:00 PM), held on SPARQL with Wikidata Query Service! Drop by with your questions for this week's experts: David Kwasny (Data and Digital Literacy Librarian) and Alex Jung (Open Knowledge Specialist). Whether you're entirely new to the SPARQL language/Wikidata, or have […]

Old Data, New Data (Winter 2023 CDHI Lightning Lunch Series)

Please join us February 17, 2023 at 12pm for the fourth in our CDHI's Lightning Lunch series of 2022-2023, a conversation on how the digital humanities approaches working with new and old data, including its ethics and the afterlives. Lightning Lunches are short meetings over lunch featuring the work of three scholars on a theme […]